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Santa Claus Bank Robbery: A True Crime Saga in Texas<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nTui Snider<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThink you know all about the Santa Claus Bank Robbery in Cisco, Texas? Think again!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n\nMarshall Ratliff thought robbing a bank dressed like Santa at Christmastime would be easy. He didn’t expect the citizens of Cisco to come at him with guns blazing! But in 1927, a $5,000 bounty was offered to any citizen who killed a bandit while the crime was in progress. Tui Snider’s new book follows the true-crime action from this wild shootout with vigilantes to its tragic conclusion.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span>
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“Red Tom” Hickey: The Uncrowned King of Texas Socialism<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nPeter Buckingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThis is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, became a machinist, and soon joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. His party boss recognized the potential in this Irishman and even made him an \u201cenforcer\u201d against those who questioned the boss\u2019s authority. The enforcer, though, eventually found himself forced out and moved west to start a new life. Ultimately, Hickey landed in Texas and saw an opportunity to use syndicalism as an organizing tool to build a state socialist party. He did just that. Within a few years, Hickey transformed the faction-ridden Socialist Party of America in Texas into a force strong enough to threaten the Republican Party at the ballot box. He gained a large following thanks to a unique mixture of evangelical rhetoric and militant industrial unionism. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
As biographer Peter H. Buckingham points out, Hickey failed to deliver his people into the Promised Land. Violence, poll taxes, voter suppression, and other forces made voting for socialist candidates problematic, and the Democratic Party soon co-opted the more appealing elements of socialism into watered-down, reformist planks for the Texan voter. By the time Hickey died of throat cancer in the mid-1920s, his moment had passed. \u201cRed Tom\u201d Hickey<\/em> is an important contribution to Texas and American history, capturing a moment in time that Buckingham argues was the second sustained crisis in American history: a democratic society wrestling with the effects of industrial capitalism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Death Bee Comes Her<\/span><\/em> <\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nNancy Coco<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMeet Wren Johnson, owner of Let It Bee, a shop that sells all things honey, from candy to lip balm to candles. Wren lives and works in the small town of Oceanview along the Oregon coast. Her pet cat, Everett, is a constant companion. He is a talkative Havana Brown cat who loves to go for walks on a leash. One day when Wren is walking Everett on the beach, the kitty points Wren to the prone body of Agnes Snow among the dunes. Agnes is the arch-rival of Wren\u2019s Aunt Eloise, and she is definitely dead. The only clue is a label from one of Wren\u2019s handmade lip balms clutched in Agnes\u2019s right hand.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Wren calls 9-1-1 and meets Officer Jim Hampton, a Paul Newman lookalike who is suspicious of Wren from the start. Wren is suspect number one in his eyes, and her Aunt Eloise is suspect number two. Wren, along with Everett, must follow the clues to catch the real killer and clear their names.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Spent Identity<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/h1>\nMarlene M Bell<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIt’s July when antiquities appraiser Annalisse Drury reaches her family’s small-town farm to consult with the trusted aunt who raised her. She learns that her beloved homestead\u2014the one she expects to inherit\u2014is for sale. While Annalisse reels at the betrayal and her shattered dreams, the Walker Farm ranch manager discovers a corpse in the barn. Officials close the suspected murder scene, and Annalisse seeks refuge with her aunt at Alec Zavos’s rural estate in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Then Aunt Kate vanishes. Annalisse solicits the help of Greek tycoon, Alec Zavos, even though their rocky romance has dissolved into routine separation. What began as hope on Crete nine months ago has eaten away at Annalisse’s hope for a future with him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In Spent Identity<\/em>, Annalisse and Alec come together for the second time and find themselves in the center of not one mystery, but several. Where is Kate, and why sell her farm now? Is the dead man a coincidence or a clue to the aunt’s disappearance? John Doe’s identity may hold needed answers to solve the puzzle before Kate’s unstable health issues make her rescue impossible. The clock ticks, and a vengeful murderer is in charge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nStephen Davis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLate in life, writing his memoirs, John Bell Hood wrote, “no man is justly entitled to be considered a great General, unless he has won his spurs.” Hood did not explain how an officer earned his spurs, but he didn’t need to. One may assume that such an accomplishment came about when a soldier conscientiously performed his duty and gave his all in attempting to meet his country’s expectations of him. In this work, the first of two volumes, Hood’s rise in rank is chronicled. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
