Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the orchestra's perspective, showing the conductor.

Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall. This video is shot from the orchestra's perspective, showing the conductor.

Orchestra concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Band concert performed at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

A student recital presented at the UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A jazz faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Concert presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Guest Artist Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall

A faculty flute recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

A jazz faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Kenton Hall.

A Faculty recital performed in the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

A faculty and guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers, focusing on the three-year period between 1835 and 1837, when Texas was struggling to gain its independence from Mexico and assert itself as a new nation. Stephen L. Moore vividly portrays another struggle of the settlers of Texas to tame a wilderness frontier and secure a safe place to build their homes and raise their families. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed during the Texas Revolution and narrates their involvement in the pivotal battle of San Jacinto. New ranger battalions were created following the revolution, after Indian attacks against settlers increased. One notorious attack occurred against the settlers of Parker's Fort, which had served as a ranger station during the revolution. By 1837 President Sam Houston had allowed the army to dwindle, leaving only a handful of ranging units to cover the vast Republic. These frontiersmen endured horse rustling raids and ambushes, fighting valiantly even when greatly outnumbered in battles such as the Elm Creek Fight, Post Oak Springs Massacre, and the Stone Houses Fight. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore …

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. …