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With His Pistol in His Hand
A Border Ballad and Its Hero
Häftad, 1958
251 kr
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Gregorio Cortez Lira, a ranchhand of Mexican parentage, was virtually unknown until one summer day in 1901 when he and a Texas sheriff, pistols in hand, blazed away at each other after a misunderstanding. The sheriff was killed and Gregorio fled immediately, realizing that in practice there was one …
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist
Av Roy Bedichek
Häftad, 1994
348 kr
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A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world. This reprint contains a new introduction by noted nature writer Rick Bass.
Gay Place
Häftad, 1995
380 kr
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Set in Texas, The Gay Place consists of three interlocking novels, each with a different protagonist-a member of the state legislature, the state's junior senator, and the governor's press secretary. The governor himself, Arthur Fenstemaker, a master politician, infinitely canny and seductive, …
Battle on the Bay
The Civil War Struggle for Galveston
Häftad, 1998
283 kr
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The Civil War history of Galveston is one of the last untold stories from America's bloodiest war, despite the fact that Galveston was a focal point of hostilities throughout the conflict. As other Southern ports fell to the Union, Galveston emerged as one of the Confederacy's only lifelines to the …
German Seed in Texas Soil
Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas
Häftad, 1994
280 kr
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Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled. His findings both support the notion of ethnic distinctiveness and reveal the extent to which German Texans adopted the farming …
Texian Iliad
A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
Häftad, 1996
341 kr
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Winner, T. R. Fehrenbach Book Award, Texas Historical CommissionSummerfield G. Roberts Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasHonorable Mention, Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local HistoryHardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution …
Taming the Nueces Strip
The Story of McNelly's Rangers
Av George Durham, Clyde Wantland
Häftad, 1962
283 kr
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Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, …
Texas Rangers
A Century of Frontier Defense
Häftad, 1965
395 kr
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Webb's classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935. This edition is a reproduction of the original Houghton Mifflin edition.
Trail Drivers of Texas
Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...
Häftad, 1993
395 kr
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These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas-those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers' Association, these hundreds of real-life stories-some …
