Scope and Contents

The Thomason Audio Visual Collection contains 41 individual audiocassette recordings. These audiocassette recordings include oral history interviews of several Huntsville and Walker County residents. The oral history interviews were recorded by Paul Culp, Charles Dwyer, and Dr. Gerald Holder. The collection also includes poetry readings, music, and radio broadcasts that concern Texas and past employees of Sam Houston State University.

Scope and Contents The collection documents the experiences mainly of black cowboys in Texas through an oral history project with interview recordings and related documentation created for each participant. Materials include interview questions, release forms, photographs, seasonal greeting cards, and audio recordings of oral history interviews, as well as a documentary DVD realted to the project. The interviews preserve the personal experiences and perspectives of the participants, while the accompanying...