Guide and Index to the Texas Adjutant General Service Records, 1836-1935 is offered in a two-volume series that will guide the researcher to the wealth of information that is available both online and on microfilm while offering corrections to online mistakes. Most of the service records prior to the Frontier Forces and Frontier Battalions consist of documents that give evidence of service, but are not a printed form with the highlights of service written on it. Volume 1 is a cumulative index to the following service records: Army of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845; Navy of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1845; Mounted Volunteers, 1854-1861; Minute Men, 1855-1862, 1872-1874; Texas State Troops, 1861-1865; Confederate States Army, 1861-1865; State Police, 1870-1871; Frontier Forces, 1870-1871; Frontier Battalion, 1874-1901; Texas Volunteer Guard, 1881-1903; United States Volunteers, 1898; Regular Rangers, 1855-1861, 1901-1935; Special Rangers, 1916-1934; Loyalty Rangers, 1918; Railroad Rangers, 1922-1935; and the Texas National Guard, 1901- ca. 1929. Volume 2 contains individual indexes to the following service records: Army of the Republic of Texas, Navy of the Republic of Texas, Mounted Volunteers, Minute Men, Texas State Troops, Confederate States Army, State Police, Frontier Forces, Frontier Battalion, Volunteer Guard, United States Volunteers, Regular Rangers, Special Rangers, Loyalty Rangers, and Railroad Rangers.

Genealogists can sometimes require obscure resources when in search of information about ancestors. Tracking down records to complete a family tree can become laborious when the researcher doesn't know where to begin looking. Many of the best resources are maintained regionally or even locally, and aren’t widely known. This reference work serves as a guide to both beginning and experienced genealogy researchers. The sourcebook is easily accessible and usable, featuring approximately 270 entries on all aspects of genealogical research and family history compilation. The entries are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced so any researcher can quickly find the information he or she is seeking. Each state and each of the provinces of Canada has its own entry; other countries are listed under appropriate headings. The author also provides more than 700 addresses from all over the world so that the genealogist or general researcher may contact any one of these organizations to obtain specific information about particular births, deaths, marriages, or other life events in order to complete a family tree.

Chronicles the history of Houston, Texas from 1836 to 1946 by tracing the genealogy of Houston's first families, and discusses how those people affected the city's development.

“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.