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Bill O'Neal
These mailable vintage-photograph postcards document the frontier period in Texas, where more combat events transpired between Native American warriors and Anglo soldiers and settlers than any other state or territory…
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More than 250 on-site photographs illustrate this tour of homes of many of the Lone Star State’s most powerful political leaders. From the Governor’s Mansion in Austin to the Texas…
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The Pacific Coast League is one of the oldest baseball leagues and has a rich and colorful history. Bill O'Neal’s exhaustive research brings back forgotten players and moments in history…
This sardonic cartoon history chronicles the presidency of Donald Trump, from his first inaugural tweets to his bizarre final days in office. Trump’s many personas are on full display, including…
From the 1870s until the 1920s cattlemen and sheepmen clashed bitterly for rangeland in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, Colorado, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. During five decades of irregular but…
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Texas made a remarkable contribution to the American war effort during World War II–almost 830,000 Texans, including 12,000 women, donned uniforms, and more than 23,000 Texas fighting men died for…
Images of America: Texas Gunslingers presents the concept of Texas as the Gunfighter Capital of the West. Indeed, after the cowboy–a Texas creation–the most colorful and romanticized frontier figure is…
Images of America: Van Alstyne relates the story of a Texas town born in an era when small-town life was deeply ingrained in America. Founded by 1873, Van Alstyne is…
John Chisum was a legendary figure of the Old West. During the 1850s Chisum recognized opportunity in the fledgling range cattle industry, and within a few years his herds numbered…
Rip Ford was a bold, fearless combat leader, an expert pistoleer, and a master tactician who led hard-hitting cavalry charges against foes with far greater numbers. Ford was a ferocious…
In the West during the late 1800s, guns were tools-as good or as bad as the men who used them. Buffalo hunters used guns to earn their living. Many Westerners…
Original publication and copyright date: 2010.
A unique volume of information and colorful anecdotes about historic ranches, located throughout the American West. In all, almost sixty ranches are profiled, covering twelve states. From the King Ranch…
The story of the formative period of Cheyenne is, to a remarkable degree, the story of America’s last West. Founded as a railroad boomtown, Cheyenne was a raucous and violent…
For nearly three decades, the settlers of Lampasas were challenged by frontier hardships and dangers. The isolated Hill Country community was founded in the 1850s amid bubbling mineral springs, During…
For more than a century the world’s most famous law enforcement body has inspired novelists, actors, and filmmakers. From The Lone Ranger to Walker, Texas Ranger, from Zane Grey’s The…
Founded in a pine forest on the East Texas frontier, Carthage assumed the name of one of the greatest cities of the ancient world. Although Carthage, Texas, did not become…
Billy Dixon fired the most celebrated shot in the history of the West at the Battle of Adobe Walls in 1874, earned a Medal of Honor in an even more…
An encyclopedia of data on 255 gunmen of the American West. This scholarly reference work includes dates and places of birth and death, as well as aliases, nicknames, occupations and…
Captain Harry Wheeler was a Captain of the Arizona Rangers, Sheriff of Cochise County, Cavalry sergeant and World War I army captain. Intensely dedicated to duty and service, Harry Wheeler…
Images of America: West Texas Cattle Kingdom relates the frontier saga of cowboys and longhorn cattle, of trail drives and great ranches. Cattle and horses were introduced to the Western…
Sam Houston is a Texas icon. General Houston signed the Texas Declaration of Independence on his 43rd birthday, and six weeks later he led the Texas Army to a spectacular…
The Regulator-Moderator War was the first and largest of the many blood feuds of Texas. Bill O'Neal includes rosters of names of the Regulator and Moderator factions arranged by the…
A half century of violence in Texas by a family man who killed more than 30
Although only a cook, Doris Miller fought bravely against Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor. The young African-American from Texas was one of the first sailors to earn the Navy Cross…
The Wild West thrived for more than two decades in Caldwell, Kansas. Throughout the 1870s Caldwell was a lawless, unincorporated village astride the storied Chisholm Trail. Located just north of…
In the early 1890s Wyoming’s northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision that pitted cattle barons and powerful politicians against homesteaders and rustlers. The…
2005 Book of the Year Award from the National Association For Outlaw and Lawman History - Story of the Wyoming cattle wars and lavishly illustrated.
Bill O'Neal,Fred Goodwin
The most famous singing group in the history of western music
Tumbling Tumbleweeds and Cool Water are only a couple of the hundreds of songs created by the Sons of the Pioneers, the most famous singing group in the history of…
Bill O'Neal,Lynn O'Neal Martinez
Long before the Pilgrims celebrated Thanksgiving at Plymouth in 1621, a similar feast of thanks was shared in the New World. In the 1500s, Mexican conquistador Juan de Onate led…
Bill O'Neal,Tommie Ritter Smith
When it comes to music, Texas has a rich history, but especially in the world of country music. The genre was born out of the trials and tribulations of the…
The Arizona Rangers is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. Bill O'Neal’s enthusiasm for his subject…
Bill Maurer,Michael E O'Neal
Slavery, Smallholding and Tourism explores the political economy of development in the British Virgin Islands - from plantations, through the evolution of a smallholding economy, to the rise of tourism…
Fully updated, tracing the evolution of jazz and blues from their nineteenth-century African-American origins right through to the present day. Key musical developments within each era are covered, as well…
