The Sallie Reynolds Matthews Collection
This collection honors both its namesake, author of Interwoven, and her youngest child, Watkins (Watt) Reynolds Matthews. The collection of furniture, books, and artifacts, centers on the headquarters of the Matthews' historic Lambshead Ranch, area ranches, and regional history.
Sallie Reynolds Matthews wrote Interwoven so that her children and their children would know how their family and the Lambshead Ranch legacy grew on the Texas frontier. Far beyond her modest intentions, the book became a classic soon after its original publication in 1936.
As Robert Nail wrote in his introduction to the 1958 edition designed by the renowned bookman Carl Hertzog, “When you read her account of the day her family moved into a mysterious, abandoned ranch house on the very edge of the unconquered prairie and see, as her small girl eyes saw, the broken window glass littering the floor, the fang marks left by a wild animal on the door, you sense quite keenly what it must have been like . . . “