Local and family history, nostalgia

Although there are numerous books about Louisiana, little information about the forts are included and none combines the forts with ghost stories.

When Waddy Bullion refers to his experience working for LBJ as a tax attorney and business advisor, he calls it "e;being in the boat.

Did the famous Davy Crockett surrender at the Alamo or die fighting like a tiger according to Texas tradition?

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

If you love history and want to amaze your family and colleagues with your prodigious knowledge of Lone Star lore, this book is just what you need.

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

From the landing of Federal troops at the Tennessee-Ohio confluence to the new river of the TVA, whose dams "e;stand athwart the valley in Egyptian impassivity,"e; this volume completes the story of the transformation of a river and of the culture it nourished.

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

Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas.

In the beginning it was happy trails.

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

James Walker Fannin.

Tuck this book under your arm, jump in your car, and get ready to discover the ghosts of North Texas!

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.

For visitors and recent arrivals, Atlanta Rising, will serve as the essential primer on the ins and outs of the South's capital city.

Every time a cowhand dug his boot into the stirrup, he knew that this ride could carry him to trail's end.

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

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

For fifty years prison inmates in Texas were leased out to railroads, coal mines, farm plantations, and sawmill crews with terrible incidences of brutality, cruelty, injury, and death to the prisoners.

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.

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

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

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

Entertaining historical vignettes focus on the human-interest aspects of real people and actual events of frontier Texas.

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.

Ghosts can be encountered anywhere at any time by any person.

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

Based on a 1912 publication about Texans who fought for the South in the Civil War, Texas Boys in Gray presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there.

Based on a 1912 publication about Texans who fought for the South in the Civil War, Texas Boys in Gray presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there.

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

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.

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.

PRISON PUZZLE PIECES (the first of a three volume series) is a non-fiction account of a corrections officer working in Stillwater Prison in Minnesota after he stopped traveling the country performing standup comedy and improv.

Along Pond Creek Road is a look at the families making up the ancestry of Alda Buckley Kennedy.

Few women have had a more significant impact on the development and growth of Lawrence, Kansas, and the University of Kansas than Elizabeth Miller Watkins.

As a child, Anthony Sampson was haunted by a family skeleton.

'A fascinating, informative, revelatory book' William Boyd, GuardianParks are such a familiar part of everyday life, you might be forgiven for thinking they have always been there.

No Cake, No Jam is the heart-warming true story of a little girl s London childhood during the Blitz, and of how she rose above adversity through sheer guts and strength of character.

Fans of Bridgerton, Georgette Heyer and Jenny Hambly will love this sensational and sexy romantic adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey.

From petticoat duels and lucky cats to the Stiffs Express, Lord Nelson's spare nose, the Piccadilly earthquake and the Great Beer Flood of 1814, A Curious Guide to London takes you on a captivating, wildly entertaining tour of the city you think you know, unearthing the capital's secrets and commemorating its rich, colourful and unusual history.

The Rainborowes bridges two generations and two worlds, weaving together the lives of the Rainborowe clan as they struggle to forge a better life for themselves and a better future for humankind in the New World.

The extraordinary story of a small Jewish ghetto in a small town in Poland - and of one man's obsessive quest to discover its fate and its survivors.

The astonishing true story of a young woman's adventures, and misadventures, in the dangerous world of Nazi-occupied France.

The story of the man who strung the telegraph across Australia, and the woman who gave her name to Alice Springs.

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Spanning almost a hundred years, this rich and evocative true story recounts the lives of three generations of remarkable Chinese women.

Alan Titchmarsh takes us on a fascinating tour through the history of Britains royal gardens from medieval times to the present day.

Good old Dad and his good old Dad's car.

Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Johanna Lindsey take you on a captivating and sweeping romantic adventure.