Purves, Erath County, Texas
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Erath County (Tex.)
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Page : 296 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 1975
Category : Erath County (Tex.)
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Author : James Pylant
Publisher : Jacobus Books
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0962274666
When the Civil War ended, many disenchanted Southerners poured into Central Texas, toting guns and grudges. Shots of whiskey loosened tempers and soon bullets were flying. Within a few years, the Lone Star State had become the nation’s murder capitol. The small town of Stephenville, where 139 people were hauled to prison between crimes 1864 to 1891, dealt with Comanche warriors, restless outlaws, crime rings, and the ruthless vigilante group known as “The Mob.” Sins of the Pioneers: Crimes & Scandals of a Small Texas Town explores Stephenville’s emergence from wild frontier to bustling village. Studded with shocking tales—sometimes humorous, sometimes poignant—it tells of crooks, bigamists, prostitutes, saloon brawlers, and mysterious murderers. James Pylant chronicles John Gilbreath, the intimidating, determined sheriff who bent rules to jail criminals—including his own kinfolks; Julia Williamson, Stephenville's hell-raising madam; armless Jack Hollis and his jail escape; accused horse-thief Jennie Sadler; schemer Gordon Bradshaw’s “accidental” shooting of his wealthy bride; lovely teenaged axe murderess May Bruce; and Annie Cooper, who risked exposing her shady past to rescue a troubled girl. “Author Pylant creates an enlightening portrait of the routine and not-so-routine criminality and scandals, surgically exposing the underbelly of Stephenville's raunchy and racy and sometimes perilous past.” —Bob Alexander, author of Riding Lucifer’s Line "meticulously researched . . . riveting." —Bill Neal, author of Sex, Murder and the Unwritten Law "Sins of the Pioneers is every bit as salacious as its title suggests." —The Midwest Review
Author : Sheryl Reed Rascher
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 28,1 MB
Release : 2022-09-12
Category : History
ISBN : 1467108456
Carved from central Comancheria, Erath (EE-rath) County was created by stock raisers and settlers with little to lose but hopes and dreams. Bisected by Grand Prairie and Western Cross Timbers, this is where East Texas ends and West Texas begins. The Bosque and Paluxy Rivers welcomed ranchers, farmers, millers, and ginners. Rustlers, deserters, train robbers, vigilantes, lawmen, and Texas Rangers soon followed. Faith, education, life, and death cultivated villages with churches, schools, stores, and cemeteries in walking distance. Bridges, roads, and railways meant the life or death of a township. This volume commemorates the people, places, and events of lost communities that made the "Cowboy Capital of the World" what it is today. An eighth-generation Texan and sixth-generation Erathian, Sheryl Reed Rascher has over 30 years of experience with Lockheed Martin business and program management. Currently serving as president of the Erath County Genealogical Society, she is also a member of San Angelo Genealogical and Historical Society, Texas State Genealogical Society, and The Daughters of the Republic of Texas and a past member of Fort Worth Genealogical Society Board of Directors. This book contains photographs generously shared by the Ralph and Dossie Rogers Historic Images Collection, the Stephenville Historical House Museum, Dublin Historical Museum, and numerous friends.
Author : Billy J. Wagner
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Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Soil surveys
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Author : Boyt Henderson Cathey
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Page : 608 pages
File Size : 17,92 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
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Page : 1520 pages
File Size : 46,87 MB
Release : 2003
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This volume is a revised and updated edition of Fincher in the USA 1683-1900. Many allied families are included. This volume treats descendants of the immigrant Francis Fincher, a Quaker from England to Pennsylvania in 1683, and his descendants all over the United States. Some branches went to North and South Carolina and points west.
Author : Dan K. Utley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 44,90 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 1603443444
In History Ahead, Utley and Beeman introduce readers to the famous (Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, The Big Bopper and jazz great Charlie Christian) and the not-so-famous (Elmer "Lumpy" Kleb, Don Pedro Jaramillo and Carl Morene, the "music man" of Schulenburg) who have left their marks on the history of Texas. They visit cotton gins, abandoned airfields, forgotten cemeteries, and former world War II alien detention camps to dig up the little-known and unsuspected narratives that have slipped from the knowledge of the general public.
Author : Arden Jean Schuetz
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Page : 126 pages
File Size : 29,47 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Texas
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Author : Henry Gannett
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Page : 200 pages
File Size : 48,15 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Texas
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Page : 106 pages
File Size : 34,53 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Soil surveys
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