In three years, 1861-1864, Hood rose from lieutenant to full general in the Confederate army. Davis emphasizes Hood’s fatal flaw: ambition. Hood constantly sought promotion, even after he had found his highest level of competence as division commander in Robert E. Lee’s army. As corps commander in the Army of Tennessee, his performance was good, but no better. Promoted to succeed Johnston, Hood did his utmost to defend Atlanta against Sherman. In this latter effort he failed. But he had won his spurs, even if he had been denied greatness as a general.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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The Lone Star Hiking Trail: The Official Guide to the Longest Wilderness Footpath in Texas<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nKaren Borski Somers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nOne of the hidden jewels of Texas, the Lone Star Hiking Trail (LSHT) is the only long-distance National Recreation Trail in the state. At 128 miles\u2015including loop trails\u2015it is the state\u2019s longest continuously marked and maintained footpath. Located in East Texas\u2019s famed Big Thicket area, the trail winds through the thick woodlands of Sam Houston National Forest, an ecologically diverse region within a few hours\u2019 drive of Houston-Galveston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Let Texas native and experienced long-distance hiker Karen Borski Somers guide you along this incomparable footpath, well-suited for both short and long hikes of up to ten days, appealing to day hikers, overnight backpackers, and thru-hikers. The author conveniently divides the trail into ten sections, complete with an overview, section map, GPS waypoints, trail description, mileage chart, and more. It\u2019s everything you need from the guidebook that\u2019s officially endorsed and promoted by the Lone Star Hiking Trail Club.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Jenny Browne: New and Selected Poems<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nJenny Browne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nIn her introduction to Jenny Browne\u2019s New and Selected Poems<\/em>, Naomi Shihab Nye writes, \u201cThe poems are switchboards of care extending in so many directions, beamed up to high, but always with the subtlety of idiosyncratic awareness\u2014it\u2019s fascinating to fathom how she gets from one place to another. A startle, a dazzle of impulses enlivening the spirit . . . .\u201d Browne\u2019s poems ask personal questions: How did we get here? Where are we going? Can we walk there together?<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
From love letters to strangers to extended meditations on slow-moving rivers, these poems surprise in their fidelity to the strangeness of being alive. In the new poems included here, this heightened awareness is set against the landscape of a planet undergoing global climate change, quickly becoming inhospitable. Resisting the poles of paralysis and apocalypse, Browne travels through extreme and unfamiliar landscapes, considering the unthinkable, negotiating the past, and ultimately re-imagining the future and our human place in it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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Gunpowder Express<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nBrett Cogburn<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nVulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail\u2014a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt \u201cWidowmaker\u201d Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy and desperate for money, Newt joins three other guards\u2014and a passenger, Jenny Silks, a stubborn firebrand with her own stake in seeing the delivery through. But waiting on the Gunpowder Express is Irish Jack O\u2019Harrigan and his band of outlaws. There\u2019s not a soul alive he\u2019d think twice about putting six feet under. But he\u2019s never traded lead with the man known as Widowmaker.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMonster Hunter\u2019s Survival Guide Cases Files<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\nJoe Brusha<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\nMonster Hunter JP Russ has faced down hundreds of monsters in his career. Included in this collected volume are three tales of his legendary skills put to the test as he takes on a Sasquatch in the Mt. Hood National Park, a Chupacabra down in Texas, and a Wendigo in the Pacific Northwest. This is a can\u2019t-miss collection for any aspiring hunter of cryptids and beasts who stalk in the shadows of the unknown!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.lonestarliterary.com\/sites\/lonestarliterary.etypegoogle10.com\/files\/article_body_images\/9781947892736_3df6b.jpg\")
<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nLove By Chance<\/span><\/em><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
Think you know all about the Santa Claus Bank Robbery in Cisco, Texas? Think again!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n \nMarshall Ratliff thought robbing a bank dressed like Santa at Christmastime would be easy. He didn’t expect the citizens of Cisco to come at him with guns blazing! But in 1927, a $5,000 bounty was offered to any citizen who killed a bandit while the crime was in progress. Tui Snider’s new book follows the true-crime action from this wild shootout with vigilantes to its tragic conclusion.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> “Red Tom” Hickey: The Uncrowned King of Texas Socialism<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Peter Buckingham<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, became a machinist, and soon joined the Knights of Labor and the Socialist Labor Party. His party boss recognized the potential in this Irishman and even made him an \u201cenforcer\u201d against those who questioned the boss\u2019s authority. The enforcer, though, eventually found himself forced out and moved west to start a new life. Ultimately, Hickey landed in Texas and saw an opportunity to use syndicalism as an organizing tool to build a state socialist party. He did just that. Within a few years, Hickey transformed the faction-ridden Socialist Party of America in Texas into a force strong enough to threaten the Republican Party at the ballot box. He gained a large following thanks to a unique mixture of evangelical rhetoric and militant industrial unionism. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n As biographer Peter H. Buckingham points out, Hickey failed to deliver his people into the Promised Land. Violence, poll taxes, voter suppression, and other forces made voting for socialist candidates problematic, and the Democratic Party soon co-opted the more appealing elements of socialism into watered-down, reformist planks for the Texan voter. By the time Hickey died of throat cancer in the mid-1920s, his moment had passed. \u201cRed Tom\u201d Hickey<\/em> is an important contribution to Texas and American history, capturing a moment in time that Buckingham argues was the second sustained crisis in American history: a democratic society wrestling with the effects of industrial capitalism.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nancy Coco<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Meet Wren Johnson, owner of Let It Bee, a shop that sells all things honey, from candy to lip balm to candles. Wren lives and works in the small town of Oceanview along the Oregon coast. Her pet cat, Everett, is a constant companion. He is a talkative Havana Brown cat who loves to go for walks on a leash. One day when Wren is walking Everett on the beach, the kitty points Wren to the prone body of Agnes Snow among the dunes. Agnes is the arch-rival of Wren\u2019s Aunt Eloise, and she is definitely dead. The only clue is a label from one of Wren\u2019s handmade lip balms clutched in Agnes\u2019s right hand.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wren calls 9-1-1 and meets Officer Jim Hampton, a Paul Newman lookalike who is suspicious of Wren from the start. Wren is suspect number one in his eyes, and her Aunt Eloise is suspect number two. Wren, along with Everett, must follow the clues to catch the real killer and clear their names.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Marlene M Bell<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n It’s July when antiquities appraiser Annalisse Drury reaches her family’s small-town farm to consult with the trusted aunt who raised her. She learns that her beloved homestead\u2014the one she expects to inherit\u2014is for sale. While Annalisse reels at the betrayal and her shattered dreams, the Walker Farm ranch manager discovers a corpse in the barn. Officials close the suspected murder scene, and Annalisse seeks refuge with her aunt at Alec Zavos’s rural estate in New York’s Catskill Mountains. Then Aunt Kate vanishes. Annalisse solicits the help of Greek tycoon, Alec Zavos, even though their rocky romance has dissolved into routine separation. What began as hope on Crete nine months ago has eaten away at Annalisse’s hope for a future with him.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In Spent Identity<\/em>, Annalisse and Alec come together for the second time and find themselves in the center of not one mystery, but several. Where is Kate, and why sell her farm now? Is the dead man a coincidence or a clue to the aunt’s disappearance? John Doe’s identity may hold needed answers to solve the puzzle before Kate’s unstable health issues make her rescue impossible. The clock ticks, and a vengeful murderer is in charge.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Texas Brigadier to the Fall of Atlanta: John Bell Hood<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Stephen Davis<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Late in life, writing his memoirs, John Bell Hood wrote, “no man is justly entitled to be considered a great General, unless he has won his spurs.” Hood did not explain how an officer earned his spurs, but he didn’t need to. One may assume that such an accomplishment came about when a soldier conscientiously performed his duty and gave his all in attempting to meet his country’s expectations of him. In this work, the first of two volumes, Hood’s rise in rank is chronicled. