Ranching | Oral History

Ranching

OH 0774

Cattle rancher, entrepreneur. His reminiscences and experiences as a long-time rancher and foreman for the Kennedy ranch in South Texas, 1926-88.

OH 0078

Retired carpenter, farmer, municipal employee. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of south Texas, 1910-50. Life on the Taft Ranch; President William Howard Taft’s visit; agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; comments about African Americans.

OH 0621

Recollections concerning her Basque parents, her work at the Bastanchury Ranch, and the raising of her children in America; discussion of Basque customs and folkways.