Wanted : Historic County Jails of Texas.
Along with the settlement of the Texas frontier came rustlers, public drunks, gunfighters, and other outlaws. A jail in which to incarcerate the lawbreakers was thus often the first public building raised in a new town. Later, as government developed, public buildings-notably county courthouses and...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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College Station :
Texas A & M University Press,
Dec. 2005.
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| Series: | Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Ser. ;
no. 11. |
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