Texas (United States)

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Photograph of a herd of mules used by the military in Texas, [United States] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a man, a cowboy, sitting on a horse in a yard in front of a house on the Almos Ranch, Texas, [United States] in 1907.

Scope and Contents This notebook contains Lyell’s notes during his second trip to the United States, dated 5 May 1846, to 11 May 1846. The volume starts with Lyell in Baltimore, travelling through Philadelphia, New York City, Albany, and Troy, New York State. On pg. 12 Lyell notes seeing a humming bird in Miss Watson's Greenhouse. Lyell spends much of his time in upstate New York with a few colleagues: Joseph Cogswell (American librarian), Ebenezer Emmons (American Geologist), James Hall (American...

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Photograph of two men holding a rifle and a rope with several dogs standing next to several peccary or javalin[a] carcasses in [Texas?] in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of an articulated skeleton of a prehistoric horse from the Lower Pleistocene in Texas from the American Museum of Natural History in New York City, New York, USA in the early/mid 20th century.

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Photograph of three women in swimming costumes standing in a river in front of a bank of trees in Texas in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a cowboy riding a bucking Texas broncho [bronco horse] in a fenced-in paddock in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of a herd of Hereford cattle in Texas feeding at troughs in a cattle pen in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of William Coleman's Texas ranch house in the early 20th century.

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Photograph of three Texas Remount horses in a pen in the early 20th century. The United States Remount Service was mormed under the Quartermaster Corps of the U.S. Army in 1908 in order to breed horses by providing government-owned stallions to privately-owned mares to supply the military at any given time.