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Conflict and Commerce on the Rio Grande
Laredo is a city at the crossroads of North American history. Founded by the Spanish in 1755, it has stood at the intersection of regional commerce since its earliest days. Now, …
Salt Warriors
The El Paso Salt War of 1877 has gone down in history as the spontaneous ""action of a mindless rabble,"" but as author Paul Cool deftly demonstrates, the episode was actually an …
Civil War to the Bloody End
If President Lincoln could have unmade a general, perhaps he would have started with Samuel Peter ""Sourdough"" Heintzelman, whose early military successes were overshadowed by a …
A Private in the Texas Rangers
A ride along the fading Texas-Oklahoma frontier. Three diaries, written by A.T. Miller and excerpted and annotated by his grandson for this volume, provide a tale of true crime and …
John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman
Texas, by God! cried notorious killer John Wesley Hardin when he saw a Colt. 45 pointed at him on a train in Florida. At the other end of the pistol stood Texas Ranger John B. …
Border Boss
Delineates Bravo's political career in the Democratic party and examines his role in some of the issues of his day, especially the construction of Falcon Dam.
Frontier Crossroads
The idea of the West conjures exciting images of tenacious men and women, huge expanses of unclaimed territory, and feelings of both adventure and lonesome isolation. Located …
Civil War in the Southwest
In 1861 and 1862, in the vast deserts and rugged mountains of the Southwest, eighteen hundred miles from Washington and Richmond, the Civil War raged in a struggle that could have …
Indian Agent
How can the life of one relatively unknown man change our understanding of Texas history and the American West? Peter Ellis Bean, a fairly minor, but altogether fascinating …
The Yankee Invasion of Texas
In 1863 the Union capture of Texas was viewed as crucial to the strategy to deny the Confederacy the territory west of the Mississippi and thus to break the back of its military …