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Evaluating Methods for Determining Water Use in the High Plains in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming; 1979 (open access)

Evaluating Methods for Determining Water Use in the High Plains in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming; 1979

From introduction: "The U.S. Geological Survey began a 5-year study of the High Plains regional aquifer during the 1978 to provide the hydrologic information needed for the development of computer models to evaluate the aquifer's response to ground-water management alternatives." It contains maps, graphs, and tables.
Date: 1980
Creator: Heimes, Frederick J. & Luckey, Richard R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Memorial Service] captions transcript

[News Clip: Memorial Service]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: 198X
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Clip: Missing plane found] captions transcript

[News Clip: Missing plane found]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: July 1, 1987
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Video
System: The UNT Digital Library
Estimating 1980 Ground-Water Pumpage for Irrigation on the High Plains in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming (open access)

Estimating 1980 Ground-Water Pumpage for Irrigation on the High Plains in Parts of Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming

From introduction: This report describes the results of 1980 sampling of ground-water pumpage for irrigation on the High Plains, one phase of the High Plains Regional Aquifer-System Analysis project. These data were collected to estimate the volume of irrigation water pumped during 1980 and to determine current trends in irrigation pumpage on the High Plains.
Date: 1983
Creator: Heimes, Frederick J. & Luckey, Richard R.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion (open access)

Fighting Men of the Indian Wars: A Biographical Encyclopedia of the Mountain Men, Soldiers, Cowboys, and Pioneers Who Took Up Arms During America's Westward Expansion

This book "is a compendium of America's Indian Wars and the mountain men, soldiers, cowboys and pioneers who took part in them" (dust-jacket). It includes information about all the major American Indian battles, the lives of notable men who fought in the battles, and the combat techniques employed. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 2017
Creator: O'Neal, Bill
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Nixon's travels] (open access)

[News Script: Nixon's travels]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: 1971-08-18T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, December 14, 1951] (open access)

[Letter from T. L. James to D. W. Kempner, December 14, 1951]

Letter from Thos. L. James to D. W. Kempner discussing various cattle operations, including ranches and ranch sales, which were covered in attached magazines. James also discusses the possibility of a cattle purchase and sale.
Date: December 14, 1951
Creator: James, Thomas Leroy
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Reed Larson to Harris Leon Kempner, May 14, 1963] (open access)

[Letter from Reed Larson to Harris Leon Kempner, May 14, 1963]

Letter from Reed Larson to Harris Leon Kempner discussing how right to work law has progressed over the past year. And few new non right to work states also initiated this law. He also wrote about how Harris Financial support helped achieve this and hopes that Harris does the same the next following years.
Date: May 14, 1963
Creator: Larson, Reed
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Growing Hard Spring Wheat (open access)

Growing Hard Spring Wheat

"This bulletin discusses the topographic, soil, and climatic features of the northern Great Plains, with special reference to the production of hard spring wheat in that area. Cultural methods for growing the crop are given." -- title
Date: 1915
Creator: Ball, Carleton R. (Carleton Roy), 1873-1958 & Clark, J. Allen (Jacob Allen), b. 1888
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats (open access)

Sixty-Day and Kherson Oats

Report discussing the results of experiments undertaken to determine the viability of early oats in different regions of the United States since early oats typically thrive only in the Corn Belt and Great Plains regions.
Date: 1910
Creator: Warburton, C. W. (Clyde William), 1879-1950
Object Type: Pamphlet
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Fort Worth Teen Killer ] (open access)

[News Script: Fort Worth Teen Killer ]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of a Forth Worth teenager is under arrest in Chicago as he is implicated in a double murder in Wyoming.
Date: December 28, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Production and Briquetting of Carbonized Lignite (open access)

Production and Briquetting of Carbonized Lignite

From Introduction: "The Bureau of Mines since its establishment has always taken an active interest in the utilization of lignite and in the development of the lignite deposits of the United States. Extensive lignite fields occur in the west central States, notably in North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and Texas; there are smaller areas in several other Sates, some of which are widely separated."
Date: 1923
Creator: Babcock, E. J. & Odell, W. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States and Foreign Countries (open access)

