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Price: $20.00
Publisher: Houston, Union Natl. Bk.: 1935
Inventory Number: 024610
Condition: Very Good
Paper covers, 10 pp. Reprint by the Union Natl. Bank of Houston of an extract from Border Wars of Texas by DeShields which was given to customers in the 1930's. View more info
By: Dobie, J.Frank.
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Austin, Whatley:
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 024506
Condition: Fine
Paper covers, 8 pp. No date (ca. 1938). As new copy in its original shipping envelope. A separate printing of a plea by Dobie for a Texas center at the Univ. of Texas with emphasis on the Texas Collection of fine & rare books taken in part from The Alcalde, April 1938. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Austin, U. Of Tx.: 1975
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 023307
Condition: Good
D.j., 410 pp., tables, index. Brown stain on edge of page block and on outer part of many pages. A study of a the largest latifundio ever to have existed in Mexico and all of latin America, located in the northern state of Coahuila and was composed of 17 haciendas and more than 16.5 million acres. View more info
By: Johnson, Gen. Bradley T. & Col. Robert White. Edited By Gen. Clement A. Evans.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Harrisburg, The Archive Society: 1994
Inventory Number: 024624
Condition: Fine
Red cloth w/gilt lettering & seal, 184 & 138 pp., illus., maps, AEG, marbled endpapers. Facsimile reprint of the 1899 edition. View more info
By: Kilgore, Dan E.
Price: $80.00
Publisher: Austin, Madrona Press: 1973
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 024596
Condition: Fine
D.j. (clipped, illus. by Jose Cisneros), 104 pp., index, map by Barbara Whitehead. A full account of the early Texas Rangers from their organization in Austin's colony to the later days of prohibition and the oil fields. Adams 150-#90 View more info
By: Neal, Bill.
Price: $50.00
Publisher: Austin, Eakin Press: 1996
Inventory Number: 015865
Condition: Fine
Brown cloth with gold decoration, 266 pp., photos; indices to club, church, business & family histories. Reprint of 1966 edition. Foreword by A.C. Greene. History of Hardeman county with chapters on Indians (photos of Quanah Parker and his daughter, Wanada), list of cattle brands, & 120 pp. of family histories.. View more info
By: Nunn, W.C.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Ft. Worth, TCU: 1975
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 002370
Condition: Fine
258 pp., photos, index, e.p. maps. North Texas county history. Glen Rose is county seat. Dinosaur Valley State Park. View more info
By: Smithwick, Noah.
Price: $200.00
Publisher: Austin, Gammel Book Co.: 1900
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 021856
Condition: Very Good
Brown cloth (rebound w/new endpapers), 354 pp., illus. Former owner name on title & her address stamp on several pages. First few pages waterstained on outside edge. Basic Tx. Bks #189-Dobie called it the "best of all books dealing with life in early Texas." Smithwick came to Texas in 1827 & became a blacksmith in San Felipe. Run out of town in 1831 by vigilantes, he joined the Army in 1835 & fought in the revolution. He served in the Rangers & lived with the Comanches for awhile. His work is one of the most anecdotal of all early Texas Memoirs. Greene's 50 Best Tx. Bks. #15 View more info
Price: $75.00
Publisher: San Antonio, Standard Blue Book Co.: 1921
Edition: 1st. Edition
Inventory Number: 002077
Condition: Very Good
Many photos & short biographies. This edition features West Texas and the Panhandle Plains. Spots on front cover. Scarce. View more info
By: Steele, Hampton.
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Mexia, Mexia News Publishing Co:
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 024608
Condition: Fine
Stiff light green paper covers, 37 pp., frontis. of Steele. No date but published about 1925. Early history of Limestone County. Steele's father fought in the Battle of San Jacinto. Moved to Limestone County in 1844 and was the 14th family in the county. View more info
Price: $95.00
Publisher: N.P., Author: 1996
Edition: 1st. Edition
Inventory Number: 010404
Condition: Fine
Brown cloth, 98 pp., photos. Ltd. 250c, #76 SIGNED. Clements, a cousin of John Wesley Hardin, killed several men. First full biography of Clements. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Quanah, Nortex: 1975
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 010447
Condition: Fine
Brown boards, 124 pp., alphabetical order. Abstracted records from the National Archives of Texas Rangers who applied for pensions for fighting indians in Texas. A lot of valuable information about many Texas Rangers taken from their pension application files. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: Ft. Worth, TCU: 1999
Inventory Number: 020633
Condition: Fine
Green cloth with gilt lettering, 106 pp., photos, index. No d.j. issued. Fine out-of-print reprint of rare 1906 work on the early history of Ft. Worth. Also info. on Weatherford, Denton, Tarrant County areas, hunting, etc. View more info
By: Tinkle, Lon.
Price: $25.00
Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown: 1978
Edition: 1st. Edition
Inventory Number: 009910
Condition: Fine
The excellent biography of one of the best-loved storytellers of Texas and the American Southwest. MBTB #113. View more info
Price: $30.00
Publisher: N. Y., McGraw-Hill: 1962
Edition: 2nd Prtg.
Inventory Number: 018906
Condition: Near Fine
D.j., 159 pp.. plan of the battle of Sabine Pass. A true story of a Civil War battle in Texas. Dowling and others held off & defeated a Union force with 21 warships. Excellent work by Dallas author. Pages browning. View more info
Price: $45.00
Publisher: N. Y., McGraw-Hill: 1962
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 023229
Condition: Fine
D.j., 159 pp.. plan of the battle of Sabine Pass. A true story of a Civil War battle in Texas. Dowling and others held off & defeated a Union force with 21 warships. View more info
Price: $40.00
Publisher: Allentown, Schlicher and Son: 1936
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 011924
Condition: Near Fine
255 pp., photos. D.j. soil. .Autobiography of a Texas born man who worked in mining in Mexico, Colorado, Arizona, and Nevada, tells of engineering feats, the far West in pioneer days, and his role as a manufacturer helping the Allies in WW II. INSCRIBED. View more info
Price: $60.00
Publisher: Austin, Eakin Press: 1984
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 018149
Condition: Fine
405 pp., 20 pp. of illus., biblio., index. Supplements the biography by Willock with much more material on his personal life. Thomason wrote books on the Civil War, WW II, and other subjects and illustrated many other books. View more info
By: Van Zandt, K.M.
Price: $30.00
Publisher: Ft. Worth, T C U: 1968
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 014329
Condition: Near Fine
200 pp., photos, index. Ft. Worth pioneer, who surveyed for the railroad & practised law in E.Tx. Served as an officer in the 7th Texas Infantry in the Civil War. Came to Ft. Worth in 1865. President of Ft. Worth Natl. Bk. View more info
Price: $35.00
Publisher: Coll. Sta., Tx. A&M: 2002
Edition: 1st.
Inventory Number: 023079
Condition: Fine
D.j., 292 pp., illus., index. Edited & annotated by Bruce Cheesman. Maria von Blucher came to Corpus Christi in 1849 and wrote letters home describing the hardships of pioneer living, the Civil War, & the development of Corpus Christi. Based on over 200 of her letters. View more info
