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Excerpt from Montana's Post and Pole Industry: An Economic Analysis of Production and MarketsAn economic history of Montana's wood-using industry would show two distinct trends in the supply of raw mate rials. Over time, an increasing number of native tree species have become commercially significant. Second, corresponding to the expansion of the species utilized, there has been a decrease in the size of trees logged.In the 1930's, the two spe...

Excerpt from Montana's Post and Pole Industry: An Economic Analysis of Production and MarketsAn economic history of Montana's wood-using industry would show two distinct trends in the supply of raw mate rials. Over time, an increasing number of native tree species have become commercially significant. Second, corresponding to the expansion of the species utilized, there has been a decrease in the size of trees logged.In the 1930's, the two spe...

In this adventure-filled memoir, Jackson--who was the inspiration for Nick Nolte's character in the movie "Extreme Prejudice"--recalls what it was like to be the Texas Ranger who responded when riots threatened, violence erupted, and criminals needed to be brought to justice at the Texas-Mexico border from 1966 to 1993.

When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson has always played the best is that of the man who wears the silver badge cut from a Mexican cinco peso coin--a working Texas Ranger. Legend says...

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No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger (coauthored with David Marion Wilkinson) and One Ranger Returns (coauthored with James L. Haley). Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border--and made these books instant classics of Texas history. Responding to a demand for a special collectors' edition, the Univer...

Charles Banks (1873-1923) was a key member of the so-called Tuskegee Machine, a national network of 'lieutenants' who served as Booker T. Washington's eyes and ears at the state and local levels.