Frontier and pioneer life -- Texas
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Records:
Clark family papers
Collection
Call Number: RH MS P213
Overview
This collection consists of letters that discuss family affairs, droughts and crops. J. S. Clark mentions carrying mail, "following" cotton, and Mormons. Lizzie mentions raising chickens and pigs. It also contains a marriage certificate for J. S. Clark and Mary Ann Pedigrew from Kansas in 1873.
Dates:
1873 - 1900
Correspondence and papers of Elisha and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass and family
Collection
Call Number: RH MS 283
Overview
The Bass/Bayley collection consists primarily of the correspondence and papers of Elisha and Elizabeth Eulalia Bass and their relatives. The Bass family were New Englanders who settled in pre-Civil War Texas near present-day Brownsville, Cameron County. They later located to California and Colorado.
Dates:
1794, 1831, bulk 1844-1922, 1962, 1975