What comes first to mind when you want to talk Western history? Probably Texas. Caroline Frick guessed that, even while she was working at the National Archives in Washington, D.C., or at Warner Bros. in Los Angeles, California. So when she came to the University of Texas at Austin 20 years ago as an assistant professor of radio, TV and film history, she expected to find warehouses full of historical records. “I was surprised, because despite an absolutely phenomenal history, nobody had col


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