Author: Billy B. LightfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comanche County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The History of Comanche County, Texas, to 1920
Author: Billy B. LightfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comanche County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 728
Book Description
The History of Comanche County to 1920
Author: Billy B. LightfootPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 253
Book Description
This is a typed copy of a manuscript.
The Cast Iron Forest
Author: Richard V. FrancavigliaPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789025
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
“A thoughtful, thorough, and updated account of this bio-region” from the author of From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900 (Great Plains Research). Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2001 A complex mosaic of post oak and blackjack oak forests interspersed with prairies, the Cross Timbers cover large portions of southeastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and north central Texas. Home to indigenous peoples over several thousand years, the Cross Timbers were considered a barrier to westward expansion in the nineteenth century, until roads and railroads opened up the region to farmers, ranchers, coal miners, and modern city developers, all of whom changed its character in far-reaching ways. This landmark book describes the natural environment of the Cross Timbers and interprets the role that people have played in transforming the region. Richard Francaviglia opens with a natural history that discusses the region’s geography, geology, vegetation, and climate. He then traces the interaction of people and the landscape, from the earliest indigenous inhabitants and European explorers to the developers and residents of today’s ever-expanding cities and suburbs. Many historical and contemporary maps and photographs illustrate the text. “This is the most important, original, and comprehensive regional study yet to appear of the amazing Cross Timbers region in North America . . . It will likely be the standard benchmark survey of the region for quite some time.” —John Miller Morris, Assistant Professor of Geography, University of Texas at San Antonio
Patchwork of Memories
Author: William Stewart CaffeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comanche (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
John Wesley Hardin
Author: Leon Claire MetzPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806129952
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Thus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many as fifty. In his way of thinking, Hardin never shot a man who did not deserve it. Seeking to gain insight into Hardin’s homicidal mind, Leon Metz describes how Hardin’s bloody career began in post-Civil War Central Texas, when lawlessness and killings were commonplace, and traces his life of violence until his capture and imprisonment in 1878. After numerous unsuccessful escape attempts, Hardin settled down and received a pardon years later in 1895. He wrote an autobiography but did not live to see it published. Within a few months of his release, John Selman gunned him down in an El Paso saloon.
Descendants of William Cromartie and Ruhamah Doane
Author: Amanda Cook GilbertPublisher: WestBowPress
ISBN: 1490807764
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
This ambitious work chronicles 250 years of the Cromartie family genealogical history. Included in the index of nearly fifty thousand names are the current generations, and all of those preceding, which trace ancestry to our family patriarch, William Cromartie, who was born in 1731 in Orkney, Scotland, and his second wife, Ruhamah Doane, who was born in 1745. Arriving in America in 1758, William Cromartie settled and developed a plantation on South River, a tributary of the Cape Fear near Wilmington, North Carolina. On April 2, 1766, William married Ruhamah Doane, a fifth-generation descendant of a Mayflower passenger to Plymouth, Stephen Hopkins. If Cromartie is your last name or that of one of your blood relatives, it is almost certain that you can trace your ancestry to one of the thirteen children of William Cromartie , his first wife, and Ruhamah Doane, who became the founding ancestors of our Cromartie family in America: William Jr., James, Thankful, Elizabeth, Hannah Ruhamah, Alexander, John, Margaret Nancy, Mary, Catherine, Jean, Peter Patrick, and Ann E. Cromartie. These four volumes hold an account of the descent of each of these first-generation Cromarties in America, including personal anecdotes, photographs, copies of family bibles, wills, and other historical documents. Their pages hold a personal record of our ancestors and where you belong in the Cromartie family tree.
Violence in America: A 150-year study of political violence in the United States
Author: Hugh Davis GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Violence
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The history of Commanche County, Texas, to 1920
Author: Billy Bob LightfootViolence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Author: Hugh Davis GrahamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Violence
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Violence in America: Historical and Comparative Perspectives
Author: United States Task Force on Historical and Comparative PerspectivesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description