Coal-Mine Accidents in the United States and Foreign Countries

From Introduction: "The lack of comparable and accurate statistics of coal-mine accidents in the united States as a whole led the Bureau of Mines in 1911 to undertake the collection of such data. The mining departments of the leading foreign coal-producing countries have long taken cognizance of the importance of statistics. The bureau feels that in presenting the tables embodied in this report it is offering the and comparable statistics of coal-min accidents for the country as a whole that have ever been published."
Date: 1913
Creator: Horton, Frederick W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910: Part 1. -- Analyses (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910: Part 1. -- Analyses

From Significance and value of Analyses of Coal: "The analyses published in this report cover samples of coal collected in many different parts of the country with unusual care by experiences men, in such manner as to make them representative of extensive beds of coal."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples (open access)

Analyses of Coals in the United States with Descriptions of Mine and Field Samples Collected between July 1, 1904 and June 30, 1910 Part 2. Descriptions of Samples

From Introduction: "This volume contains the descriptions of the samples whose analyses are published in the preceding volume, Part I of this bulletin. The descriptions have been compiled from the notebooks of the persons who collected the samples, have been condensed from accounts given in published reports of the United States Geological Survey, or have furnished by the collection themselves. Inasmuch as the descriptions represent the work of many persons during a period of six years, and inasmuch as they were recorded under widely differing conditions, they necessarily vary in fullness detail."
Date: 1913
Creator: Lord, N. W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Rock Hound] (open access)

[News Script: Rock Hound]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Herman Smith of Oklahoma City who returned from a vacation in Wyoming where he was digging around for whatever he could find.
Date: September 6, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Skylab & Mass Murder] (open access)

[News Script: Skylab & Mass Murder]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Skylab 3 astronauts who search for a geothermal hot spots that might be converted to new sources of energy. Also, 2 witnesses are expected to give their first public account in Houston of a sex-torture party that ended in the death of Dean Corll.
Date: January 22, 1974, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Gypsum Products: Their Preparation and Uses (open access)

Gypsum Products: Their Preparation and Uses

Technical report issued by the Bureau of Mines over the different uses of gypsum. The sources and uses of gypsum are presented and discussed. This report includes tables, photographs, and illustrations.
Date: July 1917
Creator: Stone, Ralph W.
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Handbill of Evidence Excluded from the Warren Report #1] (open access)

[Handbill of Evidence Excluded from the Warren Report #1]

Handbill which posits that Governor John Connally received a letter of warning prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. The letter stated that the governor should not ride in an open car if he were to visit Dallas.
Date: [1963..1965]
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Handbill of Evidence Excluded from the Warren Report #2] (open access)

[Handbill of Evidence Excluded from the Warren Report #2]

Handbill which posits that Governor John Connally received a letter of warning prior to the assassination of President Kennedy. The letter stated that the governor should not ride in an open car if he were to visit Dallas.
Date: [1963..1965]
Creator: Dallas (Tex.). Police Department.
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Groundwater Prospecting for Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits: The Merits of Mineral-Solution Equilibria Versus Single Element Tracer Methods (open access)

Groundwater Prospecting for Sandstone-Type Uranium Deposits: The Merits of Mineral-Solution Equilibria Versus Single Element Tracer Methods

A report discussing groundwaters from aquifers in two different sandstone-type uranium mining districts in Texas and Wyoming that were collected and chemically analyzed.
Date: February 1981
Creator: Chatham, James R.; Wanty, Richard B. & Langmuir, Donald
Object Type: Report
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Letter from D. Bailey Calvin to I. H. Kempner, October 9, 1944] (open access)

[Letter from D. Bailey Calvin to I. H. Kempner, October 9, 1944]

Letter from D. Bailey Calvin to I. H. Kempner providing a list of state-supported medical schools in different U.S. cities from their main universities and notes that half of these are not on the same campus as the main university. He suggests that Dr. Leake will address alumni matters upon his return to Galveston and offers further assistance if needed.
Date: October 9, 1944
Creator: Calvin, D. Bailey
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History