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Antebellum Jefferson, Texas: Everyday Life in an East Texas Town
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Founded in 1845 as a steamboat port at the entryway to western markets from the Red River, Jefferson was a thriving center of trade until the steamboat traffic dried up in the 1870s. During its heyday, the town monopolized the shipping of cotton from all points west for 150 miles. Jefferson was the unofficial capital of East Texas, but it was also typical of boom towns in general. For this topical examination of a frontier town, Bagur draws from many government documents, but also from newspaper ads and plats. These sources provide intimate details of the lives of the early citizens of Jefferson, Texas. Their story is of interest to both local and state historians as well as to the many readers interested in capturing the flavor of life in old-time East Texas. “Astoundingly complete and a model for local history research, with appeal far beyond readers who have specific interests in Jefferson.”—Fred Tarpley, author of Jefferson: Riverport to the Southwest
Date:
March 15, 2012
Creator:
Bagur, Jacques D.
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The UNT Digital Library
Houston Blue: The Story of the Houston Police Department
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Houston Blue offers the first comprehensive history of one of the nation’s largest police forces, the Houston Police Department. Through extensive archival research and more than one hundred interviews with prominent Houston police figures, politicians, news reporters, attorneys, and others, authors Mitchel P. Roth and Tom Kennedy chronicle the development of policing in the Bayou City from its days as a grimy trading post in the 1830s to its current status as the nation’s fourth largest city. Prominent historical figures who have brushed shoulders with Houston’s Finest over the past 175 years include Houdini, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders, O. Henry, former Texas Ranger Frank Hamer, hatchet wielding temperance leader Carrie Nation, the Hilton Siamese Twins, blues musician Leadbelly, oilman Silver Dollar Jim West, and many others. The Houston Police Department was one of the first cities in the South to adopt fingerprinting as an identification system and use the polygraph test, and under the leadership of its first African American police chief, Lee Brown, put the theory of neighborhood oriented policing into practice in the 1980s. The force has been embroiled in controversy and high profile criminal cases as well. Among the cases chronicled in the book are …
Date:
November 15, 2012
Creator:
Roth, Mitchel P.
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The UNT Digital Library
Tracking the Texas Rangers: the Nineteenth Century
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Tracking the Texas Rangers is an anthology of sixteen previously published articles, arranged in chronological history, covering key topics of the intrepid and sometimes controversial law officers named the Texas Rangers. 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 war with Mexico, for example, some murdered, pillaged, and raped. Yet these same Rangers eased the resultant United States victory. Even their beginning and the first use of the term “Texas Ranger” have mixed and complex origins. Tracking the Texas Rangers covers topics such as their early years, the great Comanche Raid of 1840, and the effective use of Colt revolvers. Article authors discuss Los Diablos Tejanos, Rip Ford, the Cortina War, the use of Hispanic Rangers and Rangers in labor disputes, and the recapture of Cynthia Ann Parker and the capture of John Wesley Hardin. The selections cover critical aspects of those experiences—organization, leadership, cultural implications, rural and urban life, and violence. In their introduction, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Harold J. …
Date:
September 15, 2012
Creator:
Glasrud, Bruce A.
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The UNT Digital Library
Still the Arena of Civil War: Violence and Turmoil in Reconstruction Texas, 1865/1874
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Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of Reconstruction. Throughout this era, white Texans claimed that Radical Republicans in Congress were attempting to dominate their state through “Negro-Carpetbag-Scalawag rule.” In response to these perceived threats, whites initiated a violent guerilla war that was designed to limit support for the Republican Party. They targeted loyal Unionists throughout the South, especially African Americans who represented the largest block of Republican voters in the region. Was the Reconstruction era in the Lone Star State simply a continuation of the Civil War? Evidence presented by sixteen contributors in this new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, argues that this indeed was the case. Topics include the role of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the occupying army, focusing on both sides of the violence. Several contributors analyze the origins of the Ku Klux Klan and its operations in Texas, how the Texas State Police attempted to quell the violence, and Tejano adjustment to Reconstruction. Other chapters …
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March 15, 2012
Creator:
Howell, Kenneth W.
