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Protection of buildings and farm property from lightning.

Description: Describes the threat of lightning and provides methods for protecting farm buildings and property from lightning damage.
Date: June 1950
Creator: Covert, Roy N.; Harrison, Louis P. & Garver, H. L. (Harry L.), 1891-
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Hog-lot equipment.

Description: Provides descriptions and instructions for building many types of equipment used for raising hogs. Includes fencing, feeding equipment, shelters, pest treatment equipment, breeding crates, and transportation equipment.
Date: June 1940
Creator: Russell, E. Z. (Ellsworth Zouave), 1866- & Buckley, S. S. (Samuel Sutherland), 1873-
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Base Visit Book from BRAC Commission Visit to Fort Monmouth, NJ dtd 3 Jun 2005

Description: Base Visit Book from BRAC Commission Visit to Fort Monmouth, NJ dtd 3 Jun 2005. Document includes commissioner agenda, base summary sheet, economic impact, recommendations, media input, demographics, and environmental scenarios.
Date: June 30, 2005
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Cow-testing associations, and stories the records tell.

Description: Describes the history and functions of farm cow-testing associations; provides steps for starting a new cow-testing association.
Date: June 1925
Creator: McDowell, J. C. (John Chambers), 1867-1943
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Engineer soldier's handbook.

Description: Describes the tools and tasks of the engineer soldier. Includes a proficiency test for soldiers in training.
Date: June 2, 1943
Creator: United States. War Department.
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The Modern Cowboy

Description: “The American cowboy is a mythical character who refuses to die,” says author John R. Erickson. On the one hand he is a common man: a laborer, a hired hand who works for wages. Yet in his lonely struggle against nature and animal cunning, he becomes larger than life. Who is this cowboy? Where did he come from and where is he today? Erickson addresses these questions based on firsthand observation and experience in Texas and Oklahoma. And in the process of describing and defining the modern wor… more
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Date: June 15, 2004
Creator: Erickson, John R.
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The Peppers Cookbook: 200 Recipes From the Pepper Lady's Kitchen

Description: Award-winner Jean Andrews has been called “the first lady of chili peppers” and her own registered trademark, “The Pepper Lady.” She now follows up on the success of her earlier books, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums and The Pepper Trail , with a new collection of more than two hundred recipes for pepper lovers everywhere. Andrews begins with how to select peppers (with an illustrated glossary provided), how to store and peel them, and how to utilize various cooking techniques to unlock the… more
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Date: June 15, 2005
Creator: Andrews, Jean
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Yours to Command: the Life and Legend of Texas Ranger Captain Bill McDonald

Description: Captain Bill McDonald (1852-1918) is the most prominent of the “Four Great Captains” of Texas Ranger history. His career straddled the changing scene from the nineteenth to the twentieth centuries. In 1891 McDonald became captain of Company B of the Frontier Battalion of the Texas Rangers. “Captain Bill” and the Rangers under his command took part in a number of incidents from the Panhandle region to South Texas: the Fitzsimmons-Maher prizefight in El Paso, the Wichita Falls bank robbery, the m… more
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Date: June 15, 2009
Creator: Weiss, Harold J., Jr.
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A Lawless Breed: John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West

Description: John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a $4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and Florida law officials. He certainly killed twenty men; some credited him with killing forty or more. After sixteen years in Huntsville prison he was pardon… more
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Date: June 15, 2013
Creator: Parsons, Chuck & Brown, Norman Wayne
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John Ringo, King of the Cowboys: His Life and Times From the Hoo Doo War to Tombstone

Description: Few names in the lore of western gunmen are as recognizable. Few lives of the most notorious are as little known. Romanticized and made legendary, John Ringo fought and killed for what he believed was right. As a teenager, Ringo was rushed into sudden adulthood when his father was killed tragically in the midst of the family's overland trek to California. As a young man he became embroiled in the blood feud turbulence of post-Reconstruction Texas. The Mason County “Hoo Doo” War in Texas began … more
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Date: June 15, 2008
Creator: Johnson, David
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I Fought a Good Fight: a History of the Lipan Apaches

