Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot: Texas Backwoods Battler: Autographed Copy

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 Generations of fighting Harris blood exploded through Roy Harris’s veins that August night in 1958 as he stood in the boxing ring in Los Angeles. He was facing the undefeated heavyweight champion of the world, Floyd Patterson, who, at the time, had earned that crown at an earlier age than any other man in history. 

Roy faced a psychological handicap met by few other heavyweight challengers. How could a rustic backwoodsman turned gentleman-scholar-soldier cope with such a challenge? What strange events had conspired to create the meeting of such a contrast in pugilistic antagonists? 

Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot is, in part, the story of how and why Roy Harris emerged from backwoods obscurity to the pinnacle of fistic heaven—a heavyweight title bout. But this is also the story of the rapidly vanishing breed that spawned and nourished him—the rugged individualistic frontiersmen from the oil-rich southeast Texas thicket country. Today, Cut and Shoot is a growing community northeast of Houston. Roy has retired from illustrious careers not only in boxing, but as an attorney, real estate mogul, and the county clerk of Montgomery County, Texas, for twenty-eight years. 

Roy’s personal memories are inserted throughout Roy Harris of Cut and Shoot, adding authenticity to this dramatic saga. 

The Lancasters of Washington-on-the-Brazos and the History of their Newspaper- The Texas Ranger by Betty Dunn

While Joseph Lancaster and two of their sons served in the Civil War, Eva continued to publish the Ranger by herself never missing a weekly issue.   Texas historical marker No. 8400, located in downtown Brenham, makