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A1993-005.0307 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Carmen R. Garcia talks about the Mexican Revolution and Pancho Villa; about the trip between Laredo and Corpus Christi and how Corpus looked in the 1920s. She tells about her reaction to the Depression and to World War II.
A1993-005.0308 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Willie Best, a cook at the Park Hotel & Memorial Hospital in Falfurrias. She talks about her family moving to Falfurrias because of work; her work at the Park Hotel; her marriage & their family; her husbands work at the creamery; some of the school teachers, she knew; integration of A&I & of Brooks County schools; tells of her grandson graduation from West Point.
A1993-005.0309 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Lockhart, Texas, W.P. Wight was a farmer and rancher. He talks about coming to South Texas in Jan. 1904; the building of the railroad; goat herder, Magono Garza; building of dirt taks; weather conditions; a store; building of Falfurrias in 1905 and first white baby born, Laura McBride.
A1993-005.0310 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Ancil Burdett talk about transportation of the day; commercial fishing and tourism; the early day population of Port Aransas; early schools; 1919 Hurricane; the Lighthouse Story; World War II; oil spills, early postal system; building of the causeway & improvement of transportation to Port Aransas.
A1993-005.0311 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Jose Ybarra Aleman, conducted by Alicia Aleman Godlove. Born in La Asencion, Mexico, Aleman discusses schools; work; a 1925 snow storm; the road to Elsa & Weslaco; crops in the Rio Grande Valley; discrimination against Mexicans in 1925-1935; religion; medicine in 1920s; folk medicine & remedies; and 1930s superstitions.
A1993-005.0312 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Juan Cruz Gonzalez, a high school janitor in Rio Grande City, talks about road conditions and travel; farming methods; banking and stores; hurricanes; bandit raids and smuggling; churches; discrimination; medicine & doctors; superstitions; treasure storeis and ghost stories. He continues telling about jokes and corridos; dances and celebrations.
A1993-005.0313 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Rudalfo Mike Couling talks about his teachers at LaRosita School; the oil boom of 1935; the Bank; the Vaello's; weather extremes; raids & law enforcement in 1937; politics run by George B. Parr & Archie Parr in Benavides & Duval County; his grandfather working with the Parrs & the Carrillos; buried treasures; a folk healer named Aunt Epifanio Martinez; life in the Army Infantry; his tour of duty in Europe with the Army; his work in the oil fields with his father-in-law, Jesus Olliveira, Jr; & running a ranch with his son-in-law, Carlos A. Canales & his son Rodolfo Couling, Jr.
A1993-005.0314 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	William Benson deals with early ranch life; racial problems from a black man's view; a few old stories of the area of Orange Grove.
A1993-005.0315 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mrs. R.R. Reynolds talks about her life in ranching in South Texas; the information focuses on the Reynolds Ranch, and communities of Orange Grove, Alfred & Sandia.
A1993-005.0316 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Carl Greene. This includes a discussion on his youth in San Antonio; travel to Corpus Christi; the economy in San Antonio during the 1920s and 1930s; his business; the Depression years; celebration of San Antonio area; religion and politics in San Antonio area; medicine; transportation; crime & law enforcement; prohibition; race relations; entertainment of the 1920s.
A1993-005.0317 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	She tells about her early life and times in Pine Hill, Tx: industries, schools, farming, Depression, and an explosion in New London school in 1937.
A1993-005.0320 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Vivian, LA., Betty Young was a garage owner & parts saleswoman. She talks about her personal background, her business; and her life in Mirando City. She tells some stories about Mirando City.
A1993-005.0321 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Stanley G. Marshall Sr., conducted by F. Michael Black. Marshall discusses early days in the Hebbronville area, and the cattle industry.
A1993-005.0322 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Burnthouse, W. VA. John C. Wells talks about the "Oil Industry in West Virginia and South Texas, 1914-1975."
