This excellent volume details the life of Stanley Draper who according the dust jacket flap, for sixty years beginning in 1919 when he began to work for the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, was "responsible for most of the important civic, industrial, educational and cultural developments in Oklahoma City."

Urban Builder: The Life and Times of Stanly Draper (Oklahoma Trackmaker Ser .: No. 5)

Smallwood, James M.

Biographies & Memoirs

Univ of Oklahoma Pr

In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people—civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other’s supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.

Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Volume 6) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

History

Crouch, Barry A.

Peacock, Larry

Americas

Texas A&M University Press

Long before Texas became the Lone Star State, or even a Spanish territory, Indian Texans called it home. From prehistory, through European and American invasions, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, author James Smallwood traces the survival and revival of Native Americans in Texas. Smallwood highlights each Texas tribe, often providing readers the deeper understanding that comes from first-hand accounts. The Indian Texans features 62 illustrations boxed biographical sketches excerpts from the journals of Cabeza de Vaca and others. This book is part of a five-volume set from the Institute of Texan Cultures. The entire set, entitled Texans All, explores the social and cultural contributions made by five distinctive cultural groups that already existed in Texas prior to its statehood or that came to Texas in the early twentieth century: The Indian Texans, The Mexican Texans, The European Texans, The African Texans, and The Asian Texans.

The Indian Texans (Texans All)

Long before Texas became the Lone Star State, or even a Spanish territory, Indian Texans called it home. From prehistory, through European and American invasions, to the beginning of the twenty-first century, author James Smallwood traces the survival and revival of Native Americans in Texas. Smallwood highlights each Texas tribe, often providing readers the deeper understanding that comes from first-hand accounts. The Indian Texans features 62 illustrations boxed biographical sketches excerpts from the journals of Cabeza de Vaca and othersThis book is part of a five-volume set from the Institute of Texan Cultures. The entire set, entitled Texans All, explores the social and cultural contributions made by five distinctive cultural groups that already existed in Texas prior to its statehood or that came to Texas in the early twentieth century: The Indian Texans, The Mexican Texans, The European Texans, The African Texans, and The Asian Texans.

Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called “Taylor-Sutton feud” has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing—one among many—marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn’t reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.

The Feud That Wasn’t: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Volume 15) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

It is the goal of this textbook to move beyond the myths and legends that cloud our understanding of the past and to present a straightforward narrative history of Texas from the prehistoric era to the present. The authors have combined the most recent scholarship with primary research, providing students with the best narrative history of the state written to date. The authors' focus primarily rests on the cultural, social, and political history of the state, but they have also included a healthy dose of economic and military history. The Fourth Edition includes new introductions and conclusions to each chapter, which are designed to capture the students' attention and provide them a way to broadly conceptualize the information covered within the chapter. The book is written in a ''student friendly'' style, providing a comprehensive overview and clear understanding of concepts. In part to accomplish this purpose, each chapter contains a detailed study guide, a feature that no other Texas history textbook has to date. Texas Voices: Documents & Biographcal Sketches, written and edited by Keith Volanto, contains five primary source documents, three compact biographies, and photographs for each chapter to supplement the text and awaken the students' interest in Texas's past and appreciate the relevance course material.

Beyond Myths and Legends A Narrative History of Texas (a narrative history of texas)

Howell, Kenneth W.

Lawrence, Jennifer S.

Volanto, Keith J.

Grear, Charles D.

Abigail Press

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Urban Builder: The Life and Times of Stanly Draper (Oklahoma Trackmaker Ser .: No. 5)

Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas (Volume 6) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

The Indian Texans (Texans All)

The Indian Texans (Texans All)

The Feud That Wasn’t: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas (Volume 15) (Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce)

Beyond Myths and Legends A Narrative History of Texas (a narrative history of texas)