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Class and Freedom of Choice in the Marriage Patterns of Antebellum Texas Women

Description: Little scholarly analysis has been devoted to the hypothesis that antebellum Texas women generally married within their own socioeconomic (slaveholding) class, and thus had only limited choice in the selection of marriage partners. This quantitatively based investigation suggests that the popular image should be carefully qualified. This study reveals that although a majority of Texas women who married during the early 1850s chose men who had the same slaveholding status, a significant minority… more
Date: December 1991
Creator: Brown, Lisa (Lisa Christina)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Mass Murder Case]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of Harris County grand jurors who are expected to get their first official look at the evidence of the worst recorded mass murder case in history of United States.
Date: August 14, 1973, 6:30 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Manhunt]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about St. Augustine county authorities who have issued a murder warrant for a 60 year old man.
Date: July 29, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shoot out]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a former mental patient who is jailed in east Texas in connection with 2 hour shoot out at an isolated farm house near San Augustine which left 1 woman dead and 5 men wounded including 3 deputy sheriffs.
Date: July 2, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: New top Texas weather]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a number of tornadoes which roamed around Texas during the night as a late winter storm pressed deeper into the state.
Date: March 21, 1974, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Body]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. Texas law officers exhumed two corpses today near High Island, bringing to 23 and says that victims found as part of what authorities called a homosexual ring which may have killed 27 teenage youths. Henley was named in three counts of murder with bond of $1000,000 set on each complaint.
Date: August 10, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Shootout]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a two hour gun battle at a remote farm house near San Augustine which has left one woman dead.
Date: July 2, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: San Augustine]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about one person who has been killed and five others who have been wounded in a two hour reign of terror during a shootout at a San Augustine residence in East Texas.
Date: July 2, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Colonization of the East Texas Timber Region Before 1848

Description: For many years adventurers from Spain and France had explored Texas. For about fifty years Spain had tried to civilize and Christianize the Indians in East Texas. Finally the Spanish government had abolished the missions and presidios. During the following fifty years, very little had been done toward colonization in Texas. In 1821, Texas was an almost uninhabited country, with the exception of savage Indians. The Anglo-Americans came and changed it into a great state. The East Texas Timber Reg… more
Date: August 1939
Creator: Baker, Willie Gene
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Reckoning in the Redlands: the Texas Rangers’ Clean-up of San Augustine in 1935

Description: The subject of this manuscript is the Texas Rangers “clean-up” of San Augustine, which was undertaken between late January 1935 until approximately July 1936 at the direction of then newly-elected Governor James V. Allred, in response to the local “troubles” that arose from an near decade long “crime wave.” Allred had been elected on a platform advocating dramatic reform of state law enforcement, and the success of the “clean-up” was heralded as validation of those reforms, which included the … more
Date: December 2014
Creator: Ginn, Jody Edward
Partner: UNT Libraries
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[News Script: Lawsuit]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about a hearing which has been set for May 6th in Tyler on a one and a quarter million dollar lawsuit which was filed against eleven persons including the sheriff of San Augustine county.
Date: March 9, 1974, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[WWH: San Augustine]

Description: Text about San Augustine, Texas attractions that was published in the "When..." section of a June 1994 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 1994-06~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Mass Slayings]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of San Augustine County sheriff's deputies who have uncovered more evidence in the mass murder of Houston youths.
Date: August 14, 1973, 8:25 a.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Houston Murders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of four more bodies which were recovered from their sand graves on the Texas Gulf Coast, bringing to 27 the number of dead in the Houston horror story.
Date: August 13, 1973, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murders]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. Murder charges will be filed against Henley, Elmer Wayne and his 18-year-old companion after Henley showed them two more graves and officers now anticipate to find a total of 27 bodies.
Date: August 10, 1973, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Script: Murder Charges]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story of additional murder charges which were filed against Elmer Henley and David Brooks in connection with the Houston mass murder case.
Date: August 24, 1973, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Piney Woods Particulars

Description: Text about attractions in the Piney Woods region of Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a June 2003 Texas Highways magazine article.
Date: 2003-06~
Creator: Mallory, Randy
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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