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Seminar Guide - Texas Legal History

Texas History

Robert A. Calvert, The history of Texas (1996, 2nd ed.)

Available in the Law Library at call number F386 .C348 1996

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Randolph B. Campbell, Gone to Texas: a history of the Lone Star state (2003)

Available in the Law Library at call number F386 .C34 2003

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Frederick Law Olmsted, A journey through Texas, or, a saddle-trip on the southwestern frontier (1857)

Available in the Law Library at call number F391 .O46 1857b

Texas Biographies

Dolph Briscoe, Dolph Briscoe: my life in Texas ranching and politics (2008)

Available in the Law Library at call number F391.4 .B75 B75 2008

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Rosalee Morris Curtis, John Hemphill, first chief justice of the State of Texas (1971)

Available in the Law Library at call number KF368 .H44 1971

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Walter F. McCaleb, Stephen F. Austin (1957)

Available in the Law Library at call number F389 .A98 1957

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Ouida Wallace Ferguson Nalle, The Fergusons of Texas: or, "Two governors for the price of one": a biography of James Edward Ferguson & his wife, Miriam Amanda Ferguson, ex-governors of the State of Texas (1946)

Available in the Law Library at call number F391 .F47 N34 1946

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Glenn Shirley, Temple Houston: lawyer with a gun (2010)

Available in the Law Library at call number KF368 .H69 S55 2010

Texas Legal & Judicial History

Michael S. Ariens, Lone star law: a legal history of Texas (2011)

Available in the Law Library at call number KFT1278 .A75 2011

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Dale Baum, Counterfeit justice: the judicial odyssey of Texas freedwoman Azeline Hearne (2009)

Available in the Law Library at call number F392 .R63 B39 2009

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Charles R. Cutter, The legal culture of northern New Spain, 1700-1810 (1995)

Available in the Law Library at call number KF 361 .C88 1995

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Karl T. Gruben, A reference guide to Texas law & legal history: sources & documentation (1987, 2nd ed.)

Available in the Law Library at call number KFT1275 .B65 1987

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James L. Haley, The Texas Supreme Court: a narrative history, 1836-1986 (2013)

Available in the Law Library at call number KFT1712 .H34 2013

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State Bar of Texas, The history of Texas Supreme Court jurisprudence (April 2013)

Available in the Law Library at call number KFT1712 .H58 2013

Texas Political & Social History

T. Lindsay Baker, Till freedom cried out: memories of Texas slave life (1997)

Available in the Law Library at call number E444 .T54 1997

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Jimmy Banks, Money, marbles, and chalk; the wondrous world of Texas politics (1971)

Available in the Law Library at call number F391.2 .B35 1971

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Brian T. Behnken, Fighting their own battles: Mexican Americans, African Americans, and the struggle for civil rights in Texas (2011)

Available in the Law Library at call number F395 .M5 B43 2011

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William D. Carrigan, The making of a lynching culture: violence and & vigilantism in central Texas, 1836-1916 (2004)

Available in the Law Library at call number HV6481 .T4 C37 2004

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C.F. Eckhardt, Tales of badmen, bad women, & bad places: four centuries of Texas outlawry (1999)

Available in the Law Library at call number F386.6 .E25 1999

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Nancy Baker Jones, Capitol women: Texas female legislators, 1923-1999 (2000)

Available in the Law Library at call number F391.3 .J65 2000

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Brian McCall, The power of the Texas governor: Connally to Bush (2009)

Available in the Law Library at call number F391.2 .M33 2009

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Debra Ann Reid, Seeking inalienable rights: Texans & their quests for justice (2009)

Available in the Law Library at call number F395 .A1 S43 2009