- A1993-005.0041
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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P.L. Budd tells of Indians, courts, judges, medicine, doctors, preachers, ranch life, roads, messengers, Oklahoma farms, meat, hurricanes, medicine men, weddings, Dalton boys and other bandits; law enforement, Fank Tilman; marshalls, the oil industry; schools; army; parents, and Pancho Villa. |
- A1993-005.0043
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Emily Jane Miller talks about farming, schools, living conditions and types of dwellings and share cropping. She tells about her move to South Texas and subsequently to Mathis. She tells about travel conditons, roads & lack of roads; and doctors & home remedies. |
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- A1993-005.0046
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Ben Durbin talks about life in South Texas. He tells about schools; Sunday meetings with friends; dairy industry; describes Kingsville; tells of methods of travel; the first car; that area was a free range with little crime and open grazing for the cattle. He talks about early day doctors; life on the King Ranch; and the hurricanes in 1915. |
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- A1993-005.0047
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Francisco Garza tells of his experiences with Texas Rangers, smuggling, bandits, doctors, and legends.
A tape entitled "Pancho El Chincho Memoirs"
The contract is signed by Ernesto Hinojosa, but was attached to a form that gave the information on Garza.
Signed consent form in donor file. |
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- A1993-005.0048
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Rhoda Jones talks about family life; schools; farming; racial feelings; medicine; and church activities. |
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- A1993-005.0049
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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She came to Kingsville in 1904 from Alice, Texas. She tells about early Kingsville, World War I army, early business, schools, medicine, hurricanes; the race track in Kingsville. |
- A1993-005.0052
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Francisco Diaz talks about his early childhood; schools; transportation; farm life; crimes & criminals including "Machete" y "Indio Los Abregos"; daily life & his work at HEB; medicine & doctors; curanderos & folk remedies; customes including weddings & religious ceremonies; legends & stories including ones about La Llorona & Pancho Villa; entertainment & his participation in World War II. |
- A1993-005.0053
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Orval E. Nanny, conducted by Albert W. Shuferd. Born in Riviera, TX, Nanny became superintendent of schools there. He discusses his life and what the South Texas area was like. Subjects include the wild horse prairie; water wells; land development; protecting corn crops; ranches in the area; transportation; doctors; sailing; schools; storm cellars; and farming. |
- A1993-005.0054
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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He recounts general description of South Texas as told to him by his grandparents including methods of hunting. Tells about his great-grandmother's death in Oakville, Texas flood; recalls early courets in Frio County at Pearsall; his grandparents buying the old Dumont Hotel; his mother buying the old Bandy Hotel in Dilly, Texas; summers with his grandfather; fishing on the Frio River; selling Singer Sewing machines; eating in oil camps; chewing tobacco; working on first automobiles; Mexican bandit raids; acquaitance with J. Frank Dobie; and his feelings about Texas. |
- A1993-005.0059
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Approximately 12 hours of memoirs on 7 cassettes. John E Conner talks about life in South Texas and at A&I. Talks of life during the Depression. Interview on June 11 done in Castro Valley, California. On July 22, 1972 the interview continued in Buffalo, New York by W.J. Conner. #59 is in notebooks. Others are on the shelf
No consent forms found in donor file. |
- A1993-005.0060
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Flavio Salazar talks about his training to become a printer, where he was tutored by Eulalio Velasquez; conditions in South Texas travel, communications, huricane in 1914, law enforcement, racial feelings, festivals, doctors. D. Guerra and sons, and early settlers. He reads from newspapers about Juan Carranza, Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa |
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- A1993-005.0061
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Jesse Sterling Campbell talks of his early life; first car in Valley; bandidts; brother was a Texas Ranger, William Warren Sterling, who wrote Trails and Trials of the Texas Rangers; anecdotes about various Rangers; U.S. and border difficulties; Lionel Barrymore, Cornelious Vanderbilt and Rupert Hughes of the New York Guard. |
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- A1993-005.0062
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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In a seven minute interview she tells of her life including farming methods in Palacios, Texas, 1915-1917; her move into the area from Alabama; Kenedy, Texas in 1923-1933; Walter Harlis and Homer McClary; a hurricane in Aug. 1933 in Palacios; and the 1934 butchering or slaughter of cattle. |
- A1993-005.0063
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Suse N. Asevedo, conducted by Hector Asevedo. Asevedo discusses life in Mexico; moving to the U.S. in 1927; life as an agricultural worker; Agua Dulce; Pancho Villa; story about a bear hugging a man; a welcome to Carranza; voyages; way of life of migrant workers in the 1930's; and recreation in farm camps. |
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- A1993-005.0064
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Herman Borchardt interviewed by Ludivina Amipour's husband.
