In addition to a brief history of French and Spanish land measures in North America, Reasonover's Land Measures is composed of extensive conversion and reduction tables for these measures used on the continent during the 16th through 19th centuries. 2nd Edition. 108 pages.

The history of banking in Texas from the Republic era through the Great Depression is a tale of uncertainty, distrust, and confusion--not without a cast of heroic figures.

This work sheds new light on the Battle of San Jacinto, correcting long-standing historical errors. In 1922, McDonald compiled 877 biographical entries for the most concise account of the battle ever published.

Originally published in 1931, "The Alamo Defenders" is the culmination of almost a decade's worth of Alamo research, and is the foundation upon which most later works addressing the subject of the souls who occupied the Alamo during the siege.

These 43 true stories of Indian troubles on the Texas frontier were compiled and published originally by Hilory Bedford in 1905. He was an eyewitness and participant in many of the heartbreaking and terrifying events, and the rest he got straight from the mouths of those who were there or from their surviving kin.

Would you like to know about the noble men who risked everything to make Texas the oil capital of America? Well find another book, because this one's about gambling, pimps, prostitutes, crooked officials, hard drinking, liquor fueled brawling and the roughnecks at the center of it all...real life in Texas oil boomtowns. In 1901, George Parker Stoker was twenty-three and a newly hatched MD seeking his fortune. He stepped off the train at Beaumont into a world of mud and mayhem. Within a day he was at the Spindletop field and had inherited the only medical practice in town from an old doc who...