Books from University of North Texas Press
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Voices in the Storm: Confederate Rhetoric, 1861-1865
By Karen E. FritzMason also defined what lay ahead , pointing out " You will have no child's play " and urging the men to " endure the trials of the camp ; the weariness of the forced march ; the vigilance of day and night ; the restraints of discipline ...
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Life of the Marlows: A True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days
By William Rathmell, Robert K. DeArmentI can not say who it was that tried to rope Charley, but think it was Bruce Wheeler.” Colonel Crawford—“Who in the crowd up stairs did you know?” “Logan, Dick Cook, and Pink Brooks.” “Who else?” “Waggoner.” “Who else?” “Bee Williams.
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The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 4: July 3, 1880--May 22, 1881
By John Gregory Bourke, Charles Robinson IIIJohn Wesley Powell, director of the two-year-old American Bureau of Ethnology. Powell had learned of Bourke's work from E. S. Holden of the Naval Observatory, who had been a year behind Bourke at West Point, and from Rev.
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The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 5: May 23, 1881--August 26, 1881
By John Gregory BourkeJohn Wesley Powell who, as director of the Bureau of Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution, sponsored seminal publications on Indian life and culture. Powell obtained formal sanction for Bourke's ethnological interests, allowing him ...
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The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 1: November 20, 1872--July 28, 1876
By John Gregory BourkeThese volumes are a first person narrative of a soldier in the West during the Great Sioux War and the Cheyenne Outbreak as well as other important Indian battles.
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The Diaries of John Gregory Bourke Volume 3: June 1, 1878--June 22, 1880
By John Gregory Bourke, Charles M. RobinsonThese volumes are a first person narrative of a soldier in the West during the Great Sioux War and the Cheyenne Outbreak as well as other important Indian battles.
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Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest
By John P. LangellierJohn G. Bourke, On the Border with Crook (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1891), 464. 15. For examples of the variety of army contacts to provided hay, beef, flour, fuel and many other necessities to the military consult: Darlis A.
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Yours to Command: The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald
By Harold J. Weiss19. Bill O'Neal, Encyclopedia of Western Gunfighters (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1979), 4–6, 160–63. 20. McMurry to Adj. Gen. W. H. King, Feb. 2, 1882, GC-ACR. See also Weiss, “Texas Rangers Revisited,” 635. 21.
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The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1852-1863
By Sam HoustonI had forgot Sister Kates offer until, I had made the bargain. So I am glad the matter has failed. He told me that he had bargained, or sold, one thousand acres, for $12,000 twelve thousand Dollars. So I suppose he expected to make the ...
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The Devil's Triangle: Ben Bickerstaff, Northeast Texans, and the War of Reconstruction in Texas
By Kenneth W. Howell, James M. Smallwood, Carol C. TaylorBradbury, History of Johnson County, 71; A Memorial and Biographical History of Johnson and Hill Counties, Texas: Containing the Early History of This Important Section of the Great State of Texas, Together with glimpses of Its Future ...
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A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West
By Chuck Parsons, Norman Wayne BrownDallas: Curtis Media Corp., 1986. Askins, Charles. Texans, Guns and History. New York: Winchester Press, 1970. Baker, T. Lindsay. Ghost Towns of Texas. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986. . The Polish Texans.
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Goodbye Gluten: Happy Healthy Delicious Eating with a Texas Twist
By Kim Stanford, Bill BackhausP.Plainmain meaeat—p—prefererablyly local,ocal, organianic, an,and padpastursture-re-raisaised bd beef, p,porkrk, l, lambamb, an,and vd venisenison—isnn—is naturturallyally glutluten-en-frfree. I. It's ts the ae added sd sauceses, ...
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Texas Ranger N. O. Reynolds, the Intrepid
By Chuck Parsons, Donaly E. BriceGeorge W. Todd to Major Jones, December 12, 1875. Todd was the first county clerk ofMason County. 4. This cemetery is located on the Mason–Brady State Highway 87 near Mason. 5. San Antonio Daily Herald, December 8, 1870, citing a report ...
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Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger
By Chuck ParsonsJack Martin, Hughes's early biographer, identified the woman as Elizabeth Todd although he knew this was not her real name. Martin may, in reality, have known her true identity, but instead coyly referred to her simply as “a gay, ...
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They Called Him Buckskin Frank: The Life and Adventures of Nashville Franklyn Leslie
By Chuck Parsons, Jack DeMattos... El Paso, TX Rick Miller, Harker Heights, TX James A. Mundie, Kenner, LA Bob Palmquist, Tucson, AZ Chris Penn, Marsham, England Gary L. Roberts, Tifton, GA Meghan Saar, Lumberton, TX William B. Secrest, Fresno, CA Tom Todd, Show Low, ...
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Savage Frontier Volume 2: Rangers, Rifleman, and Indian Wars in Texas, 1838-1839
By Stephen L. MooreTodd Wounded. James Elijah Gilliland, Pvt. Capt. Todd Wounded. David S. Kaufman, Major Capt. Bob Smith Wounded in face. Felix Grundy Lemmon, Pvt. Capt. Todd Slightly wounded. George F. Martin, Pvt. Capt. Todd Mortally wounded.
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Texas Ranger John B. Jones and the Frontier Battalion, 1874-1881
By Rick MillerIndians may be hidden there, Sergeant W. C. Bradley ordered his men to charge the rocks. With pistol in hand, Bradley confronted the sole Indian, later identified as a Kiowa named Gun Boys, who was brandishing a carbine.
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Tall Walls and High Fences: Officers and Offenders, the Texas Prison Story
By Bob Alexander, Richard K. AlvordKeeping with sound penitentiary protocols, Mari Johnson's death was treated—as would any deceased Correctional Officer secured ... Company C, stationed at Abilene, company headquarters at Lubbock under the command of Major Todd Snyder, ...
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The San Saba Treasure: Legends of Silver Creek
By David C. Lewis“Some Observations on Powell's Cave.” Texas Caver, June, 1967. Adele Looscan (Translator). “The Old Fort on the San Saba Rivers as seen by Dr. Ferdinand Romer in 1847.” The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, October, ...
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Texas Ranger Captain William L. Wright
By Richard McCaslinSubsequently, four privates from Company F were listed as being under Wright's command, and when Taylor left the Rangers at the end of 1918, Sterling O. Durst, Harrison L. Hamer, and Austin T. Hamilton, who must have been three of those ...