Riding for the Lone Star: Frontier Cavalry and the Texas Way of War, 1822-1865

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
Historical description of military operations organized into eight chapters covering frontier Texas: [1] Tribal Warfare of Colonial Tejas, 1822-1835, [2] The War for Texian Independence, 1835-1836, [3] Conflicts of the Early Texas Republic, 1836-1838, [4] Conflicts of the Middle Texas Republic, 1838-1840, [5] Conflicts of the Late Texas Republic, 1841-1845, [6] The Mexican-American War, 1846-1848, [7] Conflicts of Antebellum Texas, 1846-1861, and [8] The War for Confederate Independence, 1861-1865. Index starts on page 393.
Date: February 2016
Creator: Jennings, Nathan A.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 204, Ed. 1 Monday, February 22, 2016 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 204, Ed. 1 Monday, February 22, 2016

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 22, 2016
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 186, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 2016 (open access)

Denton Record-Chronicle (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 112, No. 186, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 2016

Daily newspaper from Denton, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 4, 2016
Creator: Parks, Scott K.
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 2016 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 8, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 25, 2016

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 25, 2016
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 2016 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 6, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 11, 2016

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 11, 2016
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 2016 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 7, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 18, 2016

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 18, 2016
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 2016 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 5, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 4, 2016

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 4, 2016
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sheldon Graham, February 16, 2016 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Sheldon Graham, February 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Sheldon Graham. Graham joined the Army in mid-1944. He completed Officer Candidate School just as the war ended. Graham continued his service, joining the 6th Infantry Division, 20th Infantry Regiment, and served with occupation forces in Korea. He returned to the US and received his discharge in October of 1946. Graham remained in the reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1979.
Date: February 16, 2016
Creator: Graham, Sheldon
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sheldon Graham, February 16, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with Sheldon Graham, February 16, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Sheldon Graham. Graham joined the Army in mid-1944. He completed Officer Candidate School just as the war ended. Graham continued his service, joining the 6th Infantry Division, 20th Infantry Regiment, and served with occupation forces in Korea. He returned to the US and received his discharge in October of 1946. Graham remained in the reserves, retiring as a colonel in 1979.
Date: February 16, 2016
Creator: Graham, Sheldon
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Goodman, February 25, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert Goodman, February 25, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Robert Goodman. Goodman graduated from Virginia Military Institute in May of 1942 in Electrical Engineering. He served as a Communications Officer with the Signal Corps Company. Goodman traveled to Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia, India and Iran. In Iran, his job was to establish a link between the US and Russia in preparation for a supply route. Working with Morse Code, he encoded and decoded messages in a radio room. His was a technical group, not a fighting group. Goodman returned to the US and received his discharge in 1946.
Date: February 25, 2016
Creator: Goodman, Robert
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 2016 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 5, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 10, 2016
Creator: Conn, Brittany
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 99, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 21, 2016 (open access)

Sapulpa Daily Herald (Sapulpa, Okla.), Vol. 101, No. 99, Ed. 1 Sunday, February 21, 2016

Daily newspaper from Sapulpa, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 21, 2016
Creator: Brock, John
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 13, 2016 (open access)

The Port Lavaca Wave (Port Lavaca, Tex.), Vol. 125, No. 10, Ed. 1 Saturday, February 13, 2016

Semiweekly newspaper from Port Lavaca, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 13, 2016
Creator: French, Tania
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Charles Huffman, February 26, 2016 transcript

Oral History Interview with Charles Huffman, February 26, 2016

The National Museum of the Pacific War presents an interview with Charles Huffman. Huffman joined the Navy in March of 1944. He completed Midshipman’s School in mid-1945, and was completing Advanced-Line Officers School in Florida, when the atomic bomb was dropped. He continued his service after the war ended, traveling to Naval Supply Depots in the Pacific, processing supply requests. Huffman returned to the US in August of 1946, though remained in the reserves through May of 1958.
Date: February 26, 2016
Creator: Huffman, Charles
Object Type: Sound
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 2016 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 10, Ed. 1 Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 17, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 2016 (open access)

The Light and Champion (Center, Tex.), Vol. 139, No. 15, Ed. 1 Friday, February 19, 2016

Semiweekly newspaper from Center, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: February 19, 2016
Creator: Snyder, Steve
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms (open access)

Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

The Joint Publication 1-02, Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms sets forth standard US military and associated terminology to encompass the joint activity of the Armed Forces of the United States. These military and associated terms, together with their definitions, constitute approved Department of Defense (DOD) terminology for general use by all DOD components. This publication supplements standard English-language dictionaries and standardizes military and associated terminology to improve communication and mutual understanding within DOD, with other federal agencies, and among the United States and its allies.
Date: February 15, 2016
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library