University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
Yours to Command
The Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2009
Captain Bill McDonald (1852-1918) is the most prominent of the Four Great Captains of Texas Ranger history. His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1891 McDonald became captain of Company B of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. Captain Bill...
Captain Jack Helm
A Victim of Texas Reconstruction Violence
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
In Captain Jack Helm, Chuck Parsons explores the life of John Jackson “Jack” Helm, whose main claim to fame has been that he was a victim of man-killer John Wesley Hardin. That he was, but he was much more in his violence-filled lifetime during Reconstruction Texas. First as a deputy sheriff,...
Whiskey River Ranger
The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company-s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), "A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men." Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw "was one of the worst and most...
From Santa Anna to Selena
Notable Mexicanos and Tejanos in Texas History since 1821
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
Author Harriett Denise Joseph relates biographies of eleven notable Mexicanos and Tejanos, beginning with Santa Anna and the impact his actions had on Texas. She discusses the myriad contributions of Erasmo and Juan Seguín to Texas history, as well as the factors that led a hero of the Texas Revolution...
War in East Texas
Regulators vs. Moderators
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
From 1840 through 1844 East Texas was wracked by murderous violence between Regulator and Moderator factions. More than thirty men were killed in assassinations, lynchings, ambushes, street fights, and pitched battles. The sheriff of Harrison County was murdered, and so was the founder of Marshall,...
Tales of Texas Cooking
Stories and Recipes from the Trans-Pecos to the Piney Woods and High Plains to the Gulf Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then...
Behind the Walls
A Guide for Families and Friends of Texas Prison Inmates
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2002
Texas holds one in every nine U.S. inmates. Behind the Walls is a detailed description of one of the world's largest prison systems by a long-time convict trained as an observer and reporter. It spotlights the day-to-day workings of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-what's good, what's bad, which...
Death on Base
The Fort Hood Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
When Army psychiatrist Nidal Hasan walked into the Fort Hood Soldier Readiness Processing Center and opened fire on soldiers within, he perpetrated the worst mass shooting on a United States military base in our country’s history. Death on Base is an in-depth look at the events surrounding the tragic...
Houston Blue
The Story of the Houston Police Department
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nations largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel...
Sutherland Springs, Texas
Saratoga on the Cibolo
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
In Sutherland Springs, Texas, Richard B. McCaslin explores the rise and fall of this rural community near San Antonio primarily through the lens of its aspirations to become a resort spa town, because of its mineral water springs, around the turn of the twentieth century. Texas real estate developers,...
A Lawless Breed
John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a 4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until...
by Manuel F. Medrano
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist scholar and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. With the publication of With His Pistol in His Hand: A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958 Paredes soon emerged as a challenger...
I Fought a Good Fight
A History of the Lipan Apaches
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013
This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the...
by Kenneth W. Howell, ed.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of...