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Folk Art in Texas (open access)

Folk Art in Texas

This book describes popular folk art of Texas, including basket weaving, hat-making, yard art, sculptures, murals, cemetery art, quilt-making, tattoo art, and other miscellaneous folk art. The index begins on page 198.
Date: 1985
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 4, May 2016 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 4, May 2016

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: May 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 2, March 2016 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 2, March 2016

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: March 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 26, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 28, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 26, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 26, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 3, April 2016 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 3, April 2016

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: April 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 29, 1868 (open access)

The Huntsville Times (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 29, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 29, 1868

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 29, 1868
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 19, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 19, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 19, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 12, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 26, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 12, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 12, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Louis Meade Burton and Patricia Ruth Scott Burton, October 15, 2013 (open access)

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Louis Meade Burton and Patricia Ruth Scott Burton, October 15, 2013

Interview with Louis Meade Burton and Patricia Ruth Scott Burton, a couple who were involved with the school system in Kerrville, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Burton discuss their family histories, their move move to the area, Pat's work with the Tivy school system, Louis's coaching career, and the flood of 1932. The interview includes photographs of the couple and their family, on pages 27-37.
Date: October 15, 2013
Creator: Collins, Francelle Robison; Stephens, Louis; Burton, Louis M. & Burton, Pat
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 87, Number 6, July/August 2015 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 87, Number 6, July/August 2015

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 27, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 19, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History

Eleven Days in Hell: the 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege in Huntsville, Texas

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
From one o’clock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten o’clock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texas’s Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with intent to commit murder on a police officer. Using his connections to smuggle guns and ammunition into the prison, and employing the aid of two other inmates, he took eleven prison workers and four inmates hostage in the prison library. Demanding bulletproof helmets and vests, he planned to use the hostages as shields for his escape. Negotiations began immediately with prison warden H. H. Husbands and W. J. Estelle, Jr., Director of the Texas Department of Corrections. The Texas Rangers, the Department of Public Safety, and the FBI arrived to assist as the media descended on Huntsville. When one of the hostages suggested a moving structure of chalkboards padded with law books to absorb bullets, Carrasco agreed to the plan. The captors entered their escape pod with four hostages and secured eight others to …
Date: August 15, 2004
Creator: Harper, William T.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 22, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 15, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 15, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 30, Ed. 1 Saturday, March 12, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: March 12, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 1, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 1, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 1, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1901 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. FIFTY-FIRST YEAR, No. 46, Ed. 1 Friday, July 5, 1901

Daily newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 5, 1901
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Houstonian (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 1940 (open access)

The Houstonian (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 27, No. 15, Ed. 1 Wednesday, January 17, 1940

Weekly student newspaper from Sam Houston State Teachers College in Huntsville, Texas that includes news of interest to students along with advertising.
Date: January 17, 1940
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 1, February 2016 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 88, Number 1, February 2016

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: February 2016
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Recorder (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1857 (open access)

The Huntsville Recorder (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, October 15, 1857

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: October 15, 1857
Creator: Cammer, Benj. W. & McLaughlin, W. A.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Banner (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 24, 1849 (open access)

The Texas Banner (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 43, Ed. 1, Saturday, November 24, 1849

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: November 24, 1849
Creator: Hatch, F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1853 (open access)

The Huntsville Item. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 21, Ed. 1 Saturday, January 8, 1853

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: January 8, 1853
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Union Republican. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 5, 1871 (open access)

The Union Republican. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 34, Ed. 1 Wednesday, April 5, 1871

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with advertising.
Date: April 5, 1871
Creator: Goddin, M. H.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Texas Banner. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 26, 1849 (open access)

The Texas Banner. (Huntsville, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 20, Ed. 1, Saturday, May 26, 1849

Weekly newspaper from Huntsville, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: May 26, 1849
Creator: Hatch, F.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The ECHO, Volume 87, Number 7, September 2015 (open access)

The ECHO, Volume 87, Number 7, September 2015

Monthly newspaper produced for inmates in the Texas criminal justice system containing news stories, policy updates, opinion pieces, creative works, and other information.
Date: September 2015
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History