Texas Popular History Series
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 |
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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 | |
Ima Hogg: The Governor's Daughter | Bernhard, Virginia | 2011 | ||
Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca: The Great Pedestrian of North and South America | Chipman, Donald | |||
Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas | Wooten, Heather Green | |||
Matamoros and the Texas Revolution | Roell, Craig H. | |||
Washington on the Brazos: Cradle of the Texas Republic | McCaslin, Richard B. | 2016 | 171 | |
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