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In Texas and Points West: Papers in Honor of John A. Hedrick and Carol P. Hedrick, edited by Regge N. Wiseman, Thomas C. O ’ Laughlin, and Cordelia T. Snow, pp. 117 – 134.
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Texas and Points
: For the community in northeast Collin County, Texas formerly called Seven Points, see Westminster, Texas.
* Six Points Texas, Backlot, Universal Studios, 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USA
Another video features the live performance of " Points of Authority " from Linkin Park's live album Live in Texas.
What became Westminster College began in 1888 in Seven Points, Texas, United States, northeast of McKinney, Texas, where classes were first held in a building that once housed Seven Points College.
Texas and West
As the morning wore on and a blazing West Texas sun wiped the shadows off the Franklin Mountains, police got close enough to the plane to pry into the baggage compartment.
A bunch of young buckaroos from out West, who go by the name of Texas Boys Choir, loped into Town Hall last night and succeeded in corralling the hearts of a sizable audience.
Together with earlier arrivals to the United States ( including the indigenous American Indians, Hispanic and Latino Americans, particularly in the West, Southwest, and Texas ; African Americans who came to the United States in the Atlantic slave trade ; and early colonial migrants from Britain, France, Germany, Spain, and elsewhere ), these new waves of immigrants had a pro profound impact on national or regional cuisine.
* Pecos Bill is an American cowboy, apocryphally immortalized in numerous tall tales of the Old West during American westward expansion into the Southwest of Texas, New Mexico, Southern California, and Arizona.
Wills formed several bands and played radio stations around the South and West until he formed the Texas Playboys in 1934 with Wills on fiddle, Tommy Duncan on piano and vocals, rhythm guitarist June Whalin, tenor banjoist Johnnie Lee Wills, and Kermit Whalin, who played steel guitar and bass.
Wills and the Texas Playboys played dances throughout the West to more than 10, 000 people every week.
Graduating in 1948, he moved his family to West Texas and entered the oil business, becoming a millionaire by the age of 40.
Forty-eight states ( Texas and West Virginia are the exceptions ) have a model set of instructions, usually called " pattern jury instructions ", which provide the framework for the charge to the jury ; sometimes, only names and circumstances have to be filled in for a particular case.
Stuart graduated from West Point in 1854 and served in Texas and Kansas with the U. S. Army, a veteran of the frontier conflicts with Native Americans and the violence of Bleeding Kansas.
The following all-color musicals were produced in 1929 and 1930 alone: The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), The Vagabond King ( 1930 ), Follow Thru ( 1930 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), The Rogue Song ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Whoopee!
Between 1907 and 1923, Newport News built six of the U. S. Navy's total of 22 dreadnoughts -- Delaware, Texas, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, Maryland, and West Virginia -- and all but the first would still be in active service in World War II.
The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).
The first Congress of the Republic of Texas convened in October 1836 at Columbia ( now West Columbia ).
* The exhibition The Persian Sensation: The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam in the West at the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center at The University of Texas at Austin, February 3 – August 2, 2009
In West Texas, however, he was exposed to many forms of music: " sepia "— a euphemism for what became known as rhythm and blues ( R & B ); Tex-Mex ; orchestral Mantovani, and zydeco.
"' Only The Lonely ' – Roy Orbison's Sweet West Texas Style ", pages 18 – 41 in John Covach and Mark Spicer Sounding Out Pop: Analytical Essays in Popular Music, University of Michigan Press.
Taking place in turn of the century West Texas, Noon Wine was a dark tragedy about a farmer's act of futile murder which leads to suicide.
The Giants faced the four American League West teams that year: Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, Anaheim Angels and the Oakland A's, while compiling a 10 – 6 record.
Warner Bros. released a large number of color films from 1929 to 1931, including The Show of Shows ( 1929 ), Sally ( 1929 ), Bright Lights ( 1930 ), Golden Dawn ( 1930 ), Hold Everything ( 1930 ), Song of the Flame ( 1930 ), Song of the West ( 1930 ), The Life of the Party ( 1930 ), Sweet Kitty Bellairs ( 1930 ), Under A Texas Moon ( 1930 ), Bride of the Regiment ( 1930 ), Viennese Nights ( 1931 ), Woman Hungry ( 1931 ), Kiss Me Again ( 1931 ), Fifty Million Frenchmen ( 1931 ), and Manhattan Parade ( 1932 ).
In 1966, the US First Lady, Lady Bird Johnson, denounced the racist name, asking the U. S. Board on Geographic Names and the U. S. Forest Service to rename it, becoming " Colored Mountain " in 1968 ; and in West Texas, " Dead Nigger Creek " was renamed " Dead Negro Draw ".
Texas and Papers
Based at Rice University in Houston, Texas, The Papers of Jefferson Davis is an editing project to publish documents related to Davis.
* Papers, 1878-1938, of Texas rancher and co-inventor Isaac L. Ellwood in Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
* Papers, 1871 – 1917 and undated, of buffalo hunter John Wesley Mooar in the Southwest Collection, Special Collections Libraries at Texas Tech University
* Houston Family Papers, 1836-1869 and undated, in the Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
* Papers of E. K. Warren & Sons, 1884 – 1973, ranchers in Mexico, Texas and New Mexico, held at Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
The Woodward and Bernstein Watergate Papers are housed at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin.
* Watergate Papers Web Exhibition at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin, with inventory
* Papers, 1774-1953 and undated, of son Khleber Miller Van Zandt in the Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
* Southwestern Writers Collection at the Witliff Collection, Texas State University-Cormac McCarthy Papers
Byron and Rannie Cook Papers, 1944-1962, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
* Luther Evans Harris Papers, 1923-1989, Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin
* Papers, 1836-1989, of W. C. and Frances Mayhugh Holden in Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
* Papers, 1953-1984 and undated, in the Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
* A Guide to the Ben and Henry Eustace McCulloch Family Papers, 1798-1961, Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin.
* Farrar, Straus and Giroux Collection of Isaac Bashevis Singer Papers at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas at Austin
* Papers, 1930-1975 and undated, in the Southwest Collection / Special Collections Library at Texas Tech University
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