[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013] (open access)

[Abilene City Council Minutes: 2013]

Ledger containing minutes of the City Council in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from January 10, 2013 to December 19, 2013.
Date: 2013-01-10/2013-12-19
Creator: Abilene (Tex.)
System: The Portal to Texas History
Woman's Wednesday Club Scrapbook, 2013-2014 (open access)

Woman's Wednesday Club Scrapbook, 2013-2014

Scrapbook for the Woman's Wednesday Club, documenting the activities of the club from 2013 to 2014 through photographs and some text materials.
Date: 2013/2014
Creator: unknown
System: The Portal to Texas History
Guide to Texas Legislative Information, 83rd Legislature (open access)

Guide to Texas Legislative Information, 83rd Legislature

Reference guide for information about the Texas legislature including the legislative process, relevant websites, publications, and relevant services. "The purpose of this publication is to help legislators, other state officials and employees, and interested citizens in researching the work of past legislatures and in tracking the work of the current legislature" (p. v).
Date: 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Capitol Complex Telephone Directory, 2013 (open access)

Texas Capitol Complex Telephone Directory, 2013

Texas Capitol Complex telephone directory, with maps, updated in 2013.
Date: 2013
Creator: Texas. Department of Information Resources.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas: A Biographical Dictionary (open access)

Civil War Soldiers of Kendall County, Texas: A Biographical Dictionary

Book containing an alphabetical list of persons from Kendall County, Texas who served in the military during the Civil War, with any known biographical information about each person. There is also relevant background information about the area in the preface, and a series of tables at the end of the book, containing additional reference material. A table of contents is on page v.
Date: 2013
Creator: Kiel, Frank Wilson 1930-
System: The Portal to Texas History

Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century

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Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century is an anthology of fifteen previously published articles and chapter excerpts covering key topics of the Texas Rangers during the twentieth century. The task of determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge. The actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the Mexican Revolution, for example, some murdered with impunity. Others sought to restore order in the border communities as well as in the remainder of Texas. It is not lack of interest that complicates the unveiling of the mythical force. With the possible exception of the Alamo, probably more has been written about the Texas Rangers than any other aspect of Texas history. Tracking the Texas Rangers covers leaders such as Captains Bill McDonald, “Lone Wolf” Gonzaullas, and Barry Caver, accomplished Rangers like Joaquin Jackson and Arthur Hill, and the use of Rangers in the Mexican Revolution. Chapters discuss their role in the oil fields, in riots, and in capturing outlaws. Most important, the Rangers of the twentieth century experienced changes in …
Date: September 15, 2013
Creator: Glasrud, Bruce A. & Weiss, Harold J. Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Waybourn, May 22, 2013

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Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and reflections on his career.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Mims, Michael & Waybourn, William
System: The UNT Digital Library

This Corner of Canaan: Essays on Texas in Honor of Randolph B. Campbell

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Randolph B. “Mike” Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell’s collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state’s southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell’s pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas. In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell’s colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas’s history—ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty—to honor Campbell’s deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field—as well as rising stars—the volume offers the latest scholarship …
Date: February 15, 2013
Creator: McCaslin, Richard B.; Chipman, Donald E. & Torget, Andrew J.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Refuge on the Rio Grande: A Regional History of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park (open access)

Refuge on the Rio Grande: A Regional History of Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park

Book about the history of the Bentsen-Rio Grande Valley State Park.
Date: August 2013
Creator: Leffler, John J.
System: The Portal to Texas History

A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West

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John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and Florida law officials. He certainly killed twenty men; some credited him with killing forty or more. After sixteen years in Huntsville prison he was pardoned by Governor Hogg. For a short while he avoided trouble and roamed westward, eventually establishing a home of sorts in wild and woolly El Paso as an attorney. He became embroiled in the dark side of that city and eventually lost his final gunfight to an El Paso constable, John Selman. Hardin was forty-two years old. Besides his reputation as the deadliest man with a six-gun, he left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Chuck Parsons and Norman Wayne Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, …
Date: June 15, 2013
Creator: Parsons, Chuck & Brown, Norman Wayne
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Don Maison, July 30, 2013

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Interview with Don Maison, President and Chief Executive Officer of AIDS services of Dallas. The interview includes Maison's personal experiences about his childhood, working with the Dallas County Juvenile Department, being gay, being involved with the gay community, and his experiences as a lawyer. He particularly talks about being involved with the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Village Station arrests, and the AIDS crisis.
Date: July 30, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Maison, Don
System: The UNT Digital Library
Procedures Manual For Joint Committees, 83rd Legislative Interim (open access)

Procedures Manual For Joint Committees, 83rd Legislative Interim

A manual to procedures for joint committees authorized by the 83rd Legislature of Texas.
Date: 2013
Creator: Texas Legislative Council
System: The Portal to Texas History
University of Texas at San Antonio Operating Budget: 2014 (open access)

University of Texas at San Antonio Operating Budget: 2014

Proposed budget for University of Texas at San Antonio outlining projected income and expenditures, with supporting documentation.
Date: August 21, 2013
Creator: University of Texas at San Antonio
System: The Portal to Texas History

