Oral History Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., September 19, 2003

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Interview with Barton B. Wallace, Jr., engineer and Army veteran (Quartermaster Corps Graves Registration Service-China Zone), concerning his experiences with Recovery Team No. 4 in the recovery of the remains of American military personnel in China, 1945-46. Appendix consists of letters, chronology, Separation Qualification Record, and extracts from various forms.
Date: September 19, 2003
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Wallace, Barton B., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with George E. Fortenberry, September 24, 2003

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Interview with George E. Fortenberry, who is an Army veteran and college professor from Arlington, Texas. In the interview, Fortenberry discusses his experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theatre during his time as a member of the 112th Cavalry of the Texas National Guard during World War II. He also describes what it was like growing up during the Great Depression and attending various different schools in both Texas and Oklahoma. Fortenberry discusses why he decided to join the National Guard, and also his experiences in early basic cavalry training. During much of the interview, Fortenberry reminisces about many of his various assignments and duties while serving in the war. Among these discussed include his assignment as a clerk to the veterinary section, time in Fort Bliss and Fort Clark, his shipment overseas to Noumea in New Caledonia, his transfer to the Medical Detachment as a clerk, and his time in New Britain, New Guinea and the Philippines. Fortenberry also recollects about everyday life in the Southwest Pacific, and includes details on tropical diseases and combat-related psychological problems that many of his comrades suffered through.
Date: September 24, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Fortenberry, George E.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with J. D. Bradley, June 27, 2003

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Interview with postmaster and Army veteran J.D. Bradley. The interview includes Bradley's personal experiences about being a guard during the International Military Tribunal for the Far East in Tokyo after World War II, enlisting in the army, basic training, various assignments, guard duty in the court docks during the tribunal, and guarding Hideki Tojo. Bradley talks about rules and regulations for Military Police guards, steps taken to prevent suicides among the prisoners, the physical description of the interior of the courtroom of the War Ministry Building, checks for hidden weapons in the courtroom, courtroom procedures, various security procedures, steps taken to impress the Japanese people, living quarters and conditions at the War Ministry Building, relations with Japanese civilians, black market activities, his relationship with a Japanese correspondent and trading cigarettes for photographs of the proceedings, Sugamo Prison, and his commanding officer, Lt. Col. Aubrey S. Kenworthy. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date: June 27, 2003
Creator: Koontz, Christopher N. & Bradley, J. D.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas State Travel Guide: 2003 (open access)

Texas State Travel Guide: 2003

Travel guide for the state of Texas containing information of interest to tourists including events, parks and historic sites, recreation opportunities, and other attractions. Index to cities and attractions starts on page 254.
Date: 2003
Creator: Texas. Department of Transportation.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Charles C. Brabham, Jr., September 9, 2003

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Interview with Army veteran Charles C. Brabham Jr. The interview includes Brabham's personal experiences about the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II, his youth in Dallas during the Great Depression, joining the 112th Cavalry at age 16, his mobilization and various assignments, and his medical evacuation die to malaria, dysentery, and hookworm.
Date: September 9, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Brabham, Charles C., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Frank Breyer, September 20, 2003

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Interview with Army veteran Frank Breyer, including personal experiences about the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II, volunteering for the draft, various assignments, his attachment to Merrill's Marauders, medical evacuation to Ledo, combat around Bhamo, Burma, the opening of the Burma Road, transfer to the 612th Artillery and to Kunming, China, for artillery training, teaching artillery tactics to Chinese troops with the Chinese Combat and Training Command, and the resumption of fighting between Chinese Nationalist and Communist forces.
Date: September 20, 2003
Creator: Alexander, William J. & Breyer, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Schedule of Classes: Spring 2003 (open access)

University of North Texas Schedule of Classes: Spring 2003

Schedule of classes at the University of North Texas for the Spring emester providing a list of classes that will be offered by department, with times and locations. It also includes class indexes and other information about registration procedures, exams, tuition, and related topics.
Date: Spring 2003
Creator: University of North Texas. Registrar.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends (open access)

