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Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 134 Collections and/or Records:

Research material, includes Adams’ genealogy, correspondence, notes, publishing contract with Southern Methodist University, and copy of “Judgment Hour” by Andy Adams, 1963, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1963, undated

Research material, includes defense of Emerson Hough, Eugene Manlove Rhodes on Andy Adams, and transcribed correspondence between Adams and Webb and Webb and Rhodes

 File — Box 2, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1913-1978, undated

Research material, includes newspaper clippings and clippings about J. Frank Dobie, 1918-1963, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1918-1963, undated

Research material includes newspaper transcripts and photocopies of articles about or by Adams and handwritten notes

 File — Box 1, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1913-1978, undated

Research material, includes notes, correspondence, maps, program from Old Traildrivers’ Convention, and two copies of Adams’ stories, 1959, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1959, undated

Research material, notes and draft of “Andy Adams and Texas” by Hudson, typed transcripts of correspondence between Eugene Cunningham and Andy Adams, and the table of contents to Why the Chisolm Trail Forks and Other Tales of the Cattle Country

 File — Box 2, Folder: 4
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1913-1978, undated

Research material, photographs and negatives, clippings, and two glass plate portraits of Adams

 File — Box 2, Folder: 3
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1913-1978, undated

Research material, research files concerning tributes to Adams, copies of correspondence between Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie with Houghton Mifflin Co., reviews of Adams’ books, and Hudson’s notes, 1924, undated

 File — Box 2, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1924, undated

Research material, research files including: Nevada, correspondence between Walter Prescott Webb and Seymour J. Frank Adams in the sheriff’s race, and ten of Adams’ stories (“A Local Parallel: Interesting Discussion of Local Sociological Questions,” “Some Historic Cattle Trails,” “The Cattle on a Thousand Hills,” “The Play’s the Thing,” “A Good Interpreter,” “How Doc Langford got his Nickname,” “Graybeal’s Guest,” “Barb Wire,” “Western Interpreters,” and “Mixed Brands”), 1949, undated

 File — Box 1, Folder: 5
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1949, undated

Research notes, undated

 File — Box 4, Folder: 1
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: undated

Research notes and maps, undated

 File — Box 3, Folder: 8
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: undated

Research notes and microfilm, undated

 File — Box 4, Folder: 2
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: undated

Reviews and clippings, 1957,1964

 File — Box 3, Folder: 6
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1957,1964

Reviews and correspondence, 1964

 File — Box 3, Folder: 7
Series Description From the Series: This series contains the research material and notes that Hudson used to write the biography of cowboy writer Andy Adams. The materials include J. Frank Dobie's research materials on Adams, maps, genealogical material, clippings, microfilm, copies of letters, articles by Adams, photographs (prints and negatives), correspondence with relatives and friends of Adams, handwritten note cards, and manuscript copies of Adams' Corporal Segundo, Barbed Wire, and...
Dates: 1964

Rocky slope with four figures on horses in the distance near the top, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 5: [Barcode: 0112223013411], item: 31
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_031
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

San Antonio Street, south side of the Square, San Marcos, Texas, circa 1900

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 0112223013650], item: 07
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_007
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1900

San Marcos River, San Marcos, Texas. View from the powerhouse (Mill site) looking east towards what is now the Sewell Park Bridge, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 33
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_033
Scope and Contents

Bridge below the mill tract (now Aquarena Springs Road). This is a view looking south from one of the smokestacks of our Mill. (In Negatives 4 and 5 you can see the person standing atop a stack.) The barn structure is located approximately where the old National Guard Building is today.

Identification provided by Mark Cowan, TxState Facilities Planning Design.

Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

Seven people including children by a tree, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 0112223013650], item: 18
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_018
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

Six men with campfire and cookery tools in foreground, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 1: [Barcode: 0112223013650], item: 01
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_001
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s

Six people, three white men, one white women standing in buggy, one black youngster kneeling, and one black man holding pick axe, circa 1880s-1900s

 Item — Box 2: [Barcode: 0112223013643], item: 40
Identifier: 2016-001_plate_040
Scope and Contents From the Collection: This collection consists of 46 glass plate negatives, measuring 4x5 inches, were received in three original G. Cramer Dry Plate Company boxes. The photographer is unknown. Researchers subsequently identified the bulk of images as scenes in Central Texas, as well as one in Rockville, Indiana, and dating approximately 1882-1911. Images that have been positively identified as being in San Marcos include the Hays County Courthouse designed by F.E. Ruffini, the San Marcos River, a...
Dates: circa 1880s-1900s