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The Legend Begins

Frederick Wilkins

• Paperback | Engels
• The Texas Rangers are legendary, but just where does legend end and fact begin? Frederick Wilkins begins his new history of the Rangers, the first maj... Lees meer

Sam Bell Maxey and the Confederate Indians

John Waugh

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War Campaigns and Commanders
• General Maxey, dignified, articulate, and confident, arrives in Indian Territory in 1863 to assume command of a diverse and motley army of Indians. Th... Lees meer

Bad Hand

Charles M Robinson

• Paperback | Engels
• A Civil War hero, victorious Indian fighter and eventual madman, General Ranald S. Mackenzie's fascinating life, his brilliant accomplishments, and hi... Lees meer

As It Was

Douglas J Cater

• Paperback | Engels
• Cater's reminiscences of his Civil War experiences, simply titled As It Was, comprises a superbly detailed and colorful description of a soldier's lif... Lees meer

The Buffalo Hunters

Charles M III Robinson

• Paperback | Engels
• The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains by countless millions but which had been hunted to nea... Lees meer

The One and Only Rattlesnake Bomber Base

Thomas E Alexander

• Paperback | Engels
• In a remote corner of West Texas in 1942, the dreaded western diamondback rattlesnake was awarded the unique distinction of having a mighty airfield n... Lees meer

Death in September

Perry D Jamieson

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War Campaigns and Commanders | nr. 4
• Early September 1862... General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia crosses the Potomac River and invades the North for the first time during th... Lees meer

Texas

Archie P McDonald

• Paperback | Engels
• Texas "a whole other country"-a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State as elsewhere-is familiar to native Texans and those ad... Lees meer

God Help the Irish!

Phillip Thomas Tucker

• Paperback | Engels
• The Civil War continues to fascinate historians and general readers. Contemporary Civil War scholarship has brought to light the important roles certa... Lees meer

The Buffalo War

James L Haley

• Paperback | Engels
• Gen. Phil Sheridan called the Red River War of 1874 the most successful Indian campaign ever waged. Many of its incidents have become frontier legends... Lees meer

Taming Texas-P

Stephen L Moore

• Paperback | Engels
• The history of Texas is usually told in terms of its "giants" such as Sam Houston and Stephen F. Austin. Here, instead, is a history of Texas told by ... Lees meer

Vaqueros in Blue and Gray

Jerry Thompson

• Paperback | Engels
• As many as 9,500 men of Hispanic heritage fought in the United States' Civil War. In Texas, the bitter conflict deeply divided the Tejanos-Texans of M... Lees meer

John Bell Hood

David Coffey

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War Campaigns and Commanders
• "At thirty-three years of age, Hood became the eighth and youngest of the Confederate Army's generals of full rank. He had risen through the commissio... Lees meer

Unconditional Surrender

Spencer C Tucker

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War Campaigns and Commanders | nr. 21
• Civil War scholars and buffs alike have long differed on the turning point of the war. Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Chattanooga, to name but a few, have... Lees meer

The Slave Narratives of Texas

• Paperback | Engels
• Many defenders of slavery have maintained that the slaves in Texas were well-treated and happy, but as a former slave remarked, "Tisn't he who has sto... Lees meer

The Road to Dr Pepper, Texas

Karen Wright

• Paperback | Engels
• The Road to Dr Pepper, Texas The Story of Dublin Dr Pepper The Road to Dr Pepper, Texas is the story of the Dublin Dr Pepper Bottling Co., a David-Gol... Lees meer

Captain L.H. McNelly, Texas Ranger

Chuck Parsons, Marianne E Hall Little

• Paperback | Engels
• The first authentic biography of one of the most famous of the nineteenth century Texas Rangers-Capt. Leander H. McNelly. No history of the murderous ... Lees meer

The Newton Boys

Willis Newton, Joe Newton

• Paperback | Engels
• Portrays the misdeeds of the notorious early twentieth-century bank and train robbers. The Newtons' story was made into a movie starring Matthew McCon... Lees meer

Slavery to Integration

Et Al Glasrud

• Paperback | Engels
• Black Americans arrived in West Texas in the early sixteenth century and nearly five centuries later continue to contribute to the region that shares ... Lees meer

A People, a Place

Robert W Sledge

• Paperback | Engels
• In 1940, Abilene, Texas was just an overgrown country town of some 25,000 souls. World War II wrought a permanent change through the advent of a major... Lees meer

Thurber Texas

John S Spratt

• Paperback | Engels
• The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. The mines were open... Lees meer

Sherman's March to the Sea

John F Marszalek

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War Campaigns and Commanders | nr. 26
• In the fall of 1864 after his triumphant capture of Atlanta, Union Gen. William T. Sherman mobilized 62,000 of his veteran troops and waged destructiv... Lees meer

Defending Mexican Valor in Texas

Jose A Navarro

• Paperback | Engels
• José Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and facilitator for Stephen F. Austin, he was a signator... Lees meer

The Saltville Massacre

Thomas D Mays

• Paperback | Engels | Civil War Campaigns and Commanders
• In October 1864, in the mountains of southwest Virginia, one of the most brutal acts of the Civil War occurs. Brig. Gen. Stephen Burbridge launches a ... Lees meer