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[News Script: El Grotto]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Fort Worth parade of El Grotto, a social club of Master Masons, as part of the Masonic Order's Southwest convention at Hotel Texas.
Date: September 2, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Backwoods to Border

Description: Book about folklore in Texas, including folk songs, ghost stories, Mexican animal tales, anecdotes about lawyers, folklore about Texas plants, riddles and miscellaneous legends. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1943
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Press

[Congressional Record - Senate - January 14, 1977]

Description: Photocopied text of an excerpt from the Congressional Record containing Senator Barry Goldwater's introduction of bill S. 247 to provide veterans' benefits to the WASPs. Goldwater's remarks are followed by five articles on the WASPs, their service during WWII, and their efforts to obtain veterans' status.
Date: January 14, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress. Senate.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Text
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Speech: Veteran Benefits for Individuals who Served in Civilian Capacity in the Armed Forces]

Description: Copy of two pages from the Congressional Record containing a speech by Texas Representative Olin Teague regarding pending bills that would grant civilian veterans benefits as well as the history of Avenger Field. The pages include other text, including partial text before the speech discussing a memorial dance for Jess Nevarez, his service in the military, his involvement with his community and church and supplemental statements to Teague's speech after his statements.
Date: April 6, 1977
Creator: United States. Congress.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Clipping
Partner: National WASP WWII Museum

[Transcript of Letter from David Fentress to Clara, March 29, 1863]

Description: Transcript of a letter from David Fentress to his wife Clara in which he says that despaired of receiving another letter from her after waiting a month between letters. David describes what they had to leave behind when the order to move out came. He also lists what he took with him. He recounts the meeting with his mother when he returned to her home after moving to Texas. He remarks that for once she hand nothing to say. He tells Clara he raced her mare. He appreciates the hat she gave him… more
Date: March 29, 1863
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from David S. Kennard to his sister, March 24, 1862]

Description: Letter from David S. Kennard from Eagle Grove, Galveston County, to his sister discussing a fire in Houston and his regiment's plans to march to Arkansas. He is not sure if he will get to go home on the way. He received a letter from John Hawthorp saying their relations were well. Also mentioned in the letter is that three or four of the boys have measles.
Date: March 24, 1862
Creator: Kennard, David S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from David S. Kennard to Sarah Kennard, June 11, 1862]

Description: Letter from David S. Kennard to his mother, Sarah Kennard from Washington, Hempstead County, Arkansas discussing his marching from Dangerfield and their continued marching into Little Rock to meet up with his regiment. Mentions meeting soldiers who were discharged because of their age. He met several soldiers in Washington who were in his company and left behind because of sickness and Mart White, who had died. He also discusses the high prices of corn and paper.
Date: June 11, 1862
Creator: Kennard, David S. & Kennard, Sarah
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Bouldin Family Scrapbook]

Description: The first half of the scrapbook is composed of newspaper articles that have been pasted onto the pages and some that were inserted in between the book's pages. The articles are from Confederate states and contain news, poems, and stories centered around the Civil War and the time after. The second half of the book served as a ledger for the family to keep track of their expenses.
Date: unknown
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Rice University Woodson Research Center

[News Script: 10 pm sports]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the start of the Doral Open, Dizzy Dean denies involvement in gambling syndicate, and the Fort Worth Wings loss to Tulsa Oilers.
Date: February 25, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Wreck]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: February 16, 1970, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: Arkansas Rice]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between the Rice Owls and the Arkansas Razorbacks in Little Rock.
Date: November 6, 1960
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: TCU football]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a football game between Texas Christian University and University of Arkansas in Fayetteville.
Date: October 4, 1959
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Script
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from W. E. Dancy to Roy Klotz, January 17, 1975]

Description: Letter from W. E. Dancy in Eureka Springs, Arkansas to Roy Klotz in Chicago discussing, briefly, a book about the life of T. V. Muinson, with a longer discussion of different grape varieties including both cultivated and wild grapes to which Dancy has access, as well as other growers that Dancy knows about. It includes several postscripts about additional contacts for information about grape growing and Munson varieties.
Date: unknown
Creator: Dancy, W. E.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Grayson College Foundation

Plow-Horse Cavalry

Description: Book discussing the Civil War as experienced by the Thirty-Fourth Texas Cavalry, in particular the soldiers from Caney Creek, Texas.
Date: 1974
Creator: Weddle, Robert S.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: Fannin County Historical Commission
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