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Oral History Interview with Salvador Espino, September 26, 2007

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Interview with Fort Worth city councilman Salvador Espino as part of the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. The interview includes Espino's personal experiences about childhood and education, having a career a computer consultant, accountant, and attorney, volunteering for Catholic Diocese, and running for a seat representing District Two on the Fort Worth City Council. Espino also discusses the district demographics and priorities, the creation of Latinos Unidos, and his involvement in Fort Worth's 2006 immigrant rights march. The interview also includes an appendix with an article written by Espino.
Date: September 26, 2007
Creator: Moye, Todd & Espino, Salvador
System: The UNT Digital Library

Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 1, 1835 - 1837

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This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers, focusing on the three-year period between 1835 and 1837, when Texas was struggling to gain its independence from Mexico and assert itself as a new nation. Stephen L. Moore vividly portrays another struggle of the settlers of Texas to tame a wilderness frontier and secure a safe place to build their homes and raise their families. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed during the Texas Revolution and narrates their involvement in the pivotal battle of San Jacinto. New ranger battalions were created following the revolution, after Indian attacks against settlers increased. One notorious attack occurred against the settlers of Parker's Fort, which had served as a ranger station during the revolution. By 1837 President Sam Houston had allowed the army to dwindle, leaving only a handful of ranging units to cover the vast Republic. These frontiersmen endured horse rustling raids and ambushes, fighting valiantly even when greatly outnumbered in battles such as the Elm Creek Fight, Post Oak Springs Massacre, and the Stone Houses Fight. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore …
Date: September 15, 2007
Creator: Moore, Stephen L.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 22, No. 22, Pages 16591 to 17236, September 4 - September 21, 2007 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 22, No. 22, Pages 16591 to 17236, September 4 - September 21, 2007

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: September 2007
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Survey of Crockett County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of Crockett County, 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 Crockett County, Texas.
Date: September 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Soil survey of Deaf Smith County, Texas (open access)

Soil survey of Deaf Smith County, 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 Deaf Smith County, Texas.
Date: September 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
System: The Portal to Texas History
TDCJ - CJAD Data Manual (open access)

TDCJ - CJAD Data Manual

Manual detailing the methods for monitoring and evaluating the procedures of the Texas Board of Criminal Justice - Community Justice Assistance Division in compliance with legislative oversight.
Date: September 2007
Creator: Texas. Department of Criminal Justice.
System: The Portal to Texas History