22 Matching Results

Search Results

Results: 1 - 22

Automatic Trough Valve.

Description: Patent for Automatic Trough Valve that includes improvements to automatic float-controlled type vales for the watering of animals.
Date: November 6, 1917
Creator: Striegler, Fritz
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Oral History Interview with Joe Marcus "J.M." Auld, Jr., February 26, 2001

Description: Interview with Joe Marcus "J.M." Auld, Jr., a Texan rancher from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Auld identifies his family members (including Kerr County pioneers who immigrated from Scotland), describes the difficulties of ranch life, and mentions local cultural phenomena. The interview includes stories of "Indians," eradicating the screwworm fly from Kerr County, and life during the Great Depression. He also discusses the role of game hunting to today's ranchers.
Date: February 16, 2001
Creator: Snodgrass, Clarabelle; Bethel, Ann & Auld, Joe Marcus, Jr.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: Kerr County Historical Commission
captions transcript

[News Clip: Farmers mtg]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about
Date: March 20, 1989, 10:00 p.m.
Duration: 44 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
captions transcript

[News Clip: TX farm bureau]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story. This story aired at 10 P.M.
Date: March 20, 1989
Duration: 40 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Texas-Mexican Material Culture in South Texas: Continuity and Change

Description: Paper discussing the evolution of Texas-Mexican material culture in south Texas by exploring "the built environment associated with the ranch, the folk arts and crafts associated with early ranching culture in the area, and traditional medicinal herbs still used in the area."
Date: unknown
Creator: Graham, Joe Stanley, 1940-1999
Item Type: Refine your search to only Article
Partner: Texas A&M University Kingsville

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 37, July 1933 - April, 1934

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 324.
Date: 1934
Creator: Texas State Historical Association & Barker, Eugene C.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
Partner: Texas State Historical Association

Oral History Interview with Ruth Roach Salmon, November 7, 1984

Description: Interview with Ruth Roach Salmon concerning her experiences as a rancher and rodeo performer in Nocona, Texas. Salmon discusses her family background; her work as an extra on a movie western in Excelsior Springs, Missouri; her marriage to Bryant Roach; her employment as a trick rider for Joe Miller's 101 Ranch in Oklahoma; the Miller Brothers' wild west shows; her rodeo tour in Europe in 1914; and her participation in Tom Burnett's European tour in 1924. She also talks about her marriage to Fre… more
Date: November 7, 1984
Creator: Jenkins, Floyd Harold & Salmon, Ruth Scantlin Roach, 1896-1986
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
captions transcript

[News Clip: Futurity]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: November 26, 1990, 6:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Video
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Lock Hopple.

Description: Patent for a new and improved lock-hopple. This design consists in "the combination of the semi-circular section provided at its free end with the latch-hook and concave edge, and the semi-circular section provided with the perforated projection for the attachment of the lap-ring, and with the lock" (lines 95-100). It further consists in "the partition, the cap-piece having the central key-opening, the journaled latch-hook having the end of its journal formed to fit in the recess in the end of … more
Date: December 18, 1888
Creator: White, Elisha Lafayette
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improved Stitching-Horse.

Description: Patent for improvements in the construction of stitching-horses by re-configuring the original constructions, in order to make them better for users. The patent includes instructions and a single illustration.
Date: October 27, 1868
Creator: Depp, Thomas
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Stock Collar.

Description: Patent for a new and improved stock-collar. This design is "for the purpose of positively and unmistakably identifying cattle and other like stock, and to obviate the necessity of marking and branding cattle, &c., which shall be light, simple, strong, and durable in construction, thoroughly effective for the purposes designed, easily attached to and removed from the necks of cattle, &c., which shall be cheap and inexpensive of manufacture, and not liable to become lost, misplaced, broken, or de… more
Date: April 6, 1886
Creator: Roberts, John Harrison
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Fence-Post.

Description: Patent for improvements to fence post design in which a base is added to hold the post upright while keeping it above ground to prevent deterioration from soil with illustrations.
Date: July 31, 1900
Creator: Hammer, Willie Alice
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Head Frame for Cattle.

Description: Patent for a new and improved head-frame for cattle. This design is "to prevent cattle from breaking down or going through fences" (lines 9-10). To this end, it "compris[es] the bar bearing longitudinally on the face of the animal, bent forward at its upper end to form a hook, and provided with a rearwardly-convex bend near its lower end, the rectangular frame integral with the lower end of the bar, having its sides forwardly convexed . . . and provided with the inwardly-extending arms, the adj… more
Date: October 2, 1888
Creator: Dorris, James Orson
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
Back to Top of Screen