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Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 1, 1835 - 1837

Description: This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers, focusing on the three-year period between 1835 and 1837, when Texas was struggling to gain its independence from Mexico and assert itself as a new nation. Stephen L. Moore vividly portrays another struggle of the settlers of Texas to tame a wilderness frontier and secure a safe place to build their homes and raise their families. Moore provides fresh detail about ea… more
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Date: September 15, 2007
Creator: Moore, Stephen L.
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Tracking the Texas Rangers: the Nineteenth Century

Description: Tracking the Texas Rangers is an anthology of sixteen previously published articles, arranged in chronological history, covering key topics of the intrepid and sometimes controversial law officers named the Texas Rangers. Determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge—the actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the war with Mexico, … more
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Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Glasrud, Bruce A.
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Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century

Description: Tracking the Texas Rangers: The Twentieth Century is an anthology of fifteen previously published articles and chapter excerpts covering key topics of the Texas Rangers during the twentieth century. The task of determining the role of the Rangers as the state evolved and what they actually accomplished for the benefit of the state is a difficult challenge. The actions of the Rangers fit no easy description. There is a dark side to the story of the Rangers; during the Mexican Revolution, for exa… more
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Date: September 15, 2013
Creator: Glasrud, Bruce A. & Weiss, Harold J. Jr.
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The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music

Description: Millions of Texans and Southwesterners have been touched over the years by the Light Crust Doughboys. From 1930 to 1952, fans faithfully tuned in to their early-morning and, later, noontime radio program, and turned out in droves to hear them play live. The Doughboys embodied the very essence of the “golden era” of radio—live performances and the dominance of programming by advertising agencies. Their radio program began as a way to sell Light Crust Flour. Their early impresario, W. Lee “Pappy”… more
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Date: September 15, 2002
Creator: Dempsey, John Mark
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Women and the Texas Revolution

Description: While there is wide scholarship on the Texas Revolution, there is no comparable volume on the role of women during that conflict. Most of the many works on the Texas Revolution include women briefly in the narrative, such as Emily Austin, Suzanna Dickinson, and Emily Morgan West (the Yellow Rose), but not as principal participants. Women and the Texas Revolution explores these women in much more depth, in addition to covering the women and children who fled Santa Anna’s troops in the Runaway Sc… more
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Date: September 15, 2012
Creator: Scheer, Mary L.
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Life of the Marlows: a True Story of Frontier Life of Early Days

Description: The story of the five Marlow brothers and their tribulations in late nineteenth-century Texas is the stuff of Old West legend (and served to inspire the John Wayne movie, The Sons of Katie Elder). Violent, full of intrigue, with characters of amazing heroism and deplorable cowardice, their story was first related by William Rathmell in Life of the Marlows, a little book published in 1892, shortly after the events it described in Young County, Texas. It told how Boone, the most reckless of the … more
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Date: September 15, 2004
Creator: Rathmell, William
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Savage Frontier: Rangers, Riflemen, and Indian Wars in Texas, Volume 4, 1842-1845

Description: This fourth and final volume of the Savage Frontier series completes the history of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in the Republic of Texas era. During this period of time, fabled Captain John Coffee Hays and his small band of Rangers were often the only government-authorized frontier fighters employed to keep the peace. Author Stephen L. Moore covers the assembly of Texan forces to repel two Mexican incursions during 1842, the Vasquez and Woll invasions. This volume covers the resulti… more
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Date: September 15, 2010
Creator: Moore, Stephen L.
Partner: UNT Press
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.018), Audit Report: A-2004-0421-IMT -DTD 22 July 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.018), Audit Report: A-2004-0421-IMT -DTD 22 July 2004
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Bliss, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.017), Audit Report: A-2004-0422-IMT - DTD 26 July 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Bliss, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.017), Audit Report: A-2004-0422-IMT - DTD 26 July 2004
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT- 0440.052), Audit Report: A-2004-0522-IMT DTD 24 September 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Lone Star Army Ammunition Plant, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT- 0440.052), Audit Report: A-2004-0522-IMT DTD 24 September 2004
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Hood, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-O440.051), Audit Report: A-2004-0539-IMT -DTD 29 September 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Hood, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-O440.051), Audit Report: A-2004-0539-IMT -DTD 29 September 2004
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Corpus Christi Army Depot. Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.049). Audit Report: A-2005-00 10-ALT - DTD 5 October 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Corpus Christi Army Depot. Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.049). Audit Report: A-2005-00 10-ALT - DTD 5 October 2004
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.050), Audit Report: A-2005-0021-ALT DTD 13 October 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Sam Houston, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.050), Audit Report: A-2005-0021-ALT DTD 13 October 2004
Date: September 14, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Hood, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.021), Audit Report: A-2004-0407-IMT - dtd 20 July 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Fort Hood, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.021), Audit Report: A-2004-0407-IMT - dtd 20 July 2004
Date: September 13, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Red River Army Depot, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.022), Audit Report: A-2004-0406-IMT - dtd 19 July 2004

