Big Springs

Topographic quadrangle map of Big Spring, Texas, and the surrounding area, showing towns, roads, bodies of water, landmarks, and borders, with relief shown by contours (interval 100 feet with supplementary contours at 50 foot intervals) and spot heights. A location diagram is included in the lower-right corner. Scale 1:250,000
Date: 1954
Creator: United States. Army. Corps of Engineers.
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History

Combination Map of Parts of Jones, Taylor, Fisher, and Nolan Counties.

Survey map of parts of Jones, Taylor, Fisher, and Nolan Counties, showing rivers, towns, boundaries, creeks, original land grants or surveys, roads, and blocks of land. A legend indicating drilling wells, gas wells, abandoned wells, and dry holes is included in the lower-left corner of the second sheet. Handwritten notes have been made on the map in red pencil to outline specific tracts of land. Scale [ca. 1:66,667] (2000 varas to the inch).
Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
West Texas Historical Association Yearbook: Historical Items; Damage Claims For Attacks, etc. (open access)

West Texas Historical Association Yearbook: Historical Items; Damage Claims For Attacks, etc.

Section from the West Texas Historical Association Yearbook discussing the historical context of a poem titled, The Band of Hope, that centers around the trials of a gang of cattle rustlers from Noodle, Texas.
Date: unknown
Creator: West Texas Historical Association
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Postcard from Ruth Higgins to Truett Latimer, June 6, 1958]

Postcard from Ruth Higgins to Truett Latimer inviting him to be a speaker during the 'old-fashioned rally' at Trent High School.
Date: June 6, 1958
Creator: Higgins, Ruth
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History