DARE Interview: Nacogdoches, Texas; Primary Informant TX049
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- Created Date
- 1967
- Description
Informant Data:
TX049: White; male; age: 92 (old); education: high school; community type: small city
Media Files:
Full Interview 1 (Tape 1634-S1).
Content:
00:40 Owned three saloons, segregated his bar
02:15 Born on a farm, employment, buying saloons, segregation
07:50 Person who shot Black people; traded a saloon for 400 acres
10:30 Sold out whiskey business, married, farmed
15:40 Plow, farming
18:15 Cotton gin [described], selling cotton
23:50 Farm life, farm animals, their land, cotton farming
29:05 Traveled selling cotton seed
29:30 Tape end
Full Interview 2 (Tape 1634-S2).
00:15 Local woman; snuff [chat]
02:25 [Sings songs]
06:50 Saloon; selling whiskey wholesale, traveling selling whiskey
08:10 Was a fiddler; fiddles
10:45 Traveling selling whiskey; alcohol drinks sold in the saloon; fights; saloon building; drinks
26:50 Farm buildings, farm animals; ox teams, calls to oxen
30:15 Nacogdoches in the past—killings; dances; he played the fiddle there
31:35 Auction of oxen
32:10 Tape end
Full Interview 3 (Tape 1635-S1). [Additional speakers: Informant's wife]
00:20 Calling to mules and horses
01:40 Killer in past, Marshall, guns, account of killing, Sheriff
09:45 Logging, oxen, saws, cutting trees
11:55 Killer in Louisiana
12:20 Railroad, driving train, wood for engine
15:45 Sheriff, account of confrontation with killer and shooting
[+wife] 22:45 Courting, dances, engagement, wedding
29:00 Father was first Deputy Sheriff; relatives; Sheriff
31:25 Tape end
Full Interview 4 (Tape 1635-S2). [Additional speakers: Informant's wife]
00:05 Texas Rangers
[+ wife] 00:35 Courting, dances
[+ wife] 06:35 Children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren
12:25 Illegal whiskey; whiskey; alcohol; moonshiners; bootleg whiskey
20:20 Nacogdoches in the past, law enforcement
21:25 Funerals
23:05 Preachers, sheriff, outlaws
25:50 Childhood games, marble games, ballgames, croquet, cards, group game [song]
31:30 Fiddling match
31:35 Tape end
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- Recollection Wisconsin
- Contributing Institution
- University of Wisconsin Digital Collections
- Publisher
- Dictionary of American Regional English
- Subjects
- Saloons
Race relations
Farming
Cotton gin
Fiddles
Liquor
Ox teams
Local history
Farm animals
Law enforcement
Stories
Railroads
Life in the past
Family
Dances
Bootlegging
Funerals
Games
Nacogdoches County (Texas)
Nacogdoches (Texas) - Type
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- Language
- English, English
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- DARE Interview: Nacogdoches, Texas; Primary Informant TX049. 1967. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/XEYGPK2VXDHNI8C. (Accessed April 19, 2024.)
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