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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Russell, John F. 2
Date of interview: April 3, 1985
Location of interview: Roswell, New Mexico
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour)
Brief synopsis of interview: John F. Russell, Roswell attorney, discusses the Lewis case
involving underground water use in and around the Roswell basin of New Mexico.
Topics:
Conservation districts—New Mexico (Pecos River area)
Court cases over water rights
Interstate Streams Commission
Pecos Valley Agualantes
Water conservation—artesian wells
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Russell, Mrs. Emma B.
Date of interview: August 14, 1972
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour, 20minutes)
Brief synopsis of interview: Mrs. Russell, retired teacher and pioneer resident of the
Lubbock area, relates her experiences on the Plains and her recollections concerning the
Matador Ranch half-dugout, now a part of the Ranching Heritage Center. Her brother-in-law,
Jay Bird, is a step-son to J. C. Davis, who built the dugout. Mrs. Russell’s daughter
speaks on the tape also.
Topics:
Family life and background
Matador Ranch
North Texas Normal College (now University)—Denton
Pioneer life—Matador dugout
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rutledge, Dr. Randolph
Date of interview: June 3, 1997
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (55 minutes)
Brief synopsis of interview: Dr. Rutledge reminisces about his career as a Lubbock surgeon
from 1957 to 1996. He includes a discussion of important changes and advances in Lubbock
medicine and comments on the city’s medical pioneers.
Topics:
Background—Floydada
Education—Texas Tech, Tulane Medical School
Hospitals and clinics—Texas (Lubbock)
Korean War—MASH units
Lubbock tornado (May 11, 1970)
Medicine—surgical practices and advances
Medicare/Medicaid—effects on Lubbock community
Nursing care and changes
Physicians—Lubbock
World War II—medical service
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Ryburn, Frank M. Jr., M.D.
Date of Interview: June 19, 1998
Location of Interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of Interview: 1:50
Brief Synopsis of Interview: Lubbock physician Frank Ryburn Jr. talks about his
involvement in the medical field and changes that have taken place in medicine since he
has been practicing.
Topics:
Ryburn, Frank M. Jr., M.D.
University of Virginia School of Medicine
World War II
Jacksonville, Texas
Korean War
Baylor Hospital - Dallas, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Methodist Hospital - Lubbock, Texas
Doctors - Lubbock, Texas
Medical fees
Medicine
Internal medicine
Texas Tech University School of Medicine
Nursing profession
Tornado of 1970 - Lubbock, Texas
Hospice of Lubbock, Texas
HMOs
Changes in the medical field
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rylander, Dorothy
Date of interview: December 5, 1957
Location of interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of interview: 1 tape (40 minutes)
Brief synopsis of interview: Dorothy Rylander, longtime Texas Tech Museum secretary, leads
a History Roundtable discussion of several Lubbock women sharing a childhood experience
they remember from Christmas during the early days on the South Plains.
Topics:
Pioneer customs and traditions—Christmas
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NAME OF
PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rylander, Dorothy
Date of
Interview: March 20, 1981
Location of Interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of Interview: 55 minutes
Brief Synopsis of Interview: Dorothy Rylander reviews her life in Lubbock, Texas,
and at Texas Tech University.
Topics:
Rylander, Dorothy
Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University
Texas Tech Museum
Mahon, George H.
Hurd,
Peter
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NAME OF
PERSON INTERVIEWED: Rylander, Dorothy
Date of
Interview: September 26, 1985
Location of Interview: Lubbock, Texas
Length of Interview: 120 minutes
Brief Synopsis of Interview: Dorothy Rylander reviews her life and events in
Lubbock, Texas and Washington, D.C. where she worked for George Mahon.
Topics:
Rylander, Dorothy
Belton, Texas
Lubbock, Texas
Texas Tech University
Mahon, George H.
Texas Tech Museum
Rylander, Walker Caldwell
Washington, D.C.
Truman, Harry
Truman, Margaret
West Texas Museum Association
Hurd, Peter
Holden Hall Mural
Rogers, Peter
Texas Tech Planetarium
Genealogy
South Plains Genealogy Society
Daughters
of American Revolution
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Sadler, Fernando William 3
Date of interview: July 16, 1974
Location of interview: Ruidoso, New Mexico
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour)
Brief synopsis of interview: Fernando (Ferd) Sadler, brother of Harley Sadler and his tent
show advance man, reminisces about Harley’s life in show business and in Texas
politics.
Topics:
Family history and background—father ran a grocery
Circuses
Great Depression—effect on tent shows
Haverstock Players
Minor league baseball
Texas Legislature—State House of Representatives
Theater—tent shows and vaudeville
Lyndon B. Johnson
George H. Mahon
Allan Shivers
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Sadler, Fernando William 1
Date of interview: April 25, 1975
Location of interview: Ruidoso, New Mexico
Length of interview: 2 tapes (1 hour)
Brief synopsis of interview: Fernando (Ferd) Sadler, brother of tent showman Harley
Sadler, tells of his past and involvement with the tent shows.
Topics:
Family life and background
Circuses
Theater—tent shows and vaudeville
World War II—Sadler co-owner of movie theater in Killeen
Phil Reed—co-owner of Sadler Theatre
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Sadler, Fernando William 2
Date of interview: May 18, 1974
Location of interview: Ruidoso, New Mexico
Length of interview: 3 tapes (1 hour, 15 minutes)
Brief synopsis of interview: Fernando (Ferd) Sadler reminisces about his brother, tent
showman Harley Sadler, and his life and times in Texas.
Topics:
Family life and background
Brunk’s Comedians
Crosby County, Texas—Ferd Sadler’s dryland farm
Roy E. Fox Shows
Gabe Garrett’s Tent Show
Mississippi Floating Theaters (Show Boats)
Minor league baseball—Harley bought a franchise
Petroleum industry—Harley Sadler’s oil interests
Presbyterian Junior College—Albany, Texas
Texas Legislature—Harley as a State Representative
Theater—tent shows and vaudeville
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NAME OF PERSON INTERVIEWED: Sadler, Harley
Date of interview: c. 1940
Location of interview: Not given
Length of interview: 1 tape (1 hour)
Brief synopsis of interview: This tape consists of a series of four 15 minute radio
programs promoting the campaign of Jerry Sadler, Harley’s cousin, for Governor of
Texas.
Topics:
Political advertisements and campaigns—Texas
Radio broadcasting—Texas
Music—country and folk (for campaign purposes)
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