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"THE FALL OF PARKER'S FORT".

By: Deshields, James T.

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Houston, Union Natl. Bk.: 1935

Seller ID: 024610

Binding: Paper

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.
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A CORNER FOREVER TEXAS.

By: Dobie, J.Frank.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Austin, Whatley:

Seller ID: 024506

Binding: Paper

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.
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A MEXICAN FAMILY EMPIRE. The Latifundio of the Sanchez Navarro Family 1765 - 1867

By: Harris, Charles H. III

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Austin, U. Of Tx.: 1975

Seller ID: 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.
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A RANGER LEGACY. 150 Years of Service to Texas.

By: Kilgore, Dan E.

Price: $80.00

Publisher: Austin, Madrona Press: 1973

Seller ID: 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
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THE LAST FRONTIER. The Story of Hardeman County.

By: Neal, Bill.

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Austin, Eakin Press: 1996

Seller ID: 015865

Binding: Dec. Cloth

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..
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SOMERVELL. Story of a Texas County.

By: Nunn, W.C.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ft. Worth, TCU: 1975

Seller ID: 002370

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

258 pp., photos, index, e.p. maps. North Texas county history. Glen Rose is county seat. Dinosaur Valley State Park.
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THE EVOLUTION OF A STATE or Recollections of Old Texas Days.

By: Smithwick, Noah.

Price: $200.00

Publisher: Austin, Gammel Book Co.: 1900

Seller ID: 021856

Binding: Cloth

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
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STANDARD BLUE-BOOK TEXAS 1921.

By: Standard Blue Book Co.

Price: $75.00

Publisher: San Antonio, Standard Blue Book Co.: 1921

Seller ID: 002077

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Very Good

Many photos & short biographies. This edition features West Texas and the Panhandle Plains. Spots on front cover. Scarce.
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A HISTORY OF LIMESTONE COUNTY, TEXAS. 1833-1860.

By: Steele, Hampton.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Mexia, Mexia News Publishing Co:

Seller ID: 024608

Binding: Paper

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.
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MANNEN CLEMENTS. Texas Gunfighter.

By: Stephens, Robert W.

Price: $95.00

Publisher: N.P., Author: 1996

Seller ID: 010404

Binding: Cloth

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.
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TEXAS RANGER INDIAN WAR PENSIONS.

By: Stephens, Robert W.

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Quanah, Nortex: 1975

Seller ID: 010447

Binding: Boards

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.
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REMINISCENCES OF EARLY DAYS OF FORT WORTH.

By: Terrell, Capt. J.C.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: Ft. Worth, TCU: 1999

Seller ID: 020633

Binding: Cloth

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.
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AN AMERICAN ORIGINAL. The Life of J. Frank Dobie.

By: Tinkle, Lon.

Price: $25.00

Publisher: Boston, Little, Brown: 1978

Seller ID: 009910

Condition: Fine

The excellent biography of one of the best-loved storytellers of Texas and the American Southwest. MBTB #113.
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DICK DOWLING AT SABINE PASS: A Texas Incident in the War Between the States

By: Tolbert, Frank X.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: N. Y., McGraw-Hill: 1962

Seller ID: 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.
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DICK DOWLING AT SABINE PASS: A Texas Incident in the War Between the States

By: Tolbert, Frank X.

Price: $45.00

Publisher: N. Y., McGraw-Hill: 1962

Seller ID: 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.
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OUT OF THE SOUTHWEST. A Texas Boy.

By: Traylor, S.W., Sr.

Price: $40.00

Publisher: Allentown, Schlicher and Son: 1936

Seller ID: 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.
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THE WORLD OF COL. JOHN W. THOMASON, USMC.

By: Turner, Martha Ann

Price: $60.00

Publisher: Austin, Eakin Press: 1984

Seller ID: 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.
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FORCE WITHOUT FANFARE. The Autobiography of...

By: Van Zandt, K.M.

Price: $30.00

Publisher: Ft. Worth, T C U: 1968

Seller ID: 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.
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MARIA VON BLUCHER'S CORPUS CHRISTI. Letters from the South Texas Frontier, 1849-1879.

By: von Blucher, Maria.

Price: $35.00

Publisher: Coll. Sta., Tx. A&M: 2002

Seller ID: 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.
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DEATH WAS THE BLACK HORSE. Story of Rough Rider Buckey O'Neill.

By: Walker, Dale L.

Price: $100.00

Publisher: Austin, Madrona Press: 1975

Seller ID: 023014

Binding: Quarter Black Morocco & Cloth

Condition: Fine

Black morocco spine & blue cloth, slipcase. 200 pp. with 2 original short stories by O'Neill. Frontis. illus by Cisneros. Design by Hertzog. SIGNED by Walker, Hertzog, and Bob Weddle of Madrona Press. #84/200c. Fine biography of O'Neill--Roughrider, Sheriff of Yavapai County & mayor of Prescott, who died in Cuba at San Juan Hill.
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Category: Cat 190