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$14.95  Buy | John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger
Judy Alter
John Barclay Armstrong was a lieutenant in the Texas Rangers, a marshal, a rancher, and civic leader. But he is best remembered for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Hardin was wanted for killing Comanche County Deputy Charles Webb in May 1874. Armstrong arrested Hardin as he boarded a train in Florida and brought him back to Texas, where he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Like many young men after the Civil War, Armstrong left his home in Tennessee to find his fortune in the West. He ended up in Austin and on April 1, 1875 joined McNelly's unit of the Texas Rangers, the oldest state law enforcement agency... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$49.95 Buy | Historic Texas Courthouses
Michael A. Andrews
There is no more eloquent expression of a civilization’s economic progress and cultural maturity than its civic architecture. The historic courthouses of Texas testify to the independence and fortitude of a resolute people determined to wrench order out of the devastation of Civil War and to enforce justice on a frontier advanced beyond the reaches of law. During the late nineteenth century and early years of the twentieth—termed by author Michael Andrews “the Great Age of Texas Courthouses”—county courthouses rose as the predominant symbols of progress and stability, optimism and robust community pride. ... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$19.95 Buy | Moxie
The Dachsund of Fallingwater
Cara Armstrong
Children experience the renowned Frank Lloyd Wright house that boldly cantilevers over a waterfall in the western Pennsylvania mountains through the eyes of the Kaufmann family’s most beloved dog in residence. Beginning with the initial site survey, the loveable dachshund reflects on the myriad details that make the "Big House" so special. Moxie and her siblings’ preferred picnic site, the rock, becomes the foundation that supports the residence’s dramatic design, and the grand fireplace built around the big rock provides a warm stone where the dogs nap whenever they want. A table that can be stretched out so that as many as 18 of their friends... More » |
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