The Family Saga: A Collection of Texas Family Legends

Series of family anecdotes, collected from authors across the state of Texas describing general family history, how families arrived in Texas, and experiences related to the Civil War, Indians, animals, religion, ghosts, feuds, historic figures, and various other topics. Index starts on page 349.
Date: 2003
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward; Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Vick, Frances Brannen, 1935-
System: The UNT Digital Library
University of North Texas Schedule of Classes: Summer 2003 (open access)

University of North Texas Schedule of Classes: Summer 2003

Schedule of classes at the University of North Texas for the Summer semester providing a list of classes that will be offered by department, with times and locations. It also includes class indexes and other information about registration procedures, exams, tuition, and related topics.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: University of North Texas. Registrar.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ben Moody, October 8, 2003

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Interview with Ben Moody, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Kilgore, Texas, who served with the 112th Cavalry in the Pacific. Moody discusses his family, surviving the Great Depression, his jobs and education, joining the 112th and mobilization, deployment to New Caledonia, Woodlark Island, staging at Goodenough Island, the Battle of Arawe, the Battle of Driniumor River, spending the remainder of the war in the hospital, and reflections on the 112th.
Date: October 8, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn T. & Moody, Ben
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Survey of Reagan and Upton Counties, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Reagan and Upton Counties, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Regan and Upton Counties, Texas.
Date: 2003
Creator: United States. Soil Conservation Service.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Groundwater Protection Strategy (open access)

Texas Groundwater Protection Strategy

Report from the Texas Groundwater Protection Committee (TGPC) discussing current regulatory, outreach, and research programs to protect Texas groundwater resources with information about how to update programs and further the efforts. It is broken into several chapters: (1) The Policy Framework for Groundwater Protection, (2) Characterizing the State's Groundwater Resources, (3) Roles and Responsibilities in Protecting the Groundwater, (4) Program Implementation, (5) Groundwater Information and Data Management, (6) Research to Improve Groundwater Management, (7) Public Education, (8) Public Participation, (9) Strategy Development and Planning, (10) Recommendations for Action, and relevant appendices.
Date: February 2003
Creator: Texas Groundwater Protection Committee
System: The Portal to Texas History
A History of the Fitzner/Eberhardt Arid Lands Ecology Reserve: Four Decades of Environmental Research (open access)

A History of the Fitzner/Eberhardt Arid Lands Ecology Reserve: Four Decades of Environmental Research

This book describes the history of the Fitzner/Eberhardt Arid Lands Ecology Reserve. It briefly describes the setting; outlines historical land uses of the Reserve; describes its establishments and designations; and provides examples of the types of research and education projects PNNL conducted on the Reserve for over four decades. A comprehensive bibliography also is provided.
Date: September 1, 2003
Creator: O'Connor, Georganne P.; Rickard, William H.; Kennedy, Ellen P.; Dirkes, Roger L. & Feaster-Alley, Kathy
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ernest Kelley, February 20, 2003

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Interview with Ernest Kelley, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Antioch, Texas (now the Red River Army Depot), who served with the 112th Cavalry. Kelley discusses growing up in the Depression, joining the Guard, mobilization and training, horses, the Louisiana Maneuvers, deployment to New Caledonia, landing on Woodlark island and action there, the Battle of Arawe, redeployment to Australia, the Battle of Driniumor River in New Guinea, the Battles of Leyte and Luzon, returning to the United States, and reflections on his time in the Army. In appendix is a list of people and places named in the interview with lat/long coordinates, descriptions of military equipment, and the 112th's WWII service chronicle.
Date: February 20, 2003
Creator: Johnston, Glenn & Kelley, Ernest L.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Hazel Harvey Peace, 2003-2004

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Interview with Hazel Harvey Peace, a teacher and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas, who was instrumental in expanding education for black citizens of the area. Peace discusses her parents, her education, becoming a teacher, working at various institutions over her life, books and entertainment growing up, her roll as a mentor, Fort Worth neighborhoods and the black communities, contemporary problems with integration and racism, admired leaders, her plays, her faith, and more.
Date: 2003-02-20/2004-03-28
Creator: Sprecht-Kelly, Melody & Harvey-Peace, Hazel
System: The UNT Digital Library
More Texas Family Secrets (open access)

