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TEXAS BOOKS
Announcement
Mike Cox's
"The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900," the first
of a two-volume, 250,000-word definitive history of the Rangers, will
be released by Forge Books in New York on March 18.
Kirkus Review, the American Library Association's Book List and the
San Antonio Express-News have all written rave reviews about this
book, the first mainstream, popular history of the Rangers since 1935.
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Texas
Books
Books about Texas that you may be unaware of.
Include independent publishers and the presses of various universities.
Titles are chosen from a wide range of topics we feel would be of
interest to our readers, including architecture, ghosts ,people, places,
history, war, law, outlaws...
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People
Remembering
the Bastrop Chronicler by Murray Montgomery 5-19-07
This particular story originally came from a book titled "Recollections
of Early Texas" written by a man know as the "Bastrop chronicler."
His real name was John Holmes Jenkins...
Kingsbury
Hall: The Genealogy of a Family
by Kenneth Kingsbury 4-10-07
“Sam B. Hall,
Jr.: Whatever is Right,” by Jerry Summers
“Go
straight to hell.” by Bob Bowman
Sam B. Hall, Jr., the son of an East Texas lawyer and judge who
rose to a leadership role in Congress and finished his career as
a federal judge, was one of East Texas’ most interesting contemporary
politicians.
Hall’s life is profiled in a new book, “Sam B. Hall, Jr.: Whatever
is Right,” by Jerry Summers, who serves as the Sam B. Hall, Jr.
Professor of History at East Texas Baptist University in Marshall.
Please
Pass the Biscuits, Pappy: Pictures of Governor W. Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel
(Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series) by Bill Crawford
Pass the Biscuits, Pappy by Bob Bowman
"From
My Mother's Hands" by Susie Kelly Flatau
"Swedish
Texans"
by
Dr. Larry Scott
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