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and Reference (by Subject ) Updated
November 25th 2002 Texas Escapes is an informal publication
with a variety of sources. We do our best to get our cold hard facts from those
that are deemed "reliable." We have found that publication does not
mean perfection and have also found that the last (published) word is not necessarily
the last word - if such a thing ever existed. We hope it provides assistance
for researchers. Perhaps it may call some attention to the fine work of the many
people who devoted themselves to subjects they found worthy. - editor |
Architecture
- Architecture
in Texas : 1895-1945, Jay C. Henry, University of Texas Press, 1993
- The
Courthouse Square in Texas, Robert E. Veselka, University of Texas Press, 2000
- Carnegie
Libraries Across America: A Public Legacy, Theodore Jones, Preservation Press,
1997
- Endangered
Historic Properties of Texas, Texas Historical Commission, 1991
- Gone
From Texas: Our Lost Architectural Heritage, Willard B. Robinson, Texas A & M
Press, 1981
- The
People's Architecture: Texas Courthouses, Jails and Municipal Buildings by Willard
Robinson
- Texas
Public Buildings of the 19th Century, Willard B. Robinson, University of Texas
Press, 1974
- The
Railroad Station: An Architectural History, Carroll L. V. Meeks, Dover Publications,
1995
- Dugout
to Deco: Building in West Texas 1880 - 1930, Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser, Texas
Tech Press, 1993
- Texas
Log Buildings: A Folk Architecture by Terry G. Jordan, UT Press 1978
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The Courthouses of Texas: A guide by Mavis P. Kelsey, Sr. and D. H. Dyal, Texas
A & M Press, 1993
- The
Texas Courthouse Revisited by June Rayfield Welch, GLA Press, Dallas, 1984
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Texas Catalog of the Historic American Building Survey, Trinity U. Press, San
Antonio, 1974
- Texas
State Historical Association / Center For Studies in Texas History - University
of Texas, 1983
- Outdoor
Sculpture in Texas (A Comprehensive Guide to), Carol Morris Little, UT Press,
1996
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Architects
- Restoring Texas: Raiford
Stripling's Life and Architecture by Michael McCullar, A & M Press, 1985
- The
Eclectic Odyssey of Atlee B. Ayres, Architect by Robert James Coote, Texas A &
M Press, 2001
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City
Architecture - Fort
Worth's Legendary Landmarks, by Carol Roark, Photographs by Byrd Williams, TCU
Press 1995
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Galveston Architectural Guidebook by Ellen Beasley and Stephen Fox, Rice University
Press, 1996
- Historic
Images of Boerne, Texas, Published by the 1st National Bank of Boerne, 1982
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County
Histories -
A History of Baylor County (Salt Pork to Sirloin), Baylor County Historical Survey
Committee, 1977
- The
History of Brenham and Washington County, Mrs .R. D. Pennington, Standard Printing,
1915
- The Blazing
History of Washington County, Wilfred O. Dietrich, Nortex, 1973
- Reminiscences
of Burleson County, Texas, M.H. Addison, Caldwell, Texas, 1886
- A
History of Clay County, William Charles Taylor, Jenkins, 1972
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Colorado County Chronicles, Volumes I & II, Colorado County Historical Commission,
Eakin Press, 1986
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A History of Crosby County, Texas, Nellie Witt Spikes, Naylor, 1952
- Deaf
Smith County: The Land and It's people, Deaf Smith County Historical Society,
1982
- Ellis
County: A Photo History by the Ellis County Museum, Inc. 1993
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An Early History of Fayette County, Leonie R. Weyland and Houston Wade, LaGrange
Journal, 1936
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A History of Fisher County, E.L. Yeats and E.H. Shelton, Feather Press, 1971
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A History of Grayson County, Texas, Mattie D. Lucas and Mita H. Hall, Scruggs
Printing, Sherman, 1936
