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Deer Hunters

Description: Copy negative of six men wearing cowboy type clothing. They are all holding shotguns while sitting and standing on a wagon. Also in the wagon are the bodies of multiple deer. There is writing on a picture that reads "Return from a hunt".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Deer Hunters

Description: Copy negative of six men wearing cowboy type clothing. They are all holding shotguns while sitting and standing on a wagon. Also in the wagon are the bodies of multiple deer. There is writing on a picture that reads "Return from a hunt".
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Photograph of a Group of Cowboys]

Description: Photograph of a group of men outdoors dressed as cowboys, wearing cowboy hats, and holding and drinking from cups in their hands. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph indicates that the photo was taken during a roundup of wild horses, and a numbered list of the names of the men is included that corresponds to numbers handwritten on the photo.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Dutch

Description: Research paper written for a history class at Marfa High School about Maynard W. "Dutch" Acton, who played a cowboy in the movie "Giant," starring Jimmy Dean, Elizabeth Taylor, and Rock Hudson. Dutch Acton spent most of his life working and living on ranches in West Texas.
Date: December 3, 1968
Creator: Harpham, Marsha
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Sheared sheep roundup]

Description: Photograph of four cowboys on horseback rounding up sheep in pens. A group of sheared sheep are in a pen in the foreground and a group of unsheared sheep are grouped on the other side of the fence, with the cowboys spread out behind them. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Although modern inventions have made ranching easier, the truck can't compare to the cow pony when it is time for round-up" (p. 11).
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Cowboy with horse]

Description: Photograph of a cowboy adjusting the saddle on a horse, in front of a wood and wire fence. On the other side of the fence, there are several parked trucks, a windmill, and a second cowboy who appears to be on horseback. A desert hill is visible in the background. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Although modern inventions have made ranching easier, the truck can't compare to the cow pony when it is time for round-up" (p. 11).
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Early cowhands]

Description: Two men are standing over a bound steer, and one man is squatting beside it. The squatting man is facing the camera. The man on the far left is L.D. Bunton and the man in the center is O.M. Bunton. The third man is watching the steer.
Date: 1900~
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

There's Nobody Like Him

Description: This is a paper describing the life of the cowboys and cattle ranchers from the early 1900s to the present day in the Marfa, Texas area.
Date: February 21, 1977
Creator: Steen, Jettie
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Nicholas Machuca]

Description: Photograph of Nicholas Machuca, visible from the waist up, posing outside a stone building. He is wearing a blue plaid shirt and cowboy hat; he has his left hand on his hip and his right arm on a post or wall. The image accompanied a written speech, with the caption: "Nicholas Machuca has worked as a cowboy on several of the area ranches after coming to the Big Bend in 1913 from his birthplace in Mexico" (p. 13).
Date: 1969
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Gus Bogel]

Description: In this photograph, a man, dressed casually and wearing a cowboy hat and a gun belt, is standing in front of a brick building that appears to have an aluminum roof. There is an open window in the building's wall and some scrub is growing beneath it. In the background to the right of the photograph, a wagon wheel is visible. A handwritten note on the back of the photograph reads: "A. J. (Gus) Bogel at Bogel Brothers' Sauceda Ranch. Banoit Times."
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Casimiro Chavarria

Description: Photograph of Casimiro Chavarrio at the Marfa depot in 1910. He wears a hat and a gun in a holster. At this time he was about 26 years old. This photo was included in a research paper by Eva Chavarria for an American History class at Marfa High School in 1967.
Date: 1910
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library

Louis Adams

Description: Research paper written by Robert Vizcaino about the life of Louis Adams, a Marfa cowboy. Adams lived and worked in Marfa, Texas from when he was born in 1868 until his death in 1946. This paper was written for an American History class at Marfa High School in 1972.
Date: 1972
Creator: Vizcaino, Robert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Paper
Partner: Marfa Public Library

[Tools of the cowboy on Edwards' fence]

Description: Photograph of a group of cowboy items on Edwards' fence. Clockwise: blanket, cowboy hat, cowboy saddle with blanket, and cowboy boots resting on a bale of hay. All of the items are leaning against a tall fence. A local farm is behind the items.
Date: April 1971
Creator: Edwards, Janet
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Marfa Public Library
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[News Clip: Family likes isolated life]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about an isolated ranch outside of Marfa inhabited by the Rooney family.
Date: May 27, 1957
Duration: 3 minutes 44 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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