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None Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Oral History audio cassettes that either did not have accession numbers or just numbers.
A1973-001.0001 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Maria Tamez. Born in Benavides, TX Maria talks about the first houses in Bishop; discrimination; schools; the Depression; field workers; Mr. F. Z. Bishop; the 1916 Hurricane; hail storms; churches; bank robberies; Prohibition; the Ku Klux Klan; first doctors; and Mother Lane. Signed consent form in donor file.
A1973-001.0158 Collection: South Texas Oral History Location: Media Center	Antero G. Garcia tells about his background; about Mr. F.Z. Bishop and early Bishop history, and of getting supplies for a store. He speaks of a healer, Mother Lane, and a tourist court with barracks for women and men, built for Mother Lane. Bishop was an agriculture tow; a joke about Pancho Villa; a bank robbery; the celebration of "Cinco de Mayo;" the "Club de Norifica;" and three different schools. He describes the treatment of Mexican-Americans and Blacks. SEE ALSO: Reference File: Bishop, TX - History for term paper based on interviews. Signed consent form and transcript in donor file.
A1973-001.0277 Collection: South Texas Oral History Location: Media Center	Ybarra, Amadeo born in Mexico he was a laborer,boilermaker's helper and church custodian. He talks about his arrival in the U.S; about working on the railroad; about U.S. troops in the Valley; about the development of South Texas; and the railroad strike of 1922. Consent form is signed and in donor file.
A1976-027.0001 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media Center	Oral History Tape of the Toland Family Reunion and reading of the "Family History of McWhorter and Dodson families by Beulah May Johnson, 1976. Signed consent form in donor file and donor register.
A1982-059.0001 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with W.F. Foss McCracken. No signed consent form.
A1982-059.0002 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. J.N. Myrick of Falfurrias, TX. No signed consent form.
A1982-059.0003 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Frank Allen and John Conner. No signed consent forms, in house use only, no web access.
A1982-059.0004 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mackie (Leora McNess) Smith. Was among the first faculty at South Texas State Teachers College. She taught art and was the head of the Art Department. She married Lewis J. Smith, who was one of the first coaches at STSTC, and later a history professor, and eventually the Dean of Men. Also present in the interview: Ben Bailey, Lewis Smith, Margaret Neely They talk about the early years of the university from the lens of the Art and Home Economics Departments. No signed consent forms, in house use only, no web access.
A1991-008.0001 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Long time King Ranch ranch hand talks about his life and experiences on the Ranch.
A1993-005.0001 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Chief W.W. Red Fox, conducted by Paula Martinez. Chief Red Fox was born in the Dakota Territory, joined the Navy, toured with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, participated in Spanish-American War, and made movies. He discusses the Wounded Knee Massacre; Sun Dance; Indian marriage rites; burials; superstitions; food; rain dances; songs; the depressions of 1890's & 1930's; World War I; and World War II.
A1993-005.0002 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Guillermo Leal, conducted by Javier Guevara. Guillermo Leal discusses Laredo, TX, including a description of the area surrounding the Japanese internment camps; Prohibition; Robert Ramsey, a Texas Ranger who was shot in the eye by bootleggers; the shooting of a Laredo newspaper editor; burning of Laredo by Guardiola Quintana, 1915; Revolution in 1910; and killings he witnessed. -- No consent form available only at South Texas Archives.
A1993-005.0004 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with John R. Peavy, conducted by Bob Edwards. Peavy, born in St. Louis, Missouri, discusses his early life and move to the Valley of South Texas; smuggling activities along the border where he was a Texas Ranger, U.S. Deputy Marshall and an officer with the U.S. Immigration Office for 33 years; the search for the Lou Redman car; prostitution along the border; the notorious town of San Diego, TX; Mexican bandits who wrecked the train; and Pancho Chinchillo.
A1993-005.0006 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mary Hanson, conducted by Ricky Woodburn. Hanson discusses her arrival in Kingsville, TX, and the reasons that her family moved to the area; her first impressions of the area; farm life; entertainment and demonstrations; the school; the 1916 Hurricane; the big rains; and the start of South Texas State Teachers College.
A1993-005.0007 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Joe Tedford and Iris Gregory (siblings), conducted by Gene K. Gregory. They discuss being born in Odem, Texas; their childhood; the Hurricane of 1919; an old maid school teacher from the North; buying their first car; the building of Corpus Christi Dam at Mathis Lake; Houston; and life in Sinton, Texas.
A1993-005.0008 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Jose C. Lozano, conducted by Hector Mendez. Lozano discusses early days in Concepcion and San Diego, Texas; folklore; curandero, especially Don Pedrito Jaramillo; corridos; fiestas & customs, especially weddings.
