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[Best Friend - Worst Enemy, portrait of a man]

Photograph of a seated man wearing cowboy hat, boots, and vest. He sits on a chair with a blanket on the back and seat, with his legs crossed at the knee. There are clumps of hay below his chair, and he sits in front of backdrops. The photograph is slightly out of focus and mounted on a white board. A handwritten inscription below the photo reads: "Best friend - Worst Enemy - 2/20/02." A pencil inscription on the back reads: "Frances [illegible] / Heap bad man all some just like / cow boy."

Date: February 20, 1902

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Tarrant County Archives

Riding-Spur.

Patent for improvement in riding-spurs for horsemen by “using an open-ended socket, a shank having limited sliding movement in the socket, a rowel freely journaled at the outer end of the shank, and a spring inclosed within the socket and serving to hold the shank normally outward, the tines or points of the rowel being adapted to engage the socket and secure the rowel against rotation when the shank is pressed inward.” (P. 2, lines 6-14.) Illustration is included.

Date: March 4, 1902

Creator: Ridings, John G.

Item Type: Patent

Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Cross Tie Cowboys and a Chuck Wagon]

Photograph of the Cross Tie Cowboys, seated together in a clearing in the grasslands with a chuckwagon. Two men are seated next to or behind the chuckwagon, which carries supplies. Several horses stand in the back, behind several bushes. The cross tie brand was registered on April 29, 1902, originally owned by Newnie Ellie.

Date: [1902-04-29..]

Creator: Hoyt, E. E.

Item Type: Photograph

Partner: Midland Historical Society