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Languages : en
Pages : 320
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The Pierce Family and Allied Lines
Author: John Ringo, King of the Cowboys
Author: David D. JohnsonPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412434
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 381
Book Description
Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War in Texas began as a war over range rights, but it swiftly deteriorated into blood vengeance and spiraled out of control as the body count rose. In this charnel house Ringo gained a reputation as a dangerous gunfighter and man killer. He was proclaimed throughout the state as a daring leader, a desperate man, and a champion of the feud. Following incarceration for his role in the feud, Ringo was elected as a lawman in Mason County, the epicenter of the feud’s origin. The reputation he earned in Texas, further inflated by his willingness to shoot it out with Victorio’s raiders during a deadly confrontation in New Mexico, preceded him to Tombstone in territorial Arizona. Ringo became immersed in the area’s partisan politics and factionalized violence. A champion of the largely Democratic ranchers, Ringo would become known as a leader of one of these elements, the Cowboys. He ran at bloody, tragic odds with the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday, finally being part of the posse that hounded these fugitives from Arizona. In the end, Ringo died mysteriously in the Arizona desert, his death welcomed by some, mourned by others, wrongly claimed by a few. Initially published in 1996, John Ringo has been updated to a second edition with much new information researched and uncovered by David Johnson and other Ringo researchers.
The Mason County "Hoo Doo" War, 1874-1902
Author: David D. JohnsonPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412043
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
A haunting story of ethnic strife, human frailty, betrayal, vengeance, and the harrowing repercussions of mob justice.
The Quarterly
Author: John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary, and the First Three Generations of Their Descendants, 2nd Edition
Author: John D. Glenn Jr.Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1365003477
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
John Brown and Elizabeth McCrary grew up in Laurens County, South Carolina. They married in 1807, then moved to Indiana. They later returned to the South, and settled in Lawrence County, Alabama. After Elizabeth's death, John Brown (who was an uncle of General Ambrose Burnside) moved to Warren County, Illinois, where he remarried, and spent the rest of his life. John and Elizabeth's descendants included doctors and lawyers, farmers and ranchers, soldiers, bankers, scientists, and engineers. Many bore other surnames-among them Dobbins, Cogdell, Wilson, Dandridge, Otwell, Davidson, and Glenn. They were a varied and mobile family, whose lives were intertwined with many major events of American history-the Gold Rush, the Civil War, the westward movement of the American population, and the nation's transformation from an agrarian and rural to a more industrialized and urban society. This book makes use of a variety of sources, including previously unpublished correspondence, to tell their story.
Genealogical Records in Texas
Author: Imogene Kinard KennedyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806311851
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The vast genealogical records of Texas were created by successive governments over a period of almost 200 years. From the earliest recorded land grants by the Spanish and the Mexicans, to the grants, deeds, and patents of the Republic and State of Texas, the titles to the lands of Texas have remained intact and have passed down by will or deed to the present. These records and masses of other genealogical records are available to the researcher provided he/she knows how and where to find them. This remarkable book holds the key. Texas covers a lot of ground, but this guide cuts it right down to size and makes record searching fast and convenient. In text and maps it provides detailed information on the legal and historical background of the state, the origin of each county, the location of the records for each portion of the county before it was organized into its present boundaries, and the specific records available in the various county courthouses, the Texas State Library, the Texas State Archives, and the Texas General Land Office. In addition, it provides information on the original colonies and districts of Texas, a list of Spanish terms used in land grants and deeds, a list of Texas libraries with resources for genealogical research, and a bibliography.
The Pate Pioneers
Author: Bartlett Eaves (ca.1765-ca. 1833)
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Category : Southern States
Languages : en
Pages : 598
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Bartlett Eaves was born in about 1765 in New Brunswick County, Virginia. He was living in Rutherford County, North Carolina in 1790. He had eight known children. He died in about 1833 in Perry County, Alabama. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Inventory of the County Archives of Texas
Author: Historical Records Survey (Tex.)Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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