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Interview with L.V. Terrell and Guerro Perez

A 500 minute wide ranging interview with L.V. Terrell and Abel "Guerro" Perez, cowhands on the Coastal Bend Ranches. They tell many stories of riding and roping and their horses.

Date: October 7, 1982

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Interview with Milam Thompson and L.V. Terrell

Date: October 22, 1982

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Interview with L.V. Terrell

A 53 minute wide ranging interview with L.V. Terrell, ranch hand on the O'Connor Ranches.

Date: November 10, 1982

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Interview with L.V. Terrell, Milam Thompson, and Rafael de la Garza

A 319 minute interview with Rafael de la Garza with Milam Thompson and L.V. Terrell helping to ask questions. All are cowhands on the Coastal Bend ranches.

Date: November 17, 1982

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Interview with Jesse Jones, Sr., Abel "Guero" Perez, L.V. Terrell, and Willie Brown, Sr.

A wide ranging 250 minute interview with four cowhands who worked mostly on the O'Connor Ranches.

Date: December 6, 1982

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Interview with J. Y. Lott, Tony Lott, Ananias Cook, Dan Youngblood, Nat Nixon, and Alice Cook

A wide ranging 286 minute interview with 4 cowhands who worked mainly on the Welder Vadauri Ranch and joined by Nat Nixon who was primarily a "dirt" man. Alice Cook rarely joins the conversation.

Date: December 13, 1982

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Interview with Herbert "Buster" Bickford and Freddy Fagan

A wide ranging 185 minute interview with two smaller ranching family members in the Coastal Bend.

Date: January 5, 1983

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Interview with Milam Thompson, Ed Humphrey, and Wilma Copeland

A 317 minute wide ranging interview with Milam Thompson, camp cook, Ed Humphrey, cowhand, and Wilma Copeland, foremen's wife.

Date: January 10, 1983

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Interview with Rev. Manchen "Mack" Williams, Ananias Cook, J. Y. Lott, Tony Lott, Dan Youngblood, and Nathaniel Youngblood, Sr.

A 367 minute wide ranging interview with six cowhands from the Coastal Bend ranches.

Date: January 18, 1983

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Interview with Clayton Isaiah

A 235 wide ranging interview with Clayton Isaiah, a cowhand mainly on the O'Connor Melon Creek Ranch. The interview takes place in a rest home after Clayton has had a stroke.

Date: January 24, 1983

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Cryin' For Daylight: Ranching Culture in the Texas Coastal Bend

The Coastal Bend region of Texas embodies a rich and ethnically diverse cattle ranching heritage. For the first volume in her continuing effort to document this 155 year old culture, Louise S. O'Connor interviewed and photographed scores of men and women who have lived and worked on the ranches of the Texas Gulf Coast.,

Date: 1989
Total Pages: 348

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Audio (31)

Interview with L.V. Terrell and Guerro Perez

Interview with Milam Thompson and L.V. Terrell

Interview with L.V. Terrell

Interview with L.V. Terrell, Milam Thompson, and Rafael de la Garza

Interview with Jesse Jones, Sr., Abel "Guero" Perez, L.V. Terrell, and Willie Brown, Sr.

Interview with J. Y. Lott, Tony Lott, Ananias Cook, Dan Youngblood, Nat Nixon, and Alice Cook

Interview with Herbert "Buster" Bickford and Freddy Fagan

Interview with Milam Thompson, Ed Humphrey, and Wilma Copeland

Interview with Rev. Manchen "Mack" Williams, Ananias Cook, J. Y. Lott, Tony Lott, Dan Youngblood, and Nathaniel Youngblood, Sr.

Interview with Clayton Isaiah

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Cryin' For Daylight: Ranching Culture in the Texas Coastal Bend

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