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The Dowes of Pinto Canyon

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Orin Curtis Dowe and Millie Wilson Dowe of Pinto Canyon, who met while O. C. Dowe was a Texas Ranger attempting to capture smugglers crossing the Mexico-Texas border.
Date: November 21, 1966
Creator: Shurley, Mike
Partner: Marfa Public Library

The Life of W. T. Davis

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Judge W. T. Davis, who came to Marfa, Texas, in 1907 to establish a ranching business and meat market. He was elected county judge in 1926, and he and his family became a prominent part of the community.
Date: January 22, 1965
Creator: Minjares, Mary Jane
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Biography of Mr. Victor Dominguez

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Mr. Victor Dominguez, who was an employee at the Murphy-Walker Grocery Store in Marfa, Texas, until her started a taxi stand, and Mr. and Mrs. Alex Dominguez, Sr., a ranching family.
Date: 1966
Creator: Dominguez, Alice
Partner: Marfa Public Library

One Wrong Cut

Description: This report relates an anecdote about Edward "Speck" Bogel, the son of a rancher in Marfa, Texas.
Date: December 1976
Creator: Polson, Rink
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Transcript: Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Description: Transcript of handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are notes and annotations added to the end for clarification.
Date: 2019
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Notes on Duck Creek Ranch]

Description: Various notes discussing life on Duck Creek Ranch.
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Oral History Interview with Aime Frank Real, August 16, 2000

Description: Interview with Aime Frank Real, a rancher and the great-grandson of one of the original Kerr County settlers, from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Real discusses his family history, his family's ranching work, his personal experience with sheep ranching, organized hunting in Kerr County, and local ranchers' attempts to remedy problems with screwworms and eagles. He briefly mentions Kerrville's German Club.
Date: August 16, 2000
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Real, Aime Frank
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Historic Marker Application: Reed-McCampbell-Wiess Ranch Complex]

Description: Application materials submitted to the Texas Historical Commission requesting a historic marker for the Reed-McCampbell-Wiess Ranch Complex, in Berclair, Texas. The materials include the inscription text of the marker, original application, narrative, and photographs.
Date: March 23, 1992
Creator: Texas Historical Commission
Location: 28.566539 -97.648910
Partner: Texas Historical Commission

[Memorandum for West Texas Trip]

Description: A memorandum written by D. W. Kempner discussing his trip to west Texas with corresponding reflections.
Date: April 24, 1951
Creator: Kempner, Daniel W. (Daniel Webster), 1877-1956
Partner: Rosenberg Library

[Text Describing a Wire-Stretching Invention]

Description: Drafted text describing an invention to stretch, splice, and repair wire for fencing, outlining the specific components that the inventor wants to patent.
Date: 1900~
Creator: Click, John J.
Partner: Private Collection of J. K. Johnson

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Willie Morin Bill, March 18, 2015

Description: Transcript of interview with Willie Morin Bill, a man who was raised on the Pinto Ranch on Highway 39 in West Kerr County, from Sonora, Texas. Bill speaks about his memories of ranching life and his childhood in Kerrville's Mexican-American community.
Date: March 18, 2015
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

Transcript of Oral History Interview with Durwood Allen Merritt, February 7, 2010

Description: Transcript of interview with Durwood Allen "Boss" Merritt, a descendant of the Merritt and Foster families, from Hunt, Texas. Merritt speaks of his life in the rural area of Hunt, his family history, his time serving in the army during World War II, and founding the Hunt Methodist Church.
Date: February 7, 2010
Creator: Webb, Jeanie Archer
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission

[Description from D. D. Parramore of Ranch Photos]

Description: Commentary from Dock Dilworth Parramore on a series of ranch photos and a particularly successful cattle drive during a drought.
Date: 1935
Creator: Parramore, Dock Dilworth
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Estimate Cattle in San Simon Cattle Company: 1915 to 1917

Description: Estimate calculation oft eh number of cattle and their total value belonging to the San Simon Cattle and Canal Company between 1915 and 1917. The notes are written on stationary belonging to J. H. Parramore.
Date: 1915/1917-05-01
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Narrative on Working with San Simon Company]

Description: Narrative from A. E. Deriquels describing the experience of working with men from the San Simon Cattle and Canal Company. The narrative is written on stationary of D. D. Parramore.
Date: March 1926
Creator: Deriquels, A. E.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Business Card for Taylor Turkey Ranch]

Description: Front of a business card advertising Taylor Turkey Ranch in Ovolo, owned by Neil and Muriel Taylor. A monochrome brown silhouette along the bottom includes ranch buildings surrounded by trees and a windmill.
Date: unknown
Creator: Taylor Turkey Ranch
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The Old Borunda Cafe

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School in January 1965. It contains biographical information about Carolina Palomo Borunda and Carolina Borunda Humphries. Both of these womwn ran the Old Borunda Cafe.
Date: January 1965
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Who Wants to Catch a Falling Star

Description: 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
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Maria Brito

Description: This is a research paper written about Maria Brito for an American History Class at Marfa High School in 1968.
Date: 1968
Partner: Marfa Public Library

History Report

Description: History Report by Jess Wvans about a book by Bary Scobee, titled "Nick Mersfelder, A Remarkable Man."
Date: unknown
Creator: Evans, Jess
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Hunting Black Bear and Mountain Lions in the Davis Mountains in the 1940s

Description: Autobiographical paper by George E. Grubb, Sr. telling stories of bear and mountain lion hunts he participated in as a young man in the Davis Mountains. They used bloodhounds as hunting dogs to help them track bears for ranchers all around the area. Sometimes bear cubs were caught and kept as pets. Sometimes the men killed their prey but most of the time the animals got away.
Date: unknown
Creator: Grubb, George E., Sr.
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Memoir of Cornelia Garner]

Description: Handwritten notes written by Cornelia Garner describing what she remembers of moving to Texas as a child, living on a farm in Navarro County, managing a ranch and making cloth during the Civil War, and various other details that she remembered. There are sketches at the end that appear to be properties, labeled with names.
Date: unknown
Creator: Treadwell, Cornelia Evelyn Garner
Partner: UNT Libraries
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