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  • My Diary

    August 30th to November 5th, 1874

    by Cornelia Adair ...
    Cornelia Wadsworth Adair’s ancestors had pioneered in western New York, where they opened and developed large, palatial estates; and the life they lived was elegant and aristocratic. Adair too was discreetly cultured; yet she took great personal pleasure in the rough and primitive land of her famed JA Ranch in north Texas. Because of physical discomfort and noisy passengers, she detested traveling ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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    by W. B. (Bat) Masterson ...
    First published in 1907 as a series of articles in “Human Life” magazine, “Famous Gunfighters of the Western Frontier” is the fascinating first-hand account of these famous Americans by Bat Masterson. Born Bartholemew William Barclay Masterson in Canada in 1853, Bat Masterson led an amazing life as a U.S. Army scout, professional gambler, and lawman in the American Old West. He went to find ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Texas Tough

    The Rise of America's Prison Empire

    by Robert Perkinson ...
    A vivid history of America's biggest, baddest prison system and how it came to lead the nation's punitive revolutionIn the prison business, all roads lead to Texas. The most locked-down state in the nation has led the way in criminal justice severity, from assembly-line executions to isolation supermaxes, from prison privatization to sentencing juveniles as adults. Texas Tough, a sweeping history ... Read more

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  • Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

    by David M. Bernstein ...
    Series series Images of Rail
    The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texas�s economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, ... Read more

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  • Lady Bird Johnson

    An Oral History

    by Michael L. Gillette ...
    Series series Oxford Oral History Series
    Over a span of eighteen years, Lady Bird Johnson recorded forty-seven oral history interviews with Michael Gillette and his colleagues. These conversations, just released in 2011, form the heart of Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History, an intimate story of a shy young country girl's transformation into one of America's most effective and admired First Ladies. Lady Bird Johnson's odyssey is one of ... Read more

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  • To the End of the Earth

    A History of the Crypto-Jews of New Mexico

    by Stanley Hordes ...
    In 1981, while working as New Mexico State Historian, Stanley M. Hordes began to hear stories of Hispanos who lit candles on Friday night and abstained from eating pork. Puzzling over the matter, Hordes realized that these practices might very well have been passed down through the centuries from early crypto-Jewish settlers in New Spain. After extensive research and hundreds of interviews, Hordes ... Read more

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  • The Cradle of Texas Road

    A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation

    by Robin Navarro Montgomery, Joy Montgomery ...
    The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.Thoroughly researched and ambitious in scope, The Cradle of Texas Road explores this region of Texas to ... Read more

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  • Every Sun That Rises

    Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake

    Edited by Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad ...
    “What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman, boat builder, farmer, fishing and hunting camp operator, guide, commercial hunter, trapper, raftsman, moonshiner, oil field worker, water well ... Read more

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  • The Trials of Eroy Brown

    The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System

    by Michael Berryhill ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    "Berryhill's account of this infamous 30-year-old murder case . . . Provides a jarring portrait of a once-medieval state prison." — Publishers WeeklyIn April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of ... Read more

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  • Legendary Locals of El Paso

    by A. Berchelmann III ...
    From a small settlement along the Rio Grande to a major metropolitan area at the crossroads of three states and two nations, El Paso has grown immensely. Known as the "Sun City," the region has always attracted individuals and families from around the world who were looking to establish roots and make their mark. In the early days, pioneers such as Zach White, Anson Mills, and Joseph Magoffin ... Read more

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  • Riding Lucifer's Line

    Ranger Deaths along the Texas-Mexico Border

    by Bob Alexander ...
    The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is—or at least can be—risky business, hazardous to ones health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: “As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, todays Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • Not Without Honor

    The Life of John H. Reagan

    by Ben H. Procter ...
    John H. Reagan was one of the most important figures in Texas history; this was the first biography of him to be published. Reagan, who was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1818, came to Texas twenty-one years later—while Texas was still a republic—and stayed to play many major roles in its later economic and political development.In this excellent biography, Ben H. Procter not only re-creates ... Read more

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