![[TEXAS-HUNTING] Cap McDannald's Adobe Ranch Hunt 1939 [And:] White Wing Shoot 1939.](/sites/default/files/styles/auction_slider/public/images/lots/917/1455917.jpg?itok=AQ0T2QaH)
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Lot 28
[TEXAS-HUNTING] Cap McDannald's Adobe Ranch Hunt 1939 [And:] White Wing Shoot 1939.
Houston, Texas: Wilson Stationery and Printing Co., 1939. The first signed by all participants. Two souvenir books of these hunts by Texas oilmen. Two volumes, both printed covers, bound with plastic comb. Adobe Ranch: 8 x 10 inches (20 x 25.5 cm); 30 photographs mounted on 9 leaves, 2 small portrait snapshots, 2 printed illustrations. White Wing Shoot: 7 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches (18.5 x 13 cm); illustrated throughout, 2 foldout spreads. [40] pp. Adobe Ranch Hunt with small portion of inside front cover torn away (with loss of portion of a signature); photograph of Cap McDannald inscribed by him on the mount. Some staining from inserted materials. White Wing Shoot with some edge wear. Overall these volumes are in sound condition, given the fragile materials. Housed together in an elaborate morocco-backed slipcase and chemise.
Printed ephemera from two 1939 hunting events with Texas connections, and related gatherings in 1940 and 1941.
The first is an illustrated souvenir book of the annual pronghorn hunt in southwest New Mexico, at the famed Adobe Ranch owned by A.T. "Cap" McDannald of Houston, Texas. The photographs are mounted above printed captions and record bear and antelope hunts, and the book is signed by A.T. McDannald and many of the participants: Ray W. Smith, Gene Farren, T.E. Swigart, Elliot Barker, S. Marcus Greer, George E.B. Peddy, Jimmy Lawry, W.H. ('Tommy") Thompson, J.W. Gist, A.D. Simpson, R.C. Hochmuth, G.W. Yates, Gus Meyer, R.M. McDannald, C.B. McDannald, and Chase Sutton. A portrait of McDannald with a trophy is additionally inscribed to Bill Cason.
The second is a small illustrated booklet commemorating the September 1939 White Wings Shoot, a dove hunt in McAllen, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley, organized by "Blackie" (Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company) and "Brownie" (Brown Oil Tools, Inc.). Bill Cason, the first owner, is listed among the participants and as a pilot for one of the Halliburton planes that flew the party from Houston to McAllen. With a printed luggage tag from the "Blackie" & "Brownie" 1939 Hunt. Unrecorded.
C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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