Motley County Roundup
Motley County Roundup

Author: Marisue Burleson Potts

Publisher:

Published: 2020-10-20

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 9781735660509

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Over 100 Years of Texas Rolling Plains HistoryMotley County Roundup is a treasure trove of historical information about life in this history-filled county in the Rolling Plains region of Texas. Read about the people who explored, fought, worked, lived, and died in the area from the early 1800s to the 1990s. Woven throughout are personal perspectives from people who lived there, including those of the author, Motley County native Marisue Burleson Potts, whose family was part of that history. If you need details about this period of time in Texas history, you'll benefit from this comprehensive compilation of published information and county records. You'll find the names of cowboys, explorers, ranchers, county officials, schools, and towns that no longer exist-as well as the historical details of the Indigenous tribes, immigrants, ranches, railroads, oil wells, and businesses-over the last 100-plus years in Motley County, Texas. Beyond the lists of names and dates, you'll read colorful stories of those who homesteaded, hunted buffalo, practiced medicine, ran bootlegging operations during Prohibition, and built and operated one of the largest cattle ranches in the United States:?Learn how "Texas Fever" fueled the Westward Expansion into Texas in the early 1800s and who the men were behind the Texas Revolution and declaration of independence from Mexico. ?Read about Texans involved in the Indian wars, the Civil War, World War I, Prohibition, and World War II, as well as how these events affected residents and changed the state of Texas. ?Learn details of the rise and decline of the railroads, history of the post offices, and the construction of courthouses, schools, county highways, and Farm to Market roads. Pick up a copy of Motley County Roundup to see the true character and heart of the people who lived and worked in Motley County-whether they were serving in public office, breaking horses, driving cattle, publishing the local paper, catching rattlesnakes, chasing criminals, or teaching school in a dugout.

Motley County Roundup
Motley County Roundup

Author: Marisue Potts

Publisher:

Published: 2022-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781735660578

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Over 100 Years of Texas Rolling Plains HistoryMotley County Roundup is a treasure trove of historical information about life in this history-filled county in the Rolling Plains region of Texas. Read about the people who explored, fought, worked, lived, and died in the area from the early 1800s to the 1990s. Woven throughout are personal perspectives from people who lived there, including those of the author, Motley County native Marisue Burleson Potts, whose family was part of that history. If you need details about this period of time in Texas history, you'll benefit from this comprehensive compilation of published information and county records. You'll find the names of cowboys, explorers, ranchers, county officials, schools, and towns that no longer exist-as well as the historical details of the Indigenous tribes, immigrants, ranches, railroads, oil wells, and businesses-over the last 100-plus years in Motley County, Texas. Beyond the lists of names and dates, you'll read colorful stories of those who homesteaded, hunted buffalo, practiced medicine, ran bootlegging operations during Prohibition, and built and operated one of the largest cattle ranches in the United States:?Learn how "Texas Fever" fueled the Westward Expansion into Texas in the early 1800s and who the men were behind the Texas Revolution and declaration of independence from Mexico. ?Read about Texans involved in the Indian wars, the Civil War, World War I, Prohibition, and World War II, as well as how these events affected residents and changed the state of Texas. ?Learn details of the rise and decline of the railroads, history of the post offices, and the construction of courthouses, schools, county highways, and Farm to Market roads. Pick up a copy of Motley County Roundup to see the true character and heart of the people who lived and worked in Motley County-whether they were serving in public office, breaking horses, driving cattle, publishing the local paper, catching rattlesnakes, chasing criminals, or teaching school in a dugout.

From Guns to Gavels
From Guns to Gavels

Author: Bill Neal

Publisher:

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 394

ISBN-13:

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"Linked accounts of frontier crimes and trials from 1885 to 1929 across West Texas, Indian and New Mexico Territories, and Montana trace the evolution of criminal justice in the American West"--Provided by publisher.

Wanted
Wanted

Author: Edward A. Blackburn

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2012-01-18

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1585444987

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Along with the settlement of the Texas frontier came rustlers, public drunks, gunfighters, and other outlaws. A jail in which to incarcerate the lawbreakers was thus often the first public building raised in a new town. Later, as government developed, public buildings—notably county courthouses and jails—assumed not only practical but also symbolic importance. The architecture of these buildings in the nineteenth century reflected the power and status with which the community imbued the government; many of the same architects applied the aesthetic standards of the day to both. In later years, the safety and at least limited comfort of the prisoners became concerns and jails were remodeled or abandoned to other uses in favor of modern, more utilitarian structures. In this heavily illustrated guide to the historic county jails of Texas, Ed Blackburn Jr. takes readers to each of the 254 counties in the state, presenting brief histories and of the counties and their structures that housed their criminals. He provides general information about the architecture and location of the buildings and, when possible, describes the present uses of those that have been decommissioned. Interviews with local officials, historians, and newspaper publishers have yielded colorful anecdotes for many of the jails. Revealing photographs of many of the old jails have been gathered from local and archival sources, and Blackburn himself has taken pictures of extant buildings. Together, these words and images not only provide a survey of the way Texans have housed their criminals, but also, with the aid of thumbnail maps of county locations, offer residents and tourists throughout the state a guide to a fascinating aspect of architectural and cultural history.

More Ghost Towns of Texas
More Ghost Towns of Texas

Author: T. Lindsay Baker

Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press

Published: 2005-08-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 9780806137247

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A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.