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A History of Hill County, Texas, Ellis Bailey, Texian Press, 1966
- A
History of Howard County: 1882-1982 - no publishing information
- A
History of Titus County, Texas, Traylor Russell, 1978
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A History of Waller County, Texas, The Waller County Historical Survey Committee,
1973
- A History
of Washington County Courthouses, Dorothy (Mrs. L.P.) Utesch, Fortnightly Club,
1972
- A History
of Young County, Texas, Carrie J. Crouch, Texas State Historical Association,
1956
- Austin
Colony Pioneers: Including Histories of Bastrop, Fayette, Mongomery and Washington
Counties and their Earliest Settlers, Worth S. Ray, Pemberton Press, 1970
- Red
River Dust: True Tales of an American Yesterday, E.Bowers and E. Oppenheimer,
Word Books, 1969
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Geography
and Specific Places - High
Plains Yesterdays: From XIT Days through Drouth & Depression by John C. Dawson,
Eakin, 1985
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The Big Bend: A History of the Last Texas Frontier, Ronie C. Tyler, Government
Printing Office, 1975
- Shadowed
Ground: America's Landscape of Violence and Tragedy, Kenneth E. Foote, UT Press,
1997
- From Alamo
Plaza to Jack Harris' Saloon: O. Henry and the Southwest He Knew, Joseph Gallagly,
Mouton & Co., The Hague, 1970
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Presidio La Bahia, Kathryn Stoner O'Conner, Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1966
- The
Chicken Ranch, Jan Hutson, A. S. Barnes and Company, 1980
- The
XIT Ranch of Texas and the Early Days of the Llano Estacado, J. Evetts Haley,
U of Oklahoma, 1953
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The Taft Ranch: A Texas Principality, A. Ray Stephens, University of Texas Press,
1964
- Historic
Texas Hotels and Country Inns by Linda Johnson and Sally Ross, Eakin Press, 1982
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The History and Mystery of the Menger Hotel by Docia Schultz Williams, Republic
of Texas Press, 2000- Stagecoach Inns of Texas, Kathryn Turner Carter, Texian
Press, 1972
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They Made Their Own Law: Stories of Bolivar Peninsula, Melanie Wiggins, Rice University
Press, 1990
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Boom and Bust: Historical Cycles of Brownsville and Matamoros, M. Kearney and
A. Knopp, Eakin, 1991- Border Cuates: A History of the U.S. - Mexican Twin Cities,
M. Kearney and A. Knopp, Eakin Press, 1995
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People and Plots on the Rio Grande, Virgil N. Lott and Virginia M. Fenwick, Naylor
Press, 1957
- Watterson
Folk of Bastrop County, Texas, D.L. Vest, Texian Press, 1963
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Forgotten Legions: Sheep in the Rio Grande Plain of Texas, Val Lehmann, U of Texas
El Paso Press, 1969
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Indianola: The Mother of Western Texas, Brownson Malsch, State House Press, 1988
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The Texas Panhandle Frontier by Frederick W. Rathjen, Texas Tech University Press,
1998
- Hill Country,
Richard Zelade, Gulf Publishing, 1999
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Yesterday in the Hill Country, Gilbert J. Jordan, Texas A & M Press, 1979
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History of Texas: Supplemented with Biographical Mention of many Families of the
State, Lewis Publishing, Chicago, Illinois, 1894
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Fort Worth: A Frontier Triumph, Julia Kathryn Garrett, Encino Press, Austin, 1972
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Peach Point Plantation: The first 150 years, Marie Beth Jones, Texian Press, 1982
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Fort Concho and the Texas Frontier, J, Evetts Haley, San Angelo Standard Times,
1952
- Unknown
Texas, Jonathan Eisen and Harold Straughn, Editors, MacMillian Publishing, 1988
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Texas
