Identity elements
Reference code
Name and location of repository
Level of description
Box
Title
Photographs, Historical Research, and Oral History Tape Transcripts
Date(s)
- 1940s-1988 (Creation)
Extent
21 folders
Name of creator
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
2/1
Photographs
5 black and white (B&W) images of husband Ohlen Cox, and son Corky Cox.
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Photographs
7 B&W and color images of Ava
2/3
Photographs
4 B&W images of various family members including Ava's cousin Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ).
2/4
Photographs
3 B&W images of The Ranch.
2/5
Photographs and News Clipping
5 color images of quilts, yarn/thread making, and one newspaper clipping, "Handwork and needlework".
2/6
Slides
39 color 35mm slides of Ava at working, quilts, and other historical site imagery.
2/7
Notes and articles on Pioneer Women and Women on Cattle Trails
Article, "Two Austin Women and the Chisolm Trail", The Cattleman. 4 leaves, photocopies. November 1975
"Cattlemen's Wives on the Chisolm Trail, 1871 and After" by Konrad Kelley, Jr. Typed, 2 leaves, photocopies.
Article, "Women on the Frontier" by Peter S. Prescott, Newsweek (2 photocopies). March 16, 1981
"Pioneer Life of Women" by Konrad Kelley, Jr. Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy. July 2, 1979
"Pioneer Life of Young People" by Konrad Kelley, Jr. Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy. July 2, 1979
Various maps showing cattle trails, 7 pages photocopied from different books. "Historic Cattle Trails North from Texas", "Goodnight-Loving Trail, 1866-1886", "Chisolm Trail, 1867-1884", "Western Trail 1876", "Highways for the Herds", "Plains Cow Country: Sites, Trails and Quarantine Lines", and Kansas Cow Towns and the Texas Cattle Trade/
Excerpt from Chapter 14 of Great American Cattle Trails by Harry Sinclair Drago (1965). Re: Women on the Cattle Trails. 3 leaves, photocopied from book.
Excerpt from Conquering Our Great American Plains by Stuart Henry (1930). Re: Women on the Cattle Trails. 5 leaves, photocopied from book.
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Notes and articles on Cattle Drives
Attached together (2x):
"Numbers of Cattle Driven to Market in the Great Trail Drives" excerpt from The Cattlemen (1958) and The Cowboys (1973). Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.
"Cattle Trailed to Kansas and Other Points" excerpt from Cattle Trails of the Prairie. Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Attached together (3x):
"Costs of Trailing a Herd to Market" excerpt from The Cattle Trailing Industry (1973). Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.
Col. Ike T. Pryor's Cattle Trailing Costs by Konrad Kelley, Jr. Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.
"The Cost of Moving a Herd to Northern Markets" by Col. Ike T. Pryor of San Antonio. Excerpt from The Trail Drivers of Texas. 1 leaf, photocopied from book.
2/9
Notes and articles on Tom Johnson Cattle Drives
"Cattle Drives from Blanco County, Johnson's and Others" excerpt from A History of Blanco County (1965). 3 leaves, photocopied from book.
"Record of Cattle Passing Caldwell, Kansas, Driven Over the Old Chisolm Trail, for the Year 1872" excerpt from The Texas Almanac 1873. Typed, 1 leaf, photocopy.
"Further Notes on the Size of the Johnson Cattle Drives" by Konrad Kelley, Jr., Park Technician-Oral History. Typed, 3 leaves, photocopies. June 16, 1977
"Johnson Cattle Drives 1870 to 1872" as Reported by Capt. and Hall. By Konrad Kelley, Jr. Typed, 2 leaves, photocopies.
"Killing and Capturing Buffalo in Texas" by I.A. Withers of Lockhart, Texas. Excerpt from The Trail Drivers of Texas. 1 leaf, photocopy from book.
"Is This Man Tom Johnson of Blanco and Gillespie Counties?" excerpt from The Trail Drivers of Texas (1963). Typed, 1 leaf, photocopied from book.
"Horace M. Hall's Letters from Gillespie County" excerpt from Southern Historical Quarterly. 6 leaves, photocopied from book.
2/10
Oral History Interview Transcription
Childhood in Johnson City, Tape #2 (23 pages typed)
March 1979
2/11
Oral History Interview Transcription
Visit with Cynthia Ott and Luke Savisky (Photographer). (34 pages typed)
June 17, 1981
2/12
Oral History Interview Transcription
Stubbs - Horse Race - Stream/Animals (32 pages typed)
September 5, 1981
2/13
Oral History Interview Transcription
Chapter 1, Childhood (59 pages typed)
September 6, 1981
2/14
Oral History Interview Transcription
Christmas with Ava (37 pages typed)
December 1982
2/15
Oral History Interview Transcription
Breakfast, Childhood Tape 1 (20 pages typed)
August 6, 1984
2/16
Oral History Interview Transcription
Childhood Tape 2 (40 pages typed)
August 6, 1984
2/17
Oral History Interview Transcription
Birth/Death, Childhood Tape 3 (41 pages typed)
August 6, 1984
2/18
Oral History Interview Transcription
Ava teaching reading to Colt Petri (23 pages typed)
August 8, 1984
2/19
Oral History Interview Transcription
Settlement Site (29 pages typed)
November 16, 1986
2/20
Oral History Interview Transcription
Side 1: Ranch - corner of Hays, Blanco, and Travis Counties - Calling Stock
Side 2: Ranch - Hammitt's crossing - Jew Peddler
(78 pages typed)
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Manuscript, "Ava Johnson Cox", autobiographical history of Ava. Johnson City, Texas. Typed, 103 leaves. August 1988