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Farming Someone Else's Land: Farm Tenancy in the Texas Brazos River Valley, 1850-1880
This dissertation develops and utilizes a methodology for combining data drawn from the manuscript census returns and the county tax rolls to study landless farmers during the period from 1850 until 1880 in three Texas Brazos River Valley counties: Fort Bend, Milam, and Palo Pinto. It focuses in particular on those landless farmers who appear to have had no option other than tenant farming. It concludes that there were such landless farmers throughout the period, although they were a relatively insignificant factor in the agricultural economy before the Civil War. During the Antebellum decade, poor tenant farmers were a higher proportion of the population on the frontier than in the interior, but throughout the period, they were found in higher numbers in the central portion of the river valley. White tenants generally avoided the coastal plantation areas, although by 1880, that pattern seemed to be changing. Emancipation had tremendous impact on both black and white landless farmers. Although both groups were now theoretically competing for the same resource, productive crop land, their reactions during the first fifteen years were so different that it suggests two systems of tenant farming divided by caste. As population expansion put increasing pressure on the …
Date:
December 1988
Creator:
Harper, Cecil
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Airplane search]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date:
July 26, 1972, 8:25 a.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Bed-Slat Fastener.
Patent for a new and useful bed slat fastener, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 16, 1898
Creator:
Sonntag, Edwin C.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clothes-Pin
Patent for a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 24, 1907
Creator:
Cooke, Jasper Newton & Moeller, John Charles
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Automatic Signal System
Patent for an automatic signal system for use with railways. Illustrations included.
Date:
December 14, 1909
Creator:
Adams, Powell O.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Churn
Patent for a churn. Illustration included.
Date:
June 13, 1911
Creator:
Smith, Columbus
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clip
Patent for a clip that may be used to bind paper, plies of fabric, or as a clothes pin. Illustrations included.
Date:
November 26, 1907
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard
Patent for a cattle guard for use at railroad tracks incorporating a depressible platform connected to a closing mechanism which will impede movement of cattle across the track, but allow for unobstructed movement at other times.
Date:
March 20, 1906
Creator:
Richter, Fred Otto & Richter, Gustav Adolph
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cattle-Guard.
Patent for an improved cattle-guard by using a guard that has a plurality of spurs, should an animal step thereon its foot will be directed against one or more of these spurs, thus causing the animal to withdraw its foot and not attempt to pass over the rail. This will prevent the animal from crossing railway-tracks, but the spurs will not interfere with the free passage of trains. (Lines 10-20) Illustration is included.
Date:
April 2, 1901
Creator:
Steinmann, Herman Werner
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Clevis.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in clevises, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
June 14, 1898
Creator:
Taylor, George H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Breast-Strap
Patent for a breast strap with snap hooks that reduces wear on the strap.
Date:
March 29, 1910
Creator:
Hewitt, Ditus P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner
Patent for an apparatus that is designed to clean cotton before it is placed in a cotton gin. Illustrations included.
Date:
February 15, 1910
Creator:
Felton, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Animal-Trap
Patent for a cylinder shaped animal trap for small furry animals.
Date:
February 25, 1913
Creator:
Fikes, Benjamin M.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Attachment for Harrows
Patent for attachment of harrows that facilitate the use of harrows in pilling cotton stalks. This device allows the harrows to be in continuous motion creating efficiency in cotton pilling.
Date:
March 11, 1913
Creator:
Taylor, David T. & Barker, Felix
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Well-Drilling Machine.
Patent for “a new and improved well-drilling machine adapted to be driven by horse-power and arranged to permit of actuating the drilling tools for drilling purposes and to allow of conveniently and quickly raising the tools from the well…” (lines 8-14) including illustrations.
Date:
November 18, 1902
Creator:
Moore, Robert Burns
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Chopper.
Patent for a cotton chopper, which can be attached to a planter.
Date:
October 18, 1910
Creator:
Felton, Thomas W.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Convertible Dust-Pan.
Patent for a convertible dust pan, which does not require stooping over to sweep up dirt into the pan and can also be used as a shovel.
Date:
October 12, 1909
Creator:
Epperson, Albert S.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Advertising Device.
Patent for certain new and useful improvements in advertising device, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
August 9, 1898
Creator:
Hefley, Jefferson D.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Cooling Milk.
Patent for a new and useful apparatus for regulating the temperature of milk.
Date:
April 26, 1898
Creator:
Porter, Louis H.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
General Highway Map Milam County, Texas
Highway map of Milam County, Texas, showing rivers, lakes, creeks, streams, cities, towns, outlying buildings (including schools, churches, and post offices), roads, highways (giving mileage between points), bridges, railroads, cemeteries, oil or gas wells, oil fields, utility lines, petroleum pipelines, mines or quarries, urban compacts, and airfields. Map includes a key to counties diagram and an extensive legend indicating geographical and human-made features. Scale [ca. 1:126,720] (2 miles to the inch).
Date:
1961
Creator:
Texas. Highway Department. Planning Survey Division.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cretaceous Area North of the Colorado River
Geologic map of a portion of South Texas, showing Cretaceous rocks divided into two sequences - lower Cretaceous series and upper Cretaceous series. Shows also Tertiary and Paleozoic rocks. The map also includes county lines, cities and towns, roads, railroads, bodies of water, and areas of elevation. Relief shown by contours and spot heights.
Date:
unknown
Creator:
Taff, J. A.; Leverett, S. & Dumble, Edwin Theodore
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Milam Co.
Blue line print of survey map of Milam County, Texas, showing rivers, creeks, original land grants or surveys, cities, towns, and railroads. Handwritten notes have been made on the published map in pencil. Scale [ca. 1:200,000] (6000 varas to the inch).
Date:
1918
Creator:
McDonald, H. F.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 28, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
September 28, 1944
Creator:
White, Jefferson B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cameron Herald (Cameron, Tex.), Vol. 85, No. 18, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 10, 1944
Weekly newspaper from Cameron, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
August 10, 1944
Creator:
White, Jefferson B.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History