Lone Star Lawless: 14 Texas Tales of Crime
Title | Lone Star Lawless: 14 Texas Tales of Crime PDF eBook |
Author | Kaye George |
Publisher | Wildside Press LLC |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2018-07-03 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1479429791 |
Everything is bigger in Texas, including the crimes! Join the award-winning Austin Mystery Writers and friends as they explore the dark side of the Lone Star State. These thirteen talented authors penned fourteen tales of cowboys and criminals, girlfriends and grifters, morticians, motel clerks, and even a big, bad wolf! Lone Star Lawless includes stories by the Austin Mystery Writers: Gale Albright, V.P. Chandler, Kaye George, Laura Oles, and Kathy Waller. The friends who contributed are: Alexandra Burt, Janice Hamrick, Scott Montgomery, Mark Pryor, Terry Shames, Larry D. Sweazy, George Wier, and Manning Wolfe.
Lone Star Sleuths
Title | Lone Star Sleuths PDF eBook |
Author | Bill Cunningham |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 283 |
Release | 2007-11-01 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0292717377 |
A collection of thirty short crime stories set in Texas by a variety of writers, including Kinky Friedman, Mary Willis Walker, and Carolyn Hart.
Texas Crime Chronicles
Title | Texas Crime Chronicles PDF eBook |
Author | Texas Monthly |
Publisher | Grand Central Pub |
Pages | 515 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | True Crime |
ISBN | 9780446608831 |
A collection of Texas true crime tales proves that the "Lone Star State" does murder bigger than anyone else, focusing on snipers, malevolent cheerleader moms, and satan worshippers, among other Texas nasties. Original.
A Lawless Breed
Title | A Lawless Breed PDF eBook |
Author | Chuck Parsons |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 513 |
Release | 2013 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1574415050 |
John Wesley Hardin spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive. Hardin left an autobiography in which he detailed many of the troubles of his life. In A Lawless Breed, Parsons and Brown have meticulously examined his claims against available records to determine how much of his life story is true, and how much was only a half truth, or a complete lie.
"Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, Texas Ranger
Title | "Lone Wolf" Gonzaullas, Texas Ranger PDF eBook |
Author | Brownson Malsch |
Publisher | University of Oklahoma Press |
Pages | 244 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780806130163 |
Captain M. T. Lone Wolf Gonzaullas, 1st ed. includes bibliographical references index.
Cult of Glory
Title | Cult of Glory PDF eBook |
Author | Doug J. Swanson |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 480 |
Release | 2020-06-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1101979887 |
“Swanson has done a crucial public service by exposing the barbarous side of the Rangers.” —The New York Times Book Review A 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 later, the Rangers are still going--one of the most famous of all law enforcement agencies. In Cult of Glory, Doug J. Swanson has written a sweeping account of the Rangers that chronicles their epic, daring escapades while showing how the white and propertied power structures of Texas used them as enforcers, protectors and officially sanctioned killers. Cult of Glory begins with the Rangers' emergence as conquerors of the wild and violent Texas frontier. They fought the fierce Comanches, chased outlaws, and served in the U.S. Army during the Mexican War. As Texas developed, the Rangers were called upon to catch rustlers, tame oil boomtowns, and patrol the perilous Texas-Mexico border. In the 1930s they began their transformation into a professionally trained police force. Countless movies, television shows, and pulp novels have celebrated the Rangers as Wild West supermen. In many cases, they deserve their plaudits. But often the truth has been obliterated. Swanson demonstrates how the Rangers and their supporters have operated a propaganda machine that turned agency disasters and misdeeds into fables of triumph, transformed murderous rampages--including the killing of scores of Mexican civilians--into valorous feats, and elevated scoundrels to sainthood. Cult of Glory sets the record straight. Beginning with the Texas Indian wars, Cult of Glory embraces the great, majestic arc of Lone Star history. It tells of border battles, range disputes, gunslingers, massacres, slavery, political intrigue, race riots, labor strife, and the dangerous lure of celebrity. And it reveals how legends of the American West--the real and the false--are truly made.
Directors and Their Films
Title | Directors and Their Films PDF eBook |
Author | Brooks Bushnell |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1056 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Performing Arts |
ISBN |
This is the most comprehensive reference work available anywhere, ever, to (1) films and their directors, and (2) directors and their films. Part one is by director. Each entry lists films, years of release, alternate titles, and, when appropriate, the director's pseudonym. Part two is a listing of over 108,000 films (from A, directed by Jan Lenica, to Zyte, from Rene Leprince), giving a director for each.