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Cat 177

Cat 177

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1 Alberts, Don E. THE BATTLE OF GLORIETA. Union Victory in the West.
Coll.Sta. Texas A&M 1988 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j., 226 pp., illus., maps, index. Foreword by Don Frazier. The definitive work on this important Civil War battle in the West. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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2 Anderson, H. Allen. FORT PHANTOM HILL. Outpost on the Clear Fork of the Brazos.
Lubbock W. Tx. Museum Assoc. 1976 1st. Stiff Dec. Wrs. Fine 
Stiff yellow dec. paper covers, 110 pp., maps, illus., footnotes, index. Published in The Museum Journal XVI, 1976. Edited by Ernest Wallace. About the only thing published about this small fort established as part of a chain of forts in west Texas to contain the Comanches. 
Price: 40.00 USD
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3 Anderson, John Q., ed. CAMPAIGNING WITH PARSON'S TEXAS CAVALRY, C.S.A.. The War Journal and Letters of the Four Orr Brothers-12th Tx. Cav. Reg.
Hillsboro Hillsboro Jr. Coll. 1967 1st. Fine Very Good 
D.j. (clipped, missing piece top of spine, faded edges & spine),173 pp., photos, index. Owner blindstamp. This includes the journals of Henry Orr of Ellis County, 110 letters written by the four Orr brothers, & 5 letters by friends & relatives. 
Price: 150.00 USD
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4 Bailey, Anne J. TEXANS IN THE CONFEDERATE CAVALRY.
Ft.Worth Ryan Place Pub. 1995 1st. Wrs, Fine 
Stiff pictorial paper covers, 96 pp., photos, maps, index. The picturesque story of battles & skirmishes where the cavlary frequently helped turn the tide of battle. 
Price: 25.00 USD
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5 Barrett, Thomas. THE GREAT HANGING AT GAINESVILLE.
Austin TSHA 1961 1st. Of This Ed. Cloth Fine 
Creme cloth w/black lettering, 34 pp., e.p. map, frontis. Only three copies known of the original 1885 edition. Rumored unsafe to own in Gainesville after the Civil War. One of two eyewitness accounts of the hanging of Union sympathizers in 1862. Very nice reprint of the rare first with new preface. 
Price: 75.00 USD
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6 Barziza, Decimus et Ultimus. THE ADVENTURES OF A PRISONER OF WAR 1863-1864.
Austin U. Of Tx. 1964 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j., 140 pp., photos, index. First published 1865. Exciting personal narrative of Texas Civil War Prisoner who escaped to Canada and finally back. Was a member of "Robertson's Five Shooters", 4th Tx. Inf., Hood's Brigade. The rarest & least known of published memoirs of Texans in the Civil War and the only one about experiences as a prisoner published during the conflict. 
Price: 100.00 USD
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7 Bearrs, Edwin C. STEELE'S RETREAT FROM CAMDEN and The Battle of Jenkins' Ferry
Little Rock Pioneer Press 1967 1st., 2nd Prtg. Fine Fine 
D.j., 186 pp., maps, photos, index. Owner blindstamp. The story of the Confederate effort to push Union forces out of Arkansas. Careful descritption and analysis of two pivotal battles in Arkansas. 
Price: 75.00 USD
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8 Bruce, Leona BANISTER WAS THERE.
Ft. Worth Branch Smith 1968 1st. Fine Very Good 
D.j., 196 pp. + 16 pp. of photos, index. Biography of John R. Banister---Texas Ranger, treasury agent, sheriff, & Southwest Cattlemens Assoc. inspector---some info. on Sam Bass, Dick & Dell Dublin, John Wesley Hardin, Pancho Villa. INSCRIBED by Bruce. 
Price: 60.00 USD
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9 Cater, Douglas John. AS IT WAS. Reminiscences of a Soldier of the Third Texas Calvary and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry.
Austin State House Press 1990 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j., 266 pp., illus., index. Battles of Pea Ridge, Wilson's Creek, Missionary Ridge, Chickamauga & others. 3rd Texas Cavalry and 19th Louisiana Infantry. 
Price: 40.00 USD
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10 Chance, Joseph E. THE SECOND TEXAS INFANTRY. From Shiloh to Vicksburg.
Austin Eakin Press 1984 0-89015-435-x / 9780890154359 1st. Fine Fine 
216 pp., illus., photos, index. Owner blindstamp. The Second was formed from militia companies organized in Harris, Galveston, Jackson, Gonzales, and Robertson counties. It participated in the battles of Shiloh, Corinth, and Vicksburg among others. 
