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Book Lone Star and the Galvanized Yankees

Download or read book Lone Star and the Galvanized Yankees written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA

Book Lone Star 150 galvani

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley Ellis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1995-02-01
  • ISBN : 1101169508
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Lone Star 150 galvani written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-02-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie's land is up for grabs, and so is her neck! Finding the Circle Star ranch besieged by a gang of trigger-happy claim jumpers and their leader Pleas Barstow, a bloodthirsty rustler who kills for his own glory, Jessie and Ki plan to retaliate with a Gatling gun.

Book Lone Star 149 temper

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley Ellis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1995-01-01
  • ISBN : 1101169486
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Lone Star 149 temper written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the Liberty Saloon the blood's flowing faster than the whiskey! Jessie and Ki get involved in a showdown between the Liberty Saloon and Sister Angela's Temperance Army, and soon realize that an evil cartel plans to make America's freedoms into sins—and destroy the Lone Star duo.

Book Lone Star 151 scorpio

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley Ellis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1995-03-01
  • ISBN : 1101169516
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Lone Star 151 scorpio written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1995-03-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An assassin blazes a bloody trail headed straight for Jessie and Ki! Jessica Starbuck, a woman fighting for justice on the American frontier, and Ki, a martial arts expert devoted to her protection, return in an adventure that brings them face to face with a mystery killer named "The Scorpion."

Book Lone Star Unionism  Dissent  and Resistance

Download or read book Lone Star Unionism Dissent and Resistance written by Jesús F. de la Teja and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most histories of Civil War Texas—some starring the fabled Hood’s Brigade, Terry’s Texas Rangers, or one or another military figure—depict the Lone Star State as having joined the Confederacy as a matter of course and as having later emerged from the war relatively unscathed. Yet as the contributors to this volume amply demonstrate, the often neglected stories of Texas Unionists and dissenters paint a far more complicated picture. Ranging in time from the late 1850s to the end of Reconstruction, Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance restores a missing layer of complexity to the history of Civil War Texas. The authors—all noted scholars of Texas and Civil War history—show that slaves, freedmen and freedwomen, Tejanos, German immigrants, and white women all took part in the struggle, even though some never found themselves on a battlefield. Their stories depict the Civil War as a conflict not only between North and South but also between neighbors, friends, and family members. By framing their stories in the analytical context of the “long Civil War,” Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance reveals how friends and neighbors became enemies and how the resulting violence, often at the hands of secessionists, crossed racial and ethnic lines. The chapters also show how ex-Confederates and their descendants, as well as former slaves, sought to give historical meaning to their experiences and find their place as citizens of the newly re-formed nation. Concluding with an account of the origins of Juneteenth—the nationally celebrated holiday marking June 19, 1865, when emancipation was announced in Texas—Lone Star Unionism, Dissent, and Resistance challenges the collective historical memory of Civil War Texas and its place in both the Confederacy and the United States. It provides material for a fresh narrative, one including people on the margins of history and dispelling the myth of a monolithically Confederate Texas.

Book Forthcoming Books

Download or read book Forthcoming Books written by Rose Arny and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 1816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lone Star Legends

Download or read book Lone Star Legends written by Peggy A. Reimers and published by Lone Star Legends. This book was released on 2006 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dee Brown on the Civil War

Download or read book Dee Brown on the Civil War written by Dee Brown and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 845 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three true tales of Civil War combat, as recounted by a #1 New York Times–bestselling author of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee. The acclaimed historian of the American West turns his attention to the country’s bloody civil conflict, chronicling the exploits of extraordinary soldiers who served in unexpected ways at a pivotal moment in the nation’s history. Grierson’s Raid: The definitive work on one of the most astonishing missions of the Civil War’s early days. For two weeks in the spring of 1862, Col. Benjamin Grierson, a former music teacher, led 1,700 Union cavalry troops on a raid from Tennessee to Louisiana. The improbably successful mission diverted Confederate attention from Grant’s crossing of the Mississippi and set the stage for the Siege of Vicksburg. General Sherman called it “the most brilliant expedition of the war.” The Bold Cavaliers: In 1861, Brig. Gen. John Hunt Morgan and his brother-in-law Basil Duke put together a group of formidable horsemen, and set to violent work. Morgan’s Raiders began in their home state, staging attacks, recruiting new soldiers, and intercepting Union telegraphs. Most were imprisoned after unsuccessful incursions into Ohio and Indiana years later, but some Raiders would escape, regroup, and fight again in different conflicts. “Accurate and frequently exciting” (Kirkus Reviews). The Galvanized Yankees: The little-known and awe-inspiring true story of a group of captured Confederate soldiers who chose to serve in the Union Army rather than endure the grim conditions of prisoner of war camps. “An accurate, interesting, and sometimes thrilling account of an unusual group of men who rendered a valuable service to the nation in a time of great need” (The New York Times Book Review).

Book Lone Star Blue and Gray

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ralph Wooster
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2015-04-21
  • ISBN : 1625110359
  • Pages : 650 pages

Download or read book Lone Star Blue and Gray written by Ralph Wooster and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bitter disputes over secession to the ways in which the conflict would be remembered, Texas and Texans were caught up in the momentous struggles of the American Civil War. Tens of thousands of Texans joined military units, and scarcely a household in the state was unaffected as mothers and wives assumed new roles in managing farms and plantations. Still others grappled with the massive social, political, and economic changes wrought by the bloodiest conflict in American history. The sixteen essays (eleven of them new) from some of the leading historians in the field in the second edition of Lone Star Blue and Gray illustrate the rich traditions and continuing vitality of Texas Civil War scholarship. Along with these articles, editors Ralph A. and Robert Wooster provide a succinct introduction to the war and Texas and recommended readings for those seeking further investigations of virtually every aspect of the war as experienced in the Lone Star State.

