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The Bounty of Texas
This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a miscellany of Texas, Mexican and Spanish folklore, including information about hunting, canning, cooking, and other folklore. The index begins on page 225.
Date:
1990
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 1, 1909-1943
Book describing the history and publications of the Texas Folklore Society between the years of 1909 and 1943. It includes information about "public songs and ballads; superstitions, signs and omens; cures and peculiar customs; legends; dialects; games, plays and dances; riddles and proverbs" (inside front cover). The index begins on page 317.
Date:
1992
Creator:
Abernethy, Francis Edward
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Abilene Board of Commissioners Minutes: 1931-1938]
Ledger containing minutes of the city Board of Commissioners in Abilene, Texas documenting the group's discussions and activities from July 3, 1931 to January 31, 1938. An index with names is included at the front.
Date:
1931-07-03/1938-01-31
Creator:
Abilene (Tex.)
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Prickly Pear, Yearbook of Abilene Christian College, 1972
Yearbook for Abilene Christian College in Abilene, Texas includes photos of and information about the school, student body, professors, and organizations.
Date:
1972
Creator:
Abilene Christian College
Object Type:
Yearbook
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Harper County Democrat (Buffalo, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 12, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Buffalo, Oklahoma that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 12, 1912
Creator:
Adams, E. Lee
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
Inventory of county records, Travis County courthouse, Austin, Texas, Volume 1
Inventory of records of Travis County housed in the Travis County courthouse in Austin. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the Commissioners Court, County Clerk, Tax Assessor-Collector, Treasurer, Auditor, Personnel Department, County School Superintendent, County Engineer, Veterans County Service Officer. Also provides a list of Travis County records and an index.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Adams, Kate; Fortin, Maurice G.; Riney, James E. & Dunn, Brother William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Inventory of county records, Travis County courthouse, Austin, Texas, Volume 2
Inventory of records of Travis County housed in the Travis County courthouse in Austin. Begins with an introduction and explanation of the roles of various county government offices. Describes the records of the District Clerk, Adult Probation, Domestic Relations - Juvenile, District Attorney, County Clerk as Clerk of the County Court, County Attorney, Justice of the Peace, Medical Examiner, Sheriff, and Constable. Also provides a list of Travis County records and an index.
Date:
1978
Creator:
Adams, Kate; Fortin, Maurice G.; Riney, James E. & Dunn, Brother William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Economic Development in Texas During Reconstruction, 1865-1875
The study challenges many traditional stereotypes of Texas during Reconstruction. Contrary to what Democrats charged, the Davis government did not levy exorbitant taxes. Radical taxes seemed high in comparison to antebellum taxes, because antebellum governments had financed operations with indemnity bonds, but they were not high in comparison to taxes in other states. Radical taxes constituted only 1.77 percent of the assessed value of property in Texas, which was lower than the average for the United States and about the same for other states undergoing Reconstruction. In Texas most of the tax increases during Reconstruction were made necessary by the Civil War and the increase in population. The tax increases paid for state and local governments, frontier and local protection, public buildings, internal improvements, and public schools. Edmund J. Davis, Radical governor, contributed significantly to Texas government when he attempted to focus attention on reforming the tax system,limiting state expenses to state income, limiting state aid for railroad companies, and protecting the public from railroad company abuses.
Date:
August 1980
Creator:
Adams, Larry Earl
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Education of Women in Texas
Study of the history of women's education in Texas. This work discusses the foundations of education in Texas and the factors that influenced the growth of women's education within the state. The index begins on page 179.
Date:
1957
Creator:
Aiken, Wreathy Price
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Wills Road Map: Practical Considerations in Will Drafting
From introduction: "The purpose of Wills Road Map is to pull together legal concepts from various areas that impact the preparation of wills, including wills, probate, and trust law. While it features a very basic discussion of estate tax planning, the primary focus is on the various state law issues [...] to provide practical help, so the emphasis is on addressing principles that can affect the will beyond the language used in the will itself" (p. xiii).
Date:
2014
Creator:
Akers, Steve R.; Jones, Bernard E. & Watts, R. J., II
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
German singing Societies in Texas
The Germans who immigrated to Texas in the 1830s, 40s, and 50s brought with them many and varied cultural institutions which they had known and enjoyed in Europe. As soon as the initial hardships of the frontier could be overcome, they eagerly established singing societies in the Lidertafel tradition. These organizations were to have a profound impact on music in Texas from about 1850 to the time of World War I.
