Hamner, Laura V., papers 1890-1963

Panhandle Pen Women

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Laura V. Hamner and Phebe K. Warner formed Panhandle Pen Women on April 20, 1920, at the Amarillo Hotel. It became the Panhandle Professional Writers in 1987 and assumed its current name, Texas High Plains Writers, in 2015....

Poetry Society of Texas

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Lenz, Louis.

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Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929

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Charles Goodnight is best known as a cattleman and co-founder of the Goodnight-Loving Trail to bring cattle from Texas to market in New Mexico. However, Charles Goodnight and his wife, Mary Ann, played a pivotal role in saving the Great Southern Bison Herd from extinction. Separated from the Northern Herd by busy wagon trails and the railroad and slaughtered by hundreds of eager "buffalo hunters," by 1895 the Great Southern Herd, once numbering in the millions, was almost gone. Charles and Mary ...

Hamner, Laura V. (Laura Vernon)

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Author, radio commentator, and ranch historian, Laura Vernon Hamner (1871-1968) was born to James Henry and Laura Lula (Hendrix) Hamner in Tennessee. After studying at Peabody Normal College in Nashville, she attended several Texas colleges and the University of Chicago. For several years, Hamner taught school while working as postmaster at Claude, Texas, from 1913 to 1921. She then moved to Amarillo and served as the superintendent of Potter County schools from 1922 to 1938. Hamner...

Texas Press Women, Inc.

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