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[The Billy S. Cooper Collection, No. 8 - Vacations and Tumbleweed Festivals] captions transcript

[The Billy S. Cooper Collection, No. 8 - Vacations and Tumbleweed Festivals]

This home movie begins with the Cooper family vacation in California and includes footage of a trip to Knott's Berry Farm and picking oranges. The film continues with a Christmas celebration (7 min., 42 sec.) and a trip to Seven Wells, Texas (10 min., 36 sec.). The film concludes with two Tumbleweed Festival parades in Colorado City, featuring marching bands and parade floats sponsored by local businesses (13 min., 49 sec. and 18 min., 33 sec.).
Date: 1959
Creator: Cooper, Randy & Cooper, Billy S.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History

Spade Ranch Quadrangle

Topographic map of a portion of Texas from the United States Geological Survey (USGS) project. The map includes towns, historic or notable sites, bodies of water, and other geologic features. Scale 1:24,000
Date: 1959
Creator: Geological Survey (U.S.)
Object Type: Map
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Billy S. Cooper Collection, No. 7 - White Sands National Monument] captions transcript

[The Billy S. Cooper Collection, No. 7 - White Sands National Monument]

This home movie documents the Cooper family attending a Tumbleweed Festival parade in Colorado City, Texas, visiting White Sands National Monument in New Mexico, riding bicycle and riding horses.
Date: 1959
Creator: Cooper, Randy & Cooper, Billy S.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[The Billy S. Cooper Collection, No. 1 - Christmas Parade] captions transcript

[The Billy S. Cooper Collection, No. 1 - Christmas Parade]

This home movie documents the Cooper family attending a Christmas parade in Colorado City, Texas and celebrating Christmas at home.
Date: December 1959
Creator: Cooper, Randy & Cooper, Billy S.
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Truett Latimer to Edna Coe Majors, June 9, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from Truett Latimer to Edna Coe Majors, June 9, 1959]

Letter from Texas State Representative Truett Latimer to Edna Coe Majors discussing her application to become Poet Laureate of Texas. Latimer states that she was selected as Alternate Poet Laureate, informs her that other Representatives would like a copy of her book "Wind of the West," and urges her to reapply for the honor in 1961.
Date: June 9, 1959
Creator: Latimer, Truett
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Truett Latimer to R. M. Dixon, July 8, 1959] (open access)

[Letter from Truett Latimer to R. M. Dixon, July 8, 1959]

Letter from Truett Latimer to R. M. Dixon discussing thanking him for sending clippings of the Dallas Morning News concerning their water problem. He also asks that Mr. Dixon send a copy of the December 1, 1958 editorial to Frank Kelly in Colorado City.
Date: July 8, 1959
Creator: Dixon, R. M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History