Date:
May 1975
Creator:
Albrecht, Theodore
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Boerne Star (Boerne, Tex.), Vol. 93, No. 104, Ed. 1 Tuesday, December 30, 1997
Semiweekly newspaper from Boerne, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
December 30, 1997
Creator:
Aldridge, Leon
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Rawhide Ranger, Ira Aten: Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier
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Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unit—and Aten—would have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas. The preponderance of Texas Ranger treatments center on the outfit as an institution or spotlight the narratives of specific captains. Bob Alexander aptly demonstrated in Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901 that there is merit in probing the lives of everyday working Rangers. Aten is an ideal example. The years Ira spent as a Ranger are jam-packed with adventure, border troubles, shoot-outs, solving major crimes—a quadruple homicide—and manhunts. Aten’s role in these and epochal Texas events such as the racially insensitive Jaybird/Woodpecker Feud and the bloody Fence Cutting Wars earned Ira’s spot in the Ranger Hall of Fame. His law enforcing deeds transcend days with the Rangers. Ira served two counties as sheriff, terms spiked with excitement. Afterward, for ten years on the XIT, he was tasked with clearing the ranch’s Escarbada Division of cattle thieves. Aten’s story spins on an axis of spine-tingling Texas history. Moving to California, Ira was active in transforming …
Date:
July 15, 2011
Creator:
Alexander, Bob
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands: The Wild West Life of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones
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Many well-read students, historians, and loyal aficionados of Texas Ranger lore know the name of Texas Ranger Captain Frank Jones (1856-1893), who died on the Texas-Mexico border in a shootout with Mexican rustlers. In Six-Shooters and Shifting Sands, Bob Alexander has now penned the first full-length biography of this important nineteenth-century Texas Ranger. At an early age Frank Jones, a native Texan, would become a Frontier Battalion era Ranger. His enlistment with the Rangers coincided with their transition from Indian fighters to lawmen. While serving in the Frontier Battalion officers' corps of Company D, Frank Jones supervised three of the four “great” captains of that era: J.A. Brooks, John H. Rogers, and John R. Hughes. Besides Austin Ira Aten and his younger brothers Calvin Grant Aten and Edwin Dunlap Aten, Captain Jones also managed law enforcement activities of numerous other noteworthy Rangers, such as Philip Cuney "P.C." Baird, Benjamin Dennis Lindsey, Bazzell Lamar "Baz" Outlaw, J. Walter Durbin, Jim King, Frank Schmid, and Charley Fusselman, to name just a few. Frank Jones’ law enforcing life was anything but boring. Not only would he find himself dodging bullets and returning fire, but those Rangers under his supervision would also experience gunplay. …
Date:
March 2015
Creator:
Alexander, Bob
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Whiskey River Ranger: The Old West Life of Baz Outlaw
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Captain Frank Jones, a famed nineteenth-century Texas Ranger, said of his company’s top sergeant, Baz Outlaw (1854-1894), “A man of unusual courage and coolness and in a close place is worth two or three ordinary men.” Another old-time Texas Ranger declared that Baz Outlaw “was one of the worst and most dangerous” because “he never knew what fear was.” But not all thought so highly of him. In Whiskey River Ranger, Bob Alexander tells for the first time the full story of this troubled Texas Ranger and his losing battle with alcoholism. In his career Baz Outlaw wore a badge as a Texas Ranger and also as a Deputy U.S. Marshal. He could be a fearless and crackerjack lawman, as well as an unmanageable manic. Although Baz Outlaw’s badge-wearing career was sometimes heroically creditable, at other times his self-induced nightmarish imbroglios teased and tested Texas Ranger management’s resoluteness. Baz Outlaw’s true-life story is jam-packed with fellows owning well-known names, including Texas Rangers, city marshals, sheriffs, and steely-eyed mean-spirited miscreants. Baz Outlaw’s tale is complete with horseback chases, explosive train robberies, vigilante justice (or injustice), nighttime ambushes and bushwhacking, and episodes of scorching six-shooter finality. Baz met his end in a …
Date:
April 2016
Creator:
Alexander, Bob
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Winchester Warriors: Texas Rangers of Company D, 1874-1901
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The Texas Rangers were institutionally birthed in 1874 with the formation of the Frontier Battalion. They were tasked with interdicting Indian incursions into the frontier settlements and dealing with the lawlessness running rampant throughout Texas. In an effort to put a human face on the Rangers, Bob Alexander tells the story of one of the six companies of the Frontier Battalion, Company D. Readers follow the Rangers of Company D as—over time—it transforms from a unit of adventurous boys into a reasonably well-oiled law enforcement machine staffed by career-oriented lawmen. Beginning with their start as Indian fighters against the Comanches and Kiowas, Alexander explores the history of Company D as they rounded up numerous Texas outlaws and cattle thieves, engaged in border skirmishes along the Rio Grande, and participated in notable episodes such as the fence cutter wars. Winchester Warriors is an evenhanded and impartial assessment of Company D and its colorful cadre of Texas Rangers. Their laudable deeds are explored in detail, but by the same token their shameful misadventures are not whitewashed. These Texas Rangers were simply people, good and bad—and sometimes indifferent. This new study, extensively researched in both primary and secondary sources, will appeal to scholars …
