J'Nell Pate Collection

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

J'Nell Pate is a local Fort Worth historian and writer whose dissertation covered the history of the Fort Worth Stockyards. Her work was later published as a book in 1988 titled Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards 1887-1987. She won that year's prize for the best book on Texas history from the Texas State Historical Association. The photographs she used for the book came from numerous local libraries and archives, including the North Fort Worth Historical Society and private collections. 

Pate wrote six other books since 1988 about Fort Worth's livestock industry and military history, and she served as Professor of History at Tarrant County College Northwest Campus. Along with writing books, she was a columnist for Azle News.

SCOPE AND CONTENTS

J'Nell Pate donated autographed copies of her books, copies of the photographs used in her books, her dissertation manuscript, and other documents related to her publications. She also donated her large collection of articles that she wrote for Azle News from 1968 to 2016.

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Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Books

  • Livestock Hotels, America's Historic Stockyards, by J'Nell Pate, TCU Press, Fort Worth, Texas, 2005
  • North of the River: A Brief History of North Fort Worth, by J'Nell Pate, Texas Christian University Press, 1994
  • Livestock Legacy: The Fort Worth Stockyards 1887-1987, by J'Nell Pate, Texas A&M University, 1988
  • Texas Almanacs: 1857 (1986 facsimile), 1914, 1929, 1936, 1941-1942, 1943-1944, 2000-2001

Documents

  • Dissertation for a Doctorate, titled "Livestock Legacy: A History of the Fort Worth Stockyards Company 1893-1982," Texas Christian University Department of History, August 1982
  • Speech delivered in 1984 on boosterism from 1850s to 1980s
  • Documents and notes from J'Nell Pate's research conducted for the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame Research Committee

Photographs

  • 66 copy prints of photographs used in J'Nell Pate's book Images of America: Fort Worth Stockyards (2009)

Scrapbooks

  • Notebooks containing original newspaper columns by J'Nell Pate and related materials, 1968-2016
  • Index of J'Nell Pate's columns, created by J'Nell Pate (View the PDF containing Index of J'Nell Pate's Columns.)

Color image of the Livestock Legacy Book Cover

Cover of Livestock Legacy, by J'Nell Pate, book cover