Eakin Press
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The Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold
$24.95 Add to cartHidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1571687769
- Language: English
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Walking Historic Galveston: A Guide to Its Neighborhoods
$19.95 Add to cartWalking Historic Galveston: A Guide to its Neighborhoods is the city’s first practical, comprehensive walking guide of the Islands most concentrated historic areas with interesting anecdotes about the… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 1934645796
- Language: English
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Austin’s Old Three Hundred: The First Anglo Colony in Texas
$24.95 Add to cartThe Texas equivalent of the “Mayflower” adventures, the three hundred families who settled Stephen F. Austin’s original colony formed the foundation on which a republic and then a state was built. In … [more below]
- Author: Von-Maszewski, Wolfman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1940130573
- Language: English
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Betting Booze and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas
$24.95 Add to cartBy the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, ga
- Author: Landrey, Wanda a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571689176
- Language: English
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Prince Hall Freemasonry in the Lone Star State
$26.95 Add to cartFreemasonry is one of the world’s oldest fraternal organizations. It is a society of men concerned with moral and spiritual values. Members are taught its precepts by a series of ritual dramas that fo… [more below]
- Author: Uzzel, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: May 08 2004
- ISBN10: 157168834X
- Language: English
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The Fourth Guardsman: James Franklin “Bud” Ledbetter (1852-1937)
$22.95 Add to cartDuring the 1890s and past the turn of the century, the land of the Five Civilized Tribes (roughly the eastern half of present day Oklahoma, known as the Indian Territory) was a volcanic society ravage… [more below]
- Author: Shirley, Glenn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 226
- Publish Date: March 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685669
- Language: English
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Krasna Amerika: A Study of Texas Czechs, 1851-1939
$24.95 Add to cartKrasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in a scholarly yet lively manner. The book tells the sto… [more below]
- Author: Machann, Clinton John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: May 01 2001
- ISBN10: 1571685650
- Language: English
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Texas Forgotten Ports Volume 1 – Mid-Gulf Ports From Corpus Christi to Matagorda Bay
$22.95 Add to cartVeteran newspaper publisher Keith Guthrie, always fascinated by the stories of old ports in his native South Texas, launched an in-depth study of the Gulf of Mexico ports from Corpus Christi on the so… [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1681790246
- Language: English
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The Bloody Legacy of Pink Higgins: A Half Century of Violence in Texas
$19.95 Add to cartPink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, rancher, and deadly shootist who killed more adversaries … [more below]
- Author: O’Neal, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: April 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1571683046
- Language: English
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Home Field: An Illustrated History of 120 College Football Stadiums
$24.95 Add to cartFor a fan, few things match the pleasure of entering a college football stadium on a Saturday afternoon. The significance of these buildings to their respective institutions can hardly be overestimate… [more below]
- Author: Pennington, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: January 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1571686746
- Language: English
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Sophie’s War: The Journal of Anna Sophie Franziska Guenther
$19.95 Add to cartDear Reader, I am afraid for us. So begins Sophie’s journal on Christmas Eve, 1861. And no wonder. She lives in Comfort, Texas, during the Civil War, and her father makes no secret of being a Unionist… [more below]
- Author: Shefelman, Janice
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: July 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571688803
- Language: English
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What You Don’t Have to Believe to Be a Christian
$16.95 Add to cartMany Christians live with doubts about certain traditional Christian beliefs, and their doubts often result in guilt. Others are led to reject the faith out of disagreement with beliefs that seem to b… [more below]
- Author: Ricker, George M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1571687629
- Language: English
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Stolen Heritage: A Mexican-American’s Rediscovery of His Family’s Lost Land Grant
$24.95 Add to cartMurder, violence, and intimidation are the bitter grapes of the Becerra and de la Garza families, early day Spanish settlers who had been in Texas several generations when Stephen F. Austin and other
- Author: Rubio, Abel G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791331
- Language: English
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Blind Lemon Jefferson: His Life, His Death, and His Legacy
$16.95 Add to cartBetween 1926 and his untimely death in 1929, Blind Lemon Jefferson was the largest-selling African-American blues singer in the United States. Blind from birth, Lemon wandered the streets of Wortham, … [more below]
- Author: Uzzel, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: April 29 2013
- ISBN10: 1571686568
- Language: English
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The Texas Connection with the American Revolution
$17.95 Add to cartAll too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English colonies. Important as they were, they do not tell the whol… [more below]
- Author: Thonhoff, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571684182
- Language: English
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The Fall of the Duke of Duval: A Prosecutor’s Journal
$24.95 Add to cartThe name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson’s first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 “Box 13” fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells Cou… [more below]
- Author: Clark, John E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 390
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 157168333X
- Language: English
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Aransas: Life of a Texas Coastal County
$35.93 Add to cartAransas: The Life of a Texas Coastal County is a wonderfully researched history of an exciting part of Texas. This is the story of a little place that has played a surprisingly large role in the histo… [more below]
- Author: Allen, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 1571681663
- Language: English
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Blood of Noble Men: The Alamo Siege & Battle
$24.95 Add to cartThe Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, “transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth.” Indeed, the siege and battle of the Alamo serves today as a definitio
- Author: Huffines, Alan C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: August 29 2016
- ISBN10: 1681790750
- Language: English
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Sunshine on the Prairie: The Story of Cynthia Ann Parker
$19.95 Add to cartSUNSHINE ON THE PRAIRIE is the story of CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, captured by a band of Comanches as a nine-year-old while living in Fort Parker with her family. It was 24 years before she was “re-captured”… [more below]
- Author: Ramsay, Jack C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 01 1990
- ISBN10: 1940130174
- Language: English
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History of German Settlements in Texas Prior to the Civil War
$28.95 Add to cartUnsatisfactory social, economic, and political conditions in Germany from the close of the Napoleonic period through the revolutionary periods of 1830 and 1848 stimulated immigration to Texas. This bo… [more below]
- Author: Biesele, Rudolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: June 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1571682368
- Language: English
