The view of the facade shows the intricately carved surfaces. The view is from the west. A large staircase leads to the entrance and the entire temple is a bright white color.

The view is of the highly decorated spires and gold finials.

A large staircase lined up a reflecting pool lead into the main entrance of the temple. The spires and domes are visible in this view as well.

The stairs lead to a columned portico and entrance. The main entrance is highly decorative in rich surface detail and arches between the columns.

This view shows the administration and educational building adjacent to the temple.

The view is of the cantilevered balcony and its richly carved wood. The balcony is on the administration and education building adjacent to the temple.

The view shows the main facade of the temple with its richly decorated spires and domes, large staircase and arcade portico. Perpendicular to the facade is a long and narrow reflecting pool.

The temple exterior facade is seen at an angle and from a short distance. A small portion of the adjacent administration and museum building can be seen to the left of the temple.

The detail view of the temple shows the large staircase and intricately carved arcade at the top of the stairs. However, also shown is signage showing the temple is currently not open.

The northwest elevation of the temple is seen and a flag flies from each spire.

The view is of the cupolas and ornately decorated and carved spires.

A close view of the spires shows the richly carved decoration.

The main central spire is shown. The many smaller spires attached to the greater spire is visible in this view.

The carved figures and arches on the north transept are shown in this close detail.

Carved decoration of sacred figures in the arched entrance are shown in this close detail view of the exterior of the temple.

The overview shown here is of the south transept and the sidewalk leading to its entrance. Richly carved decoration and figures are also visible.

James Abijah Brooks (1855-1944) was one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Over the years historians have referred to the captain as “John” Brooks, because he tended to sign with his initials, but also because W. W. Sterling’s classic Trails and Trials of a Texas Ranger mistakenly named him as Captain John Brooks. Born and raised in Civil War-torn Kentucky, a reckless adventurer on the American and Texas frontier, and a quick-draw Texas Ranger captain who later turned in his six-shooter to serve as a county judge, Brooks’s life reflects the raucous era of the late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American West. As a Texas Ranger, Brooks participated in the high profile events of his day, from the fence-cutting wars to the El Paso prizefight, from the Conner Fight–where he lost three fingers from his left hand–to the Temple rail strike, all with a resolute demeanor and a fast gun. A shoot-out in Indian Territory nearly cost him his life and then jeopardized his career, and a lifelong bout with old Kentucky bourbon did the same. With three other distinguished Ranger captains, Brooks witnessed and helped promote the …

This oil painting depicts Central Park at night. Street lamps illuminate the snow-covered pathway.

The tripartite sculpture consists of geometric shapes covered in dark blue pieces of mosaic.

The side view of the sculpture consists of a disc shape covered in dark blue pieces of mosaic. The sculpture sits at a street intersection.

"This book provides a well-researched, exhaustive, and fascinating examination of the life of Benjamin Bickerstaff, a desperado who preyed on blacks, Unionists, and others in northeastern Texas during the Reconstruction era until armed citizens killed him in the town of Alvarado in 1869. The work adds to our knowledge of Reconstruction violence and graphically supports the idea that the Civil War in Texas did not really end in 1865 but continued long afterward.”—Carl Moneyhon, author of Texas after the Civil War: The Struggle of Reconstruction

John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872, and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brigadier General George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing extensive descriptions of American Indian civilization and illustrating his diaries with sketches and photographs. Previously, researchers could consult only a small part of Bourke's diary material in various publications, or else take a research trip to the archive and microfilm housed at West Point. Now, for the first time, the 124 manuscript volumes of the Bourke diaries are being compiled, edited, and annotated by Charles M. Robinson III, in a planned set of eight books easily accessible to the modern researcher. Volume 3 begins in 1878 with a discussion of the Bannock Uprising and a retrospective on Crazy Horse, whose death Bourke called "an event of such importance, and with its attendant circumstances pregnant with so much of good or evil for the settlement between …

Wind Symphony concert performed at UNT Winspear Performance Hall.

Denton High School ensembles concert performed at UNT College of Music Winspear Hall.