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Stan Kenton: This is an Orchestra!
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Stan Kenton (1911–1979) formed his first full orchestra in 1940 and soon drew record-breaking crowds to hear and dance to his exciting sound. He continued to tour and record unrelentingly for the next four decades. Stan Kenton: This Is an Orchestra! sums up the mesmerizing bandleader at the height of his powers, arms waving energetically, his face a study of concentration as he cajoled, coaxed, strained, and obtained the last ounce of energy from every musician under his control. Michael Sparke’s narrative captures that enthusiasm in words: a lucid account of the evolution of the Kenton Sound, and the first book to offer a critical evaluation of the role that Stan played in its creation. “Michael Sparke’s book, the first general history of the Kenton Orchestra, is the best evaluation yet of Kenton’s 40-year musical development.”—The Wall Street Journal
Date:
May 15, 2010
Creator:
Sparke, Michael
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Johnson-sims Feud: Romeo and Juliet, West Texas Style
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In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection outside their marriage. A nasty divorce ensued, and Gladys moved with her girls to her father’s luxurious ranch house, where she soon fell in love with famed Texas Ranger Frank Hamer. When Ed tried to take his daughters for a prearranged Christmas visit in 1916, Gladys and her brother Sid shot him dead on the Snyder square teeming with shoppers. One of the best lawyers in West Texas, Judge Cullen Higgins (son of the old feudist Pink Higgins) managed to win acquittal for both Gladys and Sid. In the tradition of Texas feudists since the 1840s, the Sims family sought revenge. Sims’ son-in-law, Gee McMeans, led an attack in Sweetwater and shot Billy Johnson’s bodyguard, Frank Hamer, twice, while Gladys—by now Mrs. Hamer—fired at another assassin. Hamer shot back, killed McMeans, and was no-billed on the spot by a grand …
Date:
August 15, 2010
Creator:
O'Neal, Bill
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Nassau Plantation: The evolution of a Texas-German slave plantation
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In the 1840s an organization of German noblemen, the Mainzner Adelsverein, attempted to settle thousands of German emigrants on the Texas frontier. Nassau Plantation, located near modern-day Round Top, Texas, in northern Fayette County, was a significant part of this story. James C. Kearney has studied a wealth of original source material (much of it in German) to illuminate the history of the plantation and the larger goals and motivation of the Adelsverein. This new study highlights the problematic relationship of German emigrants to slavery. Few today realize that the society’s original colonization plan included ownership and operation of slave plantations. Ironically, the German settlements the society later established became hotbeds of anti-slavery and anti-secessionist sentiment. Several notable personalities graced the plantation, including Carl Prince of Solms-Braunfels, Johann Otto Freiherr von Meusebach, botanist F. Lindheimer, and the renowned naturalist Dr. Ferdinand Roemer. Dramatic events also occurred at the plantation, including a deadly shootout, a successful escape by two slaves (documented in an unprecedented way), and litigation over ownership that wound its way to both the Texas Supreme Court and the U.S. Supreme Court.
Date:
March 15, 2010
Creator:
Kearney, James C.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 4, 1842-1845
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This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often the only government-authorized frontier fighters employed to keep the peace. Author Stephen L. Moore covers the assembly of Texan forces to repel two Mexican incursions during 1842, the Vasquez and Woll invasions. This volume covers the resulting battle at Salado Creek, the defeat of Dawson’s men, and a skirmish at Hondo Creek near San Antonio. Texas Rangers also played a role in the ill-fated Somervell and Mier expeditions. By 1844, Captain Hays’ Rangers had forever changed the nature of frontier warfare with the use of the Colt five-shooter repeating pistol. This new weapon allowed his men to remain on horseback and keep up a continuous and deadly fire in the face of overwhelming odds, especially at Walker’s Creek. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore sets the record straight on some of Jack Hays’ lesser-known Comanche encounters. “Moore’s fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series contains many compelling battle narratives, …
Date:
September 15, 2010
Creator:
Moore, Stephen L.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 442, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
October 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
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The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 128, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
April 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 129, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
April 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 229, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
June 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 28, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010
Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
July 15, 2010
Creator:
Judson, Mary Henkel
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Port Aransas South Jetty (Port Aransas, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 15, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2010
Weekly newspaper from Port Aransas, Texas on Mustang Island that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
April 15, 2010
Creator:
Judson, Mary Henkel
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 285, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
July 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 598, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
January 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 284, Ed. 1 Thursday, July 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
July 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 230, Ed. 1 Tuesday, June 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
June 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 444, Ed. 1 Friday, October 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
October 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 40, No. 600, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
January 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 546, Ed. 1 Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
December 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Greensheet (Houston, Tex.), Vol. 41, No. 390, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Free weekly newspaper that includes business and classified advertising.
Date:
September 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 98, No. 30, Ed. 1 Friday, January 15, 2010
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
January 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 8, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Bi-weekly student newspaper from Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
September 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Tuba Valentines serenade Becky Hughes, 1]
Photograph of the Tuba Valentines serenading Becky Hughes, Assistant to the Dean at the University of North Texas College of Music, outside of her office. Members of the ensemble are standing with their backs to the camera, facing Hughes, who is smiling back at them.
Date:
February 15, 2010
Creator:
University of North Texas. College of Music.
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Texas Register, Volume 35, Number 3, Pages 299-406, January 15, 2010
A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date:
January 15, 2010
Creator:
Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cherokeean Herald (Rusk, Tex.), Vol. 161, No. 30, Ed. 1 Wednesday, September 15, 2010
Weekly newspaper from Rusk, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 15, 2010
Creator:
Whitehead, Marie
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
North Texas Daily (Denton, Tex.), Vol. 95, No. 47, Ed. 1 Thursday, April 15, 2010
Daily student newspaper from the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas that includes local, state and campus news along with advertising.
Date:
April 15, 2010
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History