Local and family history, nostalgia

Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years.

The King Ranch has been the subject of international fascination for over a century.

What happened to the documents captured in the Alamo?

Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle.

Take a guided tour of more than 15,000 years of life in TexasMr.

This is the definitive account of a beloved hotel that has played a memorable role in San Antonio's history.

Everyone loves a good murder mystery, and in this case, the murders and the outcomes are both quite real.

Contains over one hundred descriptions of the Battle of the Alamo by people who were witnesses or who claimed to have witnessed the event.

This book is a lighthearted look at some of the stories Texans have been improving on since their first telling around the glow of a campfire.

Not every Wild West disagreement was settled with guns on a dusty street.

James Walker Fannin.

In the beginning it was happy trails.

Some of the law officers who served the West during the last half of the nineteenth century drifted from one side of the law to the other and sold their talents to whichever side offered the most advantage.

Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he finds a winning poker hand.

Jon McConal, longtime columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, takes readers on a trip back through years of writing about Texas-its history, people, and unusual places.

With intriguing photos and lively writing, What's in a Picture makes it clear that historic photographs can be a super source of present-day insight and entertainment.

Every year visitors flock to Maine's Fort Knox near the mouth of the Penobscot River.

A writer once denounced the Lone Star State as "e;where the Godly could battle 'the devil' on his own ground.

A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.

Captain Klevenhagen was one of the best officers Texas ever had.

More than Petticoats: Remarkable Illinois Women chronicles the stories of twelve Illinois women who lived in the era of True Womanhood and dedicated themselves to charity toward family and strangers.

For more than a century and a half Texans have honored the heroes of the Texas fight for independence.

Continuing the amusing, interesting, factual, and sometimes ridiculous bits of information in A Treasury of Texas Trivia, this second volume brings you all-new entertaining tidbits-some of them useful historical facts and some just for fun.

Fans of shoot-'em-up books and movie Westerns, as well as history buffs, will enjoy these short biographies about the baddest of the bad villains and desperadoes on the Alaskan frontier.

For Texans and non-Texans alike, Mythic Texas is a fascinating journey into a culture that is like no other in the world.

Maine has a rich supernatural history and ghost stories from the state are as varied as they are prolific.

Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything.

Combining fascinating stories of Texas history with travel adventures around the state, Exploring Texas History: Weekend Adventures suggests where to go and what to see by tracking historical characters and events.

From the sixteenth century through the twentieth, Texans have had interesting things to say about themselves, their home, and the rest of the world.

Originally published in 1937 as part of the Rivers of America series, this book has become a classic of Maine literature.

A refreshing new perspective on some of the most infamous reprobates of the Midwest.

Massacres, mayhem, and mischief fill the pages of Outlaw Tales of South Dakota.

Virginia saw significant action during the War of 1812, from the Chesapeake-Leopard Affair to the defense of Norfolk against British invaders.

Located just seconds from the winding Tennessee border, the remote mountain settlement of Lost Cove, North Carolina was once described as where the "e;moonshiner frolics unmolested.

Long before television and radio commercials beckoned to potential buyers, the medicine show provided free entertainment and promised cures for everything from corns to cancer.

Through photos and narrative, some of Texas' most dedicated scientists show you actual specimens of dinosaur material found in Texas, as well as dinosaur exhibits found throughout the state.

The Arizona Territory is known for saloons, gunfights, outlaws and strong women.

When Taso G.

The Global Southern Music Issue enhanced eBook includes all the tracks on Traveling Shoes, our special free CD and:The South meets Senegal as hip-hop goes Trans-Atlantic.

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The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

This Omnibus E-book brings together all four issues of Southern Cultures Volume 15, published in 2009.

There is a significant French heritage in North Carolina.

Drawing on six years of research, this book covers the military service and postwar lives of notable Confederate veterans who moved into Northern California at the end the Civil War.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

Known as the Coastal Highway, U.

Indiana State Police Captain Matt Leach led the hunt for John Dillinger during the violent early 1930s.

In 1528, the Spanish explorer Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca and his three companions were shipwrecked and, looking for help, began an eight-year trek through the deserts of the American West.

The Civil War in 1861 found Southerners a minority throughout the West.

Set in the 1980s against a backdrop of the AIDS crisis, deindustrialization and the Reagan era, this book tells the story of one individual's defiant struggle against his community--the city of Kokomo, Indiana.