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  • - Frontier Cattle King
    av Bill O'Neal
    239,-

    John Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in the fledgling range cattle industry, and within a few years his herds numbered in the tens of thousands. Chisum soon owned more cattle than any other individual in America, and his Jinglebob herds were the only cattle in the West known by an earmark rather than by a famous brand.Chisum was a true pioneer, seeking open range grass farther and farther and still farther to the west. During three decades on a succession of frontier ranches, Chisum endured Indian raids, stock thievery, drought, financial reverses, and the murderous Lincoln County War. Chisum had courage, a taste for adventure, a shrewd head for business, and he confidently operated his risky frontier profession on an enormous scale.His last ranch was the biggest, stretching for 200 miles along the Pecos River and grazing as many as 80,000 head of Jinglebob cattle. He built a headquarters complex worthy of a cattle king, relishing the role of host to one and all. After thirty spectacular years as a western rancher, Chisum died at sixty, just as his beloved open range was being enclosed by barbed wire. But he was known throughout cow country as the "Jinglebob King," the "Cattle King of the Pecos," and the "Cattle King of the West."

  • av Egon Richard Tausch
    188,-

    Dr. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence and the Base, Mean, Low-Down, Trifeling, Lying, Lazy, Hog-Thieving, Indolent, Dogon', Chisel-Fisted, CheatingWhy should a respected frontier physician-one of the few of his trade in Texas- die in a mutually fatal Western-style shootout with his cousin?Frontier Texas- from its War of Independence from Mexico, to the late 1800s- was a strictly agricultural region raising cotton and then livestock, and dotted with small villages . . . not much to draw an ambitious physician. There were, of course, no medical schools in the Republic or the succeeding State. A very few doctors were born in Texas. They went East to get their education, and then came back to their beloved homeland. William Joseph Calhoun Lawrence was one of these doctors.Lawrence wrote letters almost daily (and kept those he received), so the author could piece together the doctor's life, his virtues and obvious faults, and that of his family, his neighbors and his Texas.

  • av Professor of Public Health Susan P (Johns Hopkins University) Baker
    216,-

    Although there have been individual books published about famous murder cases ranging from serial killers, mass murderers and more . . . ."Murdered Judges of the Twentieth Century" is the first collection of its kind. Susan P. Baker started this project because she was concerned with the prevalence of violence in American courthouses in the 1980s and 1990s. She had always thought of a courthouse as a safe haven, a place where one came to resolve one's differences through peaceful means, a sanctuary if you will. she imagined that people had respect for the judiciary, for lawyers, for bailiffs, and for other folks who worked in the legal business whether or not at our safe haven. Although she knew of Federal Judge John Wood's assassination, she assumed it was a fluke. It was related to a drug case. Those people knew no bounds.

  • av Mae Durden-Nelson
    237,-

  • - Alamo Hero
    av Cahndice Matthews
    148,-

  • - Or How a Camel Born at Sea Found Himself in Texas
    av Preston Lewis
    199,-

  • av Millie Jean Coppedge
    249,-

  • - Texas Horror by Texas Writers
     
    205,-

  • - A Local History and Visitor's Guide for a Lost Seaport and a Barrier Island on the Texas Gulf Coast
    av Linda Hetsel Wolff
    193,-

  • av Carolyn Adams
    162,-

  • av Sarah Jackson
    223,-

  • - Texas Horror by Texas Writers Volume 2
     
    223,-

    A hanging tree takes the law into its own limbs in “The Tree Servant.” A mother’s love is tested by the walking, crawling and thumb-sucking dead in “Mama’s Babies.” A famous author lays his process bare in “A Writer’s Lot.” Not for the faint of heart, this terrifying batch of Texas horror fiction delivers a host of literary demons who will be hard to shake once they get comfortable.The second volume of the critically acclaimed Road Kill Series from Eakin Press, featuring seventeen Texas writers. Some of the writers are established and have been published in a variety of mediums, while others are upcoming writers who bring a wealth of talent and imagination. Edited by E.R. Bills and Bret McCormick, this collection of horror stories is sure to bring chills and make the imagination run wild. Writers include Jacklyn Baker, Andrew Kozma, Ralph Robert Moore, Jeremy Hepler, R. J. Joseph, James H. Longmore, Mario E. Martinez, E. R. Bills, Summer Baker, Dennis Pitts, Keith West, S. Kay Nash, Bryce Wilson, Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam, Stephen Patrick, Crystal Brinkerhoff and Hayden Gilbert.

  • - Ben E. Keith 1906-2006
    av Liz Oliphant
    366,-

  • - Or How I Helped Charles Goodnight Invent the Chuck Wagon
    av Preston Lewis
    272,-

  • - A Study In Leadership
    av Bill O'Neal
    239,-

  • - From Virginia to Adventure
    av Louise A Jackson
    204,-

  • - From Tragedy to Triumph on the Missouri Frontier
    av Louise A Jackson
    239,-

  • - The First Anglo Colony in Texas
     
    294,-

  • av Jane A Knapik
    176,-

  • - The Alamo Siege & Battle
    av Alan C Huffines
    294 - 388,-

  • - Rebel with a Cause
    av Jean Flynn
    193,-

  • - Texas Freedom Fighter
    av Ruth J Carnes
    148,-

  • - Weaving the Thread of Love from Generation to Generation
    av Sheila Aron
    152,-

  • av Mary Brooke Casad
    189,-

    Although many armadillos reside in the Texas Hill Country, this is the story of a very special one named Bluebonnet. Dubbed "everyone's favorite armadillo" by "Texas Highways" magazine, Bluebonnet is nurtured by her armadillo family until it's time to leave the burrow. When she discovers a camp by the Guadalupe River, she longs to be a camper. That's when the fun and unexpected adventures begin!Mary Brooke Casad is the author of the popular "Bluebonnet Armadillo Adventure Series," detailing the travels of Texas' most loved armadillo.Benjamin Vincent has been illustrating Bluebonnet's adventures for more than 20 years.

  • - King of the Highway Builders
    av Richard Morehead
    375,-

  • - The Diary of Adolphus Sterne: 1838-1851
     
    235,-

  • av PH D Rumbley & Rose-Mary
    239,-

  • - A Ranch on the Road to History
    av Joe Wreford Hipp
    183,-

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