Ranching

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Ranching
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Ranching
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Ranching
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Ranching
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Ranching
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Ranching
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Ranching
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King Ranch
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King Ranch
Some of the first cattle drives up north started
from the King Ranch with the now famous brand
the Running W.
The ranch was founded in 1853 by Captain Richard
King
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King Ranch
Cattle dips to kill bugs and flies
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King Ranch
Barn at the King Ranch
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King Ranch
The Klebergs took over after Mr. King died.
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King Ranch
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XIT Ranch
To finance the construction of a grand State
Capitol, the Texas Legislature appropriated
3,000,000 acres in the panhandle. This became the
X.I.T.ranch - the largest fenced ranch, and one
of the most famous, in the world.
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XIT Ranch
The XIT Ranch in the 1880's was the largest range
in the world under fence, and it all laid in the
Texas Panhandle.
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XIT Ranch
John Farwell, a wealthy Chicago businessman, was
a controlling partner of a syndicate that owned
the huge XIT Ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
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XIT Ranch
When he visited the XIT Ranch, John Farwell held
Sunday religious services for the cowboys, as
this 1898 photograph shows.
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XIT Ranch
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XIT Ranch
Sunset at the XIT ranch area
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Cattle Drives

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Cattle Drive
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Cattle Drive
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Cowboys/Vaqueros
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Texas Cultures
The world comes to Texas
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Belgian
Belgium has consistently sent priests, builders,
scientists,
musicians, professionals, craftspeople, and
farmers out into the world.
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Chinese
The Chinese initially came as railroad laborers.
Column of Chinese and Mexicans following the
Pershing expedition out of Mexico, January 28,
1917
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Czech
Wedding of Charles H. and Bertha Knesek Cmajdalka
in Fayetteville with the Fayetteville City Band
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Czech
Baca's Family Band, Fayetteville, 1907
Frances Drozd Mendl in an embroidered Czech
outfit, c. 1933
Printing office of the Czech newspaper Svodoba,
La Grange, Texas, c. 1900.
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Danish
Ansgar Lutheran Church in Danevang, 1908
The Carl Jensen family home near Danevang
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Dutch
Dutch settlers in Nederland after the harvest
Phillip Hendrick Nering Bögel of Bastrop
convinced the Mexican government to admit the
first colony of Anglos.
Nederland, Texas between Port Arthur and Beaumont
and Orange, Texas were settled by the Dutch.
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Filipino
Filipino dance group at the Texas Folklife
Festival
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German
A Sunday house in Fredericksburg
The Marienkirche in Fredericksburg, begun in 1860
Gathering of the original New Braunfels settlers
in front of the Sophienburg
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Italian
Italian Club picnic at the mining town of
Thurber, late 1800s
Josephine Lucchese, internationally renowned
coloratura soprano began her singing career in
1922 and retired in 1970.
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Japanese
Rice workers on a farm near the Texas coast
wearing traditional Japanese rice-straw hats, 1905
Some of the Kimi Jingu family posing at the
Japanese Tea Garden, where they lived and sold
refreshments to visitors, 1937.
Federal High School graduates, 1945, in the
Crystal City Internment Camp
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Jewish
Sukkot meal in a sukkah at a Laredo Sunday
School, c. 1935. Jewish families build
sukkahswith roofs of green branches.
Joshua Furman reading the Torah at his bar
mitzvah, San Antonio, May 1994
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Norwegian


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Norwegian

J.R. Reiersen, the Father of Norwegian
Immigration.

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Polish
Wedding of Pauline Tudyk and Thomas Katzmarek in
St. Hedwig, 1894
Immaculate Conception of theBlessed Virgin Mary
Church, Panna Maria. This is one of the painted
churches.
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Spanish
A Spanish priest celebrating mass for Indians, c.
1629
18th century vaquero herding cattle on a Spanish
ranch
Charro Days parade, Brownsville, 1970s
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Swedish
Fred and Olga Nygren Bergman with Ruth
New Sweden Lutheran Church, 1920s
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Wendish
St. Paul's Lutheran Church, Serbin
Emma Jurk and Bernhard Joseph Schmidt, 1907.
Texas Wends followed the custom of a black
wedding dress. The symbolic color was a reminder
of the difficulties, pain, and grief accepted as
parts of marriage.
The Wendish of Europe have now come to Texas to
relearn their language which is not spoken in
Europe but is still spoken in Texas.
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Weather
If you don't like the weather in Texas, stick
around a few hours and it'll change.
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Hurricanes
Brett
Claudette
Carla
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Hurricane
Some of Hurricane Claudette's damage in Port
O'Connor, Texas.
During Claudette
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Hurricane
Galveston's city orphanage lay in ruins after the
1900 storm.
In 1900, a deadly hurricane struck Galveston
Island, Texas, destroying homes and killing more
than 6,000 people. It was the greatest natural
disaster in terms of loss of life in United
States history.
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Tornados
Dimmitt, Texas June 2, 1995
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Tornados
Kellerville, Texas
Waco, Texas
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Tornados
Stafford, Texas
Jarrell, Texas May 27, 1997
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Tornados
Jayton, Texas June 12, 2005
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Tornados
Jayton, Texas June 12, 2005
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Flooding
Along the Guadalupe River October 1998
Johnson City, Texas - 2001
Ft. Worth, Texas July 1, 2004
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Flooding
San Antonio, Texas
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Flooding
Houston, Texas June 10, 2001
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Drought
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Drought
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Drought
Dust burying abandoned homestead Dust Bowl
Drought, 1936
Huge 1930s Dust Storm in TexasNote the size of
houses in foreground.
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Drought
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Storms
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Storms
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Storms
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Storms
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Notorious People
Lee Harvey Oswald
Bonnie Clyde
John Wesley Hardin
Judge Roy Bean