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The Cast Iron Forest
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 424

The Cast Iron Forest

“A thoughtful, thorough, and updated account of this bio-region” from the author of From Sail to Steam: Four Centuries of Texas Maritime History, 1500-1900 (Great Plains Research). Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, Texas Institute of Letters, 2001 A complex mosaic of post oak and blackjack oak forests interspersed with prairies, the Cross Timbers cover large portions of southeastern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and north central Texas. Home to indigenous peoples over several thousand years, the Cross Timbers were considered a barrier to westward expansion in the nineteenth century, until roads and railroads opened up the region to farmers, ranchers, coal miners, and modern...

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Reserve
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1478

Register of Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the United States Naval Reserve

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1944
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 441

The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail, 1858–1861

This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and m...

Seventeen Generations of Lawrences
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 380

Seventeen Generations of Lawrences

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1991
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Oliver Lawrence was born 4 November 1757 on Long Island, New York. He was a descendant of one William Lawrence (born ca. 1622 in St Albańs, Hertfordshire, England) who immigrated to America 1635 and settled in Flushing, Long Island, New York. Oliver married Patty Ann Wait ca. 1778. They lived in New York and were the parents of nine known children. Descendants lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and elsewehere.

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1872

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1925
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  • Publisher: Unknown

Prior to 1862, when the Department of Agriculture was established, the report on agriculture was prepared and published by the Commissioner of Patents, and forms volume or part of volume, of his annual reports, the first being that of 1840. Cf. Checklist of public documents ... Washington, 1895, p. 148.

Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents to the Secretary of Commerce for the Fiscal Year Ended ...
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 1106
Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Families
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 632

Periodical Source Index, 1847-1985: Families

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1992
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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