Chronological History - The
Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days, Noah Smithwick, W. Thomas
Taylor, 1995
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Frontier Regulars: The U.S. Army and the Indian, 1866 - 1890, Robert M. Utley,
McMillan Press
- Rip
Ford's Texas, John Salmon Ford, University of Texas Press, 1994
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Recollections of Early Texas:The Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins, UT Press, 1995
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The Book of Texas Days, Ron Stone, Shearer Publishing, 1984
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Texas in 1837: An Anonymous Contemporary Narrative, Andrew Muir, Editor, U of
Texas Press, 1958
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Texas in 1848 by Victor Bracht Translated by Charles Schmidt, German-Texas Heritage
Society, 1991
- Texas
1874: An Eyewitness Account of Conditions in Post-Reconstruction Texas, Edward
King and J. Wells Champney, Cordovan Press
- Soldiers
of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions, Sam W. Haynes, UT Press, 1997
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William Bollaert's Texas, Edited by W. Eugene Hollon and Ruth L. Butler, Uof Oklahoma
Press, 1956
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Texas from Spindletop Through World War II, James L. Haley, St. Martin's Press,
1993
- Roemer's
Texas, The German-Texan Heritage Society, Texian Press, 1983
- The
Boy Captive of the Mier Expedition by Mrs. Fannie C. Iglehart, publisher unknown,
circa 1930
- Soldiers
of Misfortune: The Somervell and Mier Expeditions, Sam W. Haynes, U of T Press
1990
- Texas History
Carved in Stone, William Moses Jones, Monument Publishing, 1958
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General
and Regional History - Muleshoe
and More, Bill Bradfield and Clare Bradfield, Gulf Publishing 1999
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Texas Towns A to Z, Bill and Clare Bradfield, Editors Three Forks Press 1996
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The Path to a Modern South: Northeast Texas Between Reconstruction and The Great
Depression - Walter L. Buenger, University of Texas Press 2001
- Why
Stop? Third Edition by Betty Dooley Awbrey and Claude Dooley, Gulf Publishing,
1978
- Off The
Beaten Trail, William Edward Syers, Texian Press, 1971
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Roadside History of Texas, Leon C. Metz, Mountain Press Publishing, 1994
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Texas Auto Trails: The Northeast, Myra Hargrave McIlvain, University of Texas
Press, 1984
- Texas
Auto Trails: The Southeast, Myra Hargrave McIlvain, University of Texas Press,
1984
- County
Maps of Texas, 1998, Published by the Texas Department of Transportation
- The
New Encyclopedia of Texas Published by the Texas Development Bureau, Dallas Texas,
c. 1926
- An
Informal History of Texas from Cabeza de Vaca to Temple Houston, Frank X. Tolbert,
Harper, 1961
- Eyes
of Texas Travel Guide, Panhandle Plains Edition, Ray Miller, Cordovan Press, 1982
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People
- The Irish Texans,
John Brendan Flannery, Institute of Texan Cultures, 1995
- The
Swedish Texans, Larry E. Scott, UT Institute of Texas Cultures, 1990
- The
English Texans, Thomas W. Cutrer, The Institute of Texan Cultures, 1985
- The
Wendish Texans, Sylvia Ann Grider Published by The Institute of Texan Cultures,
1982
- German
Seed in Texas Soil: Immigrant Farmers in 19th Century Texas, Terry Jordan, UT
Press, 1966
- Comanches:
Destruction of a People, T. R. Fehrenbach, Alfred A. Knopf. 1983
- A
Guide to Hispanic Texas, Edited by Helen Simons and Cathryn A. Hoyt, University
of Texas Press 1996
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Explorers & Settlers of Spanish Texas by Donald E. Chipman and Harriet Denise
Joseph, UT Press, 2001
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Life in Mexico Under Santa Anna 1822-1855 by Ruth R. Olivera and Liliane Crete,
U of Oklahoma Press
- Spanish
