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  • Just One Riot

    Episodes of Texas Rangers in the 20th Century

    The Texas Rangers - Emotions evoked by these words run the gamut, from undying admiration and respect, to fear and hatred. John Salmon "Rip" Ford, an early Texas Ranger captain who fought the Comanches to a standstill, described the Rangers in this manner: "They ride like Mexicans, trail like Indians, shoot like Tennesseans, and fight like the devil."Ben Procter, veteran Texas historian, takes up ... Read more

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  • Work on a Super Yacht: The Beginners Guide

    by Ben Proctor ...
    Fancy a career change? Looking for something different? Wanting to travel the world and save money? Well may be super yachting could be for you?This guide is aimed at those considering entry into the super yacht industry to help increase their knowledge into this highly competitive industry. It is an honest account of the industry from someone who has been working within the industry and learning ... Read more

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  • Miracles and Massacres

    True and Untold Stories of the Making of America

    by Glenn Beck ...
    Glenn Beck, the New York Times bestselling author of The Great Reset presents history as it's supposed to be told: true and thrilling.History is about so much more than memorizing facts. It is, as more than half of the word suggests, about the story. And, told in the right way, it is the greatest one ever written: Good and evil, triumph and tragedy, despicable acts of barbarism and courageous acts ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Texas Rangers

    Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821–1900

    by Mike Cox ...
    " A lively, enlightening history of one of the oldest, most esteemed law-enforcement agencies in America." — BooklistStarting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the feared and gruesome Karankawa Indians, a cannibalistic tribe that wandered the Texas territory. As the influx of settlers grew, the attacks increased and it became clear that a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Texas Ranger

    The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde

    To most Americans, Frank Hamer is known only as the “villain” of the 1967 film Bonnie and Clyde. Now, in The New York Times bestselling Texas Ranger, historian John Boessenecker sets out to restore Hamer’s good name and prove that he was, in fact, a classic American hero.From the horseback days of the Old West through the gangster days of the 1930s, Hamer stood on the frontlines of some of the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Here Is Where

    Discovering America's Great Forgotten History

    Here Is Where chronicles Andrew Carroll’s eye-opening – and at times hilarious -- journey across America to find and explore unmarked historic sites where extraordinary moments occurred and remarkable individuals once lived. Sparking the idea for this book was Carroll’s visit to the spot where Abraham Lincoln’s son was saved by the brother of Lincoln’s assassin. Carroll wondered, How many other ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Killings

    True stories of sudden death in the classic collection by a master of American journalism“Reporters love murders,” Calvin Trillin writes in the introduction to Killings. “In a pinch, what the lawyers call ‘wrongful death’ will do, particularly if it’s sudden.” Killings, first published in 1984 and expanded for this edition, shows Trillin to be such a reporter, drawn time after time to tales of ... Read more

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  • Cult of Glory

    The Bold and Brutal History of the Texas Rangers

    **“Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers.” —The New York Times Book ReviewA twenty-first century reckoning with the legendary Texas Rangers that does justice to their heroic moments while also documenting atrocities, brutality, oppression, and corruption**The Texas Rangers came to life in 1823, when Texas was still part of Mexico. Nearly 200 years ... Read more

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  • On American Soil

    How Justice Became a Casualty of World War II

    by Jack Hamann ...
    On a hot August night in 1944, a soldier's body was discovered hanging by a rope from a cable spanning an obstacle course at Seattle's Fort Lawton. The body was identified as Private Guglielmo Olivotto, one of the thousands of Italian prisoners of war captured and brought to America.The murder stunned the nation and the international community. Under pressure to respond quickly, the War Department ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Big Wonderful Thing

    A History of Texas

    Series series The Texas Bookshelf
    2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers’ League of Texas2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

    Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 2

    Think gunfighter, and Wyatt Earp or Billy the Kid may come to mind, but what of Jim Moon? Joel Fowler? Zack Light? A host of other figures helped forge the gunfighter persona, but their stories have been lost to time. In a sequel to his Deadly Dozen, celebrated western historian Robert K. DeArment now offers more biographical portraits of lesser-known gunfighters—men who perhaps weren’t glorified ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Deadly Dozen: Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West

    Forgotten Gunfighters of the Old West, Vol. 3

    For every Wild Bill Hickok or Billy the Kid, there was another western gunfighter just as deadly but not as well known. Robert K. DeArment has earned a reputation as the premier researcher of unknown gunfighters, and here he offers twelve more portraits of men who weren’t glorified in legend but were just as notorious in their day.Those who think they already know all about Old West gunfighters ... Read more

    $14.39 USD