The Civil War Career Of Colonel John Salmon Rip Ford

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The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876

Author : Roseann Bacha-Garza
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623497205
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 written by Roseann Bacha-Garza and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-23 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2020, Texas Historical Commission's Governor's Award for Historic Preservation was awarded to the Community Historical Archaeology Project with Schools (CHAPS) at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. This book grew out of the CHAPS program. Runner-up, 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA) Long known as a place of cross-border intrigue, the Rio Grande’s unique role in the history of the American Civil War has been largely forgotten or overlooked. Few know of the dramatic events that took place here or the complex history of ethnic tensions and international intrigue and the clash of colorful characters that marked the unfolding and aftermath of the Civil War in the Lone Star State. To understand the American Civil War in Texas also requires an understanding of the history of Mexico. The Civil War on the Rio Grande focuses on the region’s forced annexation from Mexico in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction. In a very real sense, the Lower Rio Grande Valley was a microcosm not only of the United States but also of increasing globalization as revealed by the intersections of races, cultures, economic forces, historical dynamics, and individual destinies. As a companion to Blue and Gray on the Border: The Rio Grande Valley Civil War Trail, this volume provides the scholarly backbone to a larger public history project exploring three decades of ethnic conflict, shifting international alliances, and competing economic proxies at the border. The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846–1876 makes a groundbreaking contribution not only to the history of a Texas region in transition but also to the larger history of a nation at war with itself.

I Would Rather Sleep in Texas

Author : Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Would Rather Sleep in Texas written by Mary Margaret McAllen Amberson and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2003 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the people of the Santa Anita Land Grant.

Rip Ford's Texas

Author : John Salmon Ford
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789203
Total Pages : 745 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Rip Ford's Texas written by John Salmon Ford and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 745 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original source history detailing the years of Texas’s independence and annexation from a nineteenth-century Texas Ranger and politician. The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon “Rip” Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected representative, and above all, soldier and Indian fighter, Ford sat down in his old age to record the events of the turbulent years through which he had lived. Stephen Oates has edited Ford’s memoirs to produce a clear and vigorous personal history of Texas.

Boom and Bust

Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher : Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom and Bust written by Milo Kearney and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1991 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Southwestern Historical Quarterly

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book The Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Border Cuates

Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book Border Cuates written by Milo Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-two twin border towns from Brownsville to San Diego

Still More Studies in Brownsville History

Author : Milo Kearney
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
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Download or read book Still More Studies in Brownsville History written by Milo Kearney and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War [3 volumes]

Author : Spencer C. Tucker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1851098542
Total Pages : 1159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War [3 volumes] written by Spencer C. Tucker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-10-09 with total page 1159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This user-friendly encyclopedia comprises a wide array of accessible yet detailed entries that address the military, social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of the Mexican-American War. The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History provides an in-depth examination of not only the military conflict itself, but also the impact of the war on both nations; and how this conflict was the first waged by Americans on foreign soil and served to establish critical U.S. military, political, and foreign policy precedents. The entries analyze the Mexican-American War from both the American and Mexican perspectives, in equal measure. In addition to discussing the various campaigns, battles, weapons systems, and other aspects of military history, the three-volume work also contextualizes the conflict within its social, cultural, political, and economic milieu, and places the Mexican-American War into its proper historical and historiographical contexts by covering the eras both before and after the war. This information is particularly critical for students of American history because the conflict fomented sectional conflict in the United States, which resulted in the U.S. Civil War.

Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags

Author : Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr.
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039151086
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags written by Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr. and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2023-07-11 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texans are fiercely proud of their “Lone Star” flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a history of Texas. Throughout each chapter, the author provides a story taken from history texts, research and anecdotes collected during his teaching and travels, which took fifteen years. This unique history of Texas will captivate the reader from the first Spanish flag through revolutions and pirates, to the “Bonnie Blue Flag” of the Civil War.

