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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.