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A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune (open access)

A Good Tale and a Bonnie Tune

Volume of miscellaneous folklore about Texas and Mexico, including Mexican folktales, Texas folk songs, information about Texas streams and information about racial discrimination in the South. The index begins on page 273.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
System: The UNT Digital Library
Straight Texas (open access)

Straight Texas

Volume of popular folklore of Texas, including tales about the origins of various cities and towns, personal anecdotes, songs, superstitions and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 341.
Date: 1966
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library
Tire Shrinker to Dragster (open access)

Tire Shrinker to Dragster

Collection of Texas, Jamaican and Irish folklore, including stories about drag racing, treasure hunting, frontier preachers, Irish storytellers, mock bidding in Jamaica, and more. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 1968
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Gregg County, no. 92 (open access)

Inventory of the county archives of Texas : Gregg County, no. 92

Inventory of records of Gregg County housed in the Gregg County Courthouse as of 1937. Begins with a historical sketch of the county along with a governmental organization chart, and information on the housing, care, and accessibility of the records. Describes the records of the County Commissioners Court, County Clerk as Recorder, District Courts, County Court, Justice of the Peace Courts, Criminal District Attorney, Sheriff, Constables, Tax Assessor-Collector, Board of Equalization, County Treasurer, County Auditor, County Board of School Trustees, County School Superintendent, County Surveyor, County Health Officer, and Board of Managers of County Hospital. Includes a bibliography as well as chronological and subject and entry indexes.
Date: August 1940
Creator: Historical Records Survey. Texas.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil Survey of Upshur and Gregg Counties, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Upshur and Gregg Counties, 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 Upshur and Gregg Counties, Texas.
Date: 1983
Creator: Roberts, Kirthell; Galloway, Thomas L.; Lane, Gaylon L. & Thomas, Jesse R.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Gregg County, Texas (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Gregg County, Texas

Directory of the men and women from Gregg County, Texas who served in the United States Armed Forces during World War II. Each person's entry contains their photo, a short biography, and where they served.
Date: 1946~
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History