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TEXAS
BOOKSAnnouncement
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
Indian
Emily by Mike
Cox 10-2-08
One of the most romantic stories in the lore of the Old West originated at Fort
Davis in the late 1860s...
The story goes back to 1919, when Carlyle Graham
Raht included it in his book, “Romance of the Davis Mountains and the Big Bend
Country.”
Gideon
Lincecum: King of Texas’ Wild Frontier by
Clay Coppedge 8-24-08
"Adventures
of A Frontier Naturalist: The Life and Times of Gideon Lincecum" Jerry Bryan
Lincecum and Edward Hake Phillips’ collection of Gideon Lincecum’s writings Adventures
of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of War by Mel Brown 6-26-08
A
gifted writer by Bob Bowman 6-1-08
Landon Bradshaw wrote only one book, “These People Actually Lived in East Texas.”
People who have copies cherish it with an affection reserved only for their wives
and rich uncles. 'No
Person Shall Put Asunder' by Benard Burson
A
Texas-Norwegian-German Valentine - A synopsis 2-14-08Remembering
the Bastrop Chronicler by Murray Montgomery
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“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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