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Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Describes the sheep industry's place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history - and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive.

To understand the American Civil War in Texas also requires an understanding of the history of Mexico. The Civil War on the Rio Grande focuses on the region's forced annexation from Mexico in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Presents a thesis that offers a vision of Texas history and culture. This work presents an analysis that de-emphasizes the role of the Texas Revolution in Texas history and explores the ways in which Anglos and Mexicans developed tense ties following the US-Mexico War.

Despite the community's critical role under French and then Spanish rule, this is the study of its society and economy. It demonstrates not only the persistence of this creole dominance but also how it was maintained. It examines the ethnic cultures present in the town and relations with Indians in the surrounding area.

Here, the author looks at the history and culture of Hispanics in Utah and examines the impact of their widespread conversion from Catholicism to Mormonism. His study examines Hispanic assimilation and acculturation in a setting vastly different from other states.

The Comanches were long portayed as marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction of horses to raise their people out of primitive poverty. In this book, Gerald Betty details the kinship patterns that underlay all social organization and behaviour among the Comanches.

Gathers eleven essays written by Light Townsend Cummins, a foremost authority on Texas and Louisiana during the Spanish colonial era, and traces the arc of the author's career over a quarter of a century. Each essay includes a new introduction linking the original article to current scholarship and forms the connective tissue for the volume.

This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. This book is an important contribution to Texas and American history, capturing a moment in time that was the second sustained crisis in American history.

Places the controversy over public education and school textbooks in Texas in the context of continued resistance to FDR's New Deal, the election of President Kennedy, and the accelerating civil rights movement, showing how Texas became centre stage for the drama surrounding control of what teachers could teach and students would learn.

Historians Walter L. Buenger and Walter D. Kamphoefner present a revised and annotated translation of William Andreas Trenckmann's memoirs as a revealing window into the lives of German Texans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge McComas and his wife and kidnapped their six-year-old son, Charley on a desolate road in southwestern New Mexico Territory, all victims of revenge sought by the Apaches for Gen. George Crook's campaign. Marc Simmons brings to light one of the last massacres of the Indian wars.

Walter P Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. This title presents portrait of the man who charged across the field at San Jacinto, and aided in the removal of Indians and Tejano settlers from the East Texas Redlands.

Examines Texas' pasts, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars. This work talks about historians' views of Texas in the nineteenth century and especially the significance of the Alamo as a site of memory in architecture, art, and film across the years.

Details about life among the former Texas Indian peoples, including the Kiowas, Comanches, Wichitas, Caddos, Tonkawas, and Lipan Apaches. Culled from 112 volumes of the Indian-Pioneer Histories in the Indian Archives at the Oklahoma Historical Society, these oral histories also include interviews with non-Indian neighbors.

Expansion was the fever of the early 19th century, and women burned with it as surely as men. Women championed expansion for the cause of civilization, while avoiding the masculine world of politics. Adrienne Caughfield mines diaries and letters of Texas women to uncover their ideas and enthusiasms

Here, Ray A. Billington outlines the three century-long process of westering that forged the American characteristics of resourcefulness, individualism and democracy, and upward social mobility.