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Category : Municipal government
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Category : Municipal government
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Author: Foster W. Fort
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Category : Longview (Tex.)
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Category : Church buildings
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Author: Paul A. Yater
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Category : Boy Scouts
Languages : en
Pages : 176
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Author: Charlotte Heldenbrand
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Category : Gregg County (Tex.)
Languages : en
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Author: Van Craddock
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738579207
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
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Situated in the East Texas Piney Woods, Longview was established in 1870 when O. H. Methvin deeded land to the Southern Pacific to build a railroad station. The village became the county seat of Gregg County in 1873 and quickly prospered as a rail, cotton, and manufacturing center. The discovery of the East Texas Oil Field in 1930-1931 revealed that Longview sat in the middle of the world's largest pool of petroleum. The boom had begun! Today Longview is home to almost 80,000 residents. The city that bills itself as "Real East Texas" is a manufacturing, medical, and educational center and home to such events as the Great Texas Balloon Race and AlleyFest arts festival.
Author: H. Joaquin Jackson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292738994
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 435
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A retired Texas Ranger recalls a career that took him from shootouts in South Texas to film sets in Hollywood. When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin, a working Texas Ranger. Legend says that one Ranger is all it takes to put down lawlessness and restore the peace: one riot, one Ranger. In this adventure-filled memoir, Joaquin Jackson recalls what it was like to be the Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993. Jackson has dramatic stories to tell. Defying all stereotypes, he was the one Ranger who ensured a fair election—and an overwhelming win for La Raza Unida party candidates—in Zavala County in 1972. He followed legendary Ranger Captain Alfred Y. Allee Sr. into a shootout at the Carrizo Springs jail that ended a prison revolt and left him with nightmares. He captured “The See More Kid,” an elusive horse thief and burglar who left clean dishes and swept floors in the houses he robbed. He investigated the 1988 shootings in Big Bend’s Colorado Canyon and tried to understand the motives of the Mexican teenagers who terrorized three river rafters and killed one. He even helped train Afghan mujahedin warriors to fight the Soviet Union. Jackson’s tenure in the Texas Rangers began when older Rangers still believed that law need not get in the way of maintaining order, and concluded as younger Rangers were turning to computer technology to help solve crimes. Though he insists, “I am only one Ranger. There was only one story that belonged to me,” his story is part of the larger story of the Texas Rangers becoming a modern law enforcement agency that serves all the people of the state. It’s a story that’s as interesting as any of the legends. And yet, Jackson’s story confirms the legends, too. With just over a hundred Texas Rangers to cover a state with 267,399 square miles, any one may become the one Ranger who, like Joaquin Jackson in Zavala County in 1972, stops one riot. “A powerful, moving read . . . One Ranger is as fascinating as the memoirs of nineteenth-century Rangers James Gillett and George Durham, and the histories by Frederick Wilkins and Walter Prescott Webb—and equally as important.” —True West “A straight-shooting book that blow[s] a few holes in the Ranger myth while providing more ammunition for the myth’s continuation. . . . Reads more like a novel than [an] autobiography.” —Austin American-Statesman
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
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Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 1176
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Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Author: Sarah Davis Elias
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ISBN: 9780935132892
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Less than one year after the armistice ending World War I, several American cities and towns erupted in race-related violence. The period came to be known as the "Red Summer of 1919" and was immortalized by Claude McKay in his poem "If We Must Die". Recalling Longview is the true story of how racial prejudice and misunderstanding in a small Texas community led to violence and economic injustice for the town's blacks that have never been resolved. With its still-lingering effects on one black family, the July, 1919 riot in Longview, Texas remains a gripping saga appropriate for study by students of history and sociology, as well as any American, seeking to understand our national past.
Author: Lottie Guttry
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ISBN: 9781612542416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 368
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Based on a true family story, Alligator Creek is Lottie Guttry's tale of a wife struggling to hold her family together in the midst of a war-torn country. When her husband leaves for the front in the middle of the Civil War, Sarah is left alone with just her faith and her love for her family to help guide her through the difficult times ahead.