Mexico and Mexicans in the Making of the United States

Collection of essays about the history of influence of Mexican and Hispanic economic, political, and cultural interactions have affected the development of the United States throughout its history. Index starts on page 315.
Date: 2013
Creator: Tutino, John
System: The Portal to Texas History

Col. William N. Selig: The Man Who Invented Hollywood

A book about Col. William N. Selig's career as an early cinematic pioneer and movie director and founder of the film industry that became Hollywood in Los Angeles.
Date: 2013
Creator: Erish, Andrew A.
System: The Portal to Texas History
General Appropriations Act for the 2014-15 Biennium (open access)

General Appropriations Act for the 2014-15 Biennium

Text of bills passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 that would affect biennial appropriations by the legislature 2014-2015, including the text of the conference committee report on Senate Bill No. 1.
Date: May 23, 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature.
System: The Portal to Texas History
General Appropriations Act For The 2014-2015 Biennium (open access)

General Appropriations Act For The 2014-2015 Biennium

Text of bills passed by the Texas Legislature in 2013 that would affect biennial appropriations by the legislature 2014-2015, including the text of the conference committee report on Senate Bill No. 1.
Date: 2013
Creator: Texas. Legislature.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Riding Lucifer's Line: Ranger Deaths Along the Texas-mexico Border

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The Texas-Mexico border is trouble. Haphazardly splashing across the meandering Rio Grande into Mexico is—or at least can be—risky business, hazardous to one’s health and well-being. Kirby W. Dendy, the Chief of Texas Rangers, corroborates the sobering reality: “As their predecessors for over one hundred forty years before them did, today’s Texas Rangers continue to battle violence and transnational criminals along the Texas-Mexico border.” In Riding Lucifer’s Line, Bob Alexander, in his characteristic storytelling style, surveys the personal tragedies of twenty-five Texas Rangers who made the ultimate sacrifice as they scouted and enforced laws throughout borderland counties adjacent to the Rio Grande. The timeframe commences in 1874 with formation of the Frontier Battalion, which is when the Texas Rangers were actually institutionalized as a law enforcing entity, and concludes with the last known Texas Ranger death along the border in 1921. Alexander also discusses the transition of the Rangers in two introductory sections: “The Frontier Battalion Era, 1874-1901” and “The Ranger Force Era, 1901-1935,” wherein he follows Texas Rangers moving from an epochal narrative of the Old West to more modern, technological times. Written absent a preprogrammed agenda, Riding Lucifer’s Line is legitimate history. Adhering to facts, the author is …
Date: May 15, 2013
Creator: Alexander, Bob
System: The UNT Digital Library

Wild Tongues: Transnational Mexican Popular Culture

A book studying transnational Mexican popular culture and Chicana experience. Index starts on page 207.
Date: 2013
Creator: Urquijo-Ruiz, Rita E.
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, October 10, 2013

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Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, a yogini from Lynn, Massachusetts. Gaudette discusses growing up, discovering a love of nature, astrology and spiritualism, meditation, considering a monastic vocation as a teenager and quitting religion, thoughts on her family's struggles, her marriage and divorce, having a son, becoming a Ayurvedic yogini, reading charts, planetary energy, Scott and Helen Nearing, dowsing, death and souls, chakras, and Helen Nearing's death.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Gaudette, Jeanne
System: The UNT Digital Library
Innovation with Purpose: Lockheed Martin's First 100 Years (open access)

Innovation with Purpose: Lockheed Martin's First 100 Years

Book outlining the history of the Lockheed Martin aerospace company, including its initial start near the end of the 19th century through 2017, with speculation about the future. Chapters are organized chronologically, describing the various business decisions, design innovations, and other work that occurred during particular decades, with relation to wider aviation and technological history. Index starts on page 263.
Date: 2013
Creator: The History Factory
System: The Portal to Texas History

Power, Institutions, and Leadership in War and Peace: Lessons from Peru and Ecuador 1995-1998

This book discusses the boundary dispute war between Ecuador and Peru in 1995 and the role of institutions, leadership, and power played in leading to the war and making peace.
Date: 2013
Creator: Mares, David R. & Palmer, David Scott
System: The Portal to Texas History
Schools of Hunt, Texas : A Pictorial History 1880s-1980s (open access)

Schools of Hunt, Texas : A Pictorial History 1880s-1980s

A book on the history of schools in Hunt, Texas, featuring photographs of students, faculty, and teachers, ephemeral items, and the schools themselves through the decades..
Date: November 2013
Creator: Sutton, Jeanne Schumacher
System: The Portal to Texas History
College of Music Program Book 2012-2013: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 3 (open access)

College of Music Program Book 2012-2013: Ensemble & Other Performances, Volume 3

Ensemble performances program book from the 2012-2013 school year at the University of North Texas College of Music.
Date: 2013
Creator: University of North Texas. College of Music.
System: The UNT Digital Library