University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
The Royal Air Force in Texas
Training British Pilots in Terrell during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2003
With the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States six civilian flight schools dedicated themselves to instructing RAF pilots; the first, No. 1 British Flying Training School...
The Sutton-Taylor Feud
The Deadliest Blood Feud in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2009
The Sutton-Taylor Feud of DeWitt, Gonzales, Karnes, and surrounding counties began shortly after the Civil War ended. The blood feud continued into the 1890s when the final court case was settled with a governmental pardon. Of all the Texas feuds, the one between the Sutton and Taylor forces lasted longer...
Bad Company and Burnt Powder
Justice and Injustice in the Old Southwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered...
The Seventh Star of the Confederacy
Texas during the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2009
On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans found...
Eleven Days in Hell
The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2004
From one oclock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten oclock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texass Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former...
Accidental Activists
Mark Phariss, Vic Holmes, and Their Fight for Marriage Equality in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
In early 2013 same-sex marriage was legal in only ten states and the District of Columbia. That year the Supreme Court’s decision in United States v. Windsor appeared to open the door to marriage equality. In Texas, Mark Phariss and Vic Holmes, together for sixteen years and deeply in love, wondered...
by David Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2006
Post-Reconstruction Texas in the mid-1870s was still relatively primitive, with communities isolated from each other in a largely open-range environment. Cattlemen owned herds of cattle in numerous counties while brand laws remained local. Friction arose when the nonresident stockmen attempted to gather...
Graham Barnett
A Dangerous Man
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Graham Barnett was killed in Rankin, Texas, on December 6, 1931. His death brought an end to a storied career, but not an end to the legends that claimed he was a gunman, a hired pistolero on both sides of the border, a Texas Ranger known for questionable shootings in Company B under Captain Fox, a deputy...
The Deadliest Outlaws
The Ketchum Gang and the Wild Bunch, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2009
After Tom Ketchum had been sentenced to death for attempting to hold up a railway train, his attorneys argued that the penalty was cruel and unusual for the offense charged. The appeal failed and he became the first individualand the lastever to be executed for a crime of this sort. He was hanged in...
The Horrell Wars
Feuding in Texas and New Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
For decades the Horrell brothers of Lampasas, Texas, have been portrayed as ruthless killers and outlaws, but author David Johnson paints a different picture of these controversial men. The Horrells were ranchers, and while folklore has encouraged the belief that they built their herds by rustling, contemporary...
by Gary M. Lavergne
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 1997
On August 1 1966 Charles Whitman ascended the University of Texas Tower and committed what was then the largest simultaneous mass murder in American history. He gunned down forty-five people inside and around the Tower before he was killed by two Austin police officers. In addition to promoting the...
In the Governor's Shadow
The True Story of Ma and Pa Ferguson
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
In 1915 Governor James Ferguson began his term in Texas bolstered by a wave of voter enthusiasm and legislative cooperation so great that few Texans anticipated anything short of a successful administration. His campaign was based on two key elements: his appeal to the rural constituency and a temporary...
The San Saba Treasure
Legends of Silver Creek
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2018
In 1868, four treasure hunters from San Marcos, Texas, searched for a lost mine on the San Saba River, near today’s Menard. It was popularized as folklore in J. Frank Dobie’s treasure legend classic Coronado’s Children. One hundred and fifty years later, a descendant of one of those four men...
The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air
Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2002
Millions of Texans and Southwesterners have been touched over the years by the Light Crust Doughboys. From 1930 to 1952, fans faithfully tuned in to their early-morning and, later, noontime radio program, and turned out in droves to hear them play live. The Doughboys embodied the very essence of the...