Carter Taylor papers, 1839-1976A rancher, conservationist and bibliophile, Carter Taylor was born in Martinsburg, Missouri in 1890. Taylor served in France during World War I. After the war, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas with his wife Frances Yates Taylor to go into the cotton business. About 1919, Taylor inherited land in Baylor County, Texas and began a ranching career. He followed conservation practices with soil and water and improved the Hereford herd on his ranch, the C Lazy T. Taylor collected books on the southwest and also examples of barbed wire. The Carter Taylor Collection includes six detailed ranch notebooks with notations regarding cattle, horses, cotton, correspondence, maps, photographs, a Republic of Texas 1839 land grant, a State of Texas 1863 land grant, magazines, cattle brands and registries, and miscellaneous printed material.