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Old Riot, New Ranger: Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal
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Award-winning author Bob Alexander presents a biography of 20th-century Ranger Captain Jack Dean, who holds the distinction of being one of only five men to serve in both the Officer’s Corps of the Rangers and also as a President-appointed United States Marshal. Jack Dean’s service in Texas Ranger history occurred at a time when the institution was undergoing a philosophical revamping and restructuring, all hastened by America’s Civil Rights Movement, landmark decisions handed down by the United States Supreme Court, zooming advances in forensic technology, and focused efforts designed to diversify and professionalize the Rangers. His job choice caused him to circulate in the duplicitous underworld of dishonesty and criminality where twisted self-interest overrode compliance with societal norms. His biography is packed with true-crime calamities: double murders, single murders, negligent homicides, suicides, jailbreaks, manhunts, armed robberies and home invasions, kidnappings, public corruption, sexual assaults, illicit gambling, car-theft rings, dope smuggling, and arms trafficking. “Bob Alexander personally interviewed Jack Dean, a renowned Texas lawman who wore a badge for forty-three years. These conversations form the core of a well-researched and fascinating account of Lone Star justice from the mid-twentieth century into the new millennium.” —Darren L. Ivey, author of The Ranger …
Date:
July 2018
Creator:
Alexander, Bob
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The UNT Digital Library
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
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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.
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The UNT Digital Library
Shoot the Conductor: Too Close to Monteux, Szell, and Ormandy
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Anshel Brusilow was born in 1928 and raised in Philadelphia by musical Russian Jewish parents in a neighborhood where practicing your instrument was as normal as hanging out the laundry. By the time he was sixteen, he was appearing as soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He also met Pierre Monteux at sixteen, when Monteux accepted him into his summer conducting school. Under George Szell, Brusilow was associate concertmaster at the Cleveland Orchestra until Ormandy snatched him away to make him concertmaster in Philadelphia, where he remained from 1959 to 1966. Ormandy and Brusilow had a father-son relationship, but Brusilow could not resist conducting, to Ormandy's great displeasure. By the time he was forty, Brusilow had sold his violin and formed his own chamber orchestra in Philadelphia with more than a hundred performances per year. For three years he was conductor of the Dallas Symphony, until he went on to shape the orchestral programs at Southern Methodist University and the University of North Texas. Brusilow played with or conducted many top-tier classical musicians, and he has opinions about each and every one. He also made many recordings. Co-written with Robin Underdahl, his memoir is a fascinating and unique view of American …
Date:
July 2015
Creator:
Brusilow, Anshel & Underdahl, Robin
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The UNT Digital Library
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $535 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments
This document provides information on the distribution of $535 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
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July 11, 2012
Creator:
Combs, Susan
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The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments
This document provides information on the distribution monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
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July 7, 2011
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Combs, Susan
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The Portal to Texas History
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Reference Book, Version 6.1
Annual compilation of information about the DART system. Provides key data, maps, and contacts.
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July 2015
Creator:
Dallas Area Rapid Transit
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The Portal to Texas History
Legislation Affecting Texas Department of Criminal Justice- Community Justice Assistance Division (TDCJ-CJAD) AND Community Supervision and Corrections Departments (CSCDs): 82nd Legislative Session
Summary of legislation from the 82nd Session that affects either the Texas Department of Criminal Justice-Community Justice Assistance Division (TDCJ-CJAD) or the Community Supervision and Corrections Departments (CSCDs), organized by topic or department and providing the bill numbers, effective dates, and a summary of new requirements.
Date:
July 26, 2011
Creator:
Dingman, Tracy
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Employees Retirement System of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2013-2017
Agency strategic plan for the Employees Retirement System of Texas describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2013 through 2017.
Date:
July 2012
Creator:
Employees Retirement System of Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Employees Retirement System of Texas Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2015-2019
Agency strategic plan for the Employees Retirement System of Texas describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.
Date:
July 2014
Creator:
Employees Retirement System of Texas
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mary Alice Reding, July 20, 2013
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Interview with Mary Alice Reding, a resident of Aubrey, Texas and a graduate of the University of North Texas, regarding her experiences growing up in Aubrey, schooling, her father J. M. Coffey, who was a representative in the Texas legislature, local businesses, other town residents, and residences.
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July 20, 2013
Creator:
Goin, Deborah & Reding, Mary Alice
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The UNT Digital Library
Trump Administration Reform and Reorganization Plan: Discussion of 35 "Government-Wide" Proposals [Memorandum]
"This memorandum provides a brief summary and some preliminary analysis of the Donald J. Trump Administration's recent proposals to restructure and reform agencies, programs, and operations in the executive branch. Specifically, the memorandum covers the 32 proposals characterized by the Trump Administration as "Government-wide." The 32 proposals include several sub-proposals, which, when enumerated separately as they are in this memorandum, bring the total to 35. The analysis of each proposal includes, to the extent possible, a discussion of statutes that might be involved in the proposed changes, and whether some changes might be achieved through administrative action" (p. 1).