Price: 50.00 USD
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11 Clark, James Lemuel. CIVIL WAR RECOLLECTIONS OF JAMES LEMUEL CLARK Including Previously Unpublished Material on the Great Hanging at Gainesville, Texas.
Coll.Sta. Texas A & M 1984 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j., 124 pp., map, illus., index. Clark's father was one of the 40 hung in the Great Hanging in Gainesville. Also relates his experiences in Indian campaigns & with the Confederate Army. Edited by L.D. Clark, his grandson. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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12 Crouch, Barry A. & Donaly E. Brice. CULLEN MONTGOMERY BAKER. Reconstruction Desperado.
Baton Rouge LSU 1997 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j., 190 pp., maps, photos, index. The best biography of Baker, a reconstruction outlaw and gunfighter. 
Price: 35.00 USD
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13 Cunningham, Eugene. TRIGGERNOMETRY. A Gallery of Gunfighters.
N. Y. Barnes & Noble 1996 Fine Fine 
D.j., 441 pp., illus. w/photos from the Rose Collection. Foreword by Eugene Manlove Rhodes. One of the best books on gunfighters. Guns #530-standard work & reliable on most points. 
Price: 30.00 USD
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14 Davis, Rev. Nicholas A. THE CAMPAIGN FROM TEXAS TO MARYLAND.
Austin Steck-Vaughn 1961 Cloth Fine Slipcase 
Tan cloth, mylar, slipcase, 168 pp., frontis. of Hood. Facsimile reproduction of rare 1863 edition. Basic Tx. Bks #37(c)-one of the best books on Hood's Texas Brigade, this is also one of the best American war travel books. Has an added 5 color plates depicting the typical soldiers in Hood's Brigade. 
Price: 55.00 USD
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15 Deshields, James T. CYNTHIA ANN PARKER.
Dallas Chama Press 1991 1st. Of This Ed. Fine Fine 
D.j., 60 pp., photos. A new edition of the very scarce book on Cynthia Ann Parker. Foreword by John Graves and fiine printing by W.Thomas Taylor. Publication announcement laid in. Bound in Dutch linen with brown d.j. Three of the 4 photos reproduced were not in the original edition. 
Price: 100.00 USD
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16 Dobie, Dudley R. ADVENTURES IN THE CANYON, MOUNTAIN AND DESERT COUNTRY OF THE BIG BEND OF TEXAS AND MEXICO.
San Marcos Privately prtd. 1952 1st. Wrs. Fine 
Stiff paper covers, frontis, 29 pp. + 7 pp. of photos, Story of adventures in the Big Bend--Reagan Canyon with Henry B. DuPont, Guy Skiles, and three others. A wonderful trip to the Big Bend when it was mostly wilderness. 
Price: 50.00 USD
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17 Douglas, Lucia Rutherford. DOUGLAS'S TEXAS BATTERY, C.S.A.
Tyler Smith Cty. Hist. Soc. 1996 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j. (chipped edges, soil, spine browned), 238 pp. (edge of page block soiled), photos, index. Organized in 1861 with 50 men each from Dallas & Tyler, Capt. J.J. Good & Lt. James P. Douglas commanding. The only Texas artillery unit to serve east of the Mississippi in many battles. 
Price: 100.00 USD
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18 Ellis County Museum. ELLIS COUNTY. A Photo History.
Waxahachie Ellis County Museum 1993 1st. Stiff Pict. Wrs. Fine 
Stiff paper covers with photo, oblong, 176 pp., photos. Little text but many fine early photos of Waxahachie & early Ellis County. Gift inscription on half title. 
Price: 50.00 USD
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19 Fisher, O. C. And Jeff Dykes. KING FISHER. His Life and Times.
Norman U. Of Ok. 1966 1st. Fine Very Good 
D.j. (worn), 157 pp., biblio. INSCRIBED by Fisher. One of the few Western Frontier Library original editions. Story of an outlaw turned lawman. Guns #724--Ben Thompson, Bat Masterson, Taylor-Sutton Feud, Texas Rangers. 
Price: 50.00 USD
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20 Fitzhugh, Lester N. CANNON SMOKE: THE LETTERS OF CAPT. JOHN J. GOOD, GOOD-DOUGLAS TEXAS BATTERY, CSA.
Hillsboro HJC 1971 1st. Fine Fine 
D.j., 249 pp., illus., index. Nicely INSCRIBED by Fitzhugh & SIGNED by Col. Harold B. Simpson. The only Texas artillery unit to serve East of the Mississippi in many battles. Organized in 1861 with 50 men each from Dallas & Tyler. 
Price: 125.00 USD
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