TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Description of Series
Personal
Societies and Organizations
University of Texas Material
English Department
Personal Correspondence:
Literary productions
Literary Productions by Others
Research Material
Restricted
Photographs
Oversize Materials
Microfilm Collection
Sound Archives
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A Guide to the Mody Coggin Boatright Papers,
1907-1978
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Creator |
Boatright, Mody Coggin,
1896-1970. |
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Boatright (Mody Coggin)
Papers
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Dates: |
1907-1978 |
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Abstract |
Papers of Mody
Boatright (1896-1970), folklorist and professor of English at The University of
Texas (1926-1969), include personal papers and materials related to his career
as teacher and chairman of the English Department and as secretary-editor of
the Texas Folklore Society. |
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Boatright,
Mody Coggin, Papers |
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Extent |
34 ft., 7 in. |
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Language |
English. |
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Repository |
Dolph Briscoe Center for American
History, The University of Texas at Austin |
Papers of Mody Boatright (1896-1970), folklorist and professor of
English at The University of Texas (1926-1969), include personal papers; items
related to the Boatright and Reck families; and materials related to his
professional career as teacher, chairman of the English Department,
secretary-editor of the Texas Folklore Society, Fellow of the American Folklore
Society, and member of numerous organizations. Other material relates to
research on the oil industry and western history and folklore, as well as to
his numerous publications. Included are correspondence, newspaper clippings and
other printed items, scrapbooks, notes, student papers and other teaching
materials, bibliographies, literary productions, oral history transcripts, and
photographs.
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Boatright, Mody Coggin,
1896-1970. |
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Boatright family |
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Garland, Hamlin,
1860-1940. |
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Paredes,
Américo. |
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Reck family |
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Roosevelt, Theodore,
1858-1919. |
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Scott, Walter, Sir,
1771-1832. |
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Thornton, Word
Augustus. |
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Subjects (Organizations) |
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American Studies
Association |
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Texas Folklore
Society |
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University of Texaas.
Dept. of English |
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Subjects |
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Academic freedom |
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American
literature |
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American
literature--Southwest, Old |
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American
literature--Texas |
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Boom towns |
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College
teachers--Texas--Austin |
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Cowboys |
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Crime and
criminals |
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Fiction |
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Fire extinction |
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Gas industry |
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Motion pictures |
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Folklore |
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History--Study and
teaching |
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Livestock
equipment |
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Oral histories |
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Petroluem industry and
trade |
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Wit and humor |
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Places |
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Austin (Tex.) |
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Breckenridge Oil Field
(Tex.) |
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Desdemona Oil Field
(Tex.) |
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Galveston
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Houston (Tex.) |
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Ranger Oil Field
(Tex.) |
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Sweetwater
(Tex.) |
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Texas. |
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Personal |
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| 3M509 |
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Correspondence |
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1918-1949 |
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1918-1949 |
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1966-1967 |
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Certificates,
1921, 1922, and
undated |
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| 3M510 |
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Correspondence,
1968-1970 |
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Notebook,
1918-1919 |
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German Postcard Folder |
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| 3M511 |
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Notes and Poems on Germany, World War I |
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Notes on English Authors |
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| 3M512 |
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M.C. Boatright's Student Papers,
1929-1930 |
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Sul Ross State Teacher's College, Publication,
December 1,
1926 |
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M.A. Thesis; Plot-Structure in the
Novels of Sir Walter Scott |
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Dissertation; Scott's Use of the
Supernatural in the Waverley Novels, pp. 164-457 |
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Dissertation: Scott's Use of the
Supernatural in the Waverley Novels |
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Notes on Sir Walter Scott |
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Walter Prescott Webb |
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Article by Webb |
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Clippings |
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| 3S193 |
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Scrapbook Pages |
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Societies and Organizations |
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American Dialect Society, Clippings |
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American Folklore Society |
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Miscellaneous Correspondence |
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Program |
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American Studies Association |
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Correspondence,
1956-1963, and
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Membership Information,
1953, 1954 |
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| 3M518 |
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American Studies Association, Meeting at
Baylor |
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Authors Guild Bulletin,
Feb.-Mar., 1964 through
Nov.-Dec., 1966 |
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| 3M519 |
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Authors Guild Bulletin,
Jan.-Feb., 1967 through
May-June, 1970 |
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Texas Folklore Archive, Correspondence |
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| 3M520 |
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Texas Folklore Society |
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Correspondence |
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Manuscript of Told by the Folk,
pp. 1-60 |
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| 3M521 |
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Stories from T.F.S. Publications |
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Dobie, Paisano Project, News Release,
September,
1965 |
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| 3M522 |
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Dobie, Paisano Project, Miscellaneous |
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| 3M522 |
