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Soil survey, Wichita County, Texas

Description: Text describes the area, climate, agriculture, soils, irrigation, and alkali of Wichita County, Texas.
Date: 1929
Creator: Carter, William T. (William Thomas); Strike, W. W. (Wendell William); Geib, H. V. (Horace Valentine) & Templin, E. H. (Edward Henry)
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train in Wichita Falls

Description: Photograph of participants in the Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train in Wichita Falls, Texas. The photo shows participants unloading items from wagons. People are pictured walking between two lines of wagons including the Triland International stagecoach.
Date: June 15, 1986
Creator: Cirincione, Nick
Partner: Tarrant County College NE, Heritage Room

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 97, July 1993 - April, 1994

Description: The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 723.
Date: 1994
Creator: Texas State Historical Association
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Man, Bird and Beast

Description: Collection of Texas and Mexican folklore, including stories about folk medicine and ranch remedies, folk songs, legends and other folklore. The index begins on page 176.
Date: 1930
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

Legends of Texas

Description: Collection of popular Texas legends, including tales about buried treasure, the supernatural, pirates, origins of Texas flowers, and other miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 271.
Date: 1984
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Partner: UNT Press

Texas Attorney General Opinion: M-564

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Crawford Martin, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether misdemeanor driver's license cases arising under Article 6687b, V. C. S., and arising within the geographical limits of Wichita Falls, Texas, must be tried in the Municipal Courts of Wichita Falls, Texas.
Date: January 26, 1970
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Jess Stanbrough, April 15, 1985

Description: Interview with Jess Stanbrough, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran from Wichita Falls, Texas, who served and was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery (the "Lost Battalion.") Stanbrough discusses his time in the Guard before the war, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and being captured, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok and Bicycle Camp in Batavia, operating a clandestine radio, transfer to Japan, being an iron smelter at Kamaishi, Honshu, American air and n… more
Date: April 15, 1985
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Stanbrough, Jess
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Physiography

Description: Map of the physical geography of parts of Tillman County, Oklahoma, and Wichita County, Texas, showing regions colored according to physical geographic features, contour lines, and elevation. The map also includes roads, buildings, fences, oil wells, and bodies of water. Relief shown by contours and spot heights. Scale ca. 1:6,000
Date: 1921
Creator: Stiles, Arthur Alvord
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Lake Arrowhead State Park

Description: A map of the Lake Arrowhead State Park complete with shower and bathroom locations, camping locations, fishing pier locations, butterfly garden locations, swimming areas, etc. There is also a coupon for the purchase of a Texas State Parks Pass which if purchased would allow for free access to over 90 Texas State Parks for the buyer and their carload of guests.
Date: February 2012
Creator: Texas. Parks and Wildlife Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

[Photograph of Purcell, Howard, and Military Officers at Armed Forces Parade]

Description: Photograph of a group of men in uniform standing together at the Armed Forces Day parade in downtown Wichita Falls. U.S. Representative from Texas, Graham Purcell, and Rhea Howard, publisher of the Wichita Falls newspaper, are standing in the middle of the group, wearing business attire.
Date: unknown
Creator: Cochran, Jimmy W.
Partner: Midwestern State University

Friberg School Fire

Description: Photograph of The Friberg School building destroyed by fire, with only two brick pillars standing. A building can be seen in the back, unscathed by the fire.
Date: November 3, 1969
Creator: Cochran, Jimmy W.
Partner: Midwestern State University
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