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[Historic Marker Application: New Cavalry Barracks]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the New Cavalry Barracks, in Fort Clark Springs, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, maps, and photographs.
Date:
May 19, 2009
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ellsworth Handy, December 21, 2009
Transcript of an oral interview with Ellsworth Handy. Born in 1914, he entered the Army in August, 1940. He was assigned to the 1st Cavalry Headquarters, 29th Quartermaster Regiment. In early 1942 he was sent to the Pacific Theater. He describes being transported from San Francisco, California to Australia aboard the RMS Queen Elizabeth. He was responsible for running convoys of trucks in remote areas of the country. As Plans and Recreation Officer in Brisbane, he arranged entertainment in a local theater for soldiers on leave. He was sent to Milne Bay, New Guinea and the Philippines where he was responsible for trucking activities. He describes witnessing General MacArthur’s return to the Philippines. He shares an anecdote about a narrow escape during an air raid. He talks about not being rotated back to the U.S. as part of the normal two-year rotation. He left active duty in 1945. He served in the Reserves until 1981. The interview also contains information about his family during the Depression.
Date:
December 21, 2009
Creator:
Handy, Ellsworth
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with George W. Peterson, April 6, 2009
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with George W. Peterson. Peterson was born on a farm near Hermitage, Missouri on 20 November 1918 and was drafted into the Army in 1941. After basic training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas he went to Fort Riley and was assigned to the mechanized cavalry, training with armored cars and jeeps. Next, Peterson went to Norfolk, Virginia to work in a Ground Observer Corps Filter Center where aircraft and submarine contacts were plotted. After three months he went to Richmond, Virginia as a supervisor over civilian volunteers. After making application, he was accepted into the Army Air Corps cadet training program. He went to Kessler Field, Mississippi for training and took college preparatory classes prior to being sent to Cedar Rapids, Iowa for ten weeks. In early 1943 he went to Thunderbird Field, Arizona for preflight training. Peterson trained in various planes at several bases and received his wings at Marfa, Texas. He then went to Albuquerque, New Mexico for training in B-24s before being selected for B-29 bomber training at McCook, Nebraska. Upon completion, his crew picked up a new B-29. They flew to Guam and were assigned to …
Date:
April 6, 2009
Creator:
Peterson, George W.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 4, July 3, 1880-May 22, 1881
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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 4 chronicles the political and managerial affairs in Crook’s Department of the Platte. A large portion centers on the continuing controversy concerning the forced relocation of the Ponca Indians from their ancient homeland along the Dakota-Nebraska line to a new reservation in the …
Date:
May 15, 2009
Creator:
Bourke, John Gregory
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Maurice P. Pearce, April 16, 2009
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Maurice P. Pearce. Pearce finished the eighth grade and went to work on the farm on which he was raised. He joined the Arizona National Guard in June, 1940. they were activated later in Spetmenber and shipped to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for training. He evnetually was shipped to Panama for jungle training with the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Pearce was one of the original members of the Bushmasters). From there, Pearce went with the 158th to Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. While with the Bushmasters, Pearce served as a cook.
Date:
April 16, 2009
Creator:
Pearce, Maurice P.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Seventh Star of the Confederacy: Texas During the Civil War
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On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans found themselves engaged in a bloody and prolonged civil war against their northern brethren. During the course of this war, the lives of thousands of Texans, both young and old, were changed forever. This new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, incorporates the latest scholarly research on how Texans experienced the war. Eighteen contributors take us from the battlefront to the home front, ranging from inside the walls of a Confederate prison to inside the homes of women and children left to fend for themselves while their husbands and fathers were away on distant battlefields, and from the halls of the governor’s mansion to the halls of the county commissioner’s court in Colorado County. Also explored are well-known battles that took place in or near Texas, such as the Battle of Galveston, the Battle of Nueces, the Battle of Sabine Pass, and the Red River Campaign. Finally, the social and …
Date:
March 15, 2009
Creator:
Howell, Kenneth W.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
DGS Newsletter, Volume 34, Number 5, June 2009
Newsletter of the Dallas Genealogical Society discussing membership, Society meetings, genealogical workshops and events, and other news of interest to members.
Date:
June 2009
Creator:
Dallas Genealogical Society
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Maurice P. Pearce, April 16, 2009
The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an oral interview with Maurice P. Pearce. Pearce finished the eighth grade and went to work on the farm on which he was raised. He joined the Arizona National Guard in June, 1940. they were activated later in Spetmenber and shipped to Fort Sill, Oklahoma for training. He evnetually was shipped to Panama for jungle training with the 158th Regimental Combat Team (Pearce was one of the original members of the Bushmasters). From there, Pearce went with the 158th to Australia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. While with the Bushmasters, Pearce served as a cook.
Date:
April 16, 2009
Creator:
Pearce, Maurice P.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 17, 2009
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 17, 2009
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Sutton-taylor Feud: the Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas
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The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. The blood feud continued into the 1890s when the final court case was settled with a governmental pardon. Of all the Texas feuds, the one between the Sutton and Taylor forces lasted longer and covered more ground than any other. William E. Sutton was the only Sutton involved, but he had many friends to wage warfare against the large Taylor family. The causes are still shrouded in mystery and legend, as both sides argued they were just and right. In April 1868 Charles Taylor and James Sharp were shot down in Bastrop County, alleged horse thieves attempting to escape. During this period many men were killed “while attempting to escape.” The killing on Christmas Eve 1868 of Buck Taylor and Dick Chisholm was perhaps the final spark that turned hard feelings into fighting with bullets and knives. William Sutton was involved in both killings. “Who sheds a Taylor's blood, by a Taylor's hand must fall” became a fact of life in South Texas. Violent acts between the two groups now followed. The military reacted against the killing of two of their soldiers in …
Date:
February 15, 2009
Creator:
Parsons, Chuck
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), January 2009
Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date:
January 1, 2009
Creator:
May, David
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hellcat News, (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 62, No. 9, Ed. 1, May 2009
Newsletter published by the 12th Armored Division Association, discussing news related to the activities of the U.S. Army unit and updates on previous members of the division.
Date:
May 2009
Creator:
Twelfth Armored Division Association (U.S.)
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Yours to Command: the Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald
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Captain Bill McDonald (1852-1918) is the most prominent of the “Four Great Captains” of Texas Ranger history. His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1891 McDonald became captain of Company B of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. “Captain Bill” and the Rangers under his command took part in a number of incidents from the Panhandle region to South Texas: the Fitzsimmons-Maher prizefight in El Paso, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the murders by the San Saba Mob, the Reese-Townsend feud at Columbus, the lynching of the Humphries clan, the Conditt family murders near Edna, the Brownsville Raid of 1906, and the shootout with Mexican Americans near Rio Grande City. In all these endeavors, only one Ranger lost his life under McDonald’s command. McDonald’s reputation as a gunman rested upon his easily demonstrated markmanship, a flair for using his weapons to intimidate opponents, and the publicity given his numerous exploits. His ability to handle mobs resulted in a classic tale told around campfires: one riot, one Ranger. His admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who accepted questionable …
Date:
June 15, 2009
Creator:
Weiss, Harold J., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Historic Marker Application: Robert E. Lee Building]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Robert E. Lee Building, in Brackettville, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, maps, and photographs.
Date:
July 16, 2009
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hell in an Loc: the 1972 Easter Invasion and the Battle That Saved South Viet Nam
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In 1972 a North Vietnamese offensive of more than 30,000 men and 100 tanks smashed into South Vietnam and raced to capture Saigon. All that stood in their way was a small band of 6,800 South Vietnamese (ARVN) soldiers and militiamen, and a handful of American advisors with U.S. air support, guarding An Loc, a town sixty miles north of Saigon and on the main highway to it. This depleted army, outnumbered and outgunned, stood its ground and fought to the end and succeeded. Against all expectations, the ARVN beat back furious assaults from three North Vietnamese divisions, supported by artillery and armored regiments, during three months of savage fighting. This victory was largely unreported in the U.S. media, which had effectively lost interest in the war after the disengagement of most U.S. forces. Thi believes that it is time to set the record straight. Without denying the tremendous contribution of the U.S. advisors and pilots, this book is written primarily to tell the South Vietnamese side of the story and, more importantly, to render justice to the South Vietnamese soldier.
Date:
November 15, 2009
Creator:
Lâm, Quang Thi
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Nocona News (Nocona, Tex.), Vol. 105, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 16, 2009
Weekly newspaper from Nocona, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 16, 2009
Creator:
Mesler, Tracy R. & Mesler, Linda L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sweetwater Reporter (Sweetwater, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 289, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 22, 2009
Daily newspaper from Sweetwater, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 22, 2009
Creator:
Rodriguez, Tatiana
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), April 2009
Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date:
April 1, 2009
Creator:
May, David
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Dublin Citizen (Dublin, Tex.), Vol. 19, No. 41, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 11, 2009
Weekly newspaper from Dublin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
June 11, 2009
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 119, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 2009
Weekly newspaper from De Leon, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
October 15, 2009
Creator:
Kestner, Laura
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Mannford Eagle (Mannford, Okla.), Vol. 27, No. 48, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 22, 2009
Weekly newspaper from Mannford, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 22, 2009
Creator:
Hughes, Dustin
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Historic Marker Application: Juan Francisco Farias Residence]
Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Juan Francisco Farias Residence, in Laredo, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, floor plans, and photographs.
Date:
September 16, 2009
Creator:
Texas Historical Commission
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 28, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 5, 2009
Weekly newspaper from The Colony, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
November 5, 2009
Creator:
Mann, Rick
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Iron Guns, Bronze Arrows & Brass Scales: The Life of Col. Roswell W. Lee
Book documenting biographical information about Colonel Roswell W. Lee (1810-1873) who served during the American Civil War, incorporating transcripts of letters and documents, photographs, and other source information. Index starts on page 274.
Date:
2009
Creator:
Fish, Ruth Holloway
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History