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Excerpt from The Day: And Other PoemsAt this I did not wonder. I have heard since that it was reprinted in every paper in America, and I have evidence that it soon reached, and was widely read, in Canada, the Cape, and Australia. I myself sent it, and spoke of it to many friends.Here, I said to myself, is one of the first, spontaneous, natural, democratic utterances in the war, and it comes from my own West country.About the PublisherForgotten...

On July 8, 1860, Dallas, Texas burned. Three slaves were accused of arson and hanged without a trial. Today, most historians attribute the fire to carelessness. Texas was the darkest corner of the Old South, too remote and violent for even the bravest abolitionists. Yet North Texas newspapers commonly reported runaway slaves, and travelers in South Texas wrote of fugitives heading to Mexico. Perhaps a few prominent people were all too happy to...

Evokes a powerful sense of history and place andn ever shies from the responsibilities and ethical struggles every hunter faces.

On July 8, 1860, Dallas, Texas burned. Three slaves were accused of arson and hanged without a trial. Today, most historians attribute the fire to carelessness. Texas was the darkest corner of the Old South, too remote and violent for even the even bravest abolitionists. Yet North Texas newspapers commonly reported runaway slaves, and travelers in South Texas wrote of fugitives heading to Mexico. Perhaps a few prominent people were all too hap...

Excerpt from The Day: And Other PoemsAt this I did not wonder. I have heard since that it was reprinted in every paper in America, and I have evidence that it soon reached, and was widely read, in Canada, the Cape, and Australia. I myself sent it, and spoke of it to many friends.Here, I said to myself, is one of the first, spontaneous, natural, democratic utterances in the war, and it comes from my own West country.About the PublisherForgotten...

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Photographer Wyman Meinzer and author Henry Chappell defining study of the 6666 Ranch.

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Bison herds are dwindling on the Kansas prairie. Logan Fletcher, a young faith healer from Kentucky, labors as a skinner on a buffalo hunting crew, waiting for the taming of the plains and the chance to spread the Word to the coming immigrants.On the reservation near Fort Sill, the U.S. government withholds food in retaliation for Comanche and Kiowa depredation in Texas. Cuts Something, an aging Comanche war chief, returns to his old home on t...

In Blood Kin, Isaac Webb, a young Texas ranger, struggles for decency amid the violence of the Texas Revolution and the early days of the Republic. Still in his teens when he joins the legendary ranger captain Noah Smithwick, Isaac discovers in himself extraordinary mettle in battle and a fierce yearning for young war widow Catherine Druin. But victory over Mexico does not bring the new Republic nor Isaac the peace and stability he fought for....