A1993-005.0009 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. Marius Thyssen, conducted by Paula Martinez. Thyssen, Born in Danevang, TX, discusses her background; early life hardships; life in Danevang, TX; transportation, communications; development of different enterprises; religion; fasting before Lent; and Danish folk legends.
A1993-005.0010 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Lucile Beall Southwell, conducted by J. Richards Jr. Southwell, born in Morgan City, Louisiana, discusses her life as a housewife, & as the daughter of an eminent Methodist-Episcopal Church minister; life in the church including preachers salaries; jobs; her father's career; education of preachers; committee on Credentials; camp meetings; expenses of preachers; annual conferences; churches in San Antonio, Beeville, and Uvalde, TX; the order of worship; revival meetings; her father's role in the community; prayer meetings; Bible school; typical week; sermon writing; entertainment; religious ceremonies; and house calls.
A1993-005.0011 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. R.L. Cooper, conducted by James M. Parker. Mrs. Cooper, a teacher, railroad office worker, and housewife discusses her early life in Alice, TX; doctors; schools; social events; first oil well; Sunday school & church; Doering Ranch school; 1918 drought; 1919 Hurricane; the railroad going to Kingsville, TX; hog drive from ranch to Alice, TX; Pancho Villa scare; travel between Alice & Kingsville, TX; Corpus Christi, TX; and Chapman Ranch.
A1993-005.0012 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with J. Allee Handy, conducted by Susan Ballard. Handy, born on the Black Jack Ranch before 1930, discusses his cowboy work; cattle diseases; veterinarians; tick fever; brush fires; mesquite trees; 1919 hurricane; the 1924 freeze; moving to Fannin by wagon; the mail service; entertainment; church; World War I; the Great Depression; and railroads.
A1993-005.0014 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Maude T. Gilliland, conducted by Darrel Barbo. Gilliland discusses Texas Rangers; Don Pedrito; various ranches; and border troubles. Gilliland was the author of two books: Rincon and Horsebackers of the Brush Country; she discusses the writing of her books and reads excepts from them.
A1993-005.0015 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Noah Lee Cannon, conducted by Bob Edwards. Cannon discusses his time as a law enforcement officer; bootlegging; smuggling; learning to shoot; prostitution; and the salary and qualifications of a policeman.
A1993-005.0016 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with O.C. Barton, who discusses his arrival in Kingsville, TX when he was nine months old; Kingsville, TX history; locations of stores in Kingsville, TX; land around the South Texas State Teachers College; how he lived where Flato School was eventually built, which was an area his family farmed; describes King Ranch and safety precautions King Ranch women; Captain King having lunch under a tree where the Flato School now stands; when construction of STSTC was granted to begin construction in Kingsville, TX; polo village, race track (future site of the Javelina Stadium); and Casa Ricardo.
A1993-005.0020 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Chester T. Christopher, conducted by Lydia Hill. Christopher discusses moving to Kingsville, TX, in 1906; describes Kingsville, TX from the earliest times he can remember; his first job as a carpenter helping to build the Administration Building (Manning Hall) at South Texas State Teachers College; the stationing of the Army in Kingsville, TX; the Texas Rangers; Sherrif Milkien; the building of the Kleberg County Courthouse; Ben Wilson as judge; San Fernando School, located on what is now Naval Air Station - Kingsville; Prohibition, the Hurricanes of 1916 and 1919; the Great Depression; bandits robbing the train in 1915 and killing Engineer Kendall. Signed consent form and transcript in donor file. Granddaughter Judy A. Parks signed consent form on 05-26-2017.
A1993-005.0022 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Angelita Ramirez, conducted by Delia Gonzalez. Ramirez, born in El Rucio, TX, discusses her early childhood, birthplace and parents; the founders of Brooks county; her grandfather, who founded the first road to Brownsville; her great grandfather, who was eaten by Indians; her grandparents, who gave land for Encino Elementary School; the first time she saw television, and heard radio; the Fable of Creseldita; and superstitions about wolves, roadrunners, and weedpeekers.
A1993-005.0023 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. W.W. Shuford, conducted by Albert Shuford. Mrs. Shuford, born in Burnet, TX, discusses her life as a housewife; getting her teaching certificate in six weeks at Normal School in 1912; getting her first teaching assignment in Falfurrias, TX; moving to Rio Grande City, TX; the trouble she had with a misbehaving boy (she whipped him after he threatened her with a knife); the store her husband ran; bootleggers; problems with rats and the illnesses they carried; dairy farming & churning butter; a battle with a horde of rattlesnakes in their home; her sister's courtship and marriage; and her own wedding.
