Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and Tom Murphy, Alf Rushing, Bob Meldrum and Noah Wilkerson, P. C. Baird, Gus Chenowth, Jim Dunaway, John Kinney, Elbert Hanks and Boyd White, and Eddie Aten. Within these pages the reader will meet a nineteen-year-old Texas Ranger figuratively dying to shoot his gun. He does get to shoot at people, but soon realizes what he thought was a bargain exacted a steep price. Another tale is of an old-school cowman who shut down illicit traffic in stolen livestock that had existed for years on the Llano Estacado. He was tough, salty, and had no quarter for cow-thieves or sympathy for any mealy-mouthed politicians. He cleaned house, maybe not too nicely, but unarguably successful he was. Then there is the tale of an accomplished and unbeaten fugitive, well known and identified for murder of a Texas peace officer. But …

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.

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.

Transcript of an interview with Max Schlotter, WWII and Korean War Navy veteran. Schlotter shares concerning his childhood in the Congo and Texas; family history; living on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation near Livingston, Texas; enlistment in the Navy; assignment on USS Thurston; attending the V-12 program; assignment on the USS Long Island in the Pacific Theater; post-war college and teaching; recall by Navy during the Korean War; assignment to USS Adirondack and Naples, Italy; and post-war life. Appendix includes photos, a map of the Okinawa Invasion, and biographical notes.

Transcript of an interview with Diane Fitzgerald, homesteader and simple life advocate. Fitzgerald shares concerning her childhood; early experiences with farming and outdoors; move to Maine; discovery of the Nearings; decision to homestead; and memories of the Nearings.

Interview with Doris Groves, a homesteader from Pequannock, New Jersey. Groves discusses growing up, school, her first marriage, moving to Maine, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work and meeting Helen, her second marriage and children, purchasing a stead, the family's lifestyle, the Good Life Center, gender, vegetarianism, and the Nearings.

Interview with Greg Joly, a homesteader from Northampton, Massachusetts. Joly discusses his family background, education, gardening and Polish culture, discovering Scott and Helen Nearing's work, establishing a farm in Jamaica, Vermont, the Good Life Center, thoughts on the Nearings and their relationship with each other and others, the community, the Nearings' spiritualism and Theosophy, and analyses of the Nearings' work.

Interview with Estelle Adams discussing her life growing up in Wheelock, Texas as well as her grandparents who left Georgia and other extended family members. She also talks about her experiences teaching in various Texas towns, including a segregated school in Bryan, Texas and being transferred to a school in Dallas, Texas during integration.

The legislative appropriations request from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 containing background information for the agency summaries of requests by various criteria, and supporting information.

Legislative appropriations request from the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for fiscal years 2016 and 2017 containing background information for the agency, summaries of requests by various criteria, and supporting information.

Report on the strategic plan for the Texas Lottery Commission describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas School for the Blind and Visually Impaired describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Water Development Board describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Office of the Attorney General describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019. It includes external/internal assessments, strategies, and technology resources planning.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Board of Professional Engineers describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Comptroller's Office describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Department of Insurance describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas Department of Public Safety describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

A facility plan for Fort Boggy State Park outlining the current facilities, flora and fauna, and historic resources of the park and giving future plans.

Agency strategic plan for the Texas State Preservation Board describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2015 through 2019.

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

Biweekly, comprehensive compilation of decisions, reports, public notices, and other documents of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

The UNT Graduate Bulletin includes information about class offerings as well as "policies, regulations, procedures and fees in effect at the time [the] publication went to press"