urn:taro:utexas.cah.01619 A Guide to the Robert P. Pierce Papers, 1969-1987 Original EAD encoding by Laurel Rozema according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. June 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Pierce, Robert Peter. Pierce, Robert P., Papers 1969-1987 Materials are written in English. 86-087; 98-158; 98-244; 2007-270; 2010 41424909 3 ft. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Research files created and collected by Robert P. Pierce for his dissertation on the Big Thicket contain correspondence, clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, manuscripts, oral history interviews (transcribed and on tape), and sound recordings. Oral histories of Bill Brett and Archer Randolph Fillingim are also included, as is music and folklore of East Texas and materials on Texas folklorists. Biographical Note

Robert Peter (Bob) Pierce received his Ph.D. in Folklore from the University of Nebraska, where he wrote his dissertation on the Big Thicket in Texas. He worked for the Windham School System of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, for which he helped develop an arts-in-education program for the GED, vocational, and college programs. He taught in Huntsville and was also a member the Huntsville Arts Council.

 Scope and Contents

Research files created and collected by Robert P. Pierce for his dissertation on the Big Thicket contain correspondence, clippings, printed material, maps, photographs, manuscripts, oral history interviews (transcribed and on tape), and sound recordings. Oral histories of Bill Brett and Archer Randolph Fillingim are also included, as is music and folklore of East Texas and materials on Texas folklorists.

N.B. There are materials related to Archer Randolph Fillingim and to Archer Jesse Fullingim – note the difference in their middle and last names.

 Access Restrictions

Use of audio material by appointment only; please contact sound archivist.

 Use Restrictions

Unrestricted use.

 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Brett, Bill. Fillingim, A. Randolph. Fullingim, Archer. Pierce, Robert Peter -- Archives. Subjects Folklore--Texas, East. Folk music--Texas, East. Places Big Thicket (Tex.)--History--Sources. Texas, East--History--Sources. Preferred Citation

Robert P. Pierce Papers, 1969-1987, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Separated Material

Some material has been separated to the Newspaper Collection, to the Money Collection, and to the Library..

 Related Material

See also John Avery Lomax Family Papers at the Briscoe Center and Dr. Robert P. Pierce Collection: Death Row Files and Assorted Prison Records and Papers at the Texas State Archives

 Processing Information

Revised by Laurel Rozema, May 2010.