More Texas Family Secrets

A collection of reminiscences, each preceded by a brief biographical sketch of the author.
Date: 2003
Creator: Lincecum, Jerry Bryan & Redshaw, Peggy A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Easements :  A Guide For Texas Landowners (open access)

Conservation Easements : A Guide For Texas Landowners

"This guidebook is intended to help Texas landowners understand one of the most flexible and effective means available to conserve and protect private property-- the conservation easement. A conservation easment is a legal agreement that ensures a property will be managed according to the landowner's wishes for years into the future" (1 p.).
Date: July 2003
Creator: Francell, Jeffrey Isaac
System: The Portal to Texas History
Schulenburg Volunteer Fire Department, The Hundred-Year History: 1903-2003 (open access)

Schulenburg Volunteer Fire Department, The Hundred-Year History: 1903-2003

"This history documents the progress and growth of the fire department and the city of Schulenburg over a hundred-year period" (p. iii). Included is a chapter with pictures and brief biographies of past fire chiefs, followed by chapters dedicated to each century in the hundred year history.
Date: 2003
Creator: Farek, Florence Hertel
System: The Portal to Texas History

Captain John H. Rogers, Texas Ranger

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John Harris Rogers (1863-1930) served in Texas law enforcement for more than four decades, as a Texas Ranger, Deputy and U.S. Marshal, city police chief, and in the private sector as a security agent. He is recognized in history as one of the legendary “Four Captains” of the Ranger force that helped make the transition from the Frontier Battalion days into the twentieth century, yet no one has fully researched and written about his life. Paul N. Spellman now presents the first full-length biography of this enigmatic man. During his years as a Ranger, Rogers observed and participated in the civilizing of West Texas. As the railroads moved out in the 1880s, towns grew up too quickly, lawlessness was the rule, and the Rangers were soon called in to establish order. Rogers was nearly always there. Likewise he participated in some of the most dramatic and significant events during the closing years of the Frontier Battalion: the Brown County fence cutting wars; the East Texas Conner Fight; the El Paso/Langtry Prizefight; the riots during the Laredo Quarantine; and the hunts for Hill Loftis and Gregorio Cortez. Rogers was the lawman who captured Cortez to close out one of the most …
Date: March 15, 2003
Creator: Spellman, Paul N.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Bulletin of McMurry University, 2003-2005 (open access)

Bulletin of McMurry University, 2003-2005

Bulletin describes the governance, faculty, course offerings, and campus life of McMurry University in Abilene, Texas.
Date: May 2003
Creator: McMurry University
System: The Portal to Texas History
How to Develop a Monitoring Plan for a Public Water System (open access)

How to Develop a Monitoring Plan for a Public Water System

Publication guiding operators of public water systems in creating a monitoring plan to comply with the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: December 2003
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of North Texas Schedule of Classes: Fall 2003 (open access)

University of North Texas Schedule of Classes: Fall 2003

Schedule of classes at the University of North Texas for the Fall semester providing a list of classes that will be offered by department, with times and locations. It also includes class indexes and other information about registration procedures, exams, tuition, and related topics.
Date: Autumn 2003
Creator: University of North Texas. Registrar.
System: The UNT Digital Library

The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke: Volume 1, November 20, 1872 - July 28, 1876

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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 six books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 1 begins with Bourke’s years as aide-de-camp to General Crook during the Apache campaigns and in dealings with Cochise. Bourke’s ethnographic notes on the Apaches continued with further observations on the Hopis in 1874. The next year he turned his pen on the …
Date: March 15, 2003
Creator: Robinson, Charles M., III
System: The UNT Digital Library
A Field Guide to Industrial Properties in Texas (open access)

A Field Guide to Industrial Properties in Texas

A field guide to industrial properties in Texas, this publication is useful in identifying types of historic properties in communities across Texas.
Date: 2003
Creator: Dase, Amy E.
System: The Portal to Texas History