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Captures the remarkable experiences, exploits, and adventures of a teenage runaway from Illinois in the Wild West, in a memoir that describes his encounter with Wild Bill Hickok and Doc Holliday, a surprise encounter with Indians, and conflicts with nature. Original.
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Privatization of Criminal Justice
Provides info. on marital indicators in 2001. Describes changes in the age at which different cohorts of men & women born since 1935-1939 have married, divorced, & remarried. Provides current indicators of the percentage of the population who have married more than once, who have ever divorced, or who experienced other marital events. Answers questions about how long first marriages last, the median age at which people marry or divorce, & what percentage of currently married couples involve spouses who are both in their first marriages. Profiles the characteristics of people who experienced a marital event in the year prior to the survey. Considers the relationships between whether people remarry after a divorce & the number of children born to them. Ill.
“For 60 years, [it] has been considered the most monumental single source on the old-time Texas trail drives north to Kansas and beyond.” —The Dallas Morning News These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas—those rugged men and, sometimes, women—who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s. Gleaned from members of the Old Time Trail Drivers’ Association, these hundreds of real-life stories—some humorous, some chilling, some rambling, all interesting—form an invaluable cornerstone to the literature, history, and folklore of Texas and the West. First published in the 1920s and reissued by the University of Texas Press in ...