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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. |
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Name(s): |
Thomas, B. D. Thomas, R. E. |
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Type of Resource: | text | |
Genre: | Interviews | |
Date Created: | 2006 | |
Date Issued: | 2006 | |
Publisher: | Florida Atlantic University | |
Place of Publication: | Boca Raton, FL | |
Physical Form: | ||
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 |