Marfa Businesses (open access)

Marfa Businesses

This is a paper describing Marfa, Texas businesses.
Date: January 14, 1974
Creator: Zubiate, Barbara
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Life of Lucius, Sam, and Oren Bunton (open access)

Life of Lucius, Sam, and Oren Bunton

This research paper is a biography about Lucius Bunton and his sons, Sam and Oren who lived in Shafter and Marfa, Texas during the late 19th Century and early 20th Century. It tells of their many ranches in West Texas. Walter Gardner wrote this paper for his American History class at Marfa High School in 1965.
Date: 1965
Creator: Gardner, Walter
Object Type: Paper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Who Wants to Catch a Falling Star (open access)

Who Wants to Catch a Falling Star

These two pages from a paper gives details fom an interview with Joe Bunton about his life in the"'ole days". Joe was interviewed by Patricia Shurley on December 7, 1969 when he was 83 years old.
Date: 1969
Creator: Shurley, Patricia
Object Type: Paper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Dowes of Pinto Canyon (open access)

The Dowes of Pinto Canyon

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Orin Curtis Dowe and Millie Wilson Dowe of Pinto Canyon, who met while O. C. Dowe was a Texas Ranger attempting to capture smugglers crossing the Mexico-Texas border.
Date: November 21, 1966
Creator: Shurley, Mike
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History