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The UNT Digital Library
First Timers and Old Timers: the Texas Folklore Society Fire Burns On
The Texas Folklore Society has been alive and kicking for over one hundred years now, and I don’t really think there’s any mystery as to what keeps the organization going strong. The secret to our longevity is simply the constant replenishment of our body of contributors. We are especially fortunate in recent years to have had papers given at our annual meetings by new members—young members, many of whom are college or even high school students. These presentations are oftentimes given during sessions right alongside some of our oldest members. We’ve also had long-time members who’ve been around for years but had never yet given papers; thankfully, they finally took the opportunity to present their research, fulfilling the mission of the TFS: to collect, preserve, and present the lore of Texas and the Southwest. You’ll find in this book some of the best articles from those presentations. The first fruits of our youngest or newest members include Acayla Haile on the folklore of plants. Familiar and well-respected names like J. Rhett Rushing and Kenneth W. Davis discuss folklore about monsters and the classic “widow’s revenge” tale. These works—and the people who produced them—represent the secret behind the history of the …
Date:
December 15, 2012
Creator:
Untiedt, Kenneth L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Women and the Texas Revolution
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While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Scrape, and examining the roles and issues facing Native American, Black, and Hispanic women of the time. Like the American Revolution, women’s experiences in the Texas Revolution varied tremendously by class, religion, race, and region. While the majority of immigrants into Texas in the 1820s and 1830s were men, many were women who accompanied their husbands and families or, in some instances, braved the dangers and the hardships of the frontier alone. Black, Hispanic, and Native American women were also present in Mexican Texas. Whether Mexican loyalist or Texas patriot, elite planter or subsistence farm wife, slaveholder or slave, Anglo or black, women helped settle the Texas frontier and experienced the uncertainty, hardships, successes, and sorrows of …
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September 15, 2012
Creator:
Scheer, Mary L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Texas School Recycling Guide
This manual is designed to help develop recycling programs in schools.
Date:
August 2012
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
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The Portal to Texas History
Texas Rural Planning Organization Workshop Implementation Project Summary
This report documents rural planning organization (RPO) workshops conducted throughout Texas.
Date:
March 2012
Creator:
Overman, John H.
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The Portal to Texas History
Eminent Domain Authority in Texas
This documents purpose of the publication is to identify the constitutional provisions and statutes that grant, limit, or restrict the power of eminent domain or prohibit the exercise of that power, and to identify the entity to which each provision applies.
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October 2012
Creator:
Texas. Legislature. Legislative Council. Research Division.
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The Portal to Texas History
The Impact of the 2011 Drought and Beyond
This document discusses the current drought and its impacts on the state; current and future water resources in Texas; and innovative solutions governments in Texas and elsewhere are using to solve the water crisis.
Date:
February 6, 2012
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Fees, Standards, and Reporting Requirements for Public Water Systems
This guidance document is revised to incorporate the most current rule language as of November 2011.
Date:
May 2012
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Water Supply Division.
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The Portal to Texas History
Important TEXNET Information and Due Date Schedule
This document is an instruction booklet for the Texnet Electronic Payment Network.
Date:
December 2012
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Planning Study: Roma, Texas
This document provides information on a Regional Water Planning Study by the city of Roma, Texas discussing existing conditions, development of water supplies, water treatment system alternatives, water distribution system alternatives, water operation alternatives, determination of costs and recommendations, an implementation schedule, evaluation of funding options and alternative district consolidations/regional structure, meetings, and an environmental assessment, with associated appendices.
Date:
October 2012
Creator:
Enprotec/Hibbs & Todd, Inc.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Teacher Retirement System of Texas Service Credit
This document provides information about the verification requirements, costs, and types of service credit available for purchase by eligible members of the Teacher Retirement System of Texas.
Date:
January 2012
Creator:
Teacher Retirement System of Texas
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The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $559 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments
This document provides information on the distribution of monthly sales tax revenues to local governments.
Date:
September 12, 2012
Creator:
Combs, Susan
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The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $514 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments
This document provides information on the distribution of $514 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date:
June 6, 2012
Creator:
Combs, Susan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $633 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments
This document provides information on the distribution of $633 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local governments.
Date:
May 9, 2012
Creator:
Texas. Comptroller's Office.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Investigating and Reporting Releases from Petroleum Storage Tanks
This document pertains to the requirements for investigating and reporting releases from underground and aboveground storage tanks.
Date:
August 2012
Creator:
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. Remediation Division.
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The Portal to Texas History
Tax Information: Franchise Tax Reporting Tips for Combined Groups
This document provides tips for combined groups on franchise tax reporting.
Date:
May 2012
Creator:
Combs, Susan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Sea Center Texas: Self-Guided Tour
This document provides information on the Sea Center Texas marine aquarium, fish hatchery and education center.
Date:
September 2012
Creator:
Sea Center Texas
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The Portal to Texas History
Texnet Payment Instructions Booklet
This document provides an overview of our Texnet system and how to transmit payment information. (Taxpayer Letter).
Date:
December 2012
Creator:
Combs, Susan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Eagle Mountain Watershed Management
This document provides information on watershed management for Eagle Mountain Lake.
Date:
February 2012
Creator:
Clayton, Brent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Multistate Survey of Provisions Regulating the Manufacture and Sale of Beer and Malt Beverages at Microbreweries and Brewpubs
This document provides information regarding the regulation of the manufacture and sale of beer and malt beverages at microbreweries and brewpubs in 38 states, including Texas, selected for inclusion based on the following criteria.
Date:
October 2012
Creator:
Carona, John
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Drivers of Vegetation Change on Texas Rangelands
This document provides information on vegetation changes on the Texas Rangelands.
Date:
February 2012
Creator:
Ansley, Jim & Hart, Charles R.
System:
The Portal to Texas History