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Charles F. Gunther is a Yankee ice peddlar who is trapped in the South at the outbreak of the war. Presented here are two years of diaries of Gunther''s experiences working on the steamboat Rose Douglas, ferrying Confederate troops and supplies. After the war, Gunther makes a fortune in the candy business across the street from Marshal Field''s in Chicago, becomes a premier collector and preserver of Civil War artifacts and Lincoln memorabilia, endows the Chicago history Museum with its Civil War collection, and goes on to hold political office as an alderman and City Treasurer of Chicago. In Two Years Before the Paddlewheel, readers can follow the day-by-day survival of an ordinary ice merchant turned Confederate steamboat purser during the Civil War. Gunther''s day-by-day account as a civilian in military service illuminates the economic, military, social, and personal side of America''s Civil War.

Best known as the Texas Ranger captain who tracked down and killed Bonnie and Clyde, Frank Hamer was designated by Walter Prescott Webb as "one of the three most fearless men in Western history." This reprint of the 1968 edition gives the complete details of the Barrow-Parker rampage and is the only authentic account of the events leading to their deaths.

Explores the heroic role played by the Texans at key battlefield sites and why the State of Texas has, over the years, seen fit to officially commemorate the valour of the men of Texas with monuments. Students of American history, as well as visitors and those planning to visit the eighteen battlefield monuments described in this book, will learn how Texas forces fared in the fighting.

Iowa Wesleyan College was looking to snap a 100-year tradition of gridiron mediocrity when it hired Texas high school football coach Hal Mumme to breathe some life into its program in January of 1989. Mumme arrived at the tiny NAJA school with an innovative approach to the game that promptly delivered a winning football team with help from assistant coach Mike Leach, wide receiver Dana Holgorsen, and other unforgettable characters that woke up a quiet farming community to an offensive revolution in its infancy. In the process, the team's coaches and players overcame formidable opponents on and off the field en route to the NAJA playoffs. The success of Iowa Wesleyan's football team during Mumme tenure in Mount Pleasant paved the way for his continual climb up the coaching ladder and the gradual acceptance of his offensive scheme to the college football schematic mainstream.

In 1940, Abilene, Texas a major army training camp housing 60,000 troops was built, and over the next seventy years, it grew to be home to nearly 120,000 citizens. Population growth carried with it the need for geographic expansion, infrastructure upgrade, and economic diversification, but also unimaginable cultural change.

This is not a typical Civil War letter collection. Augustus V. Ball's circumstances and experiences allowed him to glimpse the war through two sets of eyes, that of a loving husband, and of an increasingly disillusioned physician. The inclusion of Ball's medicinal recipe book is the first of its kind to appear in print completely annotated.

Coach Emory Bellard spent a remarkable 43-year football coaching career at both the high school and college level, where he helped teams win 12 district championships, five regional titles, and three state championships in 21 seasons. Bellard collaborated with veteran sports writer Al Pickett, to tell the remarkable story of his career for the first time.

In 1881, six months after the establishment of Abilene, Texas, seventeen residents met at the local public school building and chartered First Baptist Church of Abilene. These founders instilled a mission-minded focus in the new institution.

From humble cottages to the first Hilton Hotel, and from railway depots to an air force base, this book presents Abilene's contribution to the American story which unfolds through the buildings that compose its cityscapes.

Presents a portrait of Texas during World War II and illustrated how the coming of thousands of strangers in military uniforms forever changed the faces of eight towns and cities across the Lone Star State. This book describes each community, establishing each location's pre-war condition.

Contains twelve articles which depict the basic themes and topics of the black American experience in West Texas. This book includes such topics as slavery, black cattlemen, buffalo soldiers, race relations, urban centers, education, desegregation, and integration.

Comprises a description of a soldier's life in the ranks of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry. This title describes author's youthful experiences, including his family life, education, hunting, and other pleasant pastimes, plantation activities and relationships with slaves, as well as social conditions.

Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and facilitator for Stephen F Austin, he was a signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico, an important figure in the drafting of the Texas Constitution, and a State Senator.

Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant during the period Houston was US Senator, during both governorships, and was with Houston at his death. These memoirs contain Hamilton's viewpoints of the issues during the last years of Houston's life.

A children's activity book with games, puzzles, and coloring pages for children of all ages. Learning about Texas living and the people that made the frontier unique helps children utilize their creativity, expand their vocabulary, and exercise their brains - all while playing and having fun.

Ann Richards was one of the best-known and beloved governors in Texas history. But she was also a controversial figure, having been elected after admitting to struggling with alcoholism and divorce, and being a Democrat in a Republican state to boot. This title is suitable for fourth graders studying for the Texas history section of the TAKS test.

Chronicles the team's forty-five year history in a collection of more than five hundred quips and quotes from players, coaches, owners, broadcasters, and writers. This work contains quotations that provide a record of the ups and downs of one of the best-known franchises in professional sports.

Don Martin De Leon was the only Tejano empresario to settle a colony in Texas, in the days before statehood. Other empresarios were Anglos who had been drawn to Texas by the lure of land. This book is the fourth title in ""The Stars of Texas"" series, aimed at fourth graders studying for the Texas history section of the TAKS test.

Providing a history of the institution of slavery in Texas, this text yields insight into the impact of slavery upon human lives. Here, over one hundred former slaves describe their slavemasters, their work, runaway slaves, their recollections of the Civil War and, finally, the coming of freedom.

Rattlesnakes are as much a part of West Texas as cattle, oil, and beautiful sunsets. The author, a former chairman of the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup held every March in the West Texas town of Sweetwater, shares his collection of stories, encounters, and tips about hunting and handling rattlesnakes.

Miriam Ferguson was a quiet, private person who preferred to stay home in her big house in Temple, Texas, and take care of her husband, raise her two daughters, and tend to her flower garden. But in 1923 she was elected governor of Texas, the first women governor elected in the United States.

The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. This chronicle of the Thurber district is not only a nostalgic trip back in time, but also a case study of the impact of technological change on one part of modern America.

Although the Texan airfield was originally the Pyote Army Airfield, the serpents encountered during construction earned it the name of ""Rattlesnake Bomber Base."" For those who served on the airfield, what is now a ruin is a monument to a time when men and snakes and bombers came together in the desert to share a chapter of American history.

Veteran sports writer Al Pickett explores how Chuck Moser worked his magic to galvanize Abilene in support of his program and turn an otherwise ordinary group of high school kids into the best football team in Texas history.

First published in 1995 as a collection of four selected speeches by Elmer Kelton, this revised second edition includes three of those pieces plus two new ones.

Red Steagall has compiled the conversations with 21 of his friends into a unique book that captures the flavor of the Western way of life. Their stories about early days in movies, ranching, law enforcement, music, writing, and other endeavors create an oral history of life in the West.