Conducting a Watershed Survey (open access)

Conducting a Watershed Survey

This booklet will equip your group to survey your watershed and make a record of its history and geography, land and water uses, and potential and actual pollution sources.
Date: October 2007
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880

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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourke's diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 3 begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for the settlement between …
Date: October 15, 2007
Creator: Bourke, John Gregory
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Legislature Summary of Enactments: 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007 (open access)

Texas Legislature Summary of Enactments: 80th Legislature, Regular Session, 2007

Summary of laws passed by the 80th Legislature of Texas, including enacted legislation organized by topic and an index of passed bills (starting on page 443).
Date: October 2007
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
FCC Record, Volume 22, No. 23, Pages 17237 to 18091, September 24 - October 5, 2007 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 22, No. 23, Pages 17237 to 18091, September 24 - October 5, 2007

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: October 2007
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library