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Stuck in the Mud

Stuck in the Mud

Date: 1900 - 1930
Creator: Bradly, Bill
Description: Car stuck in the mud near Hereford, TX.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
1910 Wells Fargo Wagon

1910 Wells Fargo Wagon

Date: c. 1911
Creator: unknown
Description: Three men posed in front of a Wells Fargo horse-drawn wagon. Photo from the Deaf Smith County Museum, Carl Mountz is on the right.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
Dust storms and black dusters

Dust storms and black dusters

Date: 1934-09-02
Creator: unknown
Description: Produced by a combination of drought, breaking of the sod, and lack of crop cover, black dusters of the 1930s came without warning and left everything in their paths with a clinging mantle of black silt.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
Grand Champion Beau Randolph

Grand Champion Beau Randolph

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: The grand champion Beau Randolph No. 418893. Bred by Gudgell and Simpson, Independence, Mo., and sold to Jowell and Jowell of Hereford, Texas, for $5,000. -- Resold by them to Mrs. H.M. Pegues and son, Odessa, Texas for $7,000.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
Surveyors Breaking Camp

Surveyors Breaking Camp

Date: 1906-03-19
Creator: unknown
Description: A group of surveyors breaking camp. They wre surveying city lots in 1906. Also pictured are a windmill, tents, and wagons.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
A Panhandle dust storm

A Panhandle dust storm

Date: 1935-04-14
Creator: unknown
Description: A Panhandle dust storm approaching, April 14, 1935. No. 4. Perry Studio, Perryton, Texas.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
George and Richard Jowell

George and Richard Jowell

Date: 1916-07-08
Creator: unknown
Description: Two boys on horse-back. George and Richard Jowell, sons of Rat Jowell, riding "Pete" and "Bill" on Jowell and Jowell Ranch, July 8, 1916.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
Dust storm in Dimmitt Texas

Dust storm in Dimmitt Texas

Date: unknown
Creator: unknown
Description: "Blow, winds, blow," is a beautiful song, but residents of the Texas Panhandle in actuality prefer to have the volume of the blow tempered. This sand storm, the worst in twenty years, came from the north and for fifteen minutes nothing was visible without electric light. Tho violent looking as it approached, the colors were very beautiful. Entered by Dr. Elmer Moore, Dimmitt, Tex.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
Fourth of July picnic on old courthouse grounds

Fourth of July picnic on old courthouse grounds

Date: 1908
Creator: unknown
Description: Fourth of July picnic in Hereford. Large groups of people with numerous horse-drawn buggies.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
Climax 5th. Registered Hereford bull

Climax 5th. Registered Hereford bull

Date: c. 1900
Creator: unknown
Description: Rat Jowell showing his registered Hereford Bull, either Climax 5th or Anxiety 4th. Brought to the county in 1898 by Rat Jowell and L. R. Bradly.
Holding Partner: Deaf Smith County Library
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