A1993-005.0024 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Ruth Hoelzel, conducted by Tom Hoelzel. Ruth discusses moving to Woodsboro at an early age; her father was a farmer and drove cattle for a few years. She tells about her schooling; what life was like on the farm; the deaths of her brother and mother, and the medical care of the time; receiving news only through the mail; elections and politics in the area; social entertainment; and weather conditions.
A1993-005.0026 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Eugene H. Collier.
A1993-005.0027 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Antonio Trevino, conducted by Delma Hernandez. Trevino discusses life in South Texas as compared to life on the frontiers of Northern Mexico; Pancho Villa and General Felipe Angeles; transportation & living conditions; hurricanes; ranch life; the legend of El Judio Herrante; medicine; discrimination in Texas against Mexican-Americans.
A1993-005.0028 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with J.R. Bluntzer, conducted by Jerry L. Campbell. Bluntzer discusses his family; building the Bluntzer Ranch raising cattle and the cattle drives; how one of his aunts was captured by the Indians and kept for three years; the retreat of Santa Ana; early life in Corpus Christi, TX; the Hurricane of 1919; car trips from Corpus Christi to the Rio Grande Valley; gun fight in which Paul McAlister was killed; the Prohibition; the Great Depression; and early schools. Part I and Part II
A1993-005.0029 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mrs. Elizabeth Ann Gibbs, conducted by Donald Strickland. Gibbs discusses her arrival in Port Aransas; storm insurance; World War II; and tourism at Port Aransas.
A1993-005.0030 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with G.L. "Red" Smith, conducted by James Engle. Smith was born in Henderson, TN, and was a roughneck until 1921 and then a driller. He discusses his early life; his reasons for going into the oil fields; early rigs; wages, working conditions; operations; and incidents in towns and fields in which he worked.
A1993-005.0031 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Marion Duzich, conducted by Marion B. Duzich. Duzich discusses her birthplace & immigration to the USA in 1921; Corpus Christi when she arrived; fishing in Ingleside, living at Joe Massey's house; the Yugoslavic population in the area; Prohibition; her travels around the USA; World War II; shrimping in Aransas Pass; celebrations in the communities.
A1993-005.0032 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Robert J. Custer, conducted by Bradley Kirk Pape. Custer discusses the "Killer Town": Helena, TX; the death of his grandfather; his family's move to Kingsville; crossing the Nueces by ferry and living in a tent in Kingsville, TX; his father's business; the first railroads in Kingsville, TX; town stores; the lumber yard and wages; his first job as a delivery boy for Western Union; working for Mr. Charles Flato; working for the railroad; learning to be a carpenter; Mexican bandits and Mrs. East in Norias; bootleggers; Mr. Durham and Mexican oil; water well drilling on the King Ranch; sheriffs of Kleberg & Nueces counties; the King Ranch & Mrs. King; Ragland's Department Store; the 1916 storm; the first house in Brush Country; Kingsville Dairy & Foss McCracken; and Drs. Huffman & Bartlett.
A1993-005.0033 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Tommie E. Willis, conducted by Joel Case. Willis was born in Mississippi and she and her family came to Texas in 1907 to farm the land. She discusses farming; becoming a teacher; teaching in Taft schools; games students played; lessons she taught; teaching conditions; the Great Depression; rationing of food during World War I; the work her husband did; her work as a seamstress; and their move to Kingsville, TX.
A1993-005.0035A Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Peter Rasmussen, conducted by Martha Stauss. Rasmussen immigrated from Denmark to the USA, joined the Army, and was stationed in Texas. He discusses farming; railroads; churches in area; weather; bandits; and the troops guarding the King Ranch.
A1993-005.0035B Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Nettie Peavey Smith, conducted by Martha Stauss. Born in Cleveland, Texas she was a housewife. She discusses moving to Kingsville in 1913; her husbands work as a fireman for the railroad; describes W. King Street, where she lived; a 1915 Hurricane; the Army garrison that was stationed in Kingsville to protect the Ranch from Mexican bandidts; the raid on Norias; buying at Sellers Groceries; Church cooperation; Drs. & health care; racial/ ethnic relations; she talks about first Blacks to attend King High & about the Black school; she concludes with description of railroad work.
A1993-005.0037 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with A.W. "Mac" MacDaugal, conducted by D.K. Stutts Jr. Born in Westminsister, Texas, Macdaugal discusses square dancing. Tells the history, describes how it is done, costuming, calling, why they do it, the organizations around Kingsville and gives examples of calling.
A1993-005.0039 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Joe B. Cobbs talks about his personal early life and move to Texas; tells of traveling around & doing different jobs throughout Texas and describes travel conditions; World War I; Houston race riot; Folklore including "witching for water"
A1993-005.0040 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A former teacher, James A. Creighton, was the head of the English Dept. at Del Mar College. He tells of his childhood & family; his schooling; different schools at which he taught; some folklore & stories.