Medium Size Books
These books are less than two hundred pages, however they are double the size of ordinary books making them equivalent to twice the number of pages; i.e. a two hundred page book equals a four hundred page common book These are full of our great Texas history. These make excellent gifts.
The Cordova Rebellion - Vincenti Cordova of Nacogdoches fomented one of the most harebrained episodes in Texas History.
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The Buried Treasures of Old East Texas - In the early days, everything had to be transported into East Texas by mule trains and this included valuables such as gold and silver which was used by the missions, for military payrolls and expenses, and for jewelry—there were almost always jewelry craftsmen in Nacogdoches.
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Old Time East Texas Saloons - It is hard to imagine, but in the very early days of European Spanish settlement, East Texas was the frontier to the vast west all the way to New Mexico before the frontier Alamo mission was established at what would become San Antonio.
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The French Smugglers - Swashbuckling times in old East Texas. These blazed the original smuggler's roads--there are several.
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Ranching in East Texas Under Spain and Mexico - Most think that ranching began after the Civil War, but in fact, it began a hundred and seventy years earlier in deep
Spanish East Texas which included western Louisiana.
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Steamboats in the Tiny East Texas Rivers - This is a fascinating read. It is almost impossible for persons today to conceive of steamboats plying the tiny Angelina, Neches and Sabine Rivers of East Texas – but they did.
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An Early Trip Across Texas - This is the true autobiography of a Frenchman by the name of Just Girrod who, along with others, had been forced by the Spanish to abandon their illegal fort, Champ d'Isle, that they had built on the Trinity River in the vicinity of present Liberty, Texas.
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When an Army of Gray Came to Save Texas - This is the true story of a group of volunteers from New Orleans who were recruited and outfitted by Adolphus Sterne of Nacogdoches.
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