[PDF] Lone Star Valor eBook

Author : Joe Owen
Publisher : Gettysburg Publishing
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 31,36 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0999304976

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Thousands of soldiers who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg for both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia settled in Texas after the Civil War. Throughout the days, weeks, and years after the battle, these soldiers captured their stories in diary entries, letters, interviews, and newspaper articles. From the first crossing of the Potomac River to the intense fighting on July 1, July 2, and ultimately at Pickett’s Charge on July 3, these Texans of the Blue and the Gray played a key role in the Gettysburg Campaign. This collection of soldiers' accounts written during, and after, the war provides a unique perspective from Texans in the ranks over the course of those historic days in the summer of 1863. Also included are the stories of civilians who bore witness to the tremendous battle and who settled in Texas after the Civil War. Articles are transcribed as they were originally published; personal reminiscences are transcribed directly from letters and diaries. Collected for the first time in a single volume, this is essential reference for historians of the Lone Star State and Civil War researchers.

Author : Joe Owen
Publisher :
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 48,71 MB
Release : 2019-02-21
Category :
ISBN : 9780999304952

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Soldiers from both the Army of the Potomac and the Army of Northern Virginia settled in Texas after the Civil War. These Texans of the Blue and the Gray played a key role in the Gettysburg Campaign. Collected now for the first time in a single volume are these veterans' moving diary entries, personal letters, and local newspaper interviews. Essenti

Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Texas
ISBN : 0684865106

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Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2004.

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : Forge Books
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 27,41 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1429912758

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In 1999, with Forge's publication of The Buckskin Line, Elmer Kelton launched a series of novels on the formative years of the Texas Rangers. In Texas Justice, the first three of these critically acclaimed books are now brought together in a single volume. In The Buckskin Line, Kelton introduces the red-haired boy captured by a Comanche war party after the massacre of his family. Rescued by Mike Shannon, a member of a Texas "ranging company" protecting settlers from Indian raids, the boy known as Rusty is adopted by the Shannon family. In 1861, Mike Shannon is ambushed and killed, and Rusty follows in his footsteps and joins the Rangers. In the throes of the coming War Between the States, Rusty searches for the Confederates who lynched his adoptive father and awaits meeting the Comanche warrior who killed his family two decades past. At the end of the Civil War, Rusty Shannon is thrown adrift when the Rangers are disbanded, and makes his way to his home on the Red River, where he hopes to marry the girl he left behind, Geneva Monahan. But as Badger Boy, the second novel of the saga, unfolds, Geneva has married another man in Rusty's absence. Faced with this betrayal, he must contend with the hate-filled Confederate and Union soldiers infesting Texas and with the continuing Indian raids against innocent settlers. Rusty's own childhood captivity returns to haunt him when he rescues Andy, a white child called Badger Boy by his Comanche captors. In The Way of the Coyote, Andy rides with Rusty Shannon as the Rangers are re-formed in postwar turmoil. With Texas overrun with outlaws, disenfranchised Confederate veterans, nightriders, and marauding Comanche bands, Rusty tries to resume his pre-war life. When his friend Shanty, a freed slave, is burned out of his home by Ku Klux Klan and Rusty's own homestead is confiscated by a murderous band of thugs, he must follow perilous trails before he can put the war and its aftermath behind him. Texas Justice is not only a masterful re-creation of the early years of the Texas Rangers, it is vintage Elmer Kelton, the undisputed master of the Western story. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Author : Charles M. Neal
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :

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Mr. Neal has invested years of research and documentation into a historically accurate and detailed account of the Medal of Honor actions in and near Texas in the period after the Civil War. The book is not only a valuable resource for the historian, but an easy and interesting read.

Author : Wesley Ellis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 39,30 MB
Release : 1995-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101169486

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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.

Author : Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 10,45 MB
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0199881383

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In Gone to Texas, historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the twenty-first century, offering an interpretive account of the land, the successive waves of people who have gone to Texas, and the conflicts that have made Texas as much a metaphor as a place. Campbell presents the epic tales of Texas history in a new light, offering revisionist history in the best sense--broadening and deepening the traditional story, without ignoring the heroes of the past. The scope of the book is impressive. It ranges from the archeological record of early Native Americans to the rise of the oil industry and ultimately the modernization of Texas. Campbell provides swift-moving accounts of the Mexican revolution against Spain, the arrival of settlers from the United States, and the lasting Spanish legacy (from place names to cattle ranching to civil law). The author also paints a rich portrait of the Anglo-Texan revolution, with its larger-than-life leaders and epic battles, the fascinating decade of the Republic of Texas, and annexation by the United States. In his account of the Civil War and Reconstruction, he examines developments both in local politics and society and in the nation at large (from the debate over secession to the role of Texas troops in the Confederate army to the impact of postwar civil rights laws). Late nineteenth-century Texas is presented as part of both the Old West and the New South. The story continues with an analysis of the impact of the Populist and Progressive movements and then looks at the prosperity decade of the 1920s and the economic disaster of the Great Depression. Campbell's last chapters show how World War II brought economic recovery and touched off spectacular growth that, with only a few downturns, continues until today. Lucid, engaging, deftly written, Gone to Texas offers a fresh understanding of why Texas continues to be seen as a state unlike any other, a place that distills the essence of what it means to be an American.

Author : Wesley Ellis
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 47,19 MB
Release : 1983-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1101169389

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Fast-talking tycoons point their rails toward hidden valley, and Jessie and Ki make sparks fly in the fourteenth 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!