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[Letter from Pat Godbold to Abelardo Sanchez - May 24, 1991] (open access)

[Letter from Pat Godbold to Abelardo Sanchez - May 24, 1991]

Letter from Pat Goldbold to Abelardo Sanchez in response to a postcard sent by Abelardo Sanchez requesting information about the timeline of Dr. J. C. Darracott's practice in Marfa, Texas, while researching the death of Ambrose Bierce. Mrs. Goldbold includes a short biography of Dr. Darracott in reference to Marfa, according to the Marfa Museum records.
Date: May 24, 1991
Creator: Goldbold, Pat
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from Abelardo Sanchez to Mrs. Pat Godbold - May 20, 1991] (open access)

[Postcard from Abelardo Sanchez to Mrs. Pat Godbold - May 20, 1991]

A postcard with a blank front sent to Mrs. Pat Goldbold, care of the Marfa Museum, from Abelardo Sanchez requesting information about the timeline of Dr. Darracott's practice in Marfa, Texas, while researching the death of Ambrose Bierce.
Date: May 20, 1991
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Brite Ranch Raid (open access)

The Brite Ranch Raid

This is a collection of pages and objects related to an entry by Clint W. White for the Alpine History Fair in Marfa, Texas in March 1984. Accompanying the research paper are three "History Day" judges' rating cards, a participant ribbon, and a certificate. The paper mentions a model of the ranch headquarters that accompanied this report. as well. Three ia a hand-written paper telling about the author's sources of information about the ranch. The three-page typed report tells the story of the raid on the Brite Ranch in 1917.
Date: March 5, 1984
Creator: White, Clint W.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from W. B. Hubbard] (open access)

[Letter from W. B. Hubbard]

The letter from W. B. Hubbard is a brief explanation of the enclosures provided including a photocopy of an article that appeard in The Cattleman in 1937.
Date: December 17, 1983
Creator: Hubbard, W. B.
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Lee G. Bennett to Wm. F. Dukes - October 19, 1979] (open access)

[Letter from Lee G. Bennett to Wm. F. Dukes - October 19, 1979]

Letter from Lee G. Bennett to Wm. F. Dukes in acceptance of the additional photographs by Frank Duncan of the people and happenings of the 1920s, which Mr. Dukes offered to the Marfa Museum in a previous letter.
Date: October 19, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Wm. F. Dukes to Mrs. Glenda McCravey - October 12, 1979] (open access)

[Letter from Wm. F. Dukes to Mrs. Glenda McCravey - October 12, 1979]

Letter from Wm. F. Dukes to Mrs. Glenda McCravey to inquire whether the museum to be built in Marfa, Texas, might appreciate the donation of some additional photographs by Frank Duncan.
Date: October 12, 1979
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
1930 Wedding (open access)

1930 Wedding

This is a paper accompanying a photograph, written by Danny Roman for an American History Class at Marfa High School on February 21, 1978. It describes a wedding party.
Date: February 21, 1978
Creator: Roman, Danny
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Crosson Family (open access)

The Crosson Family

Paper written by Jon Polson for his history class at Marfa High School on January 29, 1978. It is about the family of George and Lizzie Crosson, two of the earliest settlers in west Texas. They arrived by covered wagon in 1866-1867. The started the Goat Mountain Ranch and had five children.
Date: January 29, 1978
Creator: Polson, Jon
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cow Country Comedy (open access)

Cow Country Comedy

Paper on the history and development of West Texas humor
Date: 1978
Creator: Odell, Cindy
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Memorial Service: Kathleen Menard - April 24, 1978] (open access)

[Memorial Service: Kathleen Menard - April 24, 1978]

Script for the memorial service of Kathleen Menard at Nalley-Pickle Rosewood Chapel on the morning of April 24, 1978. Kathleen Menard attend and graduated valedictorian form Marfa High School in Marfa, Texas. Kathleen Menard was deeply devoted to her father, Frank Duncan, and helped him in his photography business.
Date: 1978
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
A 1913 Wedding (open access)

A 1913 Wedding

Information about a photograph for a research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the 1913 wedding of Hijinio Roman and Pilar Dominguez. A footnotes page and bibliography to the research paper are also included.
Date: January 18, 1977
Creator: Carrasco, Irma
System: The Portal to Texas History
My Grandmother's Sisters (open access)