Texas 1519-1821 by Donald E. Chipman, University of Texas Press, 1992
- Anglos
and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836 - 1986, David Montejano, 1987
- Notable
American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary, E. James, Editor, Harvard
University Press, 1971
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The Golden Free Land: The Reminiscences and Letters of Women on the American Frontier,
Edited by Cystal Sasse Ragsdale, Landmark Press, 1976
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Lone Star Ladies: A Guide to Women's History in Texas, Melinda Rice, Republic
of Texas Press, 2002
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Texans: Oral Histories from the Lone Star State, Ron Strickland, Paragon Books,
1991
- Victorian
Lady on the Texas Frontier: The Journal of Ann Rainey Coleman, U of Oklahoma Press,
1971
- Wood Derricks,
Iron Men and Gold Women, Don F. Champion, Texian Press, 1991
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City
History - Abilene:
An American Centennial, Downs and Flukinger, Richardson Press, Hardin Simmons
University
- Big
Spring: The Casual Biography of a Prairie Town, Shine Philips, Prentice Hall,
1942
- Boomtown:
A Portrait of Burkburnett, Minnie King Benton, Nortex, 1972
- The
Story of Corpus Christi, Mrs. Mary A. Sutherland, Rein and Sons Publishers, Houston,
1916
- The History
of Sommerville, Texas 1895-1972, Joe V. Clouse, Education Services Center,Huntsville,
1972
- Dallas
Yesterday, Sam Acheson, SMU Press, 1979
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Dallas: The Making of a Modern City, Partricia Everidge Hill, UT Press, 1996
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Dallas Rediscovered: A Photographic Chronicle of Urban Expansion 1870-1925 William
L. McDonald
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El Paso: A Centennial Portrait, El Paso County Historical Society 1973
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The Galveston That Was, Howard Barnstone, Macmillan Publishing, 1966
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The Galveston Era: The Texas Crescent on the Eve of Succession, Earl Wesley Fornell,
UT Press, 1961
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Houston by Stages: A History of the Theater in Houston, Sue Dauphine, 1981
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Houston: The Unknown City: Marguarite Johnston, Texas A & M University, 1991
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Houston: The Feast Years, George Fuermann, Priemier Printing, 1964
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San Antonio: The Flavor Of It's Past, 1845 - 1898 by Donald E. Everett, trinity
University Press, 1983
- San
Antonio: Outpost of Empire by Lewis F. Fisher, Maverick Publishing, 1997
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San Antonio Uncovered, Mark Rybczyk, Republic of Texas Press, 2000
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Glamorous Days, (San Antonio), Frank H. Bushick, Naylor Press, 1934
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After Half Moon: A History of Shiner, Texas 1887 - 1975, Dorothy Blohne Goerte,
1974
- To Wear
a City's Crown: Beginnings of Urban Growth in Texas 1836 - 1865, by Kenneth W.Wheeler,
Harvard University Press, 1968
- Nature's
Metropolis: Chicago and The Great West, William Cronon, W. W. Norton and Co.,
1991
- A Pictorial
History of Waco, Roger N. Conger, Texian Press, 1998
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The Cattle Towns, Robert R. Dykstra, University of Nebraska Press, 1968
- The
History of Somerville 1895-1972, Joe V. Clouse, Education Service Center, Huntsville,
1973
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Individuals
- Lone Wolf Gonzaullas,
Texas Ranger by Browson Malsch. U of Oklahoma Press, 1980
- Rayburn:
A Biography, D.B. Hardeman & Donald C. Bacon, Madison Books, 1989
- The
Best of Brann: The Iconoclast - Selected Articles, Edited by Roger Conger, Texian
Press, 1967
- Shanghai
Pierce: A Fair Likeness, Chris Emmett, University of Oklahoma Press, 1953
- Judge
Robert McAlpin: Texas' Three-legged Willie, D. W. Robinson, Texas State Historical
