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Item #6985
CAMINO DEL NORTE, How a Series of Watering Holes, Fords, and Dirt Trails Evolved into Interstate 35 in Texas
Author: Howard J. Ehrlichman
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Interstate 35 runs some five hundred miles between the Rio Grande and the Red River. It is a towering achievement of modern transportaion engineering linking a string of Texas metropolises and some 7.7 million people, and yet it all evolved from a series of humble little trails. This is a fascinating popular history. College Station, TX 2006 1st Ed., 284 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6910
COMMANCHE MASSACRE: THE COUNCIL HOUSE FIGHT 1840, (Bexar County, Texas)
Author: Santiago Escobedo
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The Council House Fight in San Antonio, Texas on March 19, 1840 was a classic example of ethnic genocide in Texas history. The cold-blooded massacre of Comanche chiefs was viewed historically as a heroic battle won by Texans. It was not a fair fight between two combatants, but an ambush and a massacre. San Antonio, TX, 2008 Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society, 1st Ed., 8 &1/2 x 11, 90 Pgs., PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6998
TEXAS TEARS AND TEXAS SUNSHINE, Voices of Frontier Women
Author: Jo Ella Powell Exley
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Sixteen frontier Texas women, such as Mary Ann Adams Maverick, tell their stories, providing a gripping, highly personal history of the state from its first Anglo settlement through the taming of the last frontier in the west. Some of the stories involve Indian raids, frontier-style "society balls, " the Runaway Scrape, plantation life, yellow fever, trail drives and the bloody Council House fight in San Antonio. College Station, TX, 2000 Texas A&M University Press 8th Pr., 275 Pgs., 6 x 9, PB. | |
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