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The Comanche Country and Adjacent Territory, 1840

Description: Military map of the Comanche Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Colorado, and Nebraska. The map includes military trails and posts (abandoned and occupied). State lines, towns, bodies of water, and areas of elevation are also shown. Towns enclosed in brackets were established after 1840. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of Emigrant Trail and Butterfield Trail, Grayson County to Pecos.

Description: Map of the Southern Emigrant Trail, a major route for immigration into California, and the Butterfield Overland Mail Trail, a stagecoach service, through Texas. The map also indicates county lines, Indian Territory, towns, cities, roads, railroads, areas of elevation, and bodies of water. Relief shown in hachures. No scale indicated.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: 33.717101 -96.654794
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library
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[News Clip: Archeology]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: August 3, 1979, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 2 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[A Large Dinner Party]

Description: Copy negative of a large group of people at a dinner party. Most of the attendees are young men and women and they are all wearing formal attire. A smaller group of older adults are standing near the back wall. Festive touches like centerpieces, candles, and garland adorn the tables.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[A Large Dinner Party]

Description: Copy negative of a large group of people at a dinner party. Most of the attendees are young men and women and they are all wearing formal attire. A smaller group of older adults are standing near the back wall. Festive touches like centerpieces, candles, and garland adorn the tables.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: League City Helen Hall Library

[Caddo Indian documents, 1841-1856]

Description: Documents detailing some relations with the Caddo Indians. The first document is a certified copy stating that Jose Maria is Chief of the Anadacos and attests to his good conduct, signed by Jesse Stern, March 27, 1852. The second document certifies that the foregoing page is a true copy and translation. The third document, dated May 11, 1841, is the commission of Col. Coyote signed by Gen. Mariano Arista placing Coyote in charge of Caddo troops against the "ursurpers of Texas." The fourth d… more
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

Trammel's Trace: The First Road to Texas from the North

Description: Map showing "Trammel's Trace," the first road from the north (present-day Arkansas) into Texas, used around 1800. It includes notations for abandoned settlements, modern cities, and Caddo villages documented from 1800 to 1840, as well as other historic roads used at the time of Trammel's Trace.
Date: 2015
Creator: Pinkerton, Gary
Item Type: Refine your search to only Map
Location: None
Partner: UNT Libraries

[Transcript of Letter from Stephen F. Austin, May 18, 1826]

Description: Copy of transcript for a letter from Stephen F. Austin, on May 18, 1826, discussing the desire to move American Indians tribes out of the territory newly colonized by Americans in order to avoid a conflict between the Comanches and the Tahuacanos. He also mentions a warning about a raid.
Date: May 18, 1826
Creator: Austin, Stephen F.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: The Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

[Children watching puppet show]

Description: Photograph of information center employees putting on a puppet show inside of the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. Children watching the performance sit in the foreground. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day T… more
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children watching clarinet performing]

Description: Photograph of children watching a clarinet player performing inside of the information center at the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children walking around Mounds]

Description: Photograph of information center employees giving a tour around the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The photo is taken from behind the group as they walk around the area. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day T… more
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clarinet player inside of information center]

Description: Photograph of a child watching a clarinet player performing inside of the information center at the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Artifact in Caddo Mounds]

Description: Photograph of an artifact on display, inside of a glass case, at a museum in the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Clarinet player entertaining children]

Description: Photograph of children watching a clarinet player performing inside of the information center at the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas. The photo is taken from above th… more
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Caddo tour with children]

Description: Photograph of information center employees giving a tour around the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children in information center]

Description: Photograph of children exiting a replica of a structure on display inside of the information center at the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Children admiring arrows]

Description: Photograph of a group of children listening to someone explain how ancient arrows were built in the Caddo Mounds, located in Alton, Texas. The cite features two earthwork platform mounds and one burial mound. The Caddo created the cite, circa 800 A.D., to be a cultural, economical and political epicenter for region that lasted for approximately 500 years. At their peak, the Caddo were the most highly developed prehistoric culture known within present day Texas.
Date: July 2015
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Location: 31.596768 -95.150334
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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