Amanda Fisher interviews Hannah Schwartz

Weatherford, Texas Senior Hannah Schwartz has been busy this year helping us to re-process the Jack Hightower papers so they can be entered into BARD and more easily accessible to researchers. Hightower had a full career, serving in the Texas House of Representatives, 1953-1955, the Texas Senate, 1965-1974, the U.S. Congress, 1974-1984, and was elected…

After the Pioneers: A Chisolm Trail Story

This blog was written by Graduate Student Scott Anderson. Recently, I helped assist a researcher who had become interested in an article written by W. A. “Bill” Poage, the father of United States Representative William R. Poage. This article, published in the July 20, 1941, edition of the Dallas Morning News (and later reprinted in…