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University of Texas Material |
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American Studies Program, Publications |
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Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility,
1948 |
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Committee on Academic Freedom and Responsibility,
Reports, Clippings |
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Rainey Controversy, T.S. Painter |
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Rainey Controversy, Pamphlets |
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Regents' Rules |
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| 3M525 |
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Report of the Committee of Seventy-Five, December,
1958 |
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Miscellaneous Publications,
1965 |
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| 3M526 |
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Miscellaneous Publications,
1966-1968 |
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English Department |
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The Alcalde,
March 1956 |
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Grants to Boatright |
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| 3M527 |
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Materials on Method |
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Ph.D. Candidates |
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| 3M528 |
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Américo Paredes, Ph.D. Candidate |
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Register of Graduate Students in English,
Part I 1947-1948, 1951-1952,
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| 3M529 |
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Register of Graduate Students in English,
Part II 1947-1948, 1951-1952,
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Teaching Materials |
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English Literature, Notes |
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Minor 18th Century Novelists |
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Teaching Materials, English Literature |
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General Notes |
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Tests |
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| 3M531 |
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English 280K |
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English 380K |
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| 3M532 |
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Teaching Materials, American Literature |
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Notes, Philosophy and Literature |
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Notes, Walt Whitman |
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| 3M533 |
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Tests on Age of Innocence |
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Tests, Miscellaneous |
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Notes |
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Teaching Materials, Bibliography |
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18th Century American Essays |
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General |
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Southwest, various subjects |
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| OD1182 |
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Teaching Materials, map |
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| 3M536 |
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Teaching Materials, Bibliography |
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Hamlin Garland, Biography, Criticism |
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Student Papers |
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Adam-Bell |
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Donalson-Dugas |
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Eargle-Felder |
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Hazelwood-Hlavinka |
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Holland-Hubka |
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Nesmith-Ogden |
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| 3M539 |
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Pannill-Potts |
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Soriero-Threadgill |
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| 3M540 |
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Tillery-Weber |
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Miscellaneous |
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Personal Correspondence: |
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Boatright Family,
1907-1973 and
undated |
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| 3N11 |
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Boatright Family,
1907-1973 and
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Elizabeth Reck Boatright,
1922-1930 |
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Reck Family,
1925-1931 and
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Non-family,
1922-1931 |
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| 3N12 |
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Genealogical Materials: Boatright Family |
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Literary productions |
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Newspaper and magazine clippings,
1930-1978 and
undated |
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Printed material,
1925, 1929, 1949, 1964,
1969, and undated |
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| 3H219 |
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Reprints,
1927-1970 |
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| 3N12 |
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Miscellaneous
1909-1936, 1949, 1972?,
and undated |
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Poem, “An Hour in the Library” |
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Short Story, “Incomplete Couplet” |
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| 3N14 |
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Articles on Walter Scott, Walt Whitman |
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American Literary Realism,
(Boatright, Consultant) 1840-1910,
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| 3N15 |
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Freshman Prose Annual, No. 1 |
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Oil Industry, Folklore of the Oil
Industry, p. 146 to p. 321 |
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| 3N16 |
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Oil Industry, Folklore of the Oil
Industry, p. iii to p. 142 |
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Draft of “The Role of Chance” |
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| 3N17 |
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Draft of “The Geologist” |
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Draft of “Lingo” |
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| 3N18 |
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Draft of “Songs and Verse” |
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Correspondence, Publication,
1958-1970 |
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| 3N19 |
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Western History and Folklore |
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Articles on the Humor of the American
Frontier |
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Folk Laughter..., |
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“Backwood Belles” |
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| 3N20 |
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“Men and Manners” |
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“Buoyant or Despairing?” |
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| 3N21 |
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Notes |
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Correspondence and Criticism |
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| 3N22 |
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The Cowboy as Hero |
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“Buffalo Bill and the American Rodeo” |
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“Theodore Roosevelt and the Cowboy” |
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“Tom Mix: The Morality Play on Horseback” |
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The Cowboy..., “The
Triumph of the Formula” |
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Article, “The Myth of Frontier
Individualism” |
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Notes |
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| 3N25 |
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Article, “The Wild Man in Texas Lore” |
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Notes, Clippings |
