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MORE TEXAS RANGERS, TOWARD A DEFINITIVE HISTORY AT LAST? A BOOK REVIEW BY GLENN WILLEFORD
08/27/08
The Texas Rangers: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
Mike Cox, author
New York: A Forge Book (2008)
$25.95
Getting to know author Mike Cox has proven to be a dynamic experience. Cox, a fifth-generation Texan and third-generation writer, grew up in the Lone Star State and, -
ANDY CLOUD NEW CBBS DIRECTOR
08/27/08
Its official, William A. (Andy) Cloud is the new director of the Center For Big Bend Studies http://www.sulross.edu/cbbs/ at Sul Ross in Alpine. The center could not have found a more qualified and experienced new leader; Andy knows his Big Bend archaeology. He holds a B.A. in Archaeological Studie -
Preface: Why Heroes and Heroines?
08/25/08
I came to Mexico in 1994 to accept a job teaching English literature, History, and Composition in English (the latter, basically a course in writing the so-called “college essay,”) at the Facultad de Filosofia Y Letras, a discipline within the Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua at Chihuahua City. As -
CHICO CANO
08/24/08
On Sunday, August 24, 2008, 02:32 AM, Domingo Garcia Cano wrote:
Chico Cano was my great grandfather and he was who the Rangers were looking for when they got to Porvenir,Texas. I visited the masscare site during a family reunion in Van Horn, and all the bodies of the victims were buried -
FEDERICO VILLALBA’S TEXAS: BOOK DISCUSSION
08/13/08
Having posted my review of the new Casas book I invite open discussion of the work here on the blog. I did not see the manuscript and based my analysis of the book after it went to press. A recent review of the manuscript by Jim Glendinning says that Casas overstates racial prejudice in South Brewst -
FEDERICO VILLALBA’S TEXAS: A RIMROCK PRESS REVIEW
08/13/08
Iron Mountain Press has just published an attention-grabbing new book titled “Federico Villalba’s Texas: A Mexican Pioneer’s Life in the Big Bend” by Juan Manual Casas. Casas begins his absorbing account of the Villalba family with the arrival in present Mexico of a Spanish ancestor, Lt. General J
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