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory: 3E37 Personal: Letters received: Archer Randolph Fillingim and Arthur Fullinghim,1971-1973 1971-1973 1973-1979 Big Thicket Association,1977 Dissertation: Typescript drafts to chapter 1, the introduction Typescript draft chapter on crime, with notes and printed material 3F331 Typescript draft of section of razorback hogs, with incorporated published story Typescript draft chapters, 1-4 Manuscript chapters with incorporated stories and typing instructions, 1-4 Manuscript chapters 1-4 Master bibliographic reference sheets Notes and printed materials Copyright permission from A. R. Fillingim for “Buzzard Eggs” story,1972 Copyright forms, blank Big Thicket Association, printed materials,1971-1973 3F331 Big Thicket Association, printed materials, handbook, and speech about Senator Yarborough,1971-1974 Texas Folklore Society, printed materials and notes,1970-1971 The Wilderness Society, Big Thicket information,1970 Financial material on reprint issue of Bill Brett,1973 Research Materials: Interviewees: Dr. Don Baird, interview transcript and clippings,1971 Dr. John Bevil, interview transcript and clipping Bill Brett, short stories, typescript Willie Carouthers, interview transcript John Collier, interview transcript P. O. Eason, handwritten interview transcript P. O. Eason, notes and clippings Archer Randoph Fillingim: Interview transcript and clippings Drafts of tales Draft manuscripts Wild animal stories Animal stories, new manuscripts Manuscripts and clippings Buzzard Eggs and Other Big Thicket Recollections, typescripts and notes Goldie Golden, interview transcript Carter Hart, interview transcript and clippings Jude Hart, interview transcript, Batson, Texas,August 6, 1972 Tom McCreight, interview transcript J. D. Starke, interview transcript Subject files: Mrs. Ayers Balladry Bear hunting Dr. J.W. Beecher Birds Blues Bobcats Bragg Light Centennial Pageant,1958 Courting days Crime Deer hunts and folklore Ecology fight Folk speech Fox hunts, dogs, folklore General news stories Ghost light on Old Bragg Road Ghost road Ghost stories Red Goldman Ocey Haynes History, location, and description Hogs Home remedies Hunting Hunting and animal tales Ivory-billed woodpecker Keyser burnout Little Rock Lost in the Thicket Major Dark H. Mewhinney Mudcat chimney Nicknames Nude man in the Thicket Panther Stories Racing/panther story Ruins Sapp brothers Slavery and negroes Snakes Snake Woman Song meetings Squirrel dogs and hunts Trees Williams family Wolf hunts and folklore 3E111b Resource files, photocopies, and photostats Frances Abernathy, The Golden Log: An East Texas Paradise Lost Gustav Dresel, excerpts from Gustav Dresel’s Houston Journal, 1837-1841 William O. Douglas, chapter 1 of Farewell to Texas Larry Jene Fisher, assorted Connie House, Hardin County,1963 Mrs. Carl James, The Big Thicket Mrs. F. C. Jordan, clipping Mary Laswell, Work and Play in the Piney Woods, from John Henry Kirby: Prince of the Pines Gordon Lincecum, excerpt from Trip to Texas, 1935 Frances Norvell, The Big Thicket, 1964 Frederick Law Olmsted, Sour Lake and Liberty County, excerpts from A Journey Through Texas, 1857 William Owens, Fever in the Earth Dr. George Parker, Oil Field Medico H. B. Parks, The Big Thicket, Texas Geographic Magazine, 1938 Mary Lou Proctor, A History of Hardin County, thesis, 1950 Houston Thompson, excerpts from Sandy Creek: An Isolated Community, masters thesis, 1942 Soloman Wright, The Big Thicket in 1887, excerpts from My Rambles A Brief History of Moscow, Texas, excerpt East Texas folklore, excerpts from assorted books Assorted: The Big Thicket of East Texas excerpt; 6th grade teaching unit on the Big Thicket Notes on the Sam Slick book Magazines with articles on the Big Thicket,1974-1975 Photocopies of separated magazines Life in the Big Thicket, typescript article from 1878 Galveston Daily News Kountze News, clippings, 1969, undated 2.325/U503 Local newspapers: The Big Thicket Bulletin, 1977, 1980 The Kountze News, 1973, 1975 The Liberty Gazette, August 1972 Texas and national newspapers and clippings: Clear Creek, 1971 Beaumont Enterprise-Journal, 1975 Dallas Times Herald, October 21, 1987 Houston Chronicle, 1987, 1992 The Houston Post Texas Magazine, 1973 Texas Illustrated, October 1986 - March 1987 3E111b Assorted clippings, 1975-1977 Jack and the Beanstalk, photocopies Advertisements for books on the Big Thicket Assorted pamphlets and brochures Maps 2.325/U503 Maps 3S358 Photographs: Batson, Texas, 1906 Longhorns and hogs, 1972 Big Thicket flora, 1972 Big Thicket flora from Kountze News, undated Archer Fillingim (color 4) Bill Brett Unidentified individuals 2x68f Oral history cassette tapes: Alabama-Coushatta Indian Pow-wow, drums and dances, June 5, 1971, 9:10 PM Judge Leke Bevil, miscellaneous, Kountze, Texas, August 9, 1972; Cordelia Love Sydnes, Big Thicket miscellaneous, Port Arthur, Texas, undated Dr. John R. Bevil, bear hunting, ghosts, murderers, Beaumont, Texas, June 10, 1971 Bill Brett, undated Bill Brett, April 21, 1984 (2 copies) Bill Brett and Bower Taylor, hogs and hunting, August 1972 Willie Carouthers and his wife, June 9, 1971, 8:30 PM Willie Carouthers, Big Thicket folklore; Singing Texas, undated John Collier, miscellaneous and life in Saratoga, 1910-1914, undated Chris Crutcher, Woodlands, Texas, March 5, 1989 Vernon Dalhart, titles on tape, undated; old record cylinders, undated P. O. Easen, hunting and crime, Votaw, Texas, part 1, undated: Elizabeth Redding Jordan, Batson, Texas, August 4, 1972 P. O. Easen and Amber Easen, Votaw, Texas, parts 2 and 3, undated Randolph Fillingim, bear story, robbery of doctor, and Red Goldman, Batson, Texas, June 7, 1971 A. R. Fillingim, Big Thicket - why it’s thick, Batson, Texas; Jude Hart, general miscellaneous, Batson, Texas, August 4, 1972; August 6, 1972 Archer Fullingim, Kountze, Texas, June 1, 1971 Archer Fullingim, All This Green Thicket and miscellaneous, Kountze, Texas; Don O. Baird, Huntsville, Texas, ; June 1, 1971, June 2, 1971 (2 copies) Goldie Golden, undated Carter Hart Jr., June 11, 1971 Carter Hart, Jr., bear stories, miscellaneous, Kountze, Texas, June 11, 1971 J. D. Starke and Tom McCreight, Batson, Texas, undated Brown Taylor, hogs and hunting, with Bill Brett, Daisetta, Texas, August, 1972 3E111b The Cotton Patch Rag, special issue honoring John A. Lomax, Jr., Vol. 10, no. 2, February 1975 3F331 J. Mason Brewer, ca. 1970s Papers, correspondence, clippings, etc. 3S26 Photographs: J. Mason Brewer Texas lethal injection death chamber, Huntsville Sound Archives 45 sound recordings