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1) Fort Griffin on the Texas frontier

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Rister, Carl Coke

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This fort, established in 1867 near the Llano Estacado, in the heart of the Comanche country, was the capital for buffalo hunters, cowboys, and ranchers, until 1880.

2) Oil!, titan of the Southwest

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Rister, Carl Coke

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History of "the rush for oil riches in the great Mid-Continent and Gulf producing area ... embraces the states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico--the scene of many fabulous strikes, including Spindletop, Glenn Pool, Mexia, Oklahoma City, and East Texas."

3) The southwestern frontier, 1865-1881: a history of the coming of the settlers, Indian depredations and massacres, ranching activities, operations of white desperadoes and thieves, government protection, building of...

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Rister, Carl Coke

4) Comanche bondage: Dr. John Charles Beales's settlement of La Villa de Dolores on Las Moras Creek in southern Texas of the 1830's with an annotated reprint of Sarah Ann Horn's narrative of her...

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Rister, Carl Coke

5) Western America: the exploration, settlement, and development of the region beyond the Mississippi

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Includes information on transcontinental railroad, missions in California, stagecoaches, steamboats, gold discovery and the forty-niners, etc.