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Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
By Gerald Lynch
University of Texas Press
A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.
Rip Ford’s Texas
By John Salmon Ford; Edited by Stephen B. Oates
University of Texas Press
The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.
Recollections of Early Texas
Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins
Edited by John Holmes Jenkins
University of Texas Press
A firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas.
My Eighty Years in Texas
University of Texas Press
This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.
The Cross Timbers
Memories of a North Texas Boyhood
By Edward Everett Dale; Illustrated by John Biggers
University of Texas Press
Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever.
Gay as a Grig
Memories of a North Texas Girlhood
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a young woman growing up in North Texas at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Golden Frontier
The Recollections of Herman Francis Reinhart, 1851-1869
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a man who was part of a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West, from the summer of 1851 when he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming.
Home on the Double Bayou
Memories of an East Texas Ranch
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.
Frontier Ways
Sketches of Life in the Old West
University of Texas Press
A lively description of life in the frontier American West.
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