Ass'n, 1948
- Dick
Dowling at Sabine Pass, Frank X. Tolbert, McGraw-Hill, 1962
- The
Lives of Ellis P. Bean, Bennet Lay, University of Texas Press, 1960
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Lillie Langtry: Her Life in Words and Pictures, Jeremy Birkett and John Richardson,
Megaron Press, 1979
- Anson
Jones: The Last President of Texas, Herbert Gambrell, University of Texas Press,
1964
- Mary Austin
Holley: A Biography, Rebecca Smith Lee, University of Texas Press, 1987
- The
Life of Stephen F. Austin Founder of Texas, 1793-1836, Eugene C. Barker, UT Press,
1926
- Jeff Milton:
A Good Man with a Gun, J. Evetts Haley, University of Oklahoma Press, 1948
- Portrait
of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe, Laura Lisle, Simon and Schuster,
1980
- The Golden
Heritage and Silver Tongue of Temple Lea Houston by Bernice Tune, Eakin Press
1981
- Temple
Houston: Lawyer with a Gun, Glenn Shirley, University of Oklahoma Press, 1980
- Sam
Houston: The Life & Times of the Liberator of Texas by John Williams, Simon &
Schuster, 1994
- Sam
Houston, John Hoyt Williams, Touchstone Press, 1993
- Sam
Houston, James Haley, University of Oklahoma Press, 2002
- Sword
of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston, by Marshall De Bruhl, Random House, 1993
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Education
- The Development of
Education in Texas, Frederick Eby, Macmillian Company, 1925
- Chalk
Dust Dreams: Adventures of a Rural Teacher by Cleo Schiewitz Leissner, Naylor
Press, 1974
- Ringing
the Children In: Texas Country Schools by T. Sitton and M. C. Rowold, Texas A
& M Press, 1987
- The
Empty Schoolhouse: Memoirs of One Room Texas Schools, Collected and Edited by
Luther Bryan, Texas A & M University Press, 1997
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Journey From Ignorant Ridge, The Texas Teacher's Alliance, 1976
- Baylor
at Independence, 1845-1886, Lois Smith Murray, Baylor University Press, 1972
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Sociology
- No Dancin' in Anson:
An American Story of Race and Social Change, Ricardo C. Ainslie, Aronson, 1995
- The
Book of Smith, Elsdon C. Smith, Nellen, Publishing, 1978
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Ghosts in the Graveyard: Texas Cemetery Tales, Olyve Hallmark Abbot, Republic
of Texas Press, 2002
- Texas
Cemeteries, by Terry Jordan, University of Oklahoma Press
- Low
Life: Lures and Snares of Old New York, Luc Sante, Farrar, Strauss, Giroux, 1991
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Chronicle of a Small Town, (Jayton, Texas), Jim W. Corder, Texas A & M, 1989
- Italian
Prisoners of War and a Texas Church, Donald Mace Williams, Texas Tech Press, 1992
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Women and Indians on the Frontier 1825-1915, Glenda Riley, U of New Mexico Press,
1984
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Occupations
- The Expressmen, Time-Life
Series: The Old West, Time-Life Publishers, 1974
- The
Medicine Man in Texas by George Plunkett Red, Houston Standard Printing & Lithographic
Co., 1930
- Livery
Stable Days, Upton Barnard, Naylor Press, 1959
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Lone Stars and State Gazettes: Texas Newspapers before the Civil War by M. M.
Sibley, Texas A&M University Press, 1983
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One League to Each Wind: Early Surveying in Texas, Ed. Sue Watkins, Von-Boeckmann-Jones,
1973
- Blades
in the Sky: Windmilling through the Eyes of "Tex" Burdick by T. Lindsey Baker,
TTU 1992
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Crime
and Outlaws - Frontier
Violence: Another Look, W. Eugene Hollon, Oxford University Press, 1974
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Outlaws in the Big Thicket, Wanda Landrey, Nortex Press, 1974
- The
Newton Boys: Portrait of an Outlaw Gang, Willis and Joe Newton, as told to Claude
Stanush and David Middleton, State House Press, 1994
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Bringing the Law to Texas: Crime and Violence in Nineteenth Century Texas, A.
