Author: Colorado County (Tex.). Program Building CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
Your County Program, Colorado County, Texas
Author: Colorado County (Tex.). Program Building CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell
Author: James C. KearneyPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416502
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means necessary, including extra-legal means, that sparked the feud. Elected office was one of the paths to success, but more important was control of the sheriff’s office, which gave one a decided advantage should the threat of gun violence arise. No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell concentrates on those individual acts of private justice associated with the Stafford and Townsend families. It began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month.
Colorado County, Texas
Author: Rowan GreenColorado County, Texas and Southwest Texas History
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Colorado County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Texas Land Survey Maps for Colorado County
Author: Gregory A. BoydPublisher:
ISBN: 9781420350760
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
202 pages with 66 maps An indispensable book for any researcher interested in Colorado County's history or land (or both), or its first landowners after Texas's Independence from Mexico. Each book in this series is laid out into multiple maps using a 6 mile high by 4 mile wide grid.This book contains 61 Survey maps laid out within this grid. Each Land Survey Map shows the boundaries of original parcels laid out over existing roads, railroads, waterways. These are shown as well as the original Survey-Name and the Abstract Number assigned by the Texas General Land Office to the instrument that gave ownership to that parcel. Here are a number of details about our Colorado County book . . . Supplemental Maps Included (in addition to the primary Survey Maps) . . . - Where Colorado County Lies Within the State (Map A) - Colorado County and its Surrounding Counties (Map B) - An Index Map showing where each of the Land Survey Maps are within Colorado County (Map C) - An Index Map that builds upon Map C and shows the community-center points in relationship to the county-grid (Map D) - An Index Map that builds upon Map C and shows cemeteries listed in the USGS database in relationship to the county-grid (Map E) Primary Indexes (apart from each Survey-Map's own index of survey-names) - An All-Name Index (alphabetical by last-name) for every person mentioned in the maps, utilizing both Texas General Land Office and Texas Railroad Commission data. - The Abstract Listing: this is where you find the real details behind each parcel of land.Items are listed by Abstract Number What Cities and Towns are in Colorado County, Texas (and in this book)? Alleyton, Altair, Atascosito Crossing (historical), Bernardo, Boedecker Junction, Borden, Chesterville, Columbus, Eagle Lake, Eldridge, Frelsburg, Garwood, Glidden, Gwinns Crossing (historical), Helms, Hillcrest, Hoefer, Laban, Lafitte, Lakeside, Lone Oak, Matthews, Mentz, Nada, New Bielau, Oakland, Pisek, Provident City, Ramsey, Rayner Junction, Rock Island, Shaws Bend, Sheridan, Weimar
1850 U.S. Census, Colorado County, Texas
Author: Colorado County, Texas
Author: Rowan GreenColorado County, Texas Birth Index
Author: Cemeteries in and Around Colorado County, Texas
Author: Daughters of the American Revolution. Texas SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cemeteries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans
Author: Barry A. CrouchPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 9780292712195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Fascinating stories of enormous human interest from case studies illustrate both the need for and the effectiveness of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas. Established by Congress in 1865 to help newly emancipated blacks make the transition from slavery to freedom, the Freedmen's Bureau is considered the first social welfare agency in American history. How effectively the Bureau carried out its mission, however, has long been a subject of debate. In this revisionist study of the Bureau's operations in Texas, Barry A. Crouch challenges traditional views that the Bureau was ineffective and asserts that its agents actually made considerable--and often successful--attempts to assist black Texans. Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, Crouch offers new insights into the workings of the Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters. Particularly interesting is the case of William G. Kirkman, a conscientious agent who was assassinated for his efforts to help black workers in Boston, Texas. While the Freedmen's Bureau ultimately achieved no lasting success in Texas or elsewhere, Crouch finds that it did not hinder the cause of freed people, as some critics have claimed. Operating during Reconstruction when whites were hostile toward Union efforts to enforce laws protecting blacks, the Bureau helped many individual former slaves and provided a forum where black Texans could assert their legal rights as citizens and free laborers. Of interest to all students of African-American history and of the Reconstruction period in Texas, The Freedmens Bureau and Black Texans is one of only three state studies of the Bureau published in recent years and the first book-length examination of the Bureau in Texas.