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Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[Bouldin Family Scrapbook]

Description: The first half of the scrapbook is composed of newspaper articles that have been pasted onto the pages and some that were inserted in between the book's pages. The articles are from Confederate states and contain news, poems, and stories centered around the Civil War and the time after. The second half of the book served as a ledger for the family to keep track of their expenses.
Date: unknown
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

Plow-Horse Cavalry

Description: Book discussing the Civil War as experienced by the Thirty-Fourth Texas Cavalry, in particular the soldiers from Caney Creek, Texas.
Date: 1974
Creator: Weddle, Robert S.
Partner: Fannin County Historical Commission

From Hell to Breakfast

Description: Volume of popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including religious anecdotes, stories about Native American dances, stories about petroleum and oil fields, folk songs, legends, customs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 205.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Partner: UNT Press

Texian Stomping Grounds

Description: Collection containing sketches of post-war life in East Texas, including descriptions of early recreations and games, stories about Southern food and cooking, religious anecdotes, Negro folk tales, a first-hand account of a Negro folk play about the life of Christ, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 159.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago

Description: Volume of popular folklore of Western America, including ballads, cowboy stories, myths, folk songs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 201.
Date: 2017
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press

Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

The Sunny Slopes of Long Ago

Description: Volume of popular folklore of Western America, including ballads, cowboy stories, myths, folk songs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 201.
Date: 1966
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press

Texian Stomping Grounds

Description: Collection containing sketches of post-war life in East Texas, including descriptions of early recreations and games, stories about Southern food and cooking, religious anecdotes, Negro folk tales, a first-hand account of a Negro folk play about the life of Christ, and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 159.
Date: 1941
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

From Hell to Breakfast

Description: Volume of popular folklore of Texas and Mexico, including religious anecdotes, stories about Native American dances, stories about petroleum and oil fields, folk songs, legends, customs and other miscellaneous folklore. The index begins on page 205.
Date: 1944
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

[Scrapbook for The Experience, 1984-1987]

Description: Scrapbook containing color photographs, name tags, stickers, invitations, menus, articles, and tickets in relation to "The Experience", John Briggs life, and his trip to California between 1984 and 1987. John Logan Briggs Jr. is the creator of "The Experience," a self-discovery workshop for the LGBT community. The scrapbook also documents social gatherings Briggs held at his household.
Date: [1984..1987]
Creator: Briggs, John Logan, Jr.
Location: 32.836251 -96.769160
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Photo Album]

Description: Family photo album containing portraits and landscape photos of a ranch. Many of the portraits appear to have been taken by photographers in Vernon, Texas, and the surrounding region. The album pages have a printed floral design around the photo slots and decorative border along the edges.
Date: unknown
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Lee E. Johnson, April 21, 1976

Description: Interview with Lee E. Johnson, a retired educator, concerning his recollections about military life during World War I. Johnson discusses his education; his enlistment in the Texas National Guard; his training at Pecan Gap; Camp Bowie; the formation of the 36th Division; officers training school at Camp Pike, Arkansas; embarkation for France; Saint-Amand and Saint-Nazairre.
Date: April 21, 1976
Creator: Milner, E. R. & Johnson, Lee E., 1893-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with O. J. Curry, March 29, 1979

Description: Interview with Dr. O. J. Curry from Santa Anna, Texas, the first dean of the School of Business at NTSU. Curry discusses his family history, childhood, education, becoming a teacher and high school principal, his marriage, getting his doctorate, the Great Depression, his time at the University of Arkansas and other institutions, his work with the petroleum industry during World War II, coming to NTSU, building the School Business, much about his tenure as dean, and his thoughts on business and … more
Date: March 29, 1979
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, September 20, 1973

Description: Interview with Jack Scroggs, a history professor at NTSU and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Little Rock, Arkansas. Before a group of students, Scroggs discusses his time in the CCC in the 1930s, including: his family background and education; the effects of the Depression on his hometown and family; the introduction of New Deal programs; his memory of Fireside Chats; entry into the CCC and orientation; organization in the Corps and its administration by the Army; benefits… more
Date: September 20, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Scroggs, Jack B.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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