Kategoria BISAC: History >> United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

The author's search for her elusive French ancestor, Achilles Godin (or Gaudin), has led to this volume of Missouri records and abstracts which collectively span the years 1766-1839. This time period is often puzzling to the Missouri/Arkansas researcher because the region changed ownership from France to Spain, then back to France, and finally to the United States in what became known as the Louisiana Purchase. These records were chosen, in part, to help fill the gap created by the lack of an 1810 and an 1820 census. A wide variety of information from thirty-four counties and the state as...

Anyone researching Missouri ancestors will quickly find himself tangled in the history of the region, which changed hands between France, Spain, and the United States, and whose boundaries often included the neighboring territories of Orleans and Indiana. Straying ancestors also tended to spill over into Arkansas, Louisiana, Illinois, Kentucky, and Tennessee. The author has simplified the search by including many useful records from these areas. There is not a complete Federal census extant for Missouri until 1830, and many of the records included in this series were obtained from the...

This series contains a wide variety of information on specific Missouri counties, and the state as a whole: marriage records, Spanish censuses, tax lists, estrays, letters at the post office, wills and bonds, jury lists, indictments, Indian trade records, cemetery listings, petitioners, animal marks and brands, slave bills of sale, French and Spanish land grants, military records, disaster victims, etc. This volume covers the following counties: Benton, Bollinger, Boone, Carroll, Cape Girardeau, Cass, Christian, Clay, Cooper, Crawford, Dent, Franklin, Gasconade, Greene, Hickory, Howell,...

Brief history of Central New Mexico, especially the settlement of Cedarvale and Progresso by homesteaders and those who followed. Biographical sketches of families of the Progresso/Cedarvale area. Descriptions of the Cedarvale Quilt Club and its projects. History of Cedarvale School.

Frank Denius was not yet twenty-one when he fought his way across Europe and was awarded four Silver Stars, a Presidential Unit Citation, and two Purple Hearts. On the Way describes Denius's formative experiences during World War II in gripping detail and will cause any reader to wonder how he or she might have held up under similar pressure. The powerful opening chapters are followed by a detailed account of Denius's life and career after the war, assembled into a first-person memoir from conversations between Denius and Thomas Hatfield, and published by the Briscoe Center for...

The Billy the Kid Reader contains some of the best articles on the Kid including gems no longer in print. From the first dime novel that appeared shortly after his death to the research of today s historians, these writings bring Bonney s life into sharp focus.

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Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P. Meadows arrived in New Mexico from Texas as a young man. During his life in the Southwest, he knew or worked for many well-known characters including: William Billy the Kid Bonney, Sheriff Pat Garrett, John Selman, Hugh Beckwith, Charlie Siringo, and Pat Coghlan. Meadows helped investigate the disappearance of Colonel Albert Jennings Fountain, and later bought part of downtown Tularosa, New Mexico, where he served a term as mayor. The recollections gathered here and edited by John P. Wilson are based on...