Resources
This exhibit was researched and written by Kerri Menchaca and Mary Saffell, C. A., and Published in August 2022.
Special thanks to The Burnett Companies Archives and Bill and Dusty Nash for sharing family photographs of Mary Couts Burnett and Burk Burnett Jr.
Archives:
Records of the Board of Trustees. Special Collections, Mary Couts Burnett Library, Texas Christian University.
S. B. Burnett Estate Records, 1874-1981 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Burnett, Samuel Burk and Burnett, Mary Couts files, Stewart Title Abstracts of Probate, Tarrant County Archives, Fort Worth, Texas
The Genealogy, History & Archives Unit of the Fort Worth Public Library
Woman's Wednesday Club.[Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1895-1896],book,1895-02-05/1896-02-03; University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History,https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.
Woman's Wednesday Club. [Woman's Wednesday Club Minutes, 1909-1910], book, 1909-09-28/1910-05-10; University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Tarrant County Archives.
Upshur County Archives
National Archives Federal Census Records & Slave Schedules
National Archive U.S. Navy Muster Rolls, 1798–1939
Couts Surname File, Weatherford Public Library
Books:
Biennial Reports of the Texas State Board of Control, Austin. J. B. Cranfill and J. L. Walker, R. C.
Britton, Benny. Terrell State Hospital, 1883-2008
Doyal T. Loy. A History of Upshur County. Gilmer, Texas. 1966
Holland, G. A. The History of Parker County; The Double Log Cabin. Weatherford, Herald Publishing, 1937.
Hall, Colby D. History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier. Fort Worth, TCU Press. 1947.
Meinzer, Wyman. 6666: Portrait of a Texas Ranch. Lubbock, Texas Tech University Press, 2004.
Paddock, Buckley B. History and Biographical Record of North and West Texas. Chicago, Lewis Publishing Co., 1906.
Seaholm, Megan. Earnest women; the white woman’s club movement in Progressive Era Texas, 1880-1920. Ann Arbor. University Microfilms International, 1990.
Selcer, Richard F. Fort Worth Stories. Denton, University of North Texas Press. 2021.
Smythe, Henry. Historical Sketch of Parker County and Weatherford, Texas. General Books LLC, 2012.
Stella L. Christian. The history of the Texas federation of women’s clubs. Denton, W. H. McNitzky. 1919.
Swaim, Joan Hewatt. Walking TCU: A Historic Perspective. Fort Worth, TCU Press. 1992
Kennedy, Damon Wayne. "Samuel Burk Burnett and the 6666 Ranch." Ph.D. diss., Texas Tech University, 2006.
Oglesby, Resa C. "History of the Fort Worth Art Association." Master's thesis, Texas State College for Women, 1950.
Newspapers:
The Daily Herald. Weatherford, Texas.
The Weekly Herald. Weatherford, Texas.
The Weatherford Democrat. Weatherford, Texas.
The Weatherford Enquirer. Weatherford, Texas.
The Fort Worth Record and Register. Fort Worth, Texas.
The Fort Worth Daily Democrat. Fort Worth, Texas.
The Fort Worth Standard. Fort Worth, Texas.
The Fort Worth Gazette. Fort Worth, Texas.
The Fort Worth Daily Gazette. Fort Worth, Texas.
The Rambler. Fort Worth. Texas. Fort Worth, Texas.
The Fort Worth Star Telegram (via NewsBank). Fort Worth, Texas.
Websites:
Debbie Mauldin Cottrell, “Burnett, Mary Couts,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed September 08, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/burnett-mary-couts.
David Minor, “Burnett, Samuel Burk,” Handbook of Texas Online, accessed September 08, 2022, https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/burnett-samuel-burk.
Published by the Texas State Historical Association.