Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 3: Primary Helicopter Center Facility (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 3: Primary Helicopter Center Facility

This volume includes a list of abbreviations, a list of Fort Wolters buildings and facilities (with square footage and cost of construction), a detailed history of Fort Wolters; and information on recreational activities, such as the Fort Wolter's Boots & Saddle Club, the Bowling Alley, and Skeet Range.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 1: Infantry Replacement Training Center (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 1: Infantry Replacement Training Center

This volume includes a time-line of events that took place in Fort Wolters from 1921 to 1973, including biographies of personnel, photographs, diagrams and a Roster of Infantry Replacement Center Officers from 1941.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 8: Southern Airways Company, Southern Airways of Texas (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 8: Southern Airways Company, Southern Airways of Texas

This volume details the role that the Southern Airways Company played in their contracts for Fort Wolters from 1956-1968. The volume includes biographies of key administrators of Southern Airways, a list of employees, a list of reunion attendees, and a time-line of key events.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 4:  Army Primary Helicopter School, Officer Graduation Class (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 4: Army Primary Helicopter School, Officer Graduation Class

This volume includes a document that was the first official written notice designating Wolters as a Fort, dated June 4, 1963. It also includes biographies, and photographs of graduating pilot classes.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Robert M. Bane, January 11, 2013

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Interview with Robert Bane, a Army WWII veteran from Garland, Texas. Bane discusses his family background, basic training, deployment to the Battle of the Bulge, General George S. Patton, experiences in combat with the 63rd Infantry Division during the drive into Germany, his comrades, crossing the Rhine, liberating Dachau, returning to the states, and his work with the Freemasons. In appendix is a photograph of Bane with his medals.
Date: November 13, 2013
Creator: Malone, Timothy & Bane, Robert M.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scrapbook History of Mineral Wells and Palo Pinto County (open access)

Scrapbook History of Mineral Wells and Palo Pinto County

Scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, photographs, and other materials to document important people, organizations, places, and events of significance to the history of Palo Pinto County and Mineral Wells, Texas. It includes a rough table of contents with page numbers for some of the highlights.
Date: unknown
Creator: Woodruff, Bess
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 13: Police, Fire, Training Aids, Band, Weather Squadron, Recreation, Prisoner of War Camp, Nike, Camp Wolters Enterprise, Parks (open access)

Pictorial History of Fort Wolters, Volume 13: Police, Fire, Training Aids, Band, Weather Squadron, Recreation, Prisoner of War Camp, Nike, Camp Wolters Enterprise, Parks

This volume includes a brief history (and many photographs) of Fort Wolters' 84th Military Police Detachment, Fire Department, Training Aids, 328th Army Band, Weather Squadron, Recreation, Prisoner of War Camp 1943-1945, Nike, Camp Wolters Enterprise, and Parks.
Date: unknown
Creator: Casper, Willie H., Jr.
Object Type: Book
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

We Handle Water Music: The Crazy Water Radio Broadcast Transcription Discs at University of North Texas [Presentation]

Presentation on the Crazy Water radio broadcasts in the UNT Music Library. This presentation was selected for the 2020 Best of Chapters presentations at the Music Library Association conference in Norfolk, VA held on February 26-March 1, 2020.
Date: February 29, 2020
Creator: Feustle, Maristella
Object Type: Presentation
System: The UNT Digital Library
Inventory of county records, Palo Pinto County Courthouse, Palo Pinto, Texas (open access)

Inventory of county records, Palo Pinto County Courthouse, Palo Pinto, Texas

Inventory of records of Palo Pinto County housed in the Palo Pinto County Courthouse in Palo Pinto, Texas. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the County Clerk, District Clerk, Justice of the Peace, Tax Assessor-Collector, Sheriff, Treasurer, Auditor, and County School Superintendent. Also provides an index.
Date: 1975
Creator: Sumners, Bill F. & Pearson, Mary
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Unidentified Individuals on Vacation in Mineral Wells]

Mattie Lee Lacy with two men and six women, all unidentified, posing for the camera while on vacation in Mineral Wells. Mattie Lee Lacy is in the white striped dress. Two tents are visible, one on the right side of the frame and one in the background to the left. Written on the back in pencil: 1907. Written on the back in blue ink: Vacation at Mineral Wells 1097. Located on back of photo "Vacation at Mineral Wells Miss Mattie Lee Lacy of [TSCU & CO?)" (TSCO & CO difficult to decipher. Printed on the back of the photo: 4 Important Gateways 4 The Texas T and P Pacific Railway "No Trouble to Answer Questions." Best Passenger Service in Texas. E. P. Turner, G. P. A., Dallas, Texas.
Date: 1907
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964 (open access)

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964

The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 635.
Date: 1964
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard of the Morris Shephard Dam]

Postcard of the Morris Shephard Dam in Mineral Wells, Texas. The postcard is addressed to Mrs. Laretta Carter of Denton, Texas.
Date: September 8, 1908
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), January 2009 (open access)

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
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), April 2011 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), April 2011

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: April 1, 2011
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), September 2015 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), September 2015

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: September 1, 2015
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), September 2014 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), September 2014

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: September 2014
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), April 2009 (open access)

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
North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), October 2008 (open access)

North Texas Star (Mineral Wells, Tex.), October 2008

Monthly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes history and travel stories along with advertising.
Date: October 1, 2008
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Palo Pinto County (open access)

Men and Women in the Armed Forces from Palo Pinto County

Directory of the men and women from Palo Pinto 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
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Loving Family in Texas (1843 - 1953) (open access)

The Loving Family in Texas (1843 - 1953)

Biographical sketches and accounts related to the history of the Loving family, as well as genealogical lists. It is separated into three parts: James and Margaret Morgan Loving, Dallas County; Oliver and Susan Morgan Loving, Parker and Palo Pinto Counties; Abraham and Susannah Pipkin Loving, Grayson County.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cullar, W. Clytes Anderson (Willie Clytes Anderson), 1920-
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 6, 2017 (open access)

Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 117, No. 36, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Semiweekly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: September 6, 2017
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 3, 1959 (open access)

Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Ed. 1 Tuesday, November 3, 1959

Daily newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 3, 1959
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 111, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 17, 2016 (open access)

Mineral Wells Index (Mineral Wells, Tex.), Vol. 115, No. 111, Ed. 1 Sunday, January 17, 2016

Thrice-weekly newspaper from Mineral Wells, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 2016
Creator: May, David
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History