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Texas Family Land Heritage Registry, [Volume 13], 1994-1995

Description: Book commemorating Family Land Heritage Day with descriptions of the honorees from 1994 to 1995 -- including important dates, people, and biographical information -- along with an index and other related information.
Date: August 1997
Creator: Texas. Department of Agriculture.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The Cosmopolitan Hand-book of Rules and Tables

Description: Educational book about business and agriculture. Includes tables for conversions of various weights and measures, population and census data, information for making purchases and sales in agriculture, and business advice, along with an extensive section of advertisements.
Date: 1884
Creator: Coryell, E. E.
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

El problema agrario en México : la acción del gobierno y la iniciativa individual

Description: Esquivel Obregón wrote this pamphlet as a means of critiquing the Diaz regime’s collusion with major landholders. Esquivel Obregón was considered a progressive and modern in his approach to government. He discusses how landholders were always able to co-opt the gains of different revolutions by swinging laws back into their favor after a return to normalcy.
Date: 1912
Creator: Esquivel Obregón, Toribio, 1864-1946.
Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

El problema de la tierra

Description: This is a thesis submitted as the professional examination for a law degree at the Universidad Autónoma de México (UNAM). López examines the effects of the Mexican progressive land movement in general, agrarian issues, and problems resulting from the revolution's land concerns, and ends with offered solutions to the “problem of the earth.” He completed the exam on May 4th, 1912.
Date: 1912
Creator: López, Saraim V.
Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

Estudio sobre la cuestión agraria : proyecto de ley

Description: This government-produced work discusses land reform and tenure in Mexico. Completed on December 15th, 1914, the second part of this pamphlet outlines Rouaix and Novelo’s agrarian recommendations to the “First chief of the Constitutional Army, Charged with the Executive of the Nation,” Venustiano Carranza. Most significant is the call for a return to the ejido system for communal use of lands by villages in an effort to raise national productivity through effective land usage. Includes: Prontu… more
Date: 1914
Creator: Rouaix, Pastor, 1874-1950. & Novelo, José I.
Partner: University of Texas at El Paso

The National Cooperative Soil Survey of the United States

Description: Document describes the origins and history of the Soil Survey with an emphasis on the time periods of 1899-1912, 1912-1920, 1920-1933, and 1933-1952. "For each of the four chronological periods, a brief introductory chapter describes the general political and administrative environment then prevailing, and a summary of the progress of the Soil Survey achieved under such an environment." (p. 36) Also provides information on early soil sampling, typing, mapping, and interpretation. Also tells… more
Date: October 1998
Creator: Gardner, David Rice
Partner: UNT Libraries

Soil Survey of Tarrant County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Tarrant County, Texas.
Date: 1924
Creator: Hawker, H. W. (Herman William); Gearreald, T. N. (Tull Neal) & Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil survey of Bastrop County, Texas

Description: Text describing climate, agriculture, and soils of Bastrop County, Texas.
Date: August 12, 1908
Creator: Winston, R. A. (Robert Alonzo); Meeker, F. N.; Eckman, O. L.; Lyman, W. S.; Schroeder, Frank C.; Rice, Thomas D. (Thomas Donnelly) et al.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Bowie County, Texas

Description: Text includes description of climate, agriculture, and soils.
Date: 1921
Creator: Schoenmann, L. R. (Lee Roy Adolph), b. 1889
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey (Reconnaissance) of the Trans-Pecos area, Texas

Description: Soil survey of nine Texas counties lying west of the Pecos River. Included are Brewster, Culberson, El Paso, Hudspeth, Jeff Davis, Pecos, Presidio, Reeves, and Terrell Counties. Text describes the area, natural vegetation, settlement and development, climate, agriculture, soils and crops, agricultural industries and methods of soil management, alkali, irrigation, and soil erosion and rain-water conservation of these counties.
Date: 1934
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Beck, M. W. (Miles Walter); Smith, Howard Malcolm; Hawker, H. W. (Herman William); Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry) & Reitch, T. C.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Robertson County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, and soils of Robertson County, Texas.
Date: January 8, 1909
Creator: Bennett, Hugh H. & Shaw, Charles F.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

The History of Texas; or, the Emigrant's, Farmer's, and Politician's Guide to the Character, Climate, Soil and Productions of That Country: Arranged Geographically from Personal Observation and Experience

Description: Book containing a history of Texas and acts as a guide to the area during period of Anglo colonization. Includes observations of the land, critiques of the people who lived there, and a translated Mexican Constitution. Index starts on page 339.
Date: 1990
Creator: Edward, David B. (David Barnett), 1790-1870
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Soil Survey of Crockett County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Crockett County, Texas.
Date: September 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil survey of Deaf Smith County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Deaf Smith County, Texas.
Date: September 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Gonzales County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Gonzales County, Texas.
Date: September 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Hardin County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Hardin County, Texas.
Date: September 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of King County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of King County, Texas.
Date: January 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Burleson County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, oil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Burleson County, Texas.
Date: April 2005
Creator: Jurena, Maurice R.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Colorado County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Colorado County, Texas.
Date: August 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Almanac, 1992-1993

Description: The almanac covers general topics about the state of Texas including statistics for individual counties, history, wildlife, science, agriculture, expenditures, and weather, as well as discussions of legal and social issues of the time. The general index and advertisers index begin on page 626.
Date: 1991
Creator: Kingston, Mike
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Soil Survey of Hamilton County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Hamilton County, Texas.
Date: July 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Lee County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Lee County, Texas.
Date: January 2007
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Live Oak County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Live Oak County, Texas.
Date: November 2006
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Soil Survey of Lynn County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of Lynn County, Texas.
Date: 2008
Creator: United States. Natural Resources Conservation Service.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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