Dusk Before the Dawn

We’ve been working with the good folks at the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA), publishers of the Texas Almanac, to convert an excellent series of 19 popular history books. This series, the Fred Rider Cotten Popular History series, features books about different places and events in Texas’ rich history. Each book is well documented and footnoted, with great pictures. They range between 40 to 144 pages, and they are extremely affordable on the Kindle at $4.99 each. They are also available in bundles (cleverly named “Cotten Bales”, get it?) of like topics.

The series chronicles:

• Six historical battles (Alamo, San Jacinto, Goliad, Texas/Mexican War and two books on Texas in the Civil War);
• The history of five cities/places (Austin, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Galveston and McKinney Falls);
• Four historic houses and the people who occupied them;
• Four Forts, and their impact on Texas History.

A more detailed list is in the table below. I’ll post reviews of each one (look for titles with underlines) and links to the Kindle versions via the covers (clickable) in the table below as they become available for Kindle.

COVER	Title	Author	Year Published	Pgs Print Edition
	The Old Stone Fort	McDonald, Archie	1971	48
	The Battle of the Alamo"	Proctor, Ben H.	1986	40
	The Battle of San Jacinto	Harfertepe, Kenneth	1989	64
	A History of the French Legation in Texas",	Pohl, James W.	1989	56
	A History of Aston Villa	Harfertepe, Kenneth	1991	68
	The McFaddin-Ward House	Foy, Jessica and Linsley, Judith Walker	1992	72
	The Samuel May Williams Home	Henson, Margaret Swett	1992	52
	Remember Goliad	Roell, Craig H.	1994	100
	Fort Davis	Wooster, Robert	1994	58
	Austin: A History of the Capital City	Humphrey, David C.	1997	84
	Dallas: A History of "Big D"	Hazel, Michael V.	1997	80
	Fort Lancaster	Francell, Lawrence J.	1996	76
	Civil War Texas	Wooster, Ralph A.	1999	88
	McKinney Falls	Henson, Margaret Swett	1999	64
	Galveston: A History and Guide	McComb, David G.	2000	68
",	war-by-charles-m-robinson-iii/\"">Texas and the Mexican War	Robinson, Charles M. III	2004	117
	Fort Worth: A Texas Original	Selcer, Richard F	2004	144
	Fort Concho	Matthews, James T.	2005	100
	Sacred Memories	McMichael, Kelly	2009	128
	Galveston History Series	combines Galveston, Ashton Villa and Samuel May Williams Home eBooks	2010
	Austin History Series	combines Austin, French Legation and McKinney Falls eBooks	2010
	Battles of the Texas Revolution Series	combines The Battle of San Jacinto, Battle of the Alamo, and Remember Goliad eBooks	2010
	Texas Cities History Series	combines Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth and Galveston eBooks	2011