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Letter concerning the Utah Agricultural College being consolidated with the University of Utah.

This service record is an account of military actions during the American Civil War by veteran C. W. Bowman dated from 1900. ; All descriptive lists and service records in this United Confederate (Civil War) Veterans manuscript collection believed to be based out of Robert E. Lee Camp #158 of the United Confederate Veterans (Fort Worth, Tex.). ; The Southwest Collection Manuscript Record can be accessed at the following URL: http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ttusw/00119/tsw-00119.html ; 1 leaf, 2 pdf pages. ; Regiment & Battles mentioned: Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Cavalry Regiment, 7th ; Mansfield, Battle of, La., 1864 ; Red River Expedition, 1864.

The collection was created by two families the Wolf and Boeer Families who imigrated during the mid to late 19th Century from Germany to Texas. Karl Wolf's parents had moved to Texas during the 1890's. Karl Wolf became involved with the "Free Thinkers" Club a social organization that supported freedom, democracy, and nationalism. He eventually married Louisa Boeer, daughter of Maria Wolf Boeer. After moving from the Houston area, Karl's family settled in Old Glory, Texas where they raised two daughters, Mina and Ilse Wolf. Mina and Ilse both graduated from Texas Technological College in 1932. They each have master's and doctoral degrees from other universities. Indirectly, Mina and Ilse Wolf are related to Thomas A. Hickey, the Texas socialist and publisher of the The Rebel. Their aunt, Clara, the daughter of Maria Wolf Boeer and sister of Louisa, married Hickey in the very early 1900s. Maria Boeer's correspondence describes her association with the socialist movement as well as association with German writers from abroad. The family heritage of the Boeer and Wolf Families are detailed from their writing to and from their relatives and friends abroad and in the United States. ; The collection consist of mostly correspondence to and from family members, relatives, friends of relatives of the Boeer and Wolf Families. The correspondence is mostly in the German language. The bulk of the correspondence concentrate on letters sent to Maria Boeer, the grandmother of Mina Wolf Lamb and Ilse Wolf. Includes Maria Boeer's correspondence with German editors as she was an avid writer herself. Also contains a few of Ilse Wolf's files on the Home Economics Department at Oklahoma State University and Texas Tech University, as well as files on literary productions, printed materials, and scrapbook material. ; Boeer/Wolf Families, 1837-1972 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas ; Box 2, Folder 57

The present study looks at the life and works of the historian. Against the background of his career, an attempt is made to explain why he wrote what he did, and did not write any major work after the age of forty. The study aims briefly to situate his writing on South Africa and the context of his own intellectual development and of its times