Interview with B.D. and R. E. Thomas

Date Issued:: 2006
Abstract/Description:: B.D. Thomas was born in 1919 at Prayer Ridge in the Basinger, Florida area to a cattle family. She became an orphan at the age of thirteen and was married at the age of sixteen. After she married, she used inherited cattle to buy eighty acres at a tax sale in order to begin ranching with her husband. The interviews were conducted on that same ranch where her son, R.E. Thomas, herds approximately two hundred head of cattle today.

Title:	Interview with B.D. and R. E. Thomas.	3 views 1 downloads
Name(s):	Thomas, B. D. Thomas, R. E.
Type of Resource:	text
Genre:	Interviews
Date Created:	2006
Date Issued:	2006
Publisher:	Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication:	Boca Raton, FL
Physical Form:	pdf
Extent:	8 p.
Language(s):	English
Abstract/Description:	B.D. Thomas was born in 1919 at Prayer Ridge in the Basinger, Florida area to a cattle family. She became an orphan at the age of thirteen and was married at the age of sixteen. After she married, she used inherited cattle to buy eighty acres at a tax sale in order to begin ranching with her husband. The interviews were conducted on that same ranch where her son, R.E. Thomas, herds approximately two hundred head of cattle today.
Identifier:	FA00007890 (IID)
Subject(s):	Oral histories --Florida
Persistent Link to This Record:	http://purl.flvc.org/fau/fd/FA00007890
Use and Reproduction:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Host Institution:	FAU

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