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n In three years, 1861-1864, Hood rose from lieutenant to full general in the Confederate army. Davis emphasizes Hood’s fatal flaw: ambition. Hood constantly sought promotion, even after he had found his highest level of competence as division commander in Robert E. Lee’s army. As corps commander in the Army of Tennessee, his performance was good, but no better. Promoted to succeed Johnston, Hood did his utmost to defend Atlanta against Sherman. In this latter effort he failed. But he had won his spurs, even if he had been denied greatness as a general.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Lone Star Hiking Trail: The Official Guide to the Longest Wilderness Footpath in Texas<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Karen Borski Somers<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n One of the hidden jewels of Texas, the Lone Star Hiking Trail (LSHT) is the only long-distance National Recreation Trail in the state. At 128 miles\u2015including loop trails\u2015it is the state\u2019s longest continuously marked and maintained footpath. Located in East Texas\u2019s famed Big Thicket area, the trail winds through the thick woodlands of Sam Houston National Forest, an ecologically diverse region within a few hours\u2019 drive of Houston-Galveston, Dallas-Fort Worth, Austin, and San Antonio.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Let Texas native and experienced long-distance hiker Karen Borski Somers guide you along this incomparable footpath, well-suited for both short and long hikes of up to ten days, appealing to day hikers, overnight backpackers, and thru-hikers. The author conveniently divides the trail into ten sections, complete with an overview, section map, GPS waypoints, trail description, mileage chart, and more. It\u2019s everything you need from the guidebook that\u2019s officially endorsed and promoted by the Lone Star Hiking Trail Club.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jenny Browne: New and Selected Poems<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Jenny Browne<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n In her introduction to Jenny Browne\u2019s New and Selected Poems<\/em>, Naomi Shihab Nye writes, \u201cThe poems are switchboards of care extending in so many directions, beamed up to high, but always with the subtlety of idiosyncratic awareness\u2014it\u2019s fascinating to fathom how she gets from one place to another. A startle, a dazzle of impulses enlivening the spirit . . . .\u201d Browne\u2019s poems ask personal questions: How did we get here? Where are we going? Can we walk there together?<\/em> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n From love letters to strangers to extended meditations on slow-moving rivers, these poems surprise in their fidelity to the strangeness of being alive. In the new poems included here, this heightened awareness is set against the landscape of a planet undergoing global climate change, quickly becoming inhospitable. Resisting the poles of paralysis and apocalypse, Browne travels through extreme and unfamiliar landscapes, considering the unthinkable, negotiating the past, and ultimately re-imagining the future and our human place in it.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Gunpowder Express<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Brett Cogburn<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Vulture City is home to a prosperous gold mine and every bad man in the Arizona Territory knows it. Nearly every stagecoach attempting to deliver the gold to the railroad at Maricopa has been ambushed on the trail\u2014a trail known as the Gunpowder Express for the bullet-riddled bodies along the way. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n With gold piling up and a lack of volunteers to transport it, the mine owner hires Newt \u201cWidowmaker\u201d Jones to ride shotgun on the next stage. Foolhardy and desperate for money, Newt joins three other guards\u2014and a passenger, Jenny Silks, a stubborn firebrand with her own stake in seeing the delivery through. But waiting on the Gunpowder Express is Irish Jack O\u2019Harrigan and his band of outlaws. There\u2019s not a soul alive he\u2019d think twice about putting six feet under. But he\u2019s never traded lead with the man known as Widowmaker.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Monster Hunter\u2019s Survival Guide Cases Files<\/span><\/em><\/a><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Joe Brusha<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Monster Hunter JP Russ has faced down hundreds of monsters in his career. Included in this collected volume are three tales of his legendary skills put to the test as he takes on a Sasquatch in the Mt. Hood National Park, a Chupacabra down in Texas, and a Wendigo in the Pacific Northwest. This is a can\u2019t-miss collection for any aspiring hunter of cryptids and beasts who stalk in the shadows of the unknown!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Love By Chance<\/span><\/em><\/a> <\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n
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