The Injustice Never Leaves You
The Injustice Never Leaves You

Author: Monica Muñoz Martinez

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2018-09-24

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 0674989384

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Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award Winner of the María Elena Martínez Prize Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist “A page-turner...Haunting...Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past.” —Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas–Mexico border—including members of the famed Texas Rangers—murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas’s sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. “It’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons...to go mainstream.” —Texas Observer “A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

The Rancher's Legacy and The Texan's Secret Daughter
The Rancher's Legacy and The Texan's Secret Daughter

Author: Jessica Keller

Publisher: Harlequin

Published: 2021-04-13

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0369705394

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A second chance when you least expect it… The Rancher’s Legacy by Jessica Keller Returning home isn’t part of Rhett Jarrett’s plan—until he inherits the family ranch from his father. Running it won’t be easy with his ranch assistant and childhood friend, Macy Howell, challenging all his decisions. But a long-buried family secret might help Rhett begin to see things Macy’s way…and allow them to find love—and a home—together at last. The Texan’s Secret Daughter by Jolene Navarro Turning his life around was the hardest thing Elijah De La Rosa ever had to do—until his ex-wife, Jazmine Daniels, returns with their young daughter he didn’t know existed. Now this successful rancher will do anything to be a good father. But can he forgive himself for the past…and turn their second chance into a family for always?

Texas Blood
Texas Blood

Author: Roger D. Hodge

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2017-10-10

Total Pages: 369

ISBN-13: 0307961419

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In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singularly illuminating history of the Texas borderlands from their settlement through seven generations of Roger D. Hodge's ranching family. What brought the author's family to Texas? What is it about Texas that for centuries has exerted a powerful allure for adventurers and scoundrels, dreamers and desperate souls, outlaws and outliers? In search of answers, Hodge travels across his home state--which he loves and hates in shifting measure--tracing the wanderings of his ancestors into forgotten histories along vanished roads. Here is an unsentimental, keenly insightful attempt to grapple with all that makes Texas so magical, punishing, and polarizing. Here is a spellbindingly evocative portrait of the borderlands--with its brutal history of colonization, conquest, and genocide; where stories of death and drugs and desperation play out daily. And here is a contemplation of what it means that the ranching industry that has sustained families like Hodge's for almost two centuries is quickly fading away, taking with it a part of our larger, deep-rooted cultural inheritance. A wholly original fusion of memoir and history--as piercing as it is elegiac--Texas Blood is a triumph.

The Mcgill Family
The Mcgill Family

Author: Kathleen McGill

Publisher:

Published: 2016-04-21

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 9781519640536

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Henry Frank McGill, a man of vision, overcame great odds to become a prominent rancher in South Texas in the early 1900's. His story, and the legacy he left to his descendants, contains numerous pictures of ranch and family life.In spite of hardship and lack of opportunity, he set out to earn his fortune by trading horses and cattle in the most dangerous area of Texas known as the Nueces Strip, which is also the home of the famous King Ranch.J. Frank Dobie, legendary Texas author, dedicated a chapter of his book, "The Longhorns", "to my good friend, Frank McGill, as good a man as he is a cow man."He was admired and respected by his peers, not only for his success in the cattle business, but perhaps even more importantly, for his integrity and generosity. Frank McGill "hitched his wagon to a star", and his life story will inspire others to do the same.

Kings of Texas
Kings of Texas

Author: Don Graham

Publisher: Turner Publishing Company

Published: 2010-12-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1118039807

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Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." -H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American

Petra’s Legacy
Petra’s Legacy

Author: Jane Clements Monday

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2007-08-28

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9781585446148

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The matriarch of one of the most important families in Texas history, Petra Vela Kenedy has remained a shadowy presence in the annals of South Texas. In this biography of Petra Vela Kenedy, the authors not only tell her story but also relate the history of South Texas through a woman’s perspective. Utilizing previously unpublished letters, journals, photographs, and other primary materials, the authors reveal the intimate stories of the families who for years dominated governments, land acquisition, commerce, and border politics along the Rio Grande and across the Wild Horse Desert. From Petra’s early life in the landed ranchero society of northern Mexico, through her alliance with Luis Vidal—an officer in the Mexican army to whom she bore eight children—until her move to Brownsville after Vidal’s death, Petra lived in Mexico. When she moved to Texas, having taken Vidal’s name, she represented a link to the landed families of the region. Mifflin Kenedy, a steamboat captain who had first come to Texas during the Mexican War, married into her world, acquiring local respectability and stature when he took Petra as his wife. The story of their life together encompasses war, the taming of a frontier, the blending of cultures, the origin of a ranching empire, and the establishment of a foundation and trust that still endure today, giving millions to Texas through charitable gifts. An attractive woman of business acumen, strong religious convictions, and intense family loyalty, Petra Vela Kenedy’s influence through her husband and her children left a legacy whose exploration is long overdue.

Long, Tall Texan Legacy
Long, Tall Texan Legacy

Author: Diana Palmer

Publisher: HQN Books

Published: 2015-08-17

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 146039352X

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New York Times bestselling author Diana Palmer delivers two reader-favorite tales of cowboys on the range! THE FOUNDING FATHER Discover how legends were made when Jacobsville founding father Big John Jacobs weds the daughter of a prosperous railroad tycoon. Will passion blaze when the fortune-seeking Long, Tall Texan brands his sweetly unassuming wife with his soul-searing kisses? JUSTIN Justin Ballenger was jilted by Shelby Jacobs, privileged daughter of the Jacobsville fortune, for a wealthy playboy. After six resentful years, Shelby returned, penniless and alone. It was Justin's turn to sneer, but honor wouldn't allow it. He was sure he could never trust her again, but that old flame burned hotter than a three-alarm brush fire-and Shelby had a secret that only fanned the flames.

Between Hell and Texas
Between Hell and Texas

Author: Dusty Richards

Publisher:

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781410456731

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With blood and tears, Chet Byrnes built a life in Texas, only to have it shattered by an ill-fated cattle drive and two deadly family feuds. Spurned by the woman he loves, Chet sets off for new territory. The journey won't come cheap. Original.

Texas Blood Feud
Texas Blood Feud

Author: Dusty Richards

Publisher: Pinnacle Books

Published: 2009-11-01

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 0786023066

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Chet Byrnes tries to end the feud he started when he hanged three horse thieves.

De León, a Tejano Family History
De León, a Tejano Family History

Author: Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-01-01

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 0292782713

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Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, 2004 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005 La familia de León was one of the foundation stones on which Texas was built. Martín de León and his wife Patricia de la Garza left a comfortable life in Mexico for the hardships and uncertainties of the Texas frontier in 1801. Together, they established family ranches in South Texas and, in 1824, the town of Victoria and the de León colony on the Guadalupe River (along with Stephen F. Austin's colony, the only completely successful colonization effort in Texas). They and their descendents survived and prospered under four governments, as the society in which they lived evolved from autocratic to republican and the economy from which they drew their livelihood changed from one of mercantile control to one characterized by capitalistic investments. Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de León family. She follows Martín and Patricia from their beginnings in Mexico through the establishment of the family ranches in Texas and the founding of the de León colony and the town of Victoria. Then she details how, after Martín's death in 1834, Patricia and her children endured the Texas Revolution, exile in New Orleans and Mexico, expropriation of their lands, and, after returning to Texas, years of legal battles to regain their property. Representative of the experiences of many Tejanos whose stories have yet to be written, the history of the de León family is the story of the Tejano settlers of Texas.