In 1861 the Hill boys of Hill's Prairie (near Bastrop, Texas) rode off to war. They had signed on...

The earliest history of the Texas Revolution, penned by Rev. Chester Newell, who traveled to Texa...

This work sheds new light on the Battle of San Jacinto, correcting long-standing historical error...

Originally published in 1931, 'The Alamo Defenders' is the culmination of almost a decade's worth...

T. F. Buck anonymously published his experiences in 1860 about early cattle ranching in South Tex...

In 1887 a Boston physician comes to Texas for some bird hunting for ornithological purposes. He f...

'That was the cowboy's Bible when I was growing up.' - Will Rogers In 1885, Charlie Siringo intro...

The diary of William Fairfax Gray, who was present for the pivotal events leading to the Texas Re...

Why I Hate Texas: A Insider's Guide to Everything Wrong with the Lone Star State

A Texas version of Tom Sawyer, featuring the adventures of two boys on a 19th century cattle driv...

When it was first published in 1939, oil historian James A. Clark called this book, 'the most val...

The firsthand accounts of Ranger life as told by Texas Ranger Captain Daniel W. Roberts and his w...

'Originally published in 1951 under the title Texas gun lore.'--Title page verso.

In addition to a brief history of French and Spanish land measures in North America, Reasonover's...

In the 1920s, the law of oil and gas in Texas was a frontier: raw and unsettled. As assistant att...

One of the most important and authentic accounts of the pioneer experience in TexasNstories of Te...

The Texas travelogues of Matilda Houstoun in the Republic of Texas

Written during an expedition to the German settlements of the Republic of Texas in the 1840s, thi...

Some writers can relay the facts, but they can't tell the story. Others can spin a yarn, but stre...

A Quebecer, a Scot, an Englishman, an Irishman, some Yankees, some Southern gents, a couple of Te...

Drawn primarily from diaries and letters of those who lived and traveled in Texas during its earl...

The first biography of Sam Houston, written and published during his lifetime. Some say he commis...

Old Texas Cooking

Survivor accounts of the 1900 hurricane that decimated Galveston, as complied by John Coulter in ...

Sandwiched like a middle child between the fall of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Golia...

The memoirs of Mrs. Maverick, wife of Samuel Maverick, in the Republic of Texas and early statehood.

In the spring of 1875, J. B. Gillett enlisted in Company D of the Texas Rangers, at the tender ag...

The real story of the men who discovered the Black Giant - the grand East Texas oil field in 1930...

Hard facts about the early days of the Texas cattle industry, along with well-told anecdotes of e...

This volume showcases the fruits of the democratic labors of the 1836 Constitutional Convention a...

Would you like to know about the noble men who risked everything to make Texas the oil capital of...

First published in book form in 1915 under the title 'The history and geography of Texas as told ...

Both of Dr. S.O. Young's classic works of Houston lore and history in one volume.

With the Makers of Texas

Flogging, mutiny, captured islands, maverick commodores and cabinet members, lack of funds and na...

A smartly written pioneer chronicle of early Texas that deserves a place in any well-curated Texa...

The history of banking in Texas from the Republic era through the Great Depression is a tale of u...

These 43 true stories of Indian troubles on the Texas frontier were compiled and published origin...

Maybe you've already heard of Billy Dixon. If you have, you probably know him for the shot he mad...

Forest McNeir (1875-1957) grew up at Smith Point on Galveston Bay in Chambers County, Texas. He a...

Texas Civil War veteran Joseph P. Blessington left us a special book. First published in 1875, it...

During the decade of the 1880s, one of the most popular publications in America had Texas as its ...

A Texan In Search of A Fight

Clarence R. Wharton (1873-1941) spent his adult life practicing law in Houston. Legal work made h...

Claude LeRoy Douglas worked as a newspaper man in Fort Worth. He loved the history of his state a...

Ira Aten passed in 1953, leaving Harold with one less friend and pile of letters filled with hist...

As a teen August Santleben blew like a leaf, back and forth, across the border, going wherever th...

Imagine you spent fourteen hundred and ninety-one days fighting the bloodiest war in your country...