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Candelilla wax plant & U. S. Cavalry presence at Glenn Springs, Texas, 1916. Picture
Date: 1961
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Account of attack of Mexican raiders on Glenn Spring, Texas May 5, 1916. The documentation was compiled and illustrated by photojournalist W. D. Smithers in 1961. Includes information on production of candelilla wax at the Ellis and Wood wax factory in Glenn Spring between 1911 and 1916.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11933/
Army cooks on U. S. & Mexico border from 1916 to the twenties. Picture
Date: unknown
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Illustrated descriptions of the Army field kitchens on the U. S. - Mexico border, 1916-1920, from cooking equipment loaded on mule-drawn wagons to rolling kitchens pulled by trucks. Includes recipe for El Rancho Stew and a diagram of Army Field Range #1 (cook stove).
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
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Nomenclature of harness, ambulance, or escort wagon. Picture
Date: unknown
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Drawing of the "off" (right) side of a four-mule army wagon team detailing and naming the harness parts. The drawing was published in Chronicles of the Big Bend, W. D. Smithers, Madrona Press, Austin, Texas, 1976, p. 14.
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Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11935/
Field Artillery on the U. S. - Mexico border 1916-1921. Picture
Date: 1961
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Brief description of the personnel and operations of a battery unit of the U. S. Army on the U. S. - Mexico border, 1916-1921, including a note on the march of Battery B, 6th Field Artillery, into Mexico with the Punitive Expedition. Illustrations based on photographs taken between 1916 and 1922.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11936/
The 4th Field (Mountain) Artillery before 1920. Picture
Date: 1920
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Brief history of the 4th Field (Mountain) Artillery, pre-1920s to 1956; drawings of artillery loaded on mules.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11937/
Texas National Guard units on duty on the U. S. - Mexico border 1916-1917. Picture
Date: 1920
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Illustrated descriptions of the National Guardsmen in tent camps on the U.S. - Mexico border, 1916-1917 and in service in France in 1918. Theses troops are variously identified by W. D. Smithers as the Fourth Texas Infantry, Militia (National Guard) of Texas, and the 36th Division (U.S.).
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11938/
Items needed for horse and man while on a march. Picture
Date: 1920
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Illustrated list of 24 items carried by the U. S. Cavalryman while on a march c. 1916.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11939/
The U. S. Cavalry troops on the U. S. - Mexico border in 1916. Picture
Date: 1961
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Illustrated descriptions of activities of Cavalry patrols on the U.S. - Mexico border, 1916-1918. Includes map of boundary line from California to the Gulf of Mexico.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11940/
U. S. Cavalry Medical Corps 1916-1921. Picture
Date: 1920
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Illustrations and captions depicting activities of the Medical Corps of the Cavalry serving on the U. S. - Mexico border between 1916 and 1921. Includes prescription for treatment of colic in horses.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11941/
The four famous cavalry regiments of the First Cavalry Division. Picture
Date: 1961
Creator: Smithers, W. D. (Wilfred Dudley), 1895-1981.
Description: Brief histories of the four cavalry regiments (5th, 7th, 8th, and 12th) organized into the First Cavalry Division at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas in 1921. Illustrated with the insignia of the five units.
Contributing Partner: Bryan Wildenthal Memorial Library (Archives of the Big Bend)
Permallink:texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth11942/