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Always for the Underdog: Leather Britches Smith and the Grabow War
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Louisiana’s Neutral Strip, an area of pine forests, squats between the Calcasieu and Sabine Rivers on the border of East Texas. Originally a lawless buffer zone between Spain and the United States, its hardy residents formed tight-knit communities for protection and developed a reliance on self, kin, and neighbor. In the early 1900s, the timber boom sliced through the forests and disrupted these dense communities. Mill towns sprang up, and the promise of money lured land speculators, timber workers, unionists, and a host of other characters, such as the outlaw Leather Britches Smith. That moment continues to shape the place’s cultural consciousness, and people today fashion a lore connected to this time. In a fascinating exploration of the region, Keagan LeJeune unveils the legend of Leather Britches, paralleling the stages of the outlaw’s life to the Neutral Strip’s formation. LeJeune retells each stage of Smith’s life: his notorious past, his audacious deeds of robbery and even generosity, his rumored connection to a local union strike—the Grabow War—significant in the annals of labor history, and his eventual death. As the outlaw’s life vividly unfolds, Always for the Underdog also reveals the area’s history and cultural landscape. Often using the particulars of …
Date:
December 15, 2010
Creator:
LeJeune, Keagan
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Celebrating 100 Years of the Texas Folklore Society, 1909-2009
The Texas Folklore Society is one of the oldest and most prestigious organizations in the state. Its secret for longevity lies in those things that make it unique, such as its annual meeting that seems more like a social event or family reunion than a formal academic gathering. This book examines the Society’s members and their substantial contributions to the field of folklore over the last century. Some articles focus on the research that was done in the past, while others offer studies that continue today. For example, L. Patrick Hughes explores historical folk music, while Meredith Abarca focuses on Mexican American folk healers and the potential direction of research on them today. Other articles are more personal reflections about why our members have been drawn to the TFS for fellowship and fun. This book does more than present a history of the Texas Folklore Society: it explains why the TFS has lasted so long, and why it will continue.
Date:
December 15, 2009
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Life of the Marlows: a True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days
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The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was first related by William Rathmell in Life of the Marlows, a little book published in 1892, shortly after the events it described in Young County, Texas. It told how Boone, the most reckless of the brothers, shot and killed a popular sheriff and escaped, only to be murdered later by bounty hunters. The other four brothers, arrested as accessories and jailed, made a daring break from confinement but were recaptured. Once back in their cells, they were forced to fight off a mob intent on lynching them. Later, shackled together, the Marlows were placed on wagons by officers late at night, bound for another town, but they were ambushed by angry citizens. In the resulting battle two of the brothers were shot and killed, the other two severely wounded, and three mob members died. The surviving brothers eventually were exonerated, but members of the mob that had attacked them were prosecuted …
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September 15, 2004
Creator:
Rathmell, William
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
American Voudou: Journey Into a Hidden World
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Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)—a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and transported to the Americas during the diaspora of the slave trade—is the generic term for a number of similar African religions which mutated in the Americas, including santeria, candomble, macumbe, obeah, Shango Baptist, etc. Since its violent introduction in the Caribbean islands, it has been the least understood and most feared religion of the New World—suppressed, out-lawed or ridiculed from Haiti to Hattiesburg. Yet with the exception of Zora Neale Hurston's accounts more than a half-century ago and a smattering of lurid, often racist paperbacks, studies of this potent West African theology have focused almost exclusively on Haiti, Cuba and the Caribbean basin. American Voudou turns our gaze back to American shores, principally towards the South, the most important and enduring stronghold of the voudou faith in America and site of its historic yet rarely recounted war with Christianity. This chronicle of Davis' determined search for the true legacy of voudou in America reveals a spirit-world from New Orleans to Miami which will shatter long-held stereotypes about the religion and its role in our culture. The real-life dramas of the practitioners, true believers and skeptics of …
Date:
November 15, 1999
Creator:
Davis, Rod
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
You Alls Doins. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, November 15, 1900
Weekly newspaper from Lexington, Oklahoma that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising. On February 22, 1899, Oscar M. Stevens published the first issue of You Alls Doins. Stevens’ brother Ed came up with the unique name for the paper. From the beginning Doins was a Democratic newspaper and switched its publication day from Thursday to Friday in support of their chosen party. In less than seven months, the circulation reached over a thousand subscribers probably due to its unusual name and content. The paper merged with the Cleveland County Leader to become the Lexington Leader.
Date:
November 15, 1900
Creator:
Stevens, Oscar M.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Noble News. (Noble, Okla.), Vol. 1, No. 2, Ed. 1 Thursday, March 15, 1906
Weekly newspaper from Noble, Oklahoma that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising. Marion B. Carley, proprietor of the Noble Weekly Journal, started The Noble News in March, 1906 as a continuation of her earlier paper. The newspaper may have ceased or suspended publication until 1911 at which time M. Lane King restarted the paper. The News, unlike its predecessor, claimed political affiliations with the Democratic Party. Towards the end of its existence, the paper was absorbed by the Norman Democrat-Topic. The Noble News was one of the only surviving early newspapers in Noble.
