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[News Script: Watauga]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about residents of Watauga wanting to dis-incorporate from Fort Worth.
Date: March 26, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

A. R. Roessler's Latest Map of the State of Texas.

Description: Map of Texas, showing counties and Indian Territory. The map includes towns, roads, railroads, bodies of water, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. The map also includes illustrations of the Texas State Capitol and of the General Land Office in Austin, an inset map showing agricultural districts and soil varieties (lower-left), and notes on geology and mineral rocks.
Date: 1874
Creator: Mittendorfer, M. V.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Indian-Campaign of 1868 & 9.

Description: Map of the Washita Campaign, showing exploration routes, rivers and streams, railroads, and Indian Territory for portions of Colorado, Nebraska, New Mexico, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Scale [1:1,126,400] (10 miles to 9/16 of an inch).
Date: unknown
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

A. R. Roessler's Latest Map of the State of Texas (1).

Description: Map of Texas, showing counties and Indian Territory. The map includes towns, roads, railroads, bodies of water, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. The map also includes an illustration of the Texas State Capitol in Austin (lower-right corner), legend, and notes on geology and mineral rocks.
Date: 1874
Creator: Mittendorfer, M. V.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Hansford Co.

Description: Cadastral map of Hansford County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes towns, roads, railroads, rivers, and creeks. No scale indicated.
Date: September 1889
Creator: Beaumont, G. N.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

North Carolina (western part, i.e., Tennessee)

Description: Map of Tennessee and the surrounding area at the time of the ratification of the Constitution, showing towns, roads, American-Indian reservations, rivers, creeks, and mountain ranges, with explanatory notes on road conditions. Map includes a legend in the lower-left corner and an inset map, titled "A Map of the United States of America," at the top of the map, below the title. The inset map designates Tennessee (marked as North Carolina) within the larger scope of the United States at the time.… more
Date: 1938
Creator: Smith, D.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

[Map of Indian Territory]

Description: Military map of the Indian Territory surrounding the U.S. Army post Camp Supply, showing rivers, creeks, roads, military trails, and areas of elevation, with relief shown in hachures. The map also includes notes on the landscape, such as the height of a ravine and the lack of grass in a particular area.
Date: 1934?
Creator: Ruffner, E. H. & Hunnius, Ado
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

A. R. Roessler's Latest Map of the State of Texas (2).

Description: Map of West Texas, showing counties and Indian Territory. The map includes towns, railroads, bodies of water, and other geologic features, with relief shown in hachures. The map also includes an inset map showing agricultural districts and soil varieties (lower-left corner), an illustration of the General Land Office in Austin, and notes on geology and mineral rocks.
Date: 1874
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Map of the United States and Texas Boundary Line and Adjacent Territory.

Description: Map of the boundary lines between Texas and the United States, showing military trails, bodies of water, and areas of elevation. Includes table of "Points which can be easily found on the Earth's surface," indicating the latitude and longitude of mountains, hills, rivers, and creeks. Scale [ca. 1:950,400] (15 miles to the inch).
Date: 1857
Creator: Clark, J. H. & Weyss, J. E.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

The Comanche Country and Adjacent Territory, 1860

Description: Military map of the Comanche Indian Territory in the Great Plains, showing Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, and Colorado. 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 1860. Relief shown in hachures.
Date: 1933
Creator: Riney, W. A.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

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
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Gregg Co.

Description: Survey map of Gregg County, Texas, showing property lines, ownership, land grants, and plat numbers. The map also includes bodies of water, towns, roads, railroads, and the historic trail, Cherokee Trace. No scale information given.
Date: September 1839
Creator: Pressler, C. W.
Partner: Hardin-Simmons University Library

Two Hundred and Fifty Years: History of Alto, Texas, 1686-1936

Description: This text is a compilation of research regarding the history of Alto, Texas and creative poetry about the town. It includes biographical information about pioneers and influential people in the history of the town; the origins of Alto and development of schools and churches; historic notes about the Cherokee Indians and fighting that took place in the area; and other historical aspects of the area. A postscript, including a glossary, starts on page 37.
Date: 1976
Creator: Cole, Nell M.
Partner: Cherokeean Herald

[Letter from I. G. Vore to J. M. Haworth, March 3, 1884]

Description: Letter from I. G. Vore to J. M. Haworth in Washington D.C., stating that Vore secured a copy of the Treaty between the Republic of Texas and the Cherokees and their associated bands. He also hopes Davidson will succeed in getting legislation through Congress to enable him to secure the Cherokees their rights.
Date: March 3, 1884
Creator: Vore, I. G.
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[Documents relating to the Texas Cherokees]

Description: Certified copy of a Cherokee Indian Treaty obtained for legal action in the late nineteenth century. The first document is a certified copy of the 1835 treaty obtained by Sam Houston and John Forbes. Also included are various power of attorneys from W.P. Adair, C.N. Vann, J. Elliot Condict, and John C. Fremont. There is also a signed power of attorney executed by the Chief representatives of the Cherokee Indian Nation in Indian Territory.
Date: unknown
Partner: Oklahoma Historical Society

[News Script: Bryan log cabin]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a historical log cabin that was built by a Tennessee pioneer, John Neely Bryan.
Date: August 15, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Postcard of Oxen Teams in North Carolina]

Description: Postcard of two illustrations depicting teams of oxen pulling carts. The first illustration, on top, shows a man with a whip leading the team as it pulls long logs down a dirt road through a wooded area, on a cart upon which another man sits. The second illustration, on the bottom, shows a man leading the team as they pull a smaller wooden cart, in the back of which a man stands. Printed text on both illustrations locates both teams in Western North Carolina. The other side of the postcard is b… more
Date: 19uu
Partner: Howard Payne University Library
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