Date:
August 15, 2009
Creator:
Alexander, Bob
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Tall Walls and High Fences: Officers and Offenders, the Texas Prison Story
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Texas has one of the world’s largest prison systems, in operation for more than 170 years and currently employing more than 28,000 people. Hundreds of thousands of people have been involved in the prison business in Texas: inmates, correctional officers, public officials, private industry representatives, and volunteers have all entered the secure facilities and experienced a different world. Previous books on Texas prisons have focused either on records and data of the prisons, personal memoirs by both inmates and correctional officers, or accounts of prison breaks. Tall Walls and High Fences is the first comprehensive history of Texas prisons, written by a former law enforcement officer and an officer of the Texas prisons. Bob Alexander and Richard K. Alford chronicle the significant events and transformation of the Texas prison system from its earliest times to the present day, paying special attention to the human side of the story. Incarceration policy evolved from isolation to hard labor to rodeo and educational opportunities, with reform measures becoming an ever-evolving quest. The complex job of the correctional officer has evolved as well—they must ensure custody and control over the inmate population at all times, in order to provide a proper environment conducive to …
Date:
October 15, 2020
Creator:
Alexander, Bob & Alford, Richard K.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy
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Authors Bob Alexander and Donaly E. Brice grappled with several issues when deciding how to relate a general history of the Texas Rangers. Should emphasis be placed on their frontier defense against Indians, or focus more on their role as guardians of the peace and statewide law enforcers? What about the tumultuous Mexican Revolution period, 1910-1920? And how to deal with myths and legends such as One Riot, One Ranger? Texas Rangers: Lives, Legend, and Legacy is the authors’ answer to these questions, a one-volume history of the Texas Rangers. The authors begin with the earliest Rangers in the pre-Republic years in 1823 and take the story up through the Republic, Mexican War, and Civil War. Then, with the advent of the Frontier Battalion, the authors focus in detail on each company A through F, relating what was happening within each company concurrently. Thereafter, Alexander and Brice tell the famous episodes of the Rangers that forged their legend, and bring the story up through the twentieth century to the present day in the final chapters.
Date:
July 2017
Creator:
Alexander, Bob & Brice, Donaly E.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Position of Texas in the Relations Between the United States and Mexico from 1876 to 1910
"The purpose of this study was to show the position of Texas in the relations between the United States and Mexico from 1876 to 1910. With this thought in mind, the general problem has been to link the two countries through Texas. The Texas border relations between the United States and Mexico during this period were interesting because they showed the continued success of the efforts of the past years in building up better principles of settlement. " --leaf 129
Date:
June 1942
Creator:
Alexander, Gladys M.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Timpson & Tenaha News (Timpson, Tex.), Vol. 20, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 7, 2005
Weekly newspaper from Timpson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
April 7, 2005
Creator:
Alexander, Nancy
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Weekly Telegraph (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 22, No. 17, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 9, 1856
Weekly newspaper from Houston, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with some advertising.
Date:
July 9, 1856
Creator:
Allen & Brocket
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Early Settlement of the Concho Country
Early general history up to 1900. "I have listened to the stories told about it by the old time cowboys, by the old settlers, and by some of the old Fort Concho soldiers themselves. As a result of this experience, I have wanted to go into its past more carefully and search for more facts regarding the region, its first inhabitants, and its early history in general."-- leaf iii.
Date:
August 1941
Creator:
Allen, S. T.
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Inventory of County Records: Wilson County Courthouse
Annotated inventory of records documenting the history of Wilson County, housed in the Wilson County Courthouse (Floresville, Texas), including an overview of the county government offices. Index starts on page 171.
Date:
1976
Creator:
Almarz, Felix D., Jr.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History