Description: This history of the Lipan Apaches, from archeological evidence to the present, tells the story of some of the least known, least understood people in the Southwest. These plains buffalo hunters and traders were one of the first groups to acquire horses, and with this advantage they expanded from the Panhandle across Texas and into Coahuila, coming into conflict with the Comanches. With a knack for making friends and forging alliances, they survived against all odds, and were still free long aft… more
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Date: June 15, 2013
Creator: Robinson, Sherry
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Command Culture: Officer Education in the U.S. Army and the German Armed Forces, 1901-1940, and the Consequences for World War II

Description: In Command Culture, Jörg Muth examines the different paths the United States Army and the German Armed Forces traveled to select, educate, and promote their officers in the crucial time before World War II. Muth demonstrates that the military education system in Germany represented an organized effort where each school and examination provided the stepping stone for the next. But in the United States, there existed no communication about teaching contents or didactical matters among the various… more
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Date: June 15, 2011
Creator: Muth, Jörg
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The Mclaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: an O. K. Corral Obituary

Description: On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, by the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. The deadly event became known as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and in a quirk of fate, the brothers’ names became well-known, but only as bad men and outlaws. Did they deserve that reputation? The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary explores this question, revealing details of their family background… more
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Date: June 15, 2012
Creator: Johnson, Paul Lee
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Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance: a Guide to Large Artillery Projectiles, Torpedoes, and Mines

Description: Civil War Heavy Explosive Ordnance is the definitive reference book on Union and Confederate large caliber artillery projectiles, torpedoes, and mines. Some of these projectiles are from the most famous battles of the Civil War, such as those at Fort Sumter, Charleston, Vicksburg, and Richmond. Others were fired from famous cannon, such as the “Swamp Angel” of Charleston and “Whistling Dick” of Vicksburg. And some were involved in torpedo attacks against major warships. Jack Bell covers more t… more
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Date: June 15, 2003
Creator: Bell, Jack
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A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook: a Companion to Mcbeth's Texas Baptists

Description: From the days of Z. N. Morrell and James Huckins to Bill Pinson and Charles Wade, Baptists have played and continue to play an important role in the religious, secular, and political life of Texas. Over the previous one hundred and fifty years several Texas Baptist histories have been written, but not until now have the documents used in the development of these texts been made available in one resource. In A Texas Baptist History Sourcebook, Joseph E. Early, Jr., has provided the most complet… more
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Date: June 15, 2004
Creator: Early, Joseph E., Jr
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Ting and the Possible Futures

Description: This is a children's book where the characters build a time machine that lets them visit alternate futures based on the decisions they make in the present. The story provides a glimpse of a post-apocalyptic dystopia as a result of severe global climate change, as well as a future utopian ideal that comes as a result of implementing massive changes to land use and food and energy production.
Date: June 2008
Creator: Douglis, Carole & Kennaway, Adrienne
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Ordnance maintenance : azimuth instrument M1918 and M1918A2

Description: Discusses the azimuth instruments M1918 and M1918A2 in terms of their purposes, operations, maintenance, assembly, disassembly, and repair.
Date: June 11, 1942
Creator: United States. War Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Steam and Hot-Water Heating Plants: Inspection and Preventive Maintenance Service

Description: "This Technical Manual is a guide to first and second echelon maintenance services of domestic type steam and hot-water boilers and heating systems." Discusses methods of training personnel, operation and preventive maintenance, procedures for placing equipment in service and for taking it temporarily out of service, and inspections.
Date: June 1947
Creator: United States. War Department.
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Space heaters : repairs and utilities.

Description: "This Technical Manual provides information on construction, installation, operation, and maintenance of Army space heaters used in the zone of interior."
Date: June 1946
Creator: United States. War Department.
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Water heaters : inspection and preventive maintenance service.

Description: "This technical manual is a guide to first and second echelon maintenance of domestic hot-water supply systems." Discusses methods of training maintenance personnel, preventive maintenance for users, and inspections.
Date: June 1947
Creator: United States. War Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Roofing : repairs and utilities

Description: "This technical manual discusses the principal causes of failures of roofs on Army Buildings, outlines methods of repairing and renovating roofs and flashings, and describes reroofing."
Date: June 1945
Creator: United States. War Department.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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