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A1993-005.0266 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ms. Alilia Reyna talks about her childhood in the borderland; education, transportation,economics, and the effects of WWII. The donor forms are for Alicia & Alilia. The tape says Alilia.
A1993-005.0267 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Cristel Figueroa talks about his parents and family; his birth place; moving to South Texas; who they worked for, especially the Kleberg ranch in Kingsville. Includes info about wages during the Depression and the Gernovell brothers dairy farm.
A1993-005.0268 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Royal M. Bayliss.
A1993-005.0269 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	None
A1993-005.0270 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Miguel Garza Longoria, conducted by Sonia H. Longoria. Mr. Longoria, a car salesman, discusses his family's immigration from Spain to South Texas; the people who were here at the time; hostile Indian raids; his early education; road conditions; bandit raids; racial tensions; doctors; and festivals.
A1993-005.0271 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Elias Guerrero
A1993-005.0272 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Mary Driscill. Ms. Driscill talks about her family; conditions of Hays County during the late 19th century; entertainment of the time; going to church; her family's contribution to Texas history; and transportation of the time.
A1993-005.0273 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	William T. Browning talks about when Yoakum, Texas was founded as a railroad community; about farm bankruptcy; the first clothing store; and how his sone became involved in business. Tells about the current president of the Yoakum National Bank.
A1993-005.0274 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. T.C. Ernestine Richards tells a story of Banquete, TX.
A1993-005.0275 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	"Early Day Life in the Kostoryz Community". Joseph Brandesky talks about arrival in Corpus Christi in 1906; clearing land & building home; the Kostoryz Community; religion; the weather; the Hurricanes of 1916 & 1919; Czech organizations; family matters & doctors.
A1993-005.0276 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Gus Canales about background of early history and conditions around the Premont area. Time before 1930 according to Gus Canales. He tells some history of the Canales Ranch and the discovery of oil on it. He also talks about area politics (related to J.T. Canales); talks about medical practices and Don Pedrito Jaramillo; & how the family was able to retain their ranch. 1st and 2nd interview
A1993-005.0277 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Mexico, Amadeo Ybarra 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.
A1993-005.0278 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born on the Saenz Ranch, Starr County, Tx. he was a barber & veteran of World War I. He talks about stores, doctors; Jovita Cruz, a curandera; incorporation of the city in 1904; water issue in 1912; Mr. Denison elected mayor of Alice; schools in Alice in 1902; Texas Rangers in Alice; J.T. Canales; Bandits in Banquete; the newspaper, El Cosmopolita, and the Sun; the cattle industry; stage coaches; law enforcement and banking. tape entitled "Alice in Early 1900"
A1993-005.0279 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mae Dell Schiller talks about her early years in Cladwell County; laundry, transportation, toys, smokehouse, entertainment, schools, and the band. She tells about her time at Texas State College for Women, bee hives, home canning, and butter churning.
A1993-005.0280 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Walter Brown talks about Sugar Valley as county seat. He ells of the house in which he was born. He also talks of sugar industry, travel, black residents in his community, his pay, the Ku Klux Klan, the first radio, the school; cotton, and barn raising, mules, and World War I.
A1993-005.0281 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Tennessee, Charles D. Stephens talks about his early life there. He also tells about enrolling at the U. of Texas; moving to Beaumont, then Eagle Lake; methods and conditions of travel; methods of farming; weather, including 1932 Hurricane and 1938 flood; the robbery of Garwood Bank; racial feelings; discrimination; doctors and Bohemian weddings.
A1993-005.0282 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A teacher, Joan Vanderford was born in Coleman Texas. She talks about her family life; World War I; prejudice against Germans; 1917 trip to San Antonio; teaching in Corpus Christi in 1940; a typical day on a farm; the effects of a 1923 Hail Storm; the Depression; effects of federal campaigns to end the Depression; contrasting schools; and Del Mar College in 1946.
A1993-005.0283 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Leroy Hindes Sr., conducted by Amanda West. Hindes discusses schools; cattle driving; rangers; buffalo; railroad camps; soldiering days; and soldiering in New Mexico.
A1993-005.0284 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Santos Martinez and his wife, Maria. He talks about schools; teachers; education; ranches; small pox epidemic; ice boxes; ferry to cross Rio Grande; box with gold buried on banks of river; medicine; man with rabies; Depression
A1993-005.0285 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with P. Budal about life in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
A1993-005.0286 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with L.D. Cooper, conducted by Perry Watson. Cooper discusses school; transportation; the Great Depression; communication; working with Humble; law enforcement; medicine and folk remedies; weather; religion; stories; superstitions; World War I; World War II.
A1993-005.0287 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. D.D. Condron talks about farming; family; politics; social life; the Depression; and law enforcement.
A1993-005.0288 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Aniseto Saenz, conducted by Erwin Wernle. Saenz discusses early Kingsville; work on the railroad; cattle drives; ranch life; hanging by Texas Rangers; eye-witnesses to hangings in Karnes City; and a tale of a treasure near Pawnee.
A1993-005.0289 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Maud Richardson talks about her schools & farming in Arkansas and Limestone County, TX.; ranching in Duval, Jim Wells & Nueces counties of S. Tx; Capt. Wright of the Texas Rangers; chasing bootleggers; doctors; and oil wells.
A1993-005.0290 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. Henry Grebe tells about her life in Bishop; the church; a Ku Klux Klan beating of the preacher; lawmen in Bishop; doctors; the Depression; F.Z. Bishop; the Bishop hotel; and the railroad.
A1993-005.0291 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. Personious tells of Indian troubles on the South Texas Border and about the early history of South Texas.
A1993-005.0292 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Anastacio Garcia talks about sharecropping; methods of farming; mules; plows; trains; Mexican Amiericans owning land; cotton gin; home remedies; rattlesnake bites; engagements; buried money; dress costumes--some from flour sacks. religious; and dances
A1993-005.0293 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ramona Moreno describes her childhood near Beeville; and repeats stories, told by her father,about importing cattle form Mexico. cotton fields, making molasses, and about Pancho Villa.
A1993-005.0294 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	She tells about her school; travel methods; farming; early oil explorations; banking; hardware store; weather; crimes and bandits--Billy the Kid; daily fork; churches; medicine; legends; superstitions; World War I; epidemics; Depression; cowboy songs-cattle drives; folk speech; names of persons.
A1993-005.0295 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Wedding of the 1930's; serving food; music; fiestas Eusebia Elizondo
A1993-005.0296 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	C.O. Barney talks about being hired by railroad; talks of everyday life of brakemen; bad days on the railroad, before civil rights; railroad strikes; railroad during Depression; some of railroad terms; salary; clothes; incidents.
A1993-005.0297 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in DeWitt County, Harry Onken talks about his view of Orange Grove-Alice area, 1919-1950. He tells of first settlers; farming; hurricanes; doctors; schools; sports; courtship styles; general store; and law enforcement.
A1993-005.0298 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Williamson County, TX., A.J. Smith was a former mayor, councilman, farmer, clerk & painter. He tells of moving to Lampass County, marrying & moving to San Saba County in1926. He became a farmer, moved to South Texas and was a farmer. Tells of life on the Taft Ranch; 2 folk stories about San Saba Mine & man killer in Lampassa County.
A1993-005.0300 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	W.O. Rogers relates his life experiences up to WWII; schooling, crops, work in oilfields, religion, doctors & medicines, racial feelings, and festivals.
A1993-005.0301 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Guadalupe Gallegos talks about his early schools; teachers; roads & conditions; type of transportation; crops; stores; banks; weather; floods; law enforcement; courts; daily work schedule; churches; doctors; remedies; legends; and ghost stories
A1993-005.0302 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Two tapes one is number 260 and the other 302. Both talk about the life and times of Valentine and his wife Rafaela. She tells about her life from 1918-1930 including roads, farming, stores, communications, 1936 Hurricane; housework, family, medicine; educating the children; dances; celebrations, discrimintation, modes of dress. Valentine talks about modes of travel, types of work, bandits, communications crimes, campesinos; and life on the King Ranch.
A1993-005.0303 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with C.W. Perkins, conducted by Kenneth Oden Jr. Born in Pleasanton, Texas, Perkins was a lawyer. He discusses the railroads; schools; the cattle business; travel; how the city of Alice got its name; hurricanes; Mexican funerals; the Depression; Texas Rangers; bandits; transportation; racial / ethnic feelings; corruption; and doctors.
A1993-005.0304 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Garcia talk about churches; preachers; revivals; Padre Juan, Padre Eujineo; Rancho de Harita; Rancho de la Becessa; the post office; their trip to Kingsville from La Suase; schools; and how and when they were paid for their work.
A1993-005.0305 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	He talks about his early school days; his work; his first car and the roads in the Valley then; the discrimination he faced in high school; the killing of a woman; and the forms of entertainment the, especially baseball.
A1993-005.0306 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. Lehman, a noted author, talks about wildlife and range management in South Texas; sheep in South Texas.