University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
The Ranger Ideal Volume 1
Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2012 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest at the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference, which is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative work and...
Warriors and Scholars
A Modern War Reader
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2005
Few works of military history are able to move between the battlefield and academia. But Warriors and Scholars takes the best from both worlds by presenting the viewpoints of senior, eminent military historians on topics of their specialty, alongside veteran accounts for the modern war being discussed....
The Ranger Ideal Volume 2
Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1874-1930
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
They say everything is bigger in Texas, and the Lone Star State can certainly boast of immense ranches, vast oil fields, enormous cowboy hats, and larger-than-life heroes. Among the greatest of the latter are the iconic Texas Rangers, a service that has existed, in one form or another, since 1823....
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
This anthology collects the twelve winners of the 2013 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest, run by the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. The event is hosted by the Frank W. Mayborn Graduate Institute of Journalism at the University of North Texas. The contest honors exemplary narrative...
Rounded Up in Glory
Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Frank Reaugh (1860-1945; pronounced "Ray") was called "the Dean of Texas artists" for good reason. His pastels documented the wide-open spaces of the West as they were vanishing in the late nineteenth century, and his plein air techniques influenced generations of artists. His students include a "Who's...
by Chuck Parsons, Donaly E. Brice
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Historians Chuck Parsons and Donaly E. Brice present a complete picture of N. O. Reynolds (1846-1922), a Texas Ranger who brought a greater respect for the law in Central Texas. Reynolds began as a sergeant in famed Company D, Frontier Battalion in 1874. He served honorably during the Mason County "Hoo...
The Texas Cookbook
From Barbecue to Banquet, an Informal View of Dining and Entertaining the Texas Way
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
This delightful collection captures the flavor and diversity of the cuisine of the Lone Star State. The Texas Cookbook presents recipes ranging from down-home cooking to high-class affairs, from regional favorites to ethnic specialties. Mary Faulk Koock traveled throughout Texas gathering recipes from...
Rawhide Ranger
Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2011
Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unitand Atenwould have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas. The preponderance of Texas...
Captain John R. Hughes
Lone Star Ranger
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2011
Captain John R. Hughes, Lone Star Ranger is the first full and complete modern biography of a man who served as a Texas Ranger from 1887 until early 1915. He came to the attention of the Rangers after doggedly trailing horse thieves for nearly a year and recovering his stolen stock. After helping Ranger...
Texas Rangers
Lives, Legend, Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about...
All Over the Map
True Heroes of Texas Music
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
A lavishly illustrated collection of forty-two profiles of Texas music pioneers, most underrated or overlooked, All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music covers the musical landscape of a most musical state. The first edition was published in 2005 to wide acclaim. This second edition includes updated...
Tracking the Texas Rangers
The Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2012
Tracking the Texas Rangers is an anthology of sixteen previously published articles, arranged in chronological history, covering key topics of the intrepid and sometimes controversial law officers named the Texas Rangers. Determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually...
Spartan Band
Burnett's 13th Texas Cavalry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2005
In Spartan Band (coined from a chaplains eulogistic poem) author Thomas Reid traces the Civil War history of the 13th Texas Cavalry, a unit drawn from eleven counties in East Texas. The cavalry regiment organized in the spring of 1862 but was ordered to dismount once in Arkansas. The regiment gradually...