Description: DISREGARD RESTRICTION HEADER AND FOOTER - Memorandum: Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Red River Army Depot, Texas (Project Code A-2003-IMT-0440.022), Audit Report: A-2004-0406-IMT - dtd 19 July 200
Date: September 13, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Dept of the Army Auditing Docs, Report "Validation of Data for Base Realignment and Closure 2005, Corpus Christi Army Depot, Audit Report" (30 Jun 04)

Description: The Director, The Army Basing Study Group asked SAAG-IMT to validate data that the Study Group and six Joint Cross-Service Groups will use for Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 2005 analyses. This memorandum summarizes the results of their validation efforts at Corpus Christi Army Depot.
Date: September 5, 2005
Creator: United States. Department of Defense.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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10th annual alan ross texas freedom parade

Description: A book commemorating annual parade that celebrates the overturning of an anti-LGBT law.
Date: September 19, 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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10th annual alan ross texas freedom parade

Description: A booklet commemorating the LGBT freedom and pride parade, including entertainers, letters, and photographs.
Date: September 1993
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell: The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911

Description: Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means necessary, including extra-legal means, that sparked the feud. Elected office was one of the paths to success, but more important was control of the sheriff’s office, which gave one a decided advantag… more
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Date: September 2016
Creator: Kearney, James C.; Stein, Bill & Smallwood, James
Partner: UNT Press

Texan identities: moving beyond myth, memory, and fallacy in Texas history

Description: Texan Identities rests on the assumption that Texas has distinctive identities that define “what it means to be Texan,” and that these identities flow from myth and memory. What constitutes a Texas identity and how may such change over time? What myths, memories, and fallacies contribute to making a Texas identity? Are all the myths and memories that define Texas identity true or are some of them fallacious? Is there more than one Texas identity? The discussion begins with the idealized narrat… more
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Date: September 2016
Creator: Cummins, Light Townsend & Scheer, Mary L.
Partner: UNT Press

Oral History Interview with Ramon M. Ruiz, September 29, 2012

Description: Interview with Ramon Ruiz, a civil servant of the Department of Education and advocate for Hispanic education from La Copita, Texas. Ruiz discusses his family history, growing up, school in Kingsville, local relations between Mexicans and white people, high school football, playing for North Texas State, becoming a coach for elementary school, joining the Job Corps, teaching inmates, working with school districts on desegregation in Texas, and work on various federal education programs in Washi… more
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Date: September 29, 2012
Creator: Juárez, Miguel & Ruiz, Ramon M.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Salvador Espino, September 26, 2007

Description: Interview with Fort Worth city councilman Salvador Espino as part of the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. The interview includes Espino's personal experiences about childhood and education, having a career a computer consultant, accountant, and attorney, volunteering for Catholic Diocese, and running for a seat representing District Two on the Fort Worth City Council. Espino also discusses the district demographics and priorities, the creation of Latinos Unidos, and h… more
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Date: September 26, 2007
Creator: Moye, Todd & Espino, Salvador
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Arthur B. Clark, September 29, 2000

Description: Interview with Arhtur B. Clark, a Texas National Guard WWII veteran and POW from Abilene, Texas, who was captured with the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery. Clark discusses joining the National Guard, training and maneuvers, deployment to the Pacific, the fall of Java and surrender to the Japanese, experiences in internment at Tanjong Priok in Batavia, internment at Changi Camp in Singapore, labor on the Burma "Death" Railway, and liberation. The interview includes an appendix with a refere… more
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Date: September 29, 2000
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Clark, Arthur B.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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