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In Now You Are Told: A Collection of True Tales from My Yesteryears, Bill Neal tells both serious and often funny and memorable true stories from his life. He begins with a history of the area, including the Comanche Indians, and how they influenced the naming of his hometown of Medicine Mound, Texas. These stories give us a glimpse of frontier life during the thirties and forties while growing up on a large West Texas ranch. One vivid childho...

In Now You Are Told: A Collection of True Tales from My Yesteryears, Bill Neal tells both serious and often funny and memorable true stories from his life. He begins with a history of the area, including the Comanche Indians, and how they influenced the naming of his hometown of Medicine Mound, Texas. These stories give us a glimpse of frontier life during the thirties and forties while growing up on a large West Texas ranch. One vivid childho...

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In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed fool proof was hatched up. The scheme failed and led to two murders. With his usual rough-and-tumble tenacity, Bill Neal undertakes the investigation of these murders.

In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these "nesters". In August 1902 Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now.

Almost half a century after the Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas erupted in bloodshed in 1912, two Texas historians attempted to write about the affair. But no one would talk to them. Lewis Nordyke abandoned the idea, and C. L. Sonnichsen, another chronicler of Texas feuds, wrote that it was "too soon to talk about the Boyce-Sneed affair.” Not until the 1990s did the whole story emerge, when descendants of the feuding families finally called a t...

Aimed at gardeners, this work is a compendium of Latin words that describe and distinguish plants and flowers. It also contains garden lore, such as: why Narcissus cyclamineus is a horticultural joke, why basil is the herb of dread and suspicion, and, why Cleopatra's asp arrives in a basket of figs whenever Antony and Cleopatra is performed.

Veteran defense attorney and prosecutor Bill Neal takes readers from Mississippi to the frontiers of West Texas, Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, and finally the frozen Montana wilderness through a series of linked, true-life tales of crimes and trials. Tracing the struggles of incipient criminal justice in the Southwest, Neal reveals how law and society matured together.

Illicit sex is the catalyst in all the Texas murder trials recounted in Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law. Bill Neal explores the imaginative machinations of defense lawyers who extricated obviously guilty clients when there appeared no legal basis upon which to peg a defense. The courtroom triumphs and underlying strategies detailed in this book are remarkable and entertaining.

For this new edition, Neal added twenty-five recipes--the dishes most frequently requested by his readers and some of the hallmark dishes of his restaurant, Crook's Corner.

Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. This title presents the evidence that shows how easy some folks found it to evade justice in the frontier West.

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Traces the maturing of the frontier legal system through engaging, colorful anecdotes and case histories --from the days of "Judge Lynch and Judge Winchester" to the era of Judge Blackstone and a modern system of fair courtroom trials.

This "authoritative journey through the baking and related confectionery of the South" ("The New York Times Book Review") celebrates the glories of Southern baking with 300 recipes for the breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweets that have been the pride of Southern cooks for generations.