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Texas thirties / by Wilhelmina Beane.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Schimmel Collection Schimmel 8130
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Beane, Wilhelmina, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Texas--Social life and customs.
- Texas.
- Ranch life--Texas.
- Ranch life.
- Manners and customs.
- Genre:
- Biographies
- Trivia and miscellanea
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 176 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Antonio, Tex. : Naylor Co., [1963]
- Contents:
- Rio Vista Dairy farms: Milk is not just milk ; Annual barbecue for doctors
- Medina Hereford ranch: 4-H clubs short course here ; Diary entry, June 20, 1932
- LH7 ranch: I see my first roundup ; On the range ; Largest ranch rodeo here
- The Joe D. Hughes ranch: Bull feeding ; Sample of Texas hospitality
- Texas' "sugar bowl": Cotton seed breeding farm ; Modern dairy, model of its kind ; Hereford herd (whitefaces) ; Blacksmith shop ; Poultry and "dated" eggs
- Agricultural writers' conference: Postcripts to the writers' conference
- A honey of a bee story
- Agoating in the river: Rescue in order
- Landrum angora goat ranch: Mohair in women's coiffures! ; Mohair velvet
- Cactus Jack's home town
- Nueces river flood
- A day with Senator Tom Connally: Committee meetings
- Maimed tots are healed in Galveston hospital: Writer tells work done in state institutions
- Rabbi Henry Cohen
- State fair
- Salts and snakes: Dinner at San Jacinto
- Heart surgery
- Inferno
- Hidden treasure
- Disaster in the valley: Countless billions of mosquitoes arrive ; All dairies destroyed ; No communicable diseases ; Activities of medical profession ; Senator Tom Connally checks storm damage ; Texas senatorial committee visits valley ; Senate honors me ; Special senate committee reports.
- Mexico calls: We motor to Laredo ; Special train to Tampico, October 4 ; Valley storm a picnic compared to Tampico's ; Pitiful living conditions ; Awakened by beating of "tom-toms" ; Accompany Mexican sanitary engineers on inspection tour ; Dr. Brown writes Governor Miriam Ferguso ; Laredo delegation returns home ; We move to American consulate ; American colony fetes us ; Plans for departure ; President Abelardo Rodriguez arrives ; Final notes ; Invited to Mexico City ; Return home ; Appreciation ; A personal letter from General Macias
- Hudgins ranch
- Hunter's paradise
- Victory dinner
- A deer story
- Official report: Nationally-known speakers ; Houston, "convention city" ; We visit prison farms ; Guests locked in ; By way of a postscript
- Border patrol
- Ancient Texas river
- Cattle kingdom
- Dew ranch
- Birth of a nation.
- Local Notes:
- Schimmel 8130: Presented to the Penn Libraries in 2024 by Caroline F. Schimmel. Caroline F. Schimmel bookplate on front pastedown. Ink inscription with author autograph on front free endleaf: To Mr. Waldo Emerson [...] Happy reading. I sincerely appreciate your courtesy in always leaving such a generous parking space for my Fury (Plymouth). Many thanks - "Wilhelmina Beane" ; August 23, 1970. Author's address label below inscription. With dust jacket.
- OCLC:
- 1869893
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