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  • Ada

    by Dare Strickland ...
    Series series Images of America
    Ada, named after the eldest daughter of Jeff Reed, a founder of the town, is located in the east central part of Oklahoma. It is the county seat of Pontotoc County and was called the worst town for criminal activity in the Indian Territory for the lack of justice. The west end block of Main Street was called the �Bucket of Blood� and harbored many murderers and outlaws until, in 1909, the hanging ... Read more

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  • Deadly Heritage - A Horse Mystery

    by Toni Leland ...
    In this panoramic novel set in historic Guthrie, Oklahoma, someone is stalking Quarter Horse breeder Kellie Sutton, and the one person who can protect her is the man whose heart she broke 15 years ago. Horses and land hunger brew into a rip-roaring tale of depravity, deceit, and family tragedy in this suspenseful equestrian novel.A prize stallion savaged. A beautiful daughter snatched. An ex ... Read more

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  • Oklahoma

    A History

    by W. David Baird, Danney Goble ...
    The product of two of Oklahoma’s foremost authorities on the history of the 46th state, Oklahoma: A History is the first comprehensive narrative to bring the story of the Sooner State to the threshold of its centennial.From the tectonic formation of Oklahoma’s varied landscape to the recovery and renewal following the Oklahoma City bombing, this readable book includes both the well-known and the ... Read more

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  • The Chronicles of the Old West - 4 Historical Books Exploring the Wild Past of the American West

    Cowboys, Outlaws, and the Opening of the Wild West

    by Emerson Hough ...
    "The Way to the West" tells the story of the opening of the west, including the accounts of three early Americans Daniel Boone, Davy Crockett and Kit Carson. "The Story of the Cowboy" is a historical book about the cowboy in the American West close to the end of 19th century. "The Story of the Outlaw" is a study of the western desperado, with historical narratives of famous outlaws, the stories of ... Read more

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  • The Port of Houston

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series series Images of America
    To reach the Port of Houston's Turning Basin, a ship must travel 50 miles along a narrow and twisting channel that passes through Galveston Bay, the San Jacinto River, and Buffalo Bayou. Despite this improbable location, Houston has the world's largest landlocked port. Measured by annual tonnage shipped, the Port of Houston is the second-largest port in the United States. Its docks, wharves, and ... Read more

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  • The Cradle of Texas Road

    A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation

    by Robin Navarro Montgomery, Joy Montgomery ...
    The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.Thoroughly researched and ambitious in scope, The Cradle of Texas Road explores this region of Texas to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Eleven Days in Hell

    The 1974 Carrasco Prison Siege at Huntsville, Texas

    by William T. Harper ...
    Series series Crime and Criminal Justice Series
    From one oclock on the afternoon of July 24, 1974, until shortly before ten oclock the night of August 3, eleven days later, one of the longest hostage-taking sieges in the history of the United States took place in Texass Huntsville State Prison. The ringleader, Federico (Fred) Gomez Carrasco, the former boss of the largest drug-running operation in south Texas, was serving life for assault with ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • Impressions of the Big Thicket

    by Michael Frary, William A. Owens ...
    Before the establishment of the Big Thicket Nature Preserve, the Big Thicket of Texas became a symbol of nature's last stand against encroaching civilization. Here, in a mingling of ecological zones, come together plants, animals, and birds—many of them rare—the flora and fauna of north and south, east and west. Northern maples and beeches stand not too great a distance from cypresses and Southern ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Pampa

    by White Deer Land Museum, Anne Davidson, Deborah Chambers ...
    Series series Images of America
    The Panhandle�s first railroad, the Southern Kansas Railway of Texas, was constructed in 1886. Reaching Amarillo in 1889, the railway pulled cars filled with immigrant families and their belongings. The settlers were farmers from the east and south who came west to find water and cheap land. George Tyng, an adventurous fortune seeker, began leasing ranch land in 1887. A rail station was ... Read more

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  • Underground Prescott

    A Historical Review of the Stories About Catacombs, Tunnels, Speakeasys, Opium Dens and Bordellos in Early Prescott, Arizona

    by Patricia Ireland-Williams ...
    Underground Prescott is a historical look at the old west in Arizona's first territorial capitol, Prescott, Arizona. There are many stories about life underground whether it be passageways, tunnels, catacombs, opium dens, gambling halls, prohibition or brothels. Underground Prescott talks about this history and includes photos of areas below Prescott that are no longer accessible to the public. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The City in Texas

    A History

    by David G. McComb ...
    Series series Bridwell Texas History Series
    Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the state’s people did live and work on the land. Between 1940 and 1950, however, the balance shifted from rural to urban, and today 88 percent of Texans live in cities and embrace the amenities of urban culture. The rise of Texas cities is a fascinating story that has not been previously told. Yet it is essential ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Three Roads to Magdalena

    Coming of Age in a Southwest Borderland, 1890-1990

    by David Wallace Adams ...
    Winner: David J. Weber-William P. Clements PrizeWinner: Robert G. Athearn AwardChoice Outstanding Academic Title“Someday,” Candelaria Garcia said to the author, “you will get all the stories.” It was a tall order, in Magdalena, New Mexico, a once booming frontier town where Navajo, Anglo, and Hispanic people have lived in shifting, sometimes separate, sometimes overlapping worlds for well over a ... Read more

    $11.59 USD