Talks about parents who emigrated from Germany; farming, the Depression |
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- A1993-005.0065
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Marion Chandler, conducted by Henry Smith. As an early resident of Kingsville, TX, Chandler discusses subjects that include main street; prohibition; bandit raids; Norias; hard prices; selling land; King Ranch; Sarita East and bandits; troops in Kingsville; law enforcement; hurricanes; J. Frank Dobie; railroad to Riviera; banking (she was the only woman officer at the Kleberg Bank at the time; industries; oil; schools; and roads.
Signed consent form in donor file. |
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- A1993-005.0066
- Collection: South Texas Oral History and Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Eulalia G. Cisneros, conducted by Victor Nelson. A florist, Cisneros discusses her family background; Matamoros; Brownsville; Baghdad; Meliton Cross; El Ranchito; freight trains; the adoption of a lost child; the assault of a family on trip to Veracruz; the Mexican Revolution as it was felt in this area; early travel from Veracruz to San Antonio; her husband's business; research she did on Donaciones at the request of J.T. Canales, with the purpose to establish claims for oil exploration in the Rio Grande City area; and the Iglesia de los tres Señores.
2 - copies |
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- A1993-005.0067
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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E.L. Kelly talks of his life growing up in Refugio County. He wrote a book called "Ever since I remember" about his time in Refugio County. |
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- A1993-005.0067
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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The author of a book, "Ever Since I Remember", and a weekly newspaper column, he tells about several local colorful characters; remembers the township being set up; about the medical problems & doctors and the happenings of every day life in Refugio in the early 1900s. Interview E.L. Scrub Kelly
On side 2 of the tape |
- A1993-005.0069
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Lloyd David talks about his birth in Live Oak County; the drilling of wells, the first teacher; the hanging of Harry Hinton; the wagon by covered wagon from Oakville to Alice; about George Parr; about Laredo; about Benavides; about Realitos; about why he became a Texas Ranger; and about Richardson & Williams Ranch; Capt. Sanders; Sheriff Edwards; King Ranch bandidts; Bill McMurray; abour Rodriquez getting whipped; Pete McBride; Mascarro incident at Sejita; Frank Clark, Moran & Lloyd investigating a robbery; about Eduardo Maldonado; Capt. Sterling, Capt. Hamer; Mr. Tucker at Austin; Capt. Wright from Laredo and the story of Crecencion Oliviera, smuggler, bootlegger; and Jesus Oliviera, sheriff of Duval county. |
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- A1993-005.0070
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interviewed with his wife: born 1906;
They talk about their life in Cat Spring; schools; a train ride to Chicago; their first car ride; their wedding & customs such as announcing it by rider on horseback; the invasion of gypsies and how they stole & told stories; Christmas customs; the whipping of a wife beater for frontier justice; their experiences with farming potatoes, sugar cane and grapes from which they made wine. |
- A1993-005.0070A
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Marie Dittert, and her husband Arthur Dittert, conducted by Fran Schroeder. Born in 1896, Marie Dittert discusses life in Cat Spring; school; train ride; immigrants; buggies; gypsy; Christmas customs; German whipping of wife beater, wine making; frontier justice; sugar cane syrup making |
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- A1993-005.0070B
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Paula Kupfernagel, conducted by Fran Schroeder. Kupfernagel discusses schools; horse & buggy travel; stores; first telephones; hospitals; nurses; training in World War I; use of lysol & carbolic acid; mustard jackets; entertainment; Germans of the U.S. in World War I; the whipping of Negro in public square; rats in hair; and farm work. |
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- A1993-005.0071
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Opal Osteen Colley Farrow, conducted by Darryl Farrow. Opal Farrow discusses Texas oil fields in the 1920's and 1930s; tent cities in Raccon Bend, Texas; the red light district; drunken school teachers at rig; the boom town of Upland, Arkansas; Kilgore, Conroe & Hawkins, Texas; the people who lived in those towns; The Great Depression; blowouts; deaths; wives worrying; and townspeople entertainment. |
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- A1993-005.0072
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Emma Fowler talks about her early years including her schooling; Christmas customs; life on the farm; her mother's effort to save a baby who fell into scalding hot water; spending Sundays with neighbors; her religious upbringing; and plowing the land. Moved to Kingsville and describes what town looked like at the time. Tells some home remedies; and tells about selling milk. |
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- A1993-005.0073
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Fred Gallagher talks about schools, roads, farming, industry, banking, weather, politics, religion, medicine, and customers. The tape is entitled "San Diego, Texas, Duval County". |
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- A1993-005.0074
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Arriving in Falfurrias in 1908, Lazaro Garza gives a general description of the area. Talks about his work on the Parr Ranch; weather conditions that caused deaths; a trip to the King Ranch; windmills; a general description of a round-up and the daily activites of a cowboy. Talks a great deal about Archie Parr. |
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- A1993-005.0075
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Guadalupe Guiterrez tells about general events in Kingsville, as recalled from the Mexican American point of view. |
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- A1993-005.0076
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview is about the evolution of Port Bay Hunting and fishing Club from 1913 to 1972. Milton Harrell mentions members, guides, hunting, changes in area and species. Tells of kidnapping of member Charlie Erstel by Machine Gun Kelly. |
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- A1993-005.0077
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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T.A. Harrell describes the road conditions on his parents' arrival in 1913, traveling by auto. The family had come to Texas by covered wagon. He tells about the founding of Bishop, Texas; population; cotton pickers; storms of 1916, 1919; droughts and the Depression |
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- A1993-005.0078
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Carl Hemecke tells about schools in Germany; his family; their estate; how the family became involved in lumbering business. He was a retired professor |
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- A1993-005.0079
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Vaclav T. Kallus, conducted by Ken Hamele. Mr. Kallus discusses his childhood days; the Great Depression; and the affect of Texas A&I University on his life.
