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Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties. (open access)

Prospectus of Twelve Central Texas Counties.

This book gives an overview of the twelve Blackland Counties of Texas in alphabetical order. For each county, a brief description of the geographic and agricultural characteristics is given as well as statistics on population and county income. Additionally, a geological description of the Black Prairie Region gives more specific aspects of the area and the soil compositions and a final chapter discusses the property market of the area.
Date: 1895
Creator: Crawford, Wilbur F. & [Moore, Monta J.]
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Regional Outlook, 1992: Central Texas Region (open access)

Texas Regional Outlook, 1992: Central Texas Region

Report on economic forecast and outlook for the Central Texas Region describing expected economic change for various industries, employment growth, and county-level analyses.
Date: 1992
Creator: Texas. Comptroller's Office.
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest (open access)

The Texarkana Gateway to Texas and the Southwest

This text gives an overview of the places and resources in Texas with an emphasis on the locations where the railroads run through the state. Indexes start on page 220.
Date: 1896
Creator: Texas & Pacific Railway
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Historian, Volume 35, Number 5, May 1975 (open access)

The Texas Historian, Volume 35, Number 5, May 1975

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: May 1975
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Historian, Volume 36, Number 1, September 1975 (open access)

The Texas Historian, Volume 36, Number 1, September 1975

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: September 1975
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 15, Number 4, January 1955 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 15, Number 4, January 1955

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1955
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Junior Historian, Volume 29, Number 4, January 1969 (open access)

The Junior Historian, Volume 29, Number 4, January 1969

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: January 1969
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880 (open access)

Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880

This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date: December 1988
Creator: Harper, Cecil
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
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
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1932 (open access)

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 14, 1932

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 14, 1932
Creator: Cooke, John Esten
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald. (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1898 (open access)

The Cameron Herald. (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 17, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 6, 1898

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date: October 6, 1898
Creator: McAnally, Oscar F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1932 (open access)

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 1932

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 16, 1932
Creator: Cooke, John Esten
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1951 (open access)

The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 1, 1951

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 1, 1951
Creator: White, Jefferson B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1917 (open access)

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 45, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 2, 1917

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 2, 1917
Creator: Cooke, John Esten
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1899 (open access)

Rockdale Messenger. (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 19, 1899

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 19, 1899
Creator: Ferguson, W. M.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1957 (open access)

The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 97, No. 42, Ed. 1 Thursday, January 17, 1957

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 1957
Creator: Hayes, Gene
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1958 (open access)

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 86, No. 22, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 12, 1958

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 12, 1958
Creator: Cooke, W. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Historian, Volume 35, Number 1, September 1974 (open access)

The Texas Historian, Volume 35, Number 1, September 1974

Journal published by the Texas State Historical Association containing articles written by members of the Junior Historians about various aspects of Texas history.
Date: September 1974
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1949 (open access)

The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 43, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1949

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 3, 1949
Creator: White, Jefferson B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1947 (open access)

The Cameron Herald and Centinel (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 46, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 13, 1947

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 13, 1947
Creator: White, Jefferson B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1913 (open access)

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 19, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 17, 1913

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 17, 1913
Creator: Cooke, John Esten
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1949 (open access)

The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 89, No. 49, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 17, 1949

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 17, 1949
Creator: White, Jefferson B.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1932 (open access)

The Rockdale Reporter and Messenger (Rockdale, Tex.), Vol. 60, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 11, 1932

Weekly newspaper from Rockdale, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: August 11, 1932
Creator: Cooke, John Esten
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 81, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1951 (open access)

The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 92, No. 81, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 1, 1951

Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: November 1, 1951
Creator: Brown, Milton F., Jr.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History