boyd takes you back in time and presents the texas revolution on a daily historical basis, fascinating.

I became acquainted with Bill Porterfield's work during my too-brief stay in Texas back in the early '80s. This book, a collection of his columns with some original pieces, is one that I literally stole from my parents' bookcase when I left home in 1982. Porterfield has a rich, majestic way with a story that shines brightest when talking about the people he loves--family and friends--and it is one of the few books that I will pick up cold and reread years later. Highly recommended.

I very seldom give out five star ratings, but Elmer Kelton gets them. I love his book, Buffalo Wagons, but if there's one that's nearly as good it's Texas Rifles. He created a superbly heroic character in Sam Cloud, and if anyone thinks the western died with L'Amour, you are WRONG. Between Elmer Kelton and Kirby Jonas, the western is very much alive. I hope everyone gets a chance to read these two authors. If you like Texas Rifles, read Kirby Jonas's The Dansing Star or Death of an Eagle for a super treat. These two are the best!

If you want to hunt big game in Texas, then go, don't stop to buy this book. One of the best and most enjoyable books on any subject.

Hankla's prose is exquisite. This book is wonderful, I recommend it to readers of poetry and fiction.

This book was absolutely outstanding! An interesting look at both the official and unofficial duties of the Sheriff in the 1950's. A must read for any law enforcement officer interested in history.

I have read and enjoyed Jack Ramsay's Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries in which he uses the interactions of Jane Long, Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar to introduce scores more of early Texans. I was extremely pleased to find the story of my Great Grandfather, Don Erasmo Seguin, included as one of the Tejano's who have so often been left out of the telling of early Texas history. The three people he uses as main characters, Jane Long (a woman who has often been ignored maybe because she was a woman), Sam Houston (the first President of the Republic of Texas, well known as perhaps one of the most famous of all Texans) and Mirabeau Lamar (second President of the Republic of Texas and sometimes known for little more than that) are three people who make me wonder why they left other parts of the United States to enter the conflicts of nineteenth-century Texas. Jane Long who was in her early twenties when she first entered the province could have had an easier life and was before her time by assuming the leadership she took. The story of why Sam Houston, former congressman and ex-governor of Tennessee, left his home state offers an explanation of his well-known personality. Mirabeau Lamar, Georgia ex-senator and son of a wealthy plantation owner, at times must have longed for Georgia. Their ability to unite despite diverse backgrounds provided me an explanation of what it took to create the Republic of Texas when Spain, Mexico and the United States all wanted to claim the land. While each was misunderstood and sometimes maligned by contemporaries, their rebellious conspiracy against Mexico who had a centuries-old claim to Texas is a fascinating story.

Dr. Ramsay's book gave me a unique look at the dynamics of the interplay between Spain, Mexico, the United States, and the Republic of Texas governments. The Index of the book which is illustrated with maps, flags, portraits and political cartoons from national newspapers of that day, makes it an easy and quick reference book to briefly identify many people and events in early Texas.

The book helped me understand Jane Long, an indomitable woman who holds a prominent though little known place in Texas history. The involvement and contributions to the development of Texas by fellow conspirators Jane Long, Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar, though early Texas history, is a very modern story.

"I highly recommend Texas Sinners and Revolutionaries, Jane Long and Her Fellow Conspirators to anyone wanting to learn about early Texas and how it came to be the state it is".
Albert Seguin Gonzales
[URL]

This directory is the most useful book I've ever ownedI work a lot with cities in Texas and the information is invaluable and not to be found in anyother format including the internet! I am on a standing order list with this company. They also have a pocket sized roster of the legislature with photos, bios, room and telephone numbers.

Outstanding book of history, lore and tales woven into a modern view of how we embelish or change history to make the story bigger than is was. Excellent book for any Texan (by birth, choice or desire). Hard to put down and a joy to read!

Jo Ella Exley has complied and edited a collection of writings of frontier Texas through the eyes of Texas Pioneer women. This has to be one of the best books I've read describing life in early Texas. Some of the women came from much but most from little, but they all shared in the determination to survive the Texas Frontier. Whether it was Mary Rabb, one of Austin's original "Old Three Hundred", or Silva King brought to Texas enslaved, one word can be used to describe them all, "tough". Mary Blankenship homesteading on the staked plains of West Texas at the dawn of the twentieth century best described the loneliness and hardship of life on the frontier with this quote, "We had plenty of time to be still and know God. He was our closest neighbor."