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- A1993-005.0080
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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(Mrs. Freeman Lott, Sr.)
She talks about the growth and decline of Riverdale, Texas including its churches; schools; reasons for decline; doctors; the first forms of communication; hurricane of 1919; trains; cooking; festivals; children's entertainment; cars; and her most cherished memories of the area. |
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- A1993-005.0081
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Ann Lutenback McCauley talks about Riverdale, Texas, 1912-1942. She describes her early childhood, cooperation of all the families; her schools especially her teacher, Helen C. Lott; about floods, cyclone, Dr. L.H. Chilton; and the Riverdale Mercantile Co. |
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- A1993-005.0083
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with John "Doc" Martin, conducted by Henry Smith. A cowboy, tractor driver & truck driver in the oil fields & heavy equipment operator in oil construction, Martin discusses ranching and farming; the Depression; road construction; Sheriff Mosely; the Klu Klux Klan; working in the oil field; a blow out of an oil well; medicines; honey & creosote. |
- A1993-005.0084
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with George W. Moore, conducted by George Casso. Moore discusses growing up in South Texas, giving a description of family life on a small farm (Goose Creek, near Baytown). He tells about his rural school system, epidemics of 1920's. He describes his teenage years: dating customs, miles to nearest telephone, celebrations. Home remedies. World War II; Pearl Harbor; and the Great Depression. |
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- A1993-005.0086A
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Dr. T.W. Poole, conducted by Jeanette Muhlstein. Born in Victoria, Texas, Dr. Poole was a dentist. He discusses his early childhood and vacations on his grandfathers farm in Caldwell, Texas; a train wreck near Victoria, Texas; the Texas Dental College in Houston; being a U.S. Air Force dentist during World War II; and his experiences in general practice. |
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- A1993-005.0086B
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Mrs. C.P. Neukaus, conducted by Jeanette Muhlstein. Mrs. Neukaus discusses the founding of site for Hackberry by L.E. Neuhaus; working in Columbus; John Brenner, a stone mason; merchandise in the community general store; the coming of the railroad; the cotton gin; Mr. Christen; robberies; J.V. Neuhaus; the post office; the mule pasture; drugs; schools; Andrews Chapel Church; Joseph Lawrence, the oldest survivor of the Texas War of Independence; Houston Wade; a newspaper called The Hackberry Merchant; and the closing of the store in 1935. |
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- A1993-005.0087
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Born in Milano Junction, Texas, A.D. Price talks about his church, school, discrimination, abuse, World War I, a hanging in Waco and a lynching in Cameron. He tells of soldiers' attempted shootout at Waco and in Houston. He talks about being accused of murder and offers advice to young black residents. |
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- A1993-005.0088
- Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection
- Location: Media File
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Interview with Jaqueline Richman, conducted by Jane Ferrell. Also included are songs sung by some of the descendants of Calvin Peter Hoggard. He & his brother Richmond Hoggard taught these songs. He was born in a log cabin in Coryell County, Tex, Jan 1, 1866, he died Aug. 1938. He rode the Chisholm Trail, also the Western Trail. "Tascosa" in West Texas he loved to talk about, more than Dodge or Abilene. He played the fiddle. He told his daughter, Jacquiline, that he had nothing to do with the cowtown flossies, he said they were diseased, ugly, snaggle-toothed, club fisted, cross-eyed. He was a rancher, storekeep, banker and law consultant, mayor and justice of the Peace in Kingston, Indian Territory. |
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