Belle of the Ball (open access)

Belle of the Ball

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about a fictitious story explaining scenes, people, and events a young woman in the early 1900s might have experienced.
Date: January 21, 1971
Creator: Newton, Larue
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
There's Nobody Like Him (open access)

There's Nobody Like Him

This is a paper describing the life of the cowboys and cattle ranchers from the early 1900s to the present day in the Marfa, Texas area.
Date: February 21, 1977
Creator: Steen, Jettie
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[State Highway 170 Near Presidio]

Photograph of State Highway 170 near Presidio along the Rio Grande River in Big Bend National Park. A sign is located on the roadside that reads, "Rock Slides" and a mountainous landscape is visible in the distance.
Date: June 21, 1972
Creator: Streng, Evelyn Fiedler
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: Treaty ratification] (open access)

[News Script: Treaty ratification]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Richard Nixon requesting the United States senate to ratify a treaty to end boundary disputes with Mexico.
Date: 1971-04-21T24:00:00
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
1919 Plane Crash: A Paper Presented to the History Department of Marfa High School (open access)

1919 Plane Crash: A Paper Presented to the History Department of Marfa High School

Research paper written by Danny Roman about a plane crash that happened in 1919 in Marfa that killed Benito Viscaino, Jr., and Augustin Viscaino. The paper was written for a class at Marfa High School in 1978.
Date: February 21, 1978
Creator: Roman, Danny
Object Type: Paper
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: New Top Texas Weather] (open access)

[News Script: New Top Texas Weather]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of lower records have been reported at few places in Texas as freezing weather engulfs the entire state.
Date: December 21, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library