Eakin Press
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Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror
$19.95 Add to cartFrom 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carnival atmospheres with thousands in attendance, including… [more below]
- Author: Bills, E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1681790173
- Language: English
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Black Wall Street: From Riot to Renaissance in Tulsa’s Historic Greenwood District
$24.99 Add to cartEarly in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the “Greenwood District”- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Frequently referred to as “The Black Wall Street of America
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: April 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1934645389
- Language: English
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Liberty, Justice & F’Rall: The Dog Heroes of the Texas Republic
$14.95 Add to cartSam Houston’s dog Liberty describes how she and Sam’s other dogs, Justice and F’rall, played a key role in the history of the Texas Republic, the fall of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto.
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- Author: Kutchinski, Marjorie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 150
- Publish Date: October 01 2014
- ISBN10: 1940130611
- Language: English
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Jim Bowie: A Texas Legend
$9.95 Add to cartA biography of Jim Bowie, the restless adventurer who made his reputation with a hunting knife, became a successful farmer, businessman, adventurer, and died in the siege of the Alamo. Jean Flynn give… [more below]
- Author: Flynn, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 01 1980
- ISBN10: 1940130514
- Language: English
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The Alamo Cat
$9.95 Add to cartA stray cat showed up at the Alamo in 1981 and had to be coaxed out of a tree by one of the Alamo Rangers who was on night guard duty. The cat became a fixture at the historic site and was given the n… [more below]
- Author: Kerr, Rita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 60
- Publish Date: February 22 2016
- ISBN10: 1681790386
- Language: English
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They Call Me Old Blue: Or How I Helped Charles Goodnight Invent the Chuck Wagon
$16.95 Add to cartOld Blue, Texas’ most revered longhorn, worked for rancher Charles Goodnight. But Blue has almost been forgotten by history. In 1998 a mysterious old manuscript was discovered by Preston Lewis. Now Mr… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, Preston
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571686363
- Language: English
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Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The First Battle of Medina August 18, 1813
$19.95 Add to cartThe biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River in 1813, twenty-three years before the battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and S… [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 1940130999
- Language: English
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Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street
$24.95 Add to cartHere is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa’s most important oral historians and community activists. “Using her breadth of kn
- Author: Gates, Eddie Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1571688188
- Language: English
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Reluctant Warrior: Former German POW Finds Peace in Texas
$22.95 Add to cartHeino Erichsen invited the reader to walk with him as he looks back upon his childhood in Nazi Germany, his surrender as an 18-year-old private with the German Afrika Korps, his survival in POW camps … [more below]
- Author: Erichsen, Heino R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: January 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685146
- Language: English
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James Bowie: Texas Fighting Man
$19.95 Add to cartTexas’ most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Clifford Hopewell’s biography, the first in almost half a c… [more below]
- Author: Hopewell, Clifford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1940130190
- Language: English
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John Chisum: Frontier Cattle King
$26.60 Add to cartJohn Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West cattle frontier. At thirteen he migrated with his family from Tennessee to the Republic of Texas. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in t
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 174
- Publish Date: March 09 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791137
- Language: English
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The Letters of John Wesley Hardin
$27.95 Add to cartConsidered by many to be one of the deadliest men in the west, claiming to have killed 42 men, John Wesley Hardin was also one of the most controversial men in the West. “The Letters of John Wesley Ha… [more below]
- Author: Hardin, John Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571686223
- Language: English
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Halff of Texas: Merchant Rancher of the Old West
$19.95 Add to cartCowman Mayer Halff rode a long, busy trail that few men could have followed. It carried him from 1850s France to Texas and across 1,500 miles of wild western country waiting to be tamed. Throughout hi… [more below]
- Author: Dearen, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571684360
- Language: English
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Rope to Win: The History of Steer, Calf, And, Team Roping
$24.95 Add to cartThe most important tool for a cowboy is a rope. What he has done with it in the last 200 years is amazing. The evolution of the cowboy from taking care of cattle on the range to his competitive, top-l… [more below]
- Author: Woerner, Gail Hughbanks
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 294
- Publish Date: January 15 2007
- ISBN10: 097891502X
- Language: English
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Ghost Stories of Old Texas: Volume 1
$9.95 Add to cartTexas is a land of legends and folktales. Some of them are based on characters like Pecos Bill, Bigfoot Wallace, and Davy Crockett – loud, outgoing, bigger-than-life “daytime” kinds of people. Others
- Series: Ghost Stories of Old Texas #1
- Author: Fowler, Zinita Parsons
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: February 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1681792141
- Language: English
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Bad Blood: The Violent Lives of John Wesley Hardin, His Brothers, and Associates
$19.99 Add to cartChuck Parson and Norman Wayne Brown are noted experts on the life and times of John Wesley Hardin. They have written numerous books and magazine articles covering the topic from all angles and in such
- Author: Brown, Norman Wayne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: October 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681792737
- Language: English
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Acres of Aspiration: The All-Black Towns of Oklahoma
$22.95 Add to cartBeulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect, pioneers such as Edward P. McCabe championed the id… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Hannibal B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0978915038
- Language: English
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Alamo Defenders – A Genealogy: The People and Their Words
$19.95 Add to cartCompiled by one of the foremost experts on the Alamo, Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders – A Genealogy: The People and Their Words provides an in-depth look at the individuals who fought and died at the A… [more below]
- Author: Groneman, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 089015757X
- Language: English
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The Durhams of Fairfield: An African American Genealogy
$19.95 Add to cartIn The Durhams of Fairfield: An African American Genealogy, Robert L. Uzzel traced his wife Debra’s roots to the slaves of the family of Robert Winfield Durham. Evidence indicates that Gobi, the patri
- Author: Uzzel, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: December 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1940130778
- Language: English
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Fight To The Finish: The Barge Battle of 1889: “Gentleman” Jim Corbett, Joe Choynski, and the Fight that Launched Boxing’s Modern Era
$22.99 Add to cartJames J. Corbett and Joe Choynski were destined to spill each other’s blood.
In the beginning, the boxing legends were simply two lads scratching and clawing to find their way in the world. They grew u
- Author: Jackson, Ron J., Jr.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: June 02 2019
- ISBN10: 1681791269
- Language: English
