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Texas' Last Frontier

Author : Clayton W. Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781585440719
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Texas' Last Frontier written by Clayton W. Williams and published by . This book was released on 2000-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost three hundred miles, the Pecos River cuts across far West Texas. It is an arid land, a land that in the last century offered danger and hardship to those who crossed it and those who settled it. Yet they came--army posts like Fort Stockton to challenge the Apaches' claim to the rugged land, settlers to supply the posts, cattlemen to eke out a living from the vast but sparse grazing ranges. They came and they stayed because the land held one overriding appeal: it was Texas' last frontier. The newcomers--cattlemen and sheepmen, individuals and corporations--included sturdy, law-abiding, industrious citizens, such as O.W. Williams, a renowned surveyor, jurist, and historian with a law degree from Harvard; Mexicans, both poor laborers and well-to-do entrepreneurs; kindly German merchants; fighting Irishmen; and fearless Anglo cowboys. There were also the gunslingers, including Sheriff A.J. Royal, who terrorized the citizenry, even after Texas Rangers had arrived, until he was mysteriously shot to death one afternoon, possibly by one of the town's leading men. The most detailed and thorough account available of the history of far West Texas, this tale is colored with human interest and drama. It will prove invaluable to scholars and richly rewarding to all those interested in the history of Texas and of the West.

On the Last Frontier

Author : N. Ethie Eagleton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book On the Last Frontier written by N. Ethie Eagleton and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Big Bend

Author : Tyler
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890967065
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book The Big Bend written by Tyler and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A long needed account of the human invasion of this rugged Texas desert land.

Texas' Last Frontier

Author : Clayton Williams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 506 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Texas' Last Frontier written by Clayton Williams and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University.

The Last Frontier

Author : Howard Fast
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317455967
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (174 download)

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Download or read book The Last Frontier written by Howard Fast and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-20 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1941, The Last Frontier is the story of the Cheyenne Indians in the 1870s, and their bitter struggle to flee from the Indian Territory in Oklahoma back to their home in Wyoming and Montana. Some 300 Indians, led by Little Wolf, fought against General Crook and 10,000 troops, with only 60 finally making it through to freedom. Fast extensively researched this book in the late 1930s, visiting and speaking with Cheyenne experts in Norman, Oklahoma. This was the first of Fast's many books to gain a wide popular audience; it was eventually made by John Ford into the classic film Cheyenne Autumn (1964).

The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier

Author : V. V. Masterson
Publisher : University of Missouri
ISBN 13 : 9780826206688
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier written by V. V. Masterson and published by University of Missouri. This book was released on 1952 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History of the first railroad built across Indian Territory (Oklahoma).

The Big Bend

Author : Ronnie C. Tyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (49 download)

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Download or read book The Big Bend written by Ronnie C. Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas' Last Frontier

Author : Frank Cushman Pierce
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781258497422
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (974 download)

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Download or read book Texas' Last Frontier written by Frank Cushman Pierce and published by . This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lens on the Texas Frontier

Author : Lawrence T. Jones
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491479
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Lens on the Texas Frontier written by Lawrence T. Jones and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-03-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of Texas’ frontier past are valuable as both art and artifact. Recording not only the lives and surroundings of days gone by, but also the artistry of those who captured the people and their times on camera, the rare images in Lens on the Texas Frontier offer a documentary record that is usually available to only a few dedicated collectors. In this book, prominent collector Lawrence T. Jones III showcases some of the most interesting and historically important glimpses of Texas history included among the five thousand photographs in the collection that bears his name at the DeGolyer Library of Southern Methodist University. One of the nation’s most comprehensive and valuable Texas-related photography collections, the Lawrence T. Jones III Collection documents all aspects of Texas photography from the years 1846–1945, including rare examples of the various techniques practiced from its earliest days in the state: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, and paper print photographs in various formats. The selections in the book feature cartes de visite, cabinet cards, oversized photographs, stereographs, and more. The subjects of the photos include Confederate and Union soldiers and officers in the Civil War; Mexicans, including ranking military officials from the Mexican Revolution; and a wide spectrum of Texan citizens, including African American, Native American, Hispanic, and Caucasian women, men, and children.

Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine

Author : Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890964538
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (645 download)

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Download or read book Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine written by Jo Ella Powell Exley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1990-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen women tell their stories, providing a personal history of the state of Texas.

Law on the Last Frontier

Author : S. E. Spinks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Law on the Last Frontier written by S. E. Spinks and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle to candelilla wax, or giving chase on horseback across merciless terrain--often into Mexico--Hill found himself immersed in a world that straddled centuries as well as cultures. Promotion to sergeant of Ranger Company B in 1957 took Hill to Dallas, where he brought his brush-country methods to bear on urban crimes. Yet after only a year, and despite the opportunity for advancement to captain, Hill knew his place and heart were back in the Big Bend, where rampant drug trade was altering his beloved border irrevocably from an existence that had remained the same for hundreds of years. From the Lone Star Steel strike, the KKK, and the "Dixie Mafia" to problems of drug-running and illegal immigration, Arthur Hill's life as a Texas ranger illuminates present issues as well as the past. I hope to give the reader the chance to ride through the Big Bend with Hill, and hear of the Texas that was and the Texas that emerged on his watch. -- S. E. Spinks

Big Thicket People

Author : Larry Jene Fisher
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292777825
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Big Thicket People written by Larry Jene Fisher and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2009-09-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional photographer Larry Jene Fisher spent a decade between the 1930s and 1940s photographing Big Thicket people living and working in the old ways. His photographs, the only known collection on this subject, constitute an irreplaceable record of lifeways that first took root in the southeastern woodlands of the colonial United States and eventually spread all across the Southern frontier. Big Thicket People presents Fisher's photographs in suites that document a wide slice of Big Thicket life-people, dogs, camps, deer hunts, farming, syrup mills, rooter hogs and stock raising, railroad tie making, barrel stave making, chimney building, peckerwood sawmills, logging, turpentining, town life, church services and picnics, funerals and golden weddings, and dances and other amusements. Accompanying each suite of images is a cultural essay by Thad Sitton, who also introduces the book with a historical overview of life in the Big Thicket. C. E. Hunt provides an informative biography of Larry Jene Fisher.

The Last Frontier

Author : Bill Neal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781512378351
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book The Last Frontier written by Bill Neal and published by . This book was released on 1966-07-01 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portrays pioneer days in West Texas.

The Big Bend

Author : Ronnie C. Tyler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book The Big Bend written by Ronnie C. Tyler and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Savage Frontier Volume 4

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412949
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Savage Frontier Volume 4 written by Stephen L. Moore and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Frontier

Author : Julia Assante
Publisher : New World Library
ISBN 13 : 1608681602
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book The Last Frontier written by Julia Assante and published by New World Library. This book was released on 2012 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "An exploration of the afterlife and communication with the dead. Author's career has included being both a professional psychic and a professional scholar. Addresses questions about God, heaven, and hell and gives evidence for existence beyond death. Explores historical accounts, religious scholarship, near-death experiences, and after-death communication"--Provided by publisher.

True Tales of the Texas Frontier

Author : C. Herndon Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625841671
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book True Tales of the Texas Frontier written by C. Herndon Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-05-07 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eight centuries, the Texas frontier has seen conquest, exploration, immigration, revolution and innovation, leaving to history a cast of fascinating characters and captivating tales. Its historic period began in 1519 with Spanish exploration, but there was a prehistory long before, nearly fifteen thousand years earlier, with the arrival of people to Texas. Each story pulls a new perspective from this long history by examining nearly all angles--from archaeology to ethnography, astronomy, agriculture and more. These true stories prove to be unexpected, sometimes contrarian and occasionally funny but always fascinating. Join author and historian C. Herndon Williams as he recounts his exploration of nearly a millennium of the Texas frontier.