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WEST TEXAS COLLECTION Ed Fisher Collection WEST TEXAS COLLECTION Ed Fisher Collection 6.3 linear feet + books and maps Record ID: 1995- 1 Donor: Ed and Evalena Fisher Acquisition: Gift Access: Open for research Restrictions: None Citation: Ed Fisher Collection, West Texas Collection, Angelo State University, San Angelo, Texas Administrative/Biographical History: Ed Fisher was born 8 November 1924 to a pioneer West Texas family, Albert and Edith Fisher. He always described himself as a “dogie” because he was reared by Ira Driver. He graduated from Texas A&M University, the Thunderbird Graduate School of International Management, and Texas Tech University with an MBA. During World War II, Fisher served with the 1st and 9th Armies in Europe. He married Evalena Blowey. Ed Fisher had a varied career. He taught at Angelo State University, surveyed land, and worked in real estate. After his retirement he poured himself into writing about the history of West Texas. Scope and Content: The majority of the collection pertains to the history of West Texas and those who settled the country. Fisher was also extremely interested in surveying and land records. The collection includes a large number of maps. Arrangement: Box File Description 1 West Texas Counties 1a Articles and Stories written by Ed Fisher “Lunch” “Boots” “Red” “A Fast Trip in Slow Wagons” “From the Southeast” “Doodle-Bugging” The River that Was – A bibliography of Beals Creek, Texas Box File Description “Icy Ladder” “An Overview- Settlement of the Llano Estacado, 1878 to 1890” 1 History of Andrews Co. 2 Borden Co. “C.C. Slaughter – King of the cattle industry” by Pamela Wilson Borden Citizen Borden County Historical Society Newsletter 3 Buffalo Gap 4 History of Dawson Co. Welch 5 Garza Co. Post C.W. Post “Foot Prints” – A history of Garza County and Its People 6 Howard Co. “Howard County, Texas Picture Album” by Doyle Phillips “Howard County, Texas Historic Photographs” by Bascom A. Reagan “Howard County, Texas Primer Vol. 1” – A subjective survey of significant people, places, events & historical occurrences by Doyle Phillips and friends “Howard County, Texas Primer Vol. 2, History of Aviation in Big Spring, Texas” by Joe Pickle “Beals Creek Background” “Medicine Show” by Joe Webster “I See Skin” by Clay Connor “Culture in Big Spring” by Clay Connor 7 Irion Co. Irion Co. Sesquicentennial Historical Guide A pictorial presentation of picturesque Mertzon, Irion Co., Texas 8 Loving Co. “Living in Loving County” by Rick Smith 9 Lynn Co. “Guy LeMond tells of early history of Draw and southeast Lynn County 10 Martin Co. Martin county convent 11 Midland Co., History of The Pioneer history of Midland County, Texas 1880-1926 12 Mitchell County and Colorado City “Lore and Legend – A compilation of documents depicting the history of Colorado City and Mitchell County Vol. one , 1976” “English Earl of Aylesford” by D.C. Earnest “Frontier Days in Mitchell County and Colorado City 1876-1885” by Mrs. J. Lee Jones and O.W. Cline Richard Clayton ‘Dick’ Ware, Sheriff Mitchell Co. Sam Bass Box File Description “Chief Lone Wolf” by Jim Baum 13 Pecos “Pecos – a history of the pioneer west” by Alton Hughes 14 Reagan Co. “The Reagan County Story” 15 Sutton Co. & Sonora “The Story of Sonora and Sutton County, Texas 1889-1890” 16 Ward Co. “Water, Oil, Sand and Sky – A history of Ward County, Texas” 2 1 South Plains/ Llano Estacado “Smoke Signals” by Ed Fisher “Some Northwest Texas Trails after Butterfield” by Mrs. Virgil Johnson and J.W. “ ‘Uncle Bill’ and Panhandle Paleoindians” “Open Range Ranching – On the South Plains in the 1890’s” by Eugene H. Price “Texas Rangers on the Llano Estacado” “Early Man on the Llano Estacado” “Research Institutions on the Llano Estacado” “The Town: Lubbock” “Comanches on the Llano Estacado” “Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire- Two frontier accounts by Don Hampton Biggers” “Ancient American Inscriptions: Plow Marks or History?” by William R. McGlone, Phillip M. Leonard, James L. Guthrie, Rollin W. Gillespie, James P. Whittail, Jr. “Mushaway Peak” by Edna Clark Miller “High Plains Pioneers” by John Erickson “We Just Toughed it Out – Women in the Llano Estacado” by Georgellen Burnett “Hunters Frontier: Exterminating the American Bison in the Concho River region” by Marvin Schultz “Artesia: Heart of the Pecos” by Lela and Rufus Waltrip 2 Forts and Military Fort McKavett – companies of the regiments stationed 1852-1883 Red River Indian war Jacksboro, Fort Richardson Fort Davis Fort Lancaster Fort Concho – various letters from late 1800’s Fort Concho- its why and wherefore by J.N. Gregory New Mexico Military Installations by Lee Myers Civil War Handbook by William H. Price Camp Elizabeth War Department Field Artillery Field Manual Box File Description “Old Camp Verde, the Home of the Camels” Texas Forts Trail Fort Mason “Southern Plains Warfare” “Buffalo Soldiers” by T.J. Stiles “The Buffalo Soldier on the Western Frontier” – the 10th