Texas State Historical Assn: 38 books
Fort Davis
Outpost on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This engaging, illustrated history of Fort Davis, one of the U.S. Army's most important western posts, relates the exciting history of Trans-Pecos Texas—the far western reaches off the state. Wooster traces the history of this Davis Mountains region from the days when Indians and later Spaniards...
Lone Star Blue and Gray
Essays on Texas and the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War. Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives...
Fort Lancaster
Texas Frontier Sentinel
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Today Fort Lancaster sits as a ghostly ruin in west Texas, far removed from any major highway. However, this frontier post once played a major role in the protection of the primary southern route to California after the discovery of gold. Built along Live Oak Creek near the junction with the Pecos,...
by Craig H. Roell
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2013
The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social,...
Red Water, Black Gold
The Canadian River in Western Texas, 1920–1999
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
Red Water, Black Gold: The Canadian River in Texas 1920–1999 tells the story of the Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle. It is a tale of grand designs, high hopes, deep holes, politics, fishing, follies, foibles, and environmental change.
Although efforts had been made to tap the Canadian...
Fort Worth
A Texas Original!
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Fort Worth has been called "the City Where the West Begins," "Cowtown," and the silent partner in the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex. None of these descriptions quite tells the story of this city and its people. Since its founding in the mid-nineteenth century as a military outpost, Fort Worth has gone...
Ima Hogg
The Governor's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Texas legend has it that James Stephen Hogg, Governor of Texas from 1890 to 1894, named his daughters Ima and Ura, but that is only half-true: there never was a Ura. Ima had three brothers, Will, Mike, and Tom. Ima Hogg, who was born in 1882 and died in 1975 at age 93, became a legend in her own right,...
Texas and the Mexican War
A History and a Guide
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Written for both the specialist and the casual reader, Texas and the Mexican War discusses the pivotal role Texas played in the Mexican War, battles fought on Texas soil, and the contributions—for better or sometimes worse—of Texas troops throughout the war.
Since the opening of hostilities...
The Wests of Texas
Cattle Ranching Entrepreneurs
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
With the Wests of Texas, noted author Bruce M. Shackelford tells the story of the West family of Lavaca County, forgotten Texas legends.
Originally from Tennessee, Washington and Mary West moved to Lavaca County, Texas, in the early 1850s. There they raised three sons who were destined to leave...
I Would Rather Sleep in Texas
A History of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the People of the Santa Anita Land Grant
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
This superb work of history tells the story of the Lower Rio Grande Valley and the people who struggled to make this daunting land their home. Spanish conquistadors and Mexican revolutionaries, cowboys and ranchers, Texas Rangers and Civil War generals, entrepreneurs and empire builders are all a part...
The La Salle Expedition to Texas
The Journal of Henri Joutel, 1684–1687
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015
“Those of us who knew how to swim crossed to the other bank. But a number of our company did not know how to swim, and I was among that number. One of the Indians gave me a sign to go get a nearly dry log . . . then, fastening a strap on each end, he made us understand that we should hold on to...
The Hoggs of Texas
Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
In The Hoggs of Texas: Letters and Memoirs of an Extraordinary Family, 1887–1906, Virginia Bernhard delves into the unpublished letters of one of Texas’s most extraordinarily families and tells their story. In their own words, which are published here for the first time. Rich in details, the more...
by Ben H. Procter
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise...
The Old Army in the Big Bend of Texas
The Last Cavalry Frontier, 1911-1921
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
Even before Pancho Villa’s 1916 raid on Columbus, New Mexico, and the following punitive expedition under General John J. Pershing, the U.S. Army was strengthening its presence on the southwestern border in response to the Mexican Revolution of 1910. Manning forty-one small outposts along a three-hundred...