Date:
March 15, 1906
Creator:
Carley, M. B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
You Alls Doins. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 3, No. 3, Ed. 1 Friday, March 15, 1901
Weekly newspaper from Lexington, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising. On February 22, 1899, Oscar M. Stevens published the first issue of You Alls Doins. Stevens’ brother Ed came up with the unique name for the paper. From the beginning Doins was a Democratic newspaper and switched its publication day from Thursday to Friday in support of their chosen party. In less than seven months, the circulation reached over a thousand subscribers probably due to its unusual name and content. The paper merged with the Cleveland County Leader to become the Lexington Leader.
Date:
March 15, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
You Alls Doins. (Lexington, Okla.), Vol. 2, No. 51, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1901
Weekly newspaper from Lexington, Oklahoma Territory that includes local, territorial, and national news along with advertising. On February 22, 1899, Oscar M. Stevens published the first issue of You Alls Doins. Stevens’ brother Ed came up with the unique name for the paper. From the beginning Doins was a Democratic newspaper and switched its publication day from Thursday to Friday in support of their chosen party. In less than seven months, the circulation reached over a thousand subscribers probably due to its unusual name and content. The paper merged with the Cleveland County Leader to become the Lexington Leader.
Date:
February 15, 1901
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department
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Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
Roth, Mitchel P.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 3, June 1, 1878-June 22, 1880
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John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourke's diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 3 begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for the settlement between …
Date:
October 15, 2007
Creator:
Bourke, John Gregory
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Confessions of a Horseshoer
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Confessions of a Horseshoer offers a close and personal look at the mind-set of a professional horseshoer (farrier) who also happens to be a college professor. The book, an ironic and playful view of the many unusual animals (and people) Ron Tatum has encountered over thirty-seven years, is nicely balanced between straightforward presentation, self-effacing humor, and lightly seasoned wisdom. It captures the day-to-day life of a somewhat cantankerous old guy, who has attitude and strong opinions. Throughout the book, Tatum ponders the causes that led him into the apparently opposing worlds of horseshoeing, with its mud, pain, and danger, and the bookish life of a college professor. He tells the reader that it is his hope that writing the book will help him understand this apparent paradox between the physical and the mental. Tatum provides a detailed description of the horseshoeing process, its history, and why horses need shoes in the first place. The reader will learn about the dangers of shoeing horses in “Injuries I Have Known,” in which Tatum describes one particular self-inflicted injury that he claims no other horseshoer has ever, or will ever, experience. “Eight Week Syndrome” demonstrates the close, often therapeutic, relationship between the horseshoer …
Date:
May 15, 2012
Creator:
Tatum, Ron
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 1, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
April 15, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 9, No. 45, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
April 15, 1920
Creator:
McDowell, C. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 3, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 15, 1911
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
June 15, 1911
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Walls That Speak: the Murals of John Thomas Biggers
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John Thomas Biggers (1924–2001) was one of the most significant African American artists of the twentieth century. He was known for his murals, but also for his drawings, paintings, and lithographs, and was honored by a major traveling retrospective exhibition from 1995 to 1997. He created archetypal imagery that spoke positively to the rich and varied ethnic heritage of African Americans, long before the Civil Rights era drew attention to their African cultural roots. His influence upon other artists was profound, both for the power of his art and as professor and elder statesman to younger generations. Olive Jensen Theisen’s long-time commitment to the art of John Biggers resulted from the serendipitous discovery of an early Biggers mural in a school storeroom in the mid-1980s. Theisen immediately recognized the artist, the work, and its significance. She then set about returning The History of Negro Education in Morris County, Texas to a place of honor and found herself becoming a friend and recorder of John Biggers’s stories and experiences relating to the creation of his other murals too, including Family Unity at Texas Southern University. Containing more than eighty color and black-and-white illustrations, Walls That Speak is a richly illustrated update …
Date:
November 15, 2010
Creator:
Theisen, Olive Jensen
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 27, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
October 15, 1914
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 8, No. 51, Ed. 1 Thursday, May 15, 1913
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
May 15, 1913
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 29, Ed. 1 Thursday, December 15, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
December 15, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 11, No. 14, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1915
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
July 15, 1915
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Both Sides of the Border: A Scattering of Texas Folklore
Collection of Tex-Mex folklore and related essays, including papers presented at Texas Folklore Society meetings. The book is organized into four topical categories: I. Remembering Our Ancestors, II. Texas-Mexican Folklore, III. Miscellaneous Memorabilia, and IV. The Family Saga (Cont'd).
Date:
November 15, 2004
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward & Untiedt, Kenneth L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 10, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 1920
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
July 15, 1920
Creator:
McDowell, C. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 7, No. 38, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 15, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
February 15, 1912
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 16, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 15, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
September 15, 1910
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Canadian Valley Record. (Canton, Okla.), Vol. 13, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 15, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Canton, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising. Canton derived its name from Cantonment, a nearby military post that was established in 1879.
Date:
August 15, 1918
Creator:
McDowell, C. S.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History