Cavalry 3 Fort Bliss 4 Surveying Beyond the Cross Timbers- the travels of Randolph B. Marcy, 1812-1887 by Eugene Hollon Letter from W.S. Marby “Boundary Surveying in General” by Wm. C. Wilson, Jr. 5 Butterfield Trail “Head of the Concho Stage Station” by Larry Riemenschneider “The Butterfield Line” by Eva Jolene Boyd The Butterfield Overland Mail 3 1 Windmills “Gone with the windmills” by Larry D. Hodge “Remembering the windmill” by Alan Newport “Wind and water on the Western range” by Lindsay Baker renewable energy- turbines Wind Power and Windmills by the U.S. dept. of Agriculture “Windmills-beacons of the Plains” by Claude and Carolyn Crowley “Wind Power Systems” by Wayne Keese, Henry O’Neal, Bill Stewart “The Importance of the Windmill to West Texas” by Hiram M. Phillips Aermotor company 2 Springs/Rivers of Texas “Springs of Texas” by Gunnar Brune Texas Water Development Board “Major and Historical Springs of Texas” by Gunnar Brune “The Elusive Brazos” by Rosemary Williams “The Colorado River- Lone Star lifeline” by Bob Parvin “The Pecos-River of Hard-won Dreams” by Cathy Newman “The Pecos- A wild and ornery stream” by Mike Cox 3 Dowsers, Doodlebugs, Water Witching Oil Locating by Verne L. Cameron, master dowser Map Dowsing by Verne L. Cameron Country Scrapbook by Jerry Mack Johnson “Witching-finding water the old way” Water Dowsing – U.S. Dept. of Interior/U.S. Geological survey “Looking for water with a wand” by Ginger Miles “The Witcher’s way to water” Water Witching U.S.A. by Evon Z. Vogt and Ray Hyman Witching-for water, oil, pipes, and precious minerals by Walker D. Wyman Box File Description 4 Agriculture “Grasses and Forage Plants of Central Texas” by H.L. Bently “Wind erosion validation is high tech” by Calvin Pigg “A Paradise in Disguise” Wildflowers of Texas Flowers of Texas Landscaping with Native Plants by John E. Begnaud “Selective Injection system, plant nutrients, poisons, insecticides, auxins and fungicides” “Stop beating the soil to death” by Carroll Headley “The potential for manufacturing peanut products in DeLeon, Eastland, Gorman and Ranger, Texas” “Report on Agriculture” U.S. Senator, Phil Gramm The Grain Sorghum Challenge Guidelines for the valuation of Agricultural land Feasibility Study of a Textile Mill in an eight-county area of West Texas “Oxidative Stress Responses in Transgenic Cotton that Overexpress Superoxide Dismutase” “Vanishing Texas” by Larry D. McKinney and David D. Diamond 5 Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX 6 Banking in West Texas “The Commercial Banking Industry in Texas Changes in Structure, Deposits, and Assets 1956-1965” by Lawrence L. Crum 4 1a Art Post Office Murals in Texas during Depression era 1 The Buttery Family of Texas -personal reminiscences by Miles Barler 2 Camp Louis Farr “Early Days at Camp Louis Farr” by Charlie J. Stone 3 Cowboys, West Texas The Cowboys Hitchin’ Post by Joe M. Evans “The Tombstone of Camillus S. Fly” “West Texas Cow-boys’ South American Adventures” by Ed Fisher Newspaper articles on Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid “Ropers: Cowmen call McGonagill ‘Best Ever’ “ by Bill Modisett Bill Pickett, Bulldogger, the biography of a Black Cowboy by Col. Bailley C. Hanes “The Forgotten Cowboys” by Jack Lowry “Latin Rodeo” by Ray Camp Ira Driver “Cowboy Culture” by Nola McKey 4 Del Rio Whitehead Memorial Museum – Del Rio, Texas “A Guide to Historic Del Rio- Queen city of the Rio Grande” 5 Gilcrease Institute “Thomas Gilcrease Institute” Box File Description 6 Ernest Hinds, U.S. Army Hospital Ship Programs 7 Oliver Heard Newspaper articles 8 Historical Markers Official Texas Historical Markers pamphlet by Texas Historical Foundation Rich Coffey 9 Inspirational “Just a Bend in the Road” by Helen Steiner Rice “ The Virgin in the Mountains” by Nicholas King 10 Institute of Texan Cultures 11 Mason County “Fred Gipson: Hound-Dog Man” by Larry D. Hodge “True Blue” by Randy Mallory 12 Masons, Knights of Templar 13 Miscellaneous Newspaper articles Fronteriza mine The Odyssey of Amelia Earhart Southwestern cattle brands dating from 1798 Frontier Living by Edwin Tunis Postal History and Collectables “Notes on the Postal History of Southwest Texas” by Nonie Green “The Jackass Mail Route of 1857-1858” by William H.P. Emery “U.S. Penalty Covers” by David N. Grayson “Baptist Indian Missions” by Thomas J. Alexander A Catalog of the Proofs, Essays, Sample, Specimen & Test Stamps of Mexico by Frederick G. Ingham “Perfins of Mexico—Update” by Ed Fisher A History of the Air Mail Flights & a description of the stamps used in Mexico by Paul V. Berdanier & V.M. Suarez The American Philatelist –May 1987 The War Stamps of Mexico by George Ward Lynn The United States Railway Post Office Postmark Catalog 1864-1977 Mobile Post Office Society Petroleum/Oil Anadarko Petroleum Corporation-second quarter 1993 “A Faded Town’s Epilogue” by Candace Cooksey Fulton Texon The Upstream-A guide to petroleum exploration and production by Exxon Corp.
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