Tejano music.; Mexican Americans--Texas--Music.; Conjunto music.
San Antonio, Texas Juan Valdez grew up in Southwest Texas listening to musicians in his family. He learned to play Spanish music first, then a combination of cumbias, polkas, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, country and western. At first...
Sabinal Canyon (Tex.);Utopia (Tex.);Circus.;Education--Texas;Texas--social life and customs;Rural life;Cotton mills;Lumber camps--Texas;Revivals;Camp meetings;Tent shows;Blacksmith shops;Electricity--history;Automobiles--history
Of Alsatian descent, Emil Umlang was born in 1906 and raised in the Utopia and Sabinal Canyon area. He discusses growing up there and his family’s self-sufficient lifestyle, including canning fruits and vegetables from their garden, curing bacon...
Internal faculty and staff newsletter of the University of Texas at San Antonio. Published weekly (except spring break); biweekly during summer sessions.
African American cowboys.; Cowboys--personal narratives.; Horses.
Office of the Tarrant County Black History and Genealogical Society, Fort Worth, TX. Living and working on his own after his mother's death when he was nine years old, John Visor decided that he preferred working with horses over picking cotton to...
Polish Americans--Texas;San Antonio (Tex.)--Description and travel
Sister Alexandrine was born into a Polish family and reared in a neighborhood where all of San Antonio's ethnic groups flourished - along with ther cultures and cuisines. She shares those recollections and explains the importance of the...