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The Texas Ranger was the undergraduate humor publication of the University of Texas at Austin (UT), published from 1923 to 1972. A number of people who later went on to become key members of the underground comix scene — including Frank Stack, Gilbert Shelton, and Jaxon — were Texas Ranger editors and contributors during the period 1959–1965.
The University of Texas Press was formally founded in 1950, though the University of Texas had been using the name as an imprint since 1922 in order to distribute and print faculty books. [6] Frank H. Wardlaw was the Press’s first director, serving in the position from 1950 to 1974. [ 7 ]
The first English book which was solely about Texas was Texas (1833) by Mary Austin Holley, cousin of Stephen F. Austin. It was expanded in 1836 and retitled History of Texas. [1] A later author in this period, John Crittenden Duval, was dubbed the "Father of Texas Literature" by J. Frank Dobie.
The institution is a major research university in Downtown Austin, Texas, US and is the flagship institution of the University of Texas System. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Founded in 1883, the university has had the fifth largest single-campus enrollment in the nation as of Fall 2006 (and had the largest enrollment in the country from 1997 to 2003), with ...
The University of North Texas Press (or UNT Press), founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas. [2] It is a member of the Association of University Presses, [3] to which it was admitted in 2003. [4] The University of North Texas is also a member of Texas A&M University Press's Texas Book Consortium ...
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The Rope, the Chair, and the Needle: Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923–1990 is a 1993 book by James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen that examines capital punishment in Texas. The book considers the historical administration of the Texas death penalty through both statistical and anecdotal analysis. [1]
Austin, TX: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-75253-9. McEnteer, James (2004). Deep in the Heart: The Texas Tendency in American Politics. Portsmouth, NH: Praeger Publishers. ISBN 978-0-275-98306-2. Petite, Mary Deborah (1999). 1836 Facts about the Alamo and the Texas War for Independence. Mason City, IA: Savas Publishing Company.