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"But a Mournful Remedy": Divorce in Two Texas Counties, 1841-1880

Little scholarship has been dedicated to nineteenth-century Texas family life and no published scholarship to date has addressed the more specific topic of divorce. This study attempts to fill that gap in the historiography through a quantitative analysis of 373 divorce actions filed in Washington and Harrison Counties. The findings show a high degree of equity between men and women in court decisions granting divorces, and in property division and custody rulings. Texas women enjoyed a relativ… more

Date: May 1999

Creator: Pruitt, Francelle LeNaee

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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

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)

Item Type: Thesis or Dissertation

Partner: UNT Libraries

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[News Clip: Texas Roundup]

Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.

Date: July 29, 1992, 10:00 p.m.

Duration: 1 minute 03 seconds

Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)

Item Type: Video

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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The Bounty of Texas

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a miscellany of Texas, Mexican and Spanish folklore, including information about hunting, canning, cooking, and other folklore. The index begins on page 225.

Date: 1990

Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward

Item Type: Book

Partner: UNT Press

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Rose Rustling

Text for a sidebar about the Antique Rose Emporium that was published in the October 1995 issue of Texas Highways magazine.

Date: 1995-10~

Creator: Mallory, Randy

Item Type: Text

Location: 30.313354 -96.346874

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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Non-Commercial House Concerts/Listening Rooms in Texas (listed alphabetically by city)

List of non-commercial house concerts and listening rooms across Texas used as research for an article that was published in the February 1998 issue of Texas Highways magazine.

Date: 1998-02~

Creator: Mallory, Randy

Item Type: Text

Location: 33.610720 -95.053107

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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[WWH: Songwriter's Paradise]

Text about house concerts and listening rooms across Texas that was published in the "When..." section of a February 1998 Texas Highways magazine article.

Date: 1998-02~

Creator: Mallory, Randy

Item Type: Text

Location: 32.877132 -96.771866

Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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