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New From Eakin Press
Texas Market Hunting
Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws By R.K. Sawyer From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest. Read More . . . 
A Hundred Years of Texas Waterfowl Hunting
The Decoys, Guides, Clubs, and Places – 1870s to 1970s By R.K. Sawyer The days are gone when seemingly limitless numbers of canvasbacks, mallards, and Canada geese filled the skies above the Texas coast. Gone too are the days when, in a single morning, hunters often harvested ducks, shorebirds, and other waterfowl by the hundreds. The hundred-year period from the mid-nineteenth to the mid-twentieth century brought momentous changes in attitudes and game laws: changes initially prompted by sportsmen who witnessed the disappearance of both the birds and their spectacular habitat. These changes forever affected the state’s storied hunting culture. Read More . . . 
Village Without Men: Sophie’s Second Journal
By Janice Shefelman Dear Reader, what is to become of us - of me, Sophie? Thus begins Sophie's second journal, written two years later. She is now fifteen years old, and the Civil War is three years old. Her first journal, Sophie's War, tells how she and her family live in constant danger as Unionists in the hill country of Texas, a state that has left the Union and joined the Confederacy. Read More . . . 
Poison For Profit
By Mac B. McKinnon Two elderly, wealthy spinster sisters in Llano, Texas, die within a day of each other, and it is chalked up to an unfortunate coincidence and old age. After all, they were seventy-five and eighty-three years old, respectively. One month later, an elderly man in San Angelo, Texas, 130 miles from Llano passes away, and it is attributed to old age and poor health. But there would prove to be a couple of common denominators, Tim Scoggin and poison. Read More . . . 
Texas Ranger Leo Bishop
His Legendary Life and Time . . . A Personal Glimpse By Betty Oglesbee & Illustrated By Kim Whitton Leo Henderson Bishop (1903-1973) was among the first of the “new” Texas Rangers appointed by James V. Allred upon his inauguration as Governor of Texas in 1935. Two boxes of Bishop family memorabilia at the estate sale of Bishop Family Historian Bettye Bishop Robbins in 2016 provided the basis for this personal glimpse into her father’s life, along with supportive articles from the San Augustine Tribune. Read More . . .
Murder in the Streets
A White Choctaw Witness To The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre By William C. “Choc” Phillips There have been numerous book and news articles written about the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre, but most of the first-person accounts were given by African Americans. However, William C. “Choc” Phillips was part white and part Native American and an eyewitness to one of the most violent episodes in the history of the United States. Read More . . . |
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