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The Big Thicket Guidebook: Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas

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Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates—all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an exceptional region. The Big Thicket and its National Preserve contain plants and animals from deserts and swamps and ecosystems in between, all together in one amazing Biological Crossroad. The fifteen tours included with maps will take you through them all. Visitors curious about a legendary area will find this book an essential companion in their cars. Libraries will use the book as a reference to locate information on ghost towns, historic events, and National Preserve features. “A result of a prodigious amount of local research as well as a great deal of driving and tramping around, this book might end up as a classic.”—Thad Sitton, author of Backwoodsmen: Stockmen and Hunters along a Big Thicket River Valley
Date: October 15, 2011
Creator: Bonney, Lorraine G.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen

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In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another baker’s dozen line-of-duty deaths that occurred between 1910 and 1928. Not counting the two officers who died of natural causes, these are more tales of murder, mayhem, and dirty work from all branches of local law enforcement: police, sheriff’s deputies, constables, and special officers, just like in Volume 1. This era was, if anything, bloodier than the preceding era of the first volume. Fort Worth experienced a race riot, two lynchings, and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army while Camp Bowie was operating. Bushwhacking (such as happened to Peter Howard in 1915) and assassinations (such as happened to Jeff Couch in 1920) replaced blood feuds and old-fashioned shootouts as leading causes of death among lawmen. Violence was not confined to the streets either; a Police Commissioner was gunned down in his city hall office in 1917. Even the new category of “vehicular homicide” claimed a lawman’s life.
Date: October 15, 2011
Creator: Selcer, Richard F. & Foster, Kevin S.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Economics of Irrigation Systems (open access)

Economics of Irrigation Systems

This document provides information on irrigation systems for the AgriLife extension Texas A & M System.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Amosson, Stephen Harold
System: The Portal to Texas History
Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $500 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments (open access)

Comptroller Susan Combs Distributes $500 Million in Monthly Sales Tax Revenue to Local Governments

This document provides information on the distribution of $500 million in monthly sales tax revenue to local government.
Date: October 12, 2011
Creator: Combs, Susan
System: The Portal to Texas History
Penalty Policy: Effective September 1, 2011 (open access)

Penalty Policy: Effective September 1, 2011

"This document describes the policy of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) regarding the computation and assessment of administrative penalties." (p. 1).
Date: October 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History
Using Fences to Exclude Feral Hogs from Wildlife Feeding Stations (open access)

Using Fences to Exclude Feral Hogs from Wildlife Feeding Stations

This document provides information on using fences on feral hogs to exclude them from wildlife feeding stations.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Timmons, Jared
System: The Portal to Texas History
The TCEQ Border Initiative (open access)

The TCEQ Border Initiative

This document provides information on Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ) individual projects and their works with local, state, and federal stakeholders to maximize efforts to improve the environment of the U.S.-Mexico border region.
Date: October 2011
Creator: Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Tanya Kiboko, October 11, 2011

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Interview with Tanya Kiboko, an immigrant to Texas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kiboko discusses her education, her family, Congolese society, languages, learning English, culture shock, food, markets, attending Wiley College, her husband, differences in structure between Western and Congolese families, and reflections on life.
Date: October 21, 2011
Creator: Clower, John & Kiboko, Tanya
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas Roundabout Guidelines: Final Report (open access)

Texas Roundabout Guidelines: Final Report

"This report contains best practices for choosing appropriate locations and design concepts for Texas roundabouts. This research effort is comprised of the following components: synthesis of available literature and analysis methods, development of capacity analysis methods, validation and enhancement of existing tools, and a spreadsheet tool to aid in roundabout planning and implementation."
Date: October 2011
Creator: Mills, Alison; Duthie, Jen; Machemehl, Randy B.; Ferguson, Erin; Waller, Travis; Sun, Dazhi et al.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap: Fiscal Years 2011-2036 [Corrected Copy] (open access)

Unmanned Systems Integrated Roadmap: Fiscal Years 2011-2036 [Corrected Copy]

Biennial report describing progress and changes in unmanned systems technology used by the military, with a 25-year strategic plan to describe goals for the continued development, production, testing, training, operation, and sustainment of the technologies.
Date: October 2011
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
System: The UNT Digital Library
FCC Record, Volume 26, No. 18, Pages 14121 to 14990, October 3 - October 21, 2011 (open access)

FCC Record, Volume 26, No. 18, Pages 14121 to 14990, October 3 - October 21, 2011

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Date: October 2011
Creator: United States. Federal Communications Commission.
System: The UNT Digital Library