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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 682
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Stirpes
Author: Early Laws of Texas
Author: TexasPublisher:
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Category : Coahuila and Texas (Mexico)
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Camino Del Norte
Author: Howard J. ErlichmanPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603445463
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
Some five hundred miles of superhighway run between the Rio Grande and the Red River-present-day Interstate 35. This towering achievement of modern transportation engineering links 7.7 million people, yet it all evolved from a series of humble little trails.
Heart of Texas Records
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Category : Registers of births, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 588
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Bourland in North Texas and Indian Territory During the Civil War
Author: Patricia Adkins RochettePublisher:
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Category : Chickasaw Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 1016
Book Description
The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861
Author: Glen Sample ElyPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806154640
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 441
Book Description
This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas’s infrastructure, the region’s primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas’s antebellum past.
Odyssey of Texas Ranger James Callahan, The
Author: Joseph Luther Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1625858779
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
James Callahan entered Texas armed, a quixotic young man enlisted in the Georgia Battalion for the cause of independence. He barely survived the 1836 Battle of Refugio and the Goliad Massacre. Undaunted by the perils of his adopted home, he remained in the line of fire for the next twenty-one years, fighting to protect Texas settlers from Apaches, Comanches, Seminoles, Kickapoos, outlaws, mavericks and the Mexican army. As a Texas Ranger, he rode with the legendary men of Seguin and San Antonio. In 1855, he commanded the punitive expedition into Mexico that bears his name, a fiasco that has been shrouded by mystery and shadowed by controversy ever since. In this first-ever biography, Joseph Luther traces the tragic course of the wayfarer who crossed so much of the Texas frontier and created so much of its story.
Encyclopedia of Associations
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Category : Associations, institutions, etc
Languages : en
Pages : 1040
Book Description
America, History and Life
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Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.
Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
Author: Ellen Sue TurnerPublisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1589794656
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 367
Book Description
Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes charts, geographic distribution maps and reliable age-dating information. The authors also demonstrate how factors such as environment, locale and type of artifact combine to produce a portrait of theses ancient cultures.