Date:
July 25, 2018
Creator:
Hogue, Henry B. & Brass, Clinton T.
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The UNT Digital Library
Howard County Junior College District Requests for Legislative Appropriations: Fiscal Years 2016 and 2017
Report submitted by the Howard County Junior College District containing background information, and summaries of requests for appropriations and expenditures for the fiscal years 2016 and 2017 with supporting documentation.
Date:
July 31, 2014
Creator:
Howard County Junior College District
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Life with a Superhero: Raising Michael Who Has Down Syndrome
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Over twenty years ago, in a small Israeli town, a desperate mother told a remarkable lie. She told her friends and family that her newborn child had died. That lie became the catalyst for the unfolding truth of the adoption of that same baby—Michael —who is, in fact, very much alive and now twenty-two years old. He also has Down syndrome. When Kathryn Hulings adopted Michael as an infant, she could not have known that he would save her life when she became gravely ill and was left forever physically compromised. Her story delights in how Michael’s life and hers, while both marked by difference and challenge, are forever intertwined in celebration and laughter. With candor and a sense of humor, Life With a Superhero wraps itself around the raucous joy of Michael’s existence with his four older siblings who play hard and love big; how Kathryn and her husband, Jim, utilize unconventional techniques in raising kids; the romance between Michael and his fiancée, Casey; the power of dance in Michael's life as an equalizing and enthralling force; the staggering potential and creativity of those who are differently-abled; and the mind-blowing politics of how Kathryn navigated school systems and societal …
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July 15, 2013
Creator:
Hulings, Kathryn U.
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The UNT Digital Library
Performance and Accountability Report: Fiscal Year 2018
The Performance and Accountability Report (PAR), an annual agency requirement from the Office of Management and Budget, presents the agency’s program and financial management results, key accomplishments, and new initiatives during FY 2018.
Date:
July 2018
Creator:
Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Public Libraries in the United States Survey: Fiscal Year 2015
The Public Libraries in the United States Survey (PLS) examines when, where, and how library services are changing to meet the needs of the public. This FY 2015 PLS summarizes the reported data provided by 98 percent of public libraries and outlets in the United States.
Date:
July 2018
Creator:
Institute of Museum and Library Services (U.S.)
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The UNT Digital Library
The Cornett-Whitley Gang: Violence Unleashed in Texas
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During the late 1880s, the Cornett-Whitley gang rose on the Texas scene with a daring train robbery at McNeil Station, only miles from the capital of Texas. In the frenzy that followed the robbery, the media castigated both lawmen and government officials, at times lauded the outlaws, and indulged in trial by media. At Flatonia the gang tortured the passengers and indulged in an orgy of violence that earned them international recognition and infamy. Private enterprises, such as Wells Fargo, the railroads, and numerous banks, joined forces with law enforcement to combat them. Lawmen from cities and counties combined with federal marshals and the Texas Rangers to further cement what would become the “brotherhood of the badge.” These efforts succeeded in tracking down and killing or capturing a good number of the gang members. Readers of the Old West and true crime stories will appreciate this sordid tale of outlawry and the lawmen who put a stop to it.
Date:
July 2019
Creator:
Johnson, David
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The UNT Digital Library
Great Texas Birding Classic : Winners Report
Document discussing the winners in each category of the Great Texas Birding Classic.
Date:
July 2011
Creator:
Jones, Carol
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2010]
Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from July through December in 2010.
Date:
2010-07/2010-12
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2011]
Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from July through December in 2011.
Date:
2011-07/2011-12
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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The UNT Digital Library
[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2012]
Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from July through December in 2012.
Date:
2012-07/2012-12
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Story Log: July 1 to December 31, 2013]
Logbook from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, documenting the names, locations, and run-times of video-taped news segments that aired each day from July through December in 2013.
Date:
2013-07/2013-12
Creator:
KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Douglas Chadwick, July 19, 2012
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Interview with Douglas Chadwick, former executive director of the UNT Foundation from Dallas, Texas. Chadwick discusses his family background and education at Southern Methodist University, his career in administration, work as Director of Planned Giving at UNT, involvement with the UNT Foundation and work as executive director, building connections and financial support, changes in the Foundation through the years, thoughts on the future of the Foundation and University, and his retirement.
Date:
July 19, 2012
Creator:
Kilgore, Deborah K. & Chadwick, Douglas
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ginger Heiman, July 26, 2012
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Interview with Ginger Heiman, certified public accountant, conducted for the UNT Foundation Oral History Project. She discusses her childhood and education in Denison, Texas, and at Grayson College, Southern Oklahoma University, and UNT; career as a Certified Public Accountant; work with the UNT comptroller’s office and the UNT Foundation.
Date:
July 26, 2012
Creator:
Kilgore, Deborah K. & Heiman, Ginger
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The UNT Digital Library