Lens on the Texas Frontier

Author : Lawrence T. Jones
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491479
Total Pages : 711 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 711 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 Department of Public Safety

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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563117819
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (631 download)

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Download or read book Texas Department of Public Safety written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

John Bankhead Magruder

Author : Thomas Settles
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807149624
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book John Bankhead Magruder written by Thomas Settles and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009-06 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of all the major figures of the Civil War era, Confederate general John Bankhead Magruder is perhaps the least understood. The third-ranking officer in Virginia's forces behind Robert E. Lee and Joseph E. Johnston, Magruder left no diary, no completed memoirs, no will, not even a family Bible. There are no genealogical records and very few surviving personal papers. Unsurprisingly, then, much existing literature about Magruder contains incorrect information. In John Bankhead Magruder, an exhaustive biography that reflects more than thirty years of painstaking archival research, Thomas M. Settles remedies the many factual inaccuracies surrounding this enigmatic man and his military career. Settles traces Magruder's family back to its seventeenth-century British American origins, describes his educational endeavors at the University of Virginia and West Point, and details his early military career and his leading role as an artillerist in the war with Mexico. Tall, handsome, and flamboyant, Magruder earned the nickname "Prince John" from his army friends and was known for his impeccable manners and social brilliance. When Virginia seceded in April of 1861, Prince John resigned his commission in the U.S. Army and offered his services to the Confederacy. Magruder won the opening battle of the Civil War at Big Bethel. Later, in spite of severe shortages of weapons and supplies and a lack of support from Jefferson Davis, Judah P. Benjamin, Samuel Cooper, and Joseph E. Johnston, Prince John, with just 13,600 men, held his position on the Peninsula for a month against George B. McClellan's 105,000-man Federal army. This successful stand, at a time when Richmond was exceedingly vulnerable, provided, according to Settles, John Magruder's greatest contribution to the Confederacy. Following the Seven Days' battles, however, his commanders harshly criticized Magruder for being too slow at Savage Station, then too rash at Malvern Hill and they transferred him to command the District of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona. In Texas, he skillfully recaptured the port of Galveston in early 1863 and held it for the Confederacy until the end of the war. After the war, he joined the Confederate exodus to Mexico but eventually returned to the United States, living in New York City and New Orleans before settling in Houston, where he died on February 18, 1871. John Bankhead Magruder offers fresh insight into many aspects of the general's life and legacy, including his alleged excesses, his family relationships, and the period between Magruder's death and his memorialization into the canon of Lost Cause mythology. With engaging prose and impressive research, Settles brings this vibrant Civil War figure to life.

Rebellious Ranger

Author : William J. Hughes
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806110844
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Rebellious Ranger written by William J. Hughes and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the Texan pioneer, who during his lifetime, was a practicing physician, adjutant in the Texas Rangers, newspaper editor, explorer, surveyor, superintendent of the state Deaf and Dumb School, state senator, and held a variety of political and honorary positions.

Ten Texans in Gray

Author : William Curtis Nunn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Ten Texans in Gray written by William Curtis Nunn and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten biographical studies written by selected graduate students on Texas Confederate civil and military leaders.

Cut One, They All Bleed

Author : John Thomas Edson
Publisher : Jove Books
ISBN 13 : 9781557731357
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (313 download)

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Download or read book Cut One, They All Bleed written by John Thomas Edson and published by Jove Books. This book was released on 1988-12 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cousins family might not have been much in the way of law-abiding citizens, but they were loyal when it came to kin. And when Marshall Collier shot one in a bank raid, the Cousins rode out for vengeance--and Collier was in no condition to tangle with the whole bunch.

Ben Thompson

Author : Thomas C. Bicknell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 157441741X
Total Pages : 689 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Ben Thompson written by Thomas C. Bicknell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-08-15 with total page 689 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun for a railroad, an elected lawman, professional gambler, and the victor of numerous gunfights. As a leading member of the Wild West’s sporting element, Ben Thompson spent most of his life moving in the unsavory underbelly of the West: saloons, dance-houses, billiard halls, bordellos, and gambling dens. During these travels many of the Wild West’s most famous icons—Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, John Ringo, and Buffalo Bill Cody—became acquainted with Ben Thompson. Some of these men called him a friend; others considered him a deadly enemy. In life and in death no one ever doubted Ben Thompson’s courage; one Texas newspaperman asserted he was “perfectly fearless, a perfect lion in nature when aroused.” This willingness to trust his life to his expertise with a pistol placed Thompson prominently among the western frontier’s most flamboyant breed of men: gunfighters.