My Grandmother's Sisters

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the author's grandmother's sisters, Rubio D. Dominguez and Maria Rubio D. Ochoa.
Date: January 17, 1977
Creator: Carrasco, Carlos
System: The Portal to Texas History
Barriers in Labor During the Depression (open access)

Barriers in Labor During the Depression

Paper based on an interview with Johnnie Collie. The paper describes his family, his different jobs in a variety of places and his time in the U.S. Army. This paper was written for an American History class at Marfa High School in 1977 by Orlando Garcia.
Date: January 10, 1977
Creator: Garcia, Orlando
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mrs. Carrasco (open access)

Mrs. Carrasco

This paper contains a biography of Paula Quiroz Carrasco. It discusses her family and her talent for knitting. This was a research paper by Silvino Ocon for an American History class at Marfa High School in 1977.
Date: January 10, 1977
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Adobe House: A Paper Presented to the History Department of Marfa High School (open access)

The Adobe House: A Paper Presented to the History Department of Marfa High School

Research paper written by Mary Francis Conners about the construction of adobe bricks and buildings. The paper describes what adobe is and where adobe buildings are normally found. This paper was written in in January of 1977 for a history class at Marfa High School.
Date: January 1977
Creator: Conners, Mary Francis
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Camels are Coming (open access)

The Camels are Coming

Paper illustrating the history of the US Army Camel Corps.
Date: 1977
Creator: Earney, Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History
Interesting Person (open access)

Interesting Person

Paper written for a history class at Marfa High School in January 1977 by Rink Polson. It is about Lee Bennett, a teacher in Marfa and founder of the Junior Historians of Marfa.
Date: January 1977
Creator: Polson, Rink
System: The Portal to Texas History
Marfa Junior Historians (open access)

Marfa Junior Historians

Paper by Lee Bennett about the Junior Historians in Marfa, Texas. It explains what they do, projects and papers the have written and awards they have won. She discusses how history helps young people build relationships with their parents and living relatives through interviews, projects and oral history and how they learn to appreciate the Big Bend area by researching things about it.
Date: 1977~
Creator: Bennett, Lee
System: The Portal to Texas History
Mary Elizabeth Runkles Davis (open access)

Mary Elizabeth Runkles Davis

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Mary Elizabeth Runkles Davis from Marfa, Texas, who contracted polio at the age of seven - She later went on to eat dinner with President Roosevelt, become Woman of the Year in 1968, and write poetry.
Date: January 1977
Creator: Sanchez, Delma
System: The Portal to Texas History
One Wrong Cut (open access)

One Wrong Cut

This report relates an anecdote about Edward "Speck" Bogel, the son of a rancher in Marfa, Texas.
Date: December 1976
Creator: Polson, Rink
System: The Portal to Texas History
Flyer for Bicentennial Celebration in Marfa (open access)

Flyer for Bicentennial Celebration in Marfa

Flyer for the play "The Heavenly Case of The Bicentennial- America On Trial" presented in Marfa, Texas on March 25-26, 1976.
Date: March 25, 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Program for Bicentennial Celebration in Marfa (open access)

Program for Bicentennial Celebration in Marfa

Program for the play "The Heavenly Case of The Bicentennial- America On Trial" presented in Marfa, Texas on March 25-26, 1976.
Date: March 25, 1976
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Who Wants to Catch a Falling Star (open access)

Who Wants to Catch a Falling Star

This paper tells the story of a joke that Joe Bunton played on Robert Humphris, his cousin when they were children. Wil Cross wrote this paper for his American History class at Marfa High School in 1976.
Date: 1976
Creator: Cross, Wil
System: The Portal to Texas History
Bears, Beeves, and Bibles: A Depression Story (open access)

Bears, Beeves, and Bibles: A Depression Story

Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about the Great Depression and, specifically, how if affected the town of Marfa, Texas. This paper reconstructs the Depression using individual accounts: working several odd jobs to earn money, pawning and trading items to pay for food, baking chocolate cakes in exchange for fence posts to repair a broken fence line, etc.
Date: November 7, 1975
Creator: Earney, Ann
System: The Portal to Texas History