A1993-005.0323 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Talks about the founding of Mirando City; oil production in the area; family background on Killam family; business, schools and water systlem & tells about Mirando City in 1975.
A1993-005.0324 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Amada Cardenas, a supply agent for peyote for Native American Church of North American. She discusses the sale of peyote for use by Native Americans
A1993-005.0325 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A former Teacher & hospital worker, Mai F. Hunter talks about migrant laborers; church; segregated schools; Treatments of T.B., yellow fever epidemic; moving cattle to Indian territory; homemaking; Sheriff Odom; hanging of two women; the hurricanes of 1916, 1919; and racial attitudes.
A1993-005.0326 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Sallie Beauford's father's memories of the Civil War; working conditions at the turn of the 19th/20th century; transportation, family life
A1993-005.0327 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Goliad, Texas, she talks about her birthplace and childhood; her husbands work & how hard he had to work; conditions and life in Kingsville in 1928; discrimination toward Mexican Americans; grocery shopping; early medicines and practice of medicine. She tells about St. Martin's Catholic Church; entertainment, dances & horseracing; and tells about the differences in foods and what people eat.
A1993-005.0328 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	He talks about childhood in Brownsville, TX. ; about crops, schools, travel conditions, ice boxes, entertainment, summer jobs, going to the beach, politics, medical remedies and home remedies.
A1993-005.0329 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. R.E. Cheaney talks about the raids by Pancho Villa across the border; the incident at Norias division of the King Ranch, the incident at Olmito; ranching in South Texas; life in the early 1900s; and the economics of the early 20th century.
A1993-005.0330 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Jose A. Ramos talks about his boyhood days; school, Texas Rangers, Leon Gill, bandits, a hurricane in 1933, home remedies, Virgin of Guadalupe, wages, and discrimination.
A1993-005.0331 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A first grade teacher, Alice Jennings tells about her education; her family and life growing as she knew it growing up in the Beeville area, on a ranch/farm. She tells about weather conditions, politics & politicians; daily work and stories that her grandmother, from Norway, told her. She talks about doctors and medicine of the time; road conditions in 1909; & her father seeing Mrs. King in a charriot. She tells about Christmas festivities & customes; and stores in Kingsville.
A1993-005.0332 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Born in Ft. Worth, Texas, Maxine Yerrick worked for Missouri Pacific Railroad. Talks about schools in 1913, starting at Lamar School, Kingsville; farming in area; the Naval Bases, gas wells, Humble Oil; banking & stores on Kleberg St.; communications, train schedules; railroads; Houston in the 1920s; Valley towns; 1916 raid on Norias; church revivals; 1916 & 1919 Hurricanes; Allen Furniture Co, Marshall Law; Chaparral St.; doctors & illnesses; wedding customs; festivities & celebrations; area legends; racial feelings; his personal background.
A1993-005.0333 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with William E. Taylor, conducted by Marilyn Taylor, his daughter. Born in Dallas, Texas, Taylor discusses farm life; roads; cars; entertainment; fuel; movies; stores; school; churches; railroads; outlaws; Bonnie & Clyde; World War II; oil fields; and cotton.
A1993-005.0334 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Jesus Garza talks about his early childhood, includes schooling, stores in area, the Record News; shinning shoes; the army camps; picking cotton and onions; getting biten by a rattlesnake; and his trip to the doctors. He tells about a fiest; the drugstore and cotton mill workers. On side two of tape he tells about a picture show; the railroad; Boy Scouts; working for A&I; the Depression and a trip he took to Mexico.
A1993-005.0335 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Mr. Robert McCullough was born in San Antonio. He talks about his early life in Houston, Galveston, and San Antonio. Tells of 1900 storm, in Galveston, schools, transportation, clothing, medical practices; enrollment at Texas A&M; World War I; Prohibition; the Depression and life in general.
A1993-005.0336 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Claude W. Miller talks about his family; traildrives; ranch; lawman; bootleggers; outlaw chase; gold treasure; Pleasanton; World War II; General Patton; Gen. Eisenhower; and the singer Jimmy Rodgers.
A1993-005.0337 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Zula Lanford tells about drought in Oklahoma; school; weather; locusts; poverty; food; Indians; prison conditions; medical conditions; churches; hurricanes; epidemics in World War I; farming; Indian stories; cowboy songs; racial feelings; murder and early justice; work schedule; lye soap; cotton gin; quilts & featherbeds.
A1993-005.0338 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	A civil service worker at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio he tells about economic conditions of 1930's & 1940's; WPA, NA, CCC. Radio: Fred Allen. Life in San Antonio. WWII, meatless Tuesdays, car pooling, rationing. comparison of economy, attitudes. Description of River Walk & downtown San Antonio.
A1993-005.0339 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Clementina R. Martinez, a housewife, talks about her family travel; Dimmit County; a typical day at the ranch where her husband was a cowboy. She talks about the weather; floods; medical practices; and the Mexican Revolution.
A1993-005.0340 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Marion Chandler, conducted by Lynda Stover. Chandler discusses her early arrival in 1913 in Kingsville and the building of her house at 630 W. Henrietta in 1915; education; transportation; teaching; working at a bank for 35 years; The Great Depression; J. Frank Dobie & Will Rogers; automobiles and roads; stores in Kingsville, TX; churches; hurricane of 1916; the railroad; sunken treasures on the Gulf Coast; law enforcement and robbery in Bishop, TX; being the only woman bank officer, womens' liberation; the activities of the young people; and legends & personal experiences; Mrs. Kenedy; Capt. King; Incarnate Word Sisters; missions & priests in San Antonio & Goliad. Signed consent form and summary of interview in donor file.
A1993-005.0341 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Onie Beatty, former school teacher, talks of her background, her education, and the schools in which she taught. She talks about student pranks, high school segregation and area racial/ethnic relations.
A1993-005.0342 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Interview with Ann Blackmon Fair. She titled her interview "Education 'Live Oak County' " She gives background information; talks about her educational background; the Mexican school conditions; salary for teachers; the superintendent of the schools, Mr. Lanorford; segregation in the schools; integration in 1958; the difficulty in finding teachers; the PTA; community attitudes toward teachers in the Mexican school; race relations and reasons for the separation. She continues by telling about the "Longoria Case" and her personal philosophy.
A1993-005.0343 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Recollections of Bee County, family background, Beeville, Ku Klux Klan, Blacks & Chicanos, oil boom, bootlegging, and the cattle industry.
A1993-005.0344 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Otto D. Rudeloff talks about family background, travel in 1920's & 30's; getting established in business 1933; life in Tynan, farming & ranching; German-Americans World War I; and the Depression years
A1993-005.0345 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	H.P. Gottschling spoke mainly about railroading: the early days, tuning a steam whistle, 1922 strike, coming of diesel engines, bandit raid at Brownsville, hobos, passenger trains, WWII vegetable trains, Blacks on the Missouri Pacific, steam engine operation, engineer qualifications today; and rattlesnakes.
A1993-005.0347 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	He tells of his recollections of the Mexican Revolution of 1910: Villa campaigns, treasures; Columbus, N.M. & Gen. Pershing, and talks of "Adelita". Mr. Hernandez left the Mexican Army and went to Crystal City. He then tells about contraband; general observations; and the legend of the China Poblana.
A1993-005.0348 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	Miss Allie spoke about Odem- early settlement, things that drew people there, coming of the railroad, early townspeople, types of education, segregated schools, law enforcement, churches & cemeteries, prohibition.
A1993-005.0349 Collection: South Texas Oral History & Folklore Collection Location: Media File	He remembers early history of Odem, Tx: early settlement, why people came, the railroad, education, schools, churches, Ku Klux klan, and prohibition.