Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas (open access)

Natural Gas Resources of Parts of North Texas

Article about Natural Gas Reserves production and Consumption in Dallas, Fort Worth in Texas
Date: February 1916
Creator: Shaw, E. W. (Eugene Wesley) & Matson, George Charlton
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Caddo Oil and Gas Field, Louisiana and Texas (open access)

The Caddo Oil and Gas Field, Louisiana and Texas

This article is based on the production of oil in the Caddo oil and gas field on the Gulf Coastal plain.
Date: 1916
Creator: Matson, George Charlton
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Governors' Messages: Coke to Ross (Inclusive), 1874-1891 (open access)

Governors' Messages: Coke to Ross (Inclusive), 1874-1891

This book contains a compilation of various speeches (including inaugural addresses) and other messages (including reports and veto statements) written by governors of Texas between 1874 and 1891. Additionally, brief biographies are included for each of the governors (Richard Coke, O. M. Roberts, John Ireland, and Lawrence Sullivan Ross) with the exception of R. B. Hubbard. Index starts on page 783.
Date: 1916
Creator: Texas State Library. Archive & History Dept.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Story of Corpus Christi (open access)

The Story of Corpus Christi

This book describes the history of Corpus Christi through sketches of persons and events in the history of the city. According to the preface, it does focuses less on the history than on the people, "presenting in plain narrative form, a recountal of the days when Corpus Christi was young, of the trials and tribulations that fell to the lot of her residents in the war periods, and finally to emerge as a fast growing a progressive city of the Southland" (p. v).
Date: 1916
Creator: Sutherland, Mary A. & Harrison, Frank B.
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History