| TABLE OF CONTENTS | The Thorny Trail - Fall 1999/Spring 2000 | Vol. XXVIII No. 1&2 | |
| Midland, Texas - The 1930s | |||
| People and Places | 5 | ||
| Bill Collyns | 7 | ||
| The Historic District | 10 | ||
| Theda Wadley | 11 | ||
| The Frank Cowden Sr. House | 13 | ||
| Frank Cowden Jr. | 17 | ||
| Schools of the 1930s | 21 | ||
| Freddie Lou Brice | 26 | ||
| Memories of Frank and Lula Elkin | 28 | ||
| The Frank Elkin House | 29 | ||
| Harry Beckmann | 33 | ||
| An Entrepreneurial Endeavor | 35 | ||
| Merijildo and Felipa Heredia | 37 | ||
| The Lloyd/Parker House | 39 | ||
| Alva Butler | 43 | ||
| The William B. Elkin House | 45 | ||
| Tom Lineberry | 47 | ||
| Fannie Bess Sivallo | 49 | ||
| Old Homes Benefit Community | 51 | ||
| News of the Day | 67 | ||
| Midland Genealogical Society Records | |||
| Officers and Calendar | 103 | ||
| Necrology | 104 | ||
| Membership Roster | 105 | ||
| Book Reviews | 107 | ||
| Query Quarter | 108 | ||
| Occupations of Yesteryear | 108 | ||
| Surname Index | 109 |