G. Hatley, Centex, 2002
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Badmen, Bad Women and Bad Places by Charley Eckhardt, Texas Tech University Press,
1999
- Running
with Bonnie and Clyde: The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults by John Neal Phillips,
University of Oklahoma Press, 1996
- Carpetbaggers,
Scalawags and Others, Traylor Russell, Texian Press, 1973
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Life and Adventures of Ben Thompson: The Famous Texan by Wm. M Walton, 1954
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Depression Desperado: The Chronicle of Raymond Hamilton. Sid Underwood, Eakin
Press, 1995
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Folklore
and Memoirs -
The Reluctant Warrior, Heino R. Erichken, Eakin Press, 2001
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Tell Me a Texas Story, June Rayfield Welch, Yellow Rose Press, Davis Brothers,
Publishing, 1991
- Wood
Derricks, Iron Men and Gold Women, Don F. Champion, Texian Press, 1984
- Legends
of the Red River Valley, Bright Ray, Naylor Press, 1941
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I Remember Things: An Informal History of Tioga, Texas by R. Estes, J. Duncan,
Ed. Nortex Press 1977
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I Was A Teen in the Thirties, Harold Bell, Decatur, Texas, 2002
- Sironia,
Texas, Madison A. Cooper Jr., Houghton Mifflin, 1951
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Water
and Ecology - Saving
the Best of Texas, by Richard C. Bartlett, University of Texas Press, 1995
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Splash Across Texas! By Chandra Moria Beal, La Luna Publishing, Austin, 1999
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Taking the Waters in Texas: Springs, Spas and Fountains of Youth, Janet Mace Valenza,
UT Press, 2000
- Crazy
Water: The Story of Mineral Wells and other Texas Health Resorts, Gene Fowler,
TCU Press, 1991
- Springs
of Texas Volume One, by Gunnar Brune, Dallas, 1974
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Rivers of Texas, Verne Huser, Texas A & M Press, 2000
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Railroads
and Aviation -
Boll Weevil: Recollections of the Trinity & Brazos Valley Railway, J.L. Allhands,
Anson Jones, 1946
- The
Quanah Route: A History of the Quanah, Acme and Pacific Railroad, Texas A & M
Press, 1991
- The
Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier, V. V. Masterson, University of Oklahoma Press,
1952
- Wings Over
the Mexican Border, Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale, University of Texas Press, 1987
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A History of Texas Railroads, S. G. Reed, St. Claire Publishing, 1941
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The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985, Don L. Hofsommer, Texas A & M Press, 1986
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Weather
- The Tornado, by John
Edward Weems, Texas A & M Press 1977
- Tornado:
Texas Demon in the Wind, by Dudley Lynch, Texian Press, 1970
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Articles
- Carry Nation: Your
Loving Home Defender, by Jan Holden, article, Old West Magazine, Spring 1999
- Bonnet,
Book and Hatchet, by Stewart H. Holbrook, American Heritage Magazine, December
1957
- Carry
Nation Vs. John L. Sullivan, Herbert Asbury, The New Yorker Magazine, 1933
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The Empty Square, by Alan Ehrenhalt, Preservation Magazine, March / April 2000
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Old Stone Prison to Receive Facelift, by Tina Mercurio, Wise County Messenger,
June 2002
- Legendary
Ladies of Texas, Publication of the Texas Folklore Society Number XLIII, 1981
- History
of Washington County Courthouses, Dorothy Utesch, Brenham Fortnightly Club, Feb.
1972
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Interviews
- George Koudelka, Fayette
County Historian, Flatonia Memoirs, March, 2002
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Gary McKee, Fayette County Historian, Schulenburg Memoirs, February, 2001
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Mary Jo Jarvis nee Long, Delta County Memoirs, April 2002
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The Oldenburg Hammerfest Blacksmiths, October 5, 2002
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Harold Bell, Wise County Historian, Telephone Interview, October, 2002
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Margaret Waring, Comanche County Librarian, Interview, February, 2001
- Clara
Mounce, Director, The Carnegie Center for Brazos Valley History, September, 2002
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