Comfort, Texas Wiedenfeld recounts the history and culture of Comfort, Texas and personal history of his family who has lived there since the early 1900s.
Texas Rangers.; Law enforcement--Texas.; Parker, Bonnie, 1910-1934.; Barrow, Clyde, 1909-1934.
A Texas native, Preiss describes his personal history, fulfilling his goal of becoming a Texas Ranger, and memorable people and events during his career in law enforcement.
Raymondville, (Tex.); Willacy County, (Tex.); Harlingen, (Tex.); Frontier and pioneer life; Snow, Luther; Port Mansfield, (Tex.); King Ranch, (Tex.); Texas--Social life and customs; Rio Grande Valley, (Tex.)
The unique world of the Rio Grande Valley in the early years of the 20th century is shared by two who moved there in 1925 from Illinois. Freezes that destroyed fruit orchards, hurricanes that destroyed homes and lawlessness fueled by the ruffians...
Matt Pantalion, his wife and son, Bobby, relate stories of their Spanish immigrant family, farm life and culture in Nacogdoches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Guerra, Elvira Pizzi; Grocery trade--Texas--San Antonio (Tex.); Missions--San Antonio (Tex.); Produce Row, San Antonio (Tex.); Radio Stations; Television stations; HemisFair (1968 : San Antonio, Tex.)
An interview with Henry A. Guerra Jr., 07-25-1984.
San Antonio, Texas
Jazz trumpeter, band leader and nightclub owner Don Albert recalls his experiences playing in the 1920s and 1930s from New Orleans to San Antonio to Kansas City and Chicago. And he shares memories of some of jazz’s greatest...
Nagatori, Herbert.; Japanese Americans--Texans.;World War, 1939-1945.; San Benito (Tex.).
San Benito, TX. Herbert Nagatori discusses his experiences during WWII, the transition of Japanese social structure from Japan to US following the war, and personal family history.
Kickapoo Indians.; Traditional medicine--Texas.; Anderson County (Tex.).; Limestone County (Tex.).
A professional photographer, newspaper editor and political activist whose love of East Texas and its history never ebbed. Her memories paint a picture of rural life among the pines from the 1930s through the 80s.
Raymondville, Texas
As a teenager in Raymondville in the mid-1920s, Sidney Ballard witnessed a near-lawless community where corruption and power often triumphed over right. Among Ballard’s recollections is the organized forced servitude by local...
Nederland, Texas
Hazel Block Beagle recalls her youth in the early years of the 20th century on a farm near Nederland where shell was used for roadways and cane syrup was a profitable crop for her farmer father.
was born in 1909 and recalls his youthful work as a cowboy in the area. Recollections are added by his wife, Mary Lee Arnold, and by former Pearsall area rancher Vera Barnhart.
Sophia Vickery Ard, whose family settled in Salado in pre-Republic Texas, shares her reminiscences about the town from her mother's childhood in the 1870s to the 1980s. She includes recollections of the devastating 1921 flood in Salado and memories...
Utopia (Tex.).; Uvalde County (Tex.).; Sabinal (Tex.).; Automobiles.; Telephone.
Sabinal Canyon, Utopia, Texas Born in the Sabinal Canyon in 1902, Henry Fisher shares his memories of the development of the area, including the first automobile, telephones and roads in the Uvalde and Bandera County areas. While a trip to San...