Evaluating the Ground Water Resources of the High Plains of Texas: Volume 1 (open access)

Evaluating the Ground Water Resources of the High Plains of Texas: Volume 1

First volume of a report documenting a study to map the High Plains aquifer and obtain data about various measurements and aspects of the aquifer. This volume provides "interpretive information presented as text and related tables and regional figures."
Date: May 1984
Creator: Knowles, Tommy; Nordstrom, Phillip & Klemt, William B.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
A History Of Dickens County: Ranches and Rolling Plains (open access)

A History Of Dickens County: Ranches and Rolling Plains

This book discusses the history of Dickens County, Texas. The Table of Contents breaks the book into eight portions: The Beginnings, Education, Churches, Businesses, Ranches, Farming, Miscellaneous, Family Histories. An index to family histories is on the pages after the table of contents and before the first section.
Date: 1971
Creator: Arrington, Fred
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd (open access)

Follow de Drinkin' Gou'd

This volume includes information about the play-party in Oklahoma, folklore of Texas birds, tall tales, folk anecdotes, Texas folk songs and ballads, and other folklore (back cover). The index begins on page 185.
Date: 2000
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Survey of Dickens County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Dickens County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Dickens County, Texas.
Date: 1970
Creator: Girdner, Charles L. & Richardson, Wayne E.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: The High Plains Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 2002: The High Plains Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the High Plains Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: May 2002
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Spur (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1914 (open access)

The Texas Spur (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 5, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, September 18, 1914

Weekly newspaper from Spur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 18, 1914
Creator: McClure, Oran
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 50, 1979 (open access)

Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 50, 1979

Annual journal of the Texas Archeological Society documenting research and findings of members as well as activities of the organization.
Date: 1979
Creator: Texas Archeological Society
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Spur [and] The Dickens Items (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1925 (open access)

The Texas Spur [and] The Dickens Items (Spur, Tex.), Vol. 15, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, October 23, 1925

Weekly newspaper from Spur, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 23, 1925
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letters of Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham] (open access)

[Letters of Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham]

The Rev. Dr. Thomas McHutchin Cunningham (March 22, 1887 - March 3, 1979) wrote these letters to family members from April 14, 1918 to November 28, 1927. The letters detail his life as a minister in Texas and other locations. The letters are written from Stamford, Spur, Eliasville, Sherman, Gainesville, Orange, Boston (Mass.), Richmond (Va.), and Knoxville (Tn.). The letters detail church news, family life, and travel on the S.S. Leviaton in 1927 to visit London, Paris, and Jerusalem.
Date: 1918
Creator: Cunningham, Thomas McHutchin
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History