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Literary Productions by Others |
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Reprints |
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| 3H218 |
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1920s-1950s |
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| 3N25 |
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1925-1929 |
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1940-1949 |
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1950-1954 |
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1960s,
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| 3N26 |
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Donald M. Fiene, The
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Articles |
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Joseph Gallant |
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A. Scouten |
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P. Stewart |
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| 3N28 |
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S. Thompson |
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A. Turner |
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F. Vandiver |
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Research Material |
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Oil Industry |
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Boom Towns
(2 folders) |
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| 3N29 |
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Boom Towns, Card File |
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Bibliographical Notes on Oil |
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| 3N30 |
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Bibliographical Notes on Oil |
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Fiction Relating to Oil Industry |
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Fiction, “Bright Danger” |
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Living Conditions |
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“The Lucky Ones” |
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People, Drillers, Student Paper |
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Oil Industry, People |
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The Geologist |
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Tex Thornton |
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Oil Industry, Tex Thornton |
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Photostats |
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| 3N34 |
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People, Texas Thornton, Student Paper |
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Oil Industry |
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Subject Card File 2 |
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| 3N35 |
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Subject Card File 3 |
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Oral History Project |
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Transmittals |
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Oil Industry, Oral History Project |
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Guide to Transcripts |
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“Pioneers in Texas Oil,” Drafts |
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| 3N37 |
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Oil Industry, Correspondence |
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General |
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William Hartsell |
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| 3N38 |
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W.H. Hays |
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W.H. Wright |
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Western History and Folklore |
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Myth, General Notes |
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Hero, Notes on Early American Fiction |
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Notes on the Concept of the Hero |
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| 3N41 |
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Cowboys and the American Character |
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Cowboy Fiction in the Saturday
Evening Post to 1920 |
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Cowboy Fiction in the Saturday
Evening Post, Student Paper |
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Cowboy Fiction, Note Cards |
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| 3N43 |
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Cowboy Fiction, Note Cards |
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Cowboy Fiction, Authors, Owen Wister and Theodore
Roosevelt |
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Authors, Notes on Theodore Roosevelt |
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Authors, Student Papers on Hamlin Garland |
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Cowboy Fiction, Authors, Student Paper on Hamlin
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Bibliographical Notes on the West |
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Cowboy Fiction and Movies, Card File |
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Cowboy Movies, Notes |
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Cowboy Movies, Synopses of Early Movies,
1911-1914 |
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Miscellaneous Notes on Cowboy Stars and
Movies |
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Notes on Western Movie Reviews |
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Student Papers on Women's Issues,
1890-1895 |
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Agrarian Movement, Student Papers |
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The Indian in the Literature of the Southwest,
Notes |
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Notes, Articles, Clippings on Animals in the
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Rainmaking |
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Notes and Articles on American Humor |
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Frontier Humor, Religion |
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Aspects of the West Reported in Galveston News, 1880 |
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Notes on History of Winchester Rifle |
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Western History and Folklore, Cattle
Industry |
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Idiom |
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“Texas Ranch,” Life, n.d. |
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Western History and Folklore |
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Ferrington Carpenter |
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Outlaws, Belle Starr |
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Outlaws, Cole Younger |
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Children's Taunts and Insults |
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| 3N56 |
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Collection of Proverbs |
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Book Catalogues |
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| 3N57 |
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Book Week,
January 12,
1964 |
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Research Grant Materials |
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Personal |
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Correspondence |
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English Department |
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Budget Council Material,
1951-1953 |
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Teaching Materials |
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Class Records,
1940's |
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| 3N59 |
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English Department |
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Grade Books |
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Miscellaneous Graded Material |
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Photographs |
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| 3S200 |
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Oversize Pictorial Materials |
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| 3Y71 |
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Pictorial Materials |
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| 3S223 |
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Oversize Photographs of Oil Industry |
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Microfilm Collection |
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Research Material |
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Oil Industry |
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Western History and Folklore |
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