One Ranger Returns (Bridwell Texas History Series)

Biographies & Memoirs

Haley, James L.

Jackson, H. Joaquin

Professionals & Academics

University of Texas Press

No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border—and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger Returns, Jackson reopens his case files to tell more unforgettable stories, while also giving readers a deeply personal view of what being a Texas Ranger has meant to him and his family. Jackson recalls his five-year pursuit of two of America's most notorious serial killers, Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole. He sets the record straight about the role of the Texas Rangers during the United Farm Workers strike in the Rio Grande Valley in 1966-1967. Jackson also describes the frustration of trying to solve a cold case from 1938—the brutal murder of a mother and daughter in the lonely desert east of Van Horn. He presents a rogue's gallery of cattle rustlers, drug smugglers, and a teetotaling bootlegger named Tom Bybee, a modest, likeable man who became an ax murderer. And in an eloquent concluding chapter, Jackson pays tribute to the Rangers who have gone before him, as well as those who keep the peace today.

“Few people realize that in the area of law, Texas began its American journey far ahead of most of the rest of the country, far more enlightened on such subjects as women’s rights and the protection of debtors.” Thus James Haley begins this highly readable account of the Texas Supreme Court. The first book-length history of the Court published since 1917, it tells the story of the Texas Supreme Court from its origins in the Republic of Texas to the political and philosophical upheavals of the mid-1980s.
Using a lively narrative style rather than a legalistic approach, Haley describes the twists and turns of an evolving judiciary both empowered and constrained by its dual ties to Spanish civil law and English common law. He focuses on the personalities and judicial philosophies of those who served on the Supreme Court, as well as on the interplay between the Court’s rulings and the state’s unique history in such areas as slavery, women’s rights, land and water rights, the rise of the railroad and oil and gas industries, Prohibition, civil rights, and consumer protection. The book is illustrated with more than fifty historical photos, many from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It concludes with a detailed chronology of milestones in the Supreme Court’s history and a list, with appointment and election dates, of the more than 150 justices who have served on the Court since 1836.

The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Texas Legal Studies)

History

Americas

The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Texas Legal Studies Series)

"Texas history buffs will be surprised at the new look put on many familiar parts of the Texas story by the previously unpublished photographs Haley has managed to find. ... He also succeeds admirably in putting his own touch on the story of how Texas came to be." -- Amarillo News-Globe

Texas: From the Frontier to Spindletop

St Martins Pr

A companion to "Texas: From the Frontier to Spindletop," this history of the Lone Star State covers the Mexican Revolution of 1912, the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, and World War II and its aftermath

TEXAS: From Spindletop Through World War II ~ A Sequel Volume to TEXAS: From the Frontier to Spindletop

St.Martin's Press

At night, in a quiet Texas wildlife preserve, someone is stalking the rhinoceroses as they sleep in their lair, killing them, and stealing their horns. Who would do such a thing to an endangered creature, and for what sinister motive? Eric Jackson is the founder and director of Final Refuge, a new three thousand-acre wildlife preserve outside of Houston. Now, not only is his struggling institution under fire, so are his precious Javan rhinoceroses. Is his soon-to-be ex-wife behind the confusion and chaos, or is one of his newly hired employees poaching the rhino horns for reasons Jackson cannot know?

Final Refuge: A Novel of Eco-Terrorism

Literature & Fiction

United States

The most recent state to join the union, Hawaii is the only one to have once been a royal kingdom. After its "discovery" by Captain Cook in the late 18th Century, Hawaii was fought over by European powers determined to take advantage of its position as the crossroads of the Pacific. The arrival of the first missionaries marked the beginning of the struggle between a native culture with its ancient gods, sexual libertinism and rites of human sacrifice, and the rigid values of the Calvinists. While Hawaii's royal rulers adopted Christianity, they also fought to preserve their ancient ways. But the success of the ruthless American sugar barons sealed their fate and in 1893, the American Marines overthrew Lili'uokalani, the last queen of Hawaii.
James L. Haley's Captive Paradise is the story of King Kamehameha I, The Conqueror, who unified the islands through terror and bloodshed, but whose dynasty succumbed to inbreeding; of Gilded Age tycoons like Claus Spreckels who brilliantly outmaneuvered his competitors; of firebrand Lorrin Thurston, who was determined that Hawaii be ruled by whites; of President McKinley, who presided over the eventual annexation of the islands. Not for decades has there been such a vibrant and compelling portrait of an extraordinary place and its people.

Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii

Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait, James L. Haley€™s dramatic saga of the Apaches€™ doomed guerrilla war against the whites, was a radical departure from the method followed by previous histories of white-native conflict. Arguing that "you cannot understand the history unless you understand the culture," Haley first discusses the "life-way" of the Apaches - their mythology and folklore (including the famous Coyote series), religious customs, everyday life, and social mores. Haley then explores the tumultuous decades of trade and treaty and of betrayal and bloodshed that preceded the Apaches€™ final military defeat in 1886. He emphasizes figures that played a decisive role in the conflict: Mangas Coloradas, Cochise, and Geronimo on the one hand, and Royal Whitman, George Crook, and John Clum on the other.

Apaches, a History and Culture Portrait

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One Ranger Returns (Bridwell Texas History Series)

One Ranger Returns (Bridwell Texas History Series)

The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Texas Legal Studies)

One Ranger Returns (Bridwell Texas History Series)

The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986 (Texas Legal Studies Series)

Texas: From the Frontier to Spindletop

TEXAS: From Spindletop Through World War II ~ A Sequel Volume to TEXAS: From the Frontier to Spindletop

Final Refuge: A Novel of Eco-Terrorism

Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii

Apaches, a History and Culture Portrait