Book The Fate of Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Charles D. Grear
  • Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
  • Release : 2008-09-01
  • ISBN : 1557288836
  • Pages : 298 pages

Download or read book The Fate of Texas written by Charles D. Grear and published by University of Arkansas Press. This book was released on 2008-09-01 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Choice Outstanding Academic Title Texas has often been overlooked in Civil War scholarship, but this examination shows that the Lone Star State—though definitely unusual—was decidedly Southern. Eleven noted historians examine the ways the civil war touched every aspect of life in Texas and approach the subject from varied perspectives—military, social, and cultural history; public history; and historical memory—to provide a greater understanding of the roles of women and slaves during the war, and how veterans and the aftermath of loss helped pave the way for the Texas of today.

Book Grass Roots Socialism

    Book Details:
  • Author : James R. Green
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 1978-07-01
  • ISBN : 9780807107737
  • Pages : 484 pages

Download or read book Grass Roots Socialism written by James R. Green and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1978-07-01 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grass-Roots Socialism answers two of the most intriguing questions in the history of American radicalism: why was the Socialist party stronger in Oklahoma than in any other state, and how was the party able to build powerful organizations in nearby rural southwestern areas? Many of the same grievances that had created a strong Populist movement in the region provided the Socialists with potent political issues—the railroad monopoly, the crop lien system, and political corruption. With these widely felt grievances to build on, the Socialists led the class-conscious farmers and workers to a radicalism that was far in advance of that advocated by the earlier People’s party. Examined in this broadly based study of the movement are popular leaders like Oklahoma’s Oscar Ameringer (“The Mark Twain of American Socialism”), “Red Tom” Hickey of Texas, and Kate Richards O’Hare, who was second only to Eugene Debs as a Socialist orator. Included also is information on the party’s propaganda techniques, especially those used in the lively newspapers which claimed fifty thousand subscribers in the Southwest by 1913, and on the attractive summer camp meetings which drew thousands of poor white tenant farmers to week-long agitation and education sessions.

Book Germans in America

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter D. Kamphoefner
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2021-11-08
  • ISBN : 1442264985
  • Pages : 311 pages

Download or read book Germans in America written by Walter D. Kamphoefner and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-11-08 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a fresh look at the Germans—the largest and perhaps the most diverse foreign-language group in 19th century America. Drawing upon the latest findings from both sides of the Atlantic, emphasizing history from the bottom up and drawing heavily upon examples from immigrant letters, this work presents a number of surprising new insights. Particular attention is given to the German-American institutional network, which because of the size and diversity of the immigrant group was especially strong. Not just parochial schools, but public elementary schools in dozens of cities offered instruction in the mother tongue. Only after 1900 was there a slow transition to the English language in most German churches. Still, the anti-German hysteria of World War I brought not so much a sudden end to cultural preservation as an acceleration of a decline that had already begun beforehand. It is from this point on that the largest American ethnic group also became the least visible, but especially in rural enclaves, traces of the German culture and language persisted to the end of the twentieth century.

Book Theater of a Separate War

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas W. Cutrer
  • Publisher : UNC Press Books
  • Release : 2023-04-04
  • ISBN : 1469666286
  • Pages : 609 pages

Download or read book Theater of a Separate War written by Thomas W. Cutrer and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2023-04-04 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though its most famous battles were waged in the East at Antietam, Gettysburg, and throughout Virginia, the Civil War was clearly a conflict that raged across a continent. From cotton-rich Texas and the fields of Kansas through Indian Territory and into the high desert of New Mexico, the Trans-Mississippi Theater was site of major clashes from the war's earliest days through the surrenders of Confederate generals Edmund Kirby Smith and Stand Waite in June 1865. In this comprehensive military history of the war west of the Mississippi River, Thomas W. Cutrer shows that the theater's distance from events in the East does not diminish its importance to the unfolding of the larger struggle.

Book Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

Download or read book Why Texans Fought in the Civil War written by Charles David Grear and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War, Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources—including thousands of letters and unpublished journals—he affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants’ own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home. As Grear notes, in the decade prior to the Civil War the population of Texas had tripled. The state was increasingly populated by immigrants from all parts of the South and foreign countries. When the war began, it was not just Texas that many of these soldiers enlisted to protect, but also their native states, where they had family ties.

Book Lone Star 146 trapper

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley Ellis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1994-10-01
  • ISBN : 1101169451
  • Pages : 192 pages

Download or read book Lone Star 146 trapper written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1994-10-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie and Ki find more swindlers than timber in the cross fire of a bloody north-woods feud! Pursuing double trouble when both the Flaming Geyser stage line and Rod Delmonico's forest holdings become targets of assault, the Lone Star duo Jessi and Ki realize that a subtle culprit is on the loose in the forest.

Book Books in Print Supplement

Download or read book Books in Print Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 2576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Lone Star 53

    Book Details:
  • Author : Wesley Ellis
  • Publisher : Penguin
  • Release : 1987-01-01
  • ISBN : 1101169915
  • Pages : 199 pages

Download or read book Lone Star 53 written by Wesley Ellis and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jessie and Ki take a ride to danger in the fifty-third Lone Star novel! They call them The Lone Star Legend: Jessica Starbuck—a magnificent woman of the West, fighting for justice on America's frontier, and Ki—the martial arts master sworn to protect her and the code she lived by. Together they conquered the West as no other man and woman ever had!