Bob Balch: 8 books

In the year 1919 Bob Ray Gilbert and Emil Marcy, farmers, neighbors, and friends, who live along the Red River in an area west of Burkburnett, Texas, are faced with a decision which will change their lives and the lives of several of their friends who join with them in their quest to protect their...

This seventh book The Bowie Secret is a murder mystery couched as a work of historical fiction. The murder of Baylor County farmer and rancher, Jones Bowie, by an unknown assailant using a bow and arrow as the murder weapon, is an intriguing story which leads Sheriff Bob Elliotts investigation into...

Jim Bob Justice is a fourth generation Texan who has spent most of his life along the Brazos River in Texas.Using an old map that was given to his grandfather, Judge Judd Justice, by his client, a Comanche Indian woman, and a tapestry map from the Vatican on loan for an exhibition which Jim Bob visits...

In this, his fifth book, Bob returns to historical fiction with the story of a young Keechie Indian thrust into the world of the white man following his capture during a historic battle on the upper West Fork of the Trinity River. He falls in love with an Irish beauty who has emigrated from Ireland...

In this humorous collection of stories about incidents that occurred in and around gas stations, the author captures moments in time that tells the American story about our fascination and love for gas stations. With the advent of the horseless carriage at the beginning of the 20th century, the mass...

A great treasure of the French people was brought to New Orleans from France in 1792 by the La Porte family.This treasure ultimately ends up in the hands of Waco Baptiste, whose mother was a Wichita Indian and whose father was a French trader.What Waco does with the treasure will certainly entertain...

When the paleontologist who serves as the curator of the Whiteside Museum of Natural History makes a great discovery in the Permian Bone Beds just north of Seymour, the curiosity of the world is centered on this small North Texas town when a strange turn of events leads to an unexpected conclusion involving some very interesting critters.

When Gene Stallings came to Texas A & M in December of 1964, there were a lot of players that were just eating their way through school. Dude McLean Class of 1965 ********** When we went through spring workouts in 1965 there were a few turds that should not have been out there and...