| Title: |
Thelma Rawls Fletcher
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Texas, San Antonio. Institute of Texan Cultures
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| Collection: |
Institute of Texan Cultures Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Thelma Rawls Fletcher grew up in the Big Bend region of West Texas. The Rawls family owned sections of land on Tascotal Mesa and San Jacinto Peak in the Big Bend. They employed vaqueros on the ranch and had good relations with Pancho Villa and his men during the revolutionary period (1910s).
Mrs. Fletcher gives a detailed account of ranch life. She tells about daily chores, hunting, animals, the making of adobe, religious camp meetings, childhood play, and the first telephone line installed in Marfa. She talks at length about her boarding school education at Incarnate Word in San Antonio and the beginnings of Fletcher’s Bookstore in Houston.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1982 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Fletcher, Thelma Rawls
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker race: |
White
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| Document location: |
Salado, TX
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| Document date: |
21-Jun-1982
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| Interviewer: |
Wilmer, Jane
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| Locations discussed: |
North America; San Antonio, TX; Texas; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Community; Culture; Local history; North America; Oral history; San Antonio, TX; Texas; Texas--History; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029041-32073
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