Josher, The
| dc.contributor | Biggers, Don Hampton, 1868-1957. | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | n-us-tx | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Colorado City (Tex.) | en_US |
| dc.coverage.spatial | Mitchell County (Tex.) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2015-08-25T14:35:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2015-08-25T14:35:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1899-12-22 | |
| dc.description | A journalist, author, and politician, Biggers was born September 27, 1868, in Meridian, Texas, and grew up in a ranching environment. He edited and wrote for several West Texas newspapers, served in the Texas Legislature, and was active in land promotion in West Texas and Eastern New Mexico. He authored several books, including History That Will Never Be Repeated (1901), Pictures Of The Past (1902) [both under the pen name Lan Franks], Cattle Range To Cotton Patch (1905), Shackelford County Sketches (1908), and Our Sacred Monkeys (1933). Don Hampton Biggers died at a rest home in Stephenville on December 11, 1957, a month after his wife's death, Nettie. | en_US |
| dc.description | "Our motto: Avoid the truth and Prohibition whiskey; one is fatal, the other more so." | en_US |
| dc.description | Volume 300. Number 52. | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 4 pdf pages | en_US |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10605/224627 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartof | Don Hampton Biggers Papers, 1863-1961 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas | en_US |
| dc.rights | The images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or email reference.swco@ttu.edu. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Journalism -- Texas. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Journalists -- Texas. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Texas -- Politics and government. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Civil leaders -- Texas. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Colorado City (Tex.) -- Newspapers. | en_US |
| dc.subject.lcsh | Mitchell County (Tex.) -- Newspapers. | en_US |
| dc.title | Josher, The | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | The Josher | en_US |
| dc.title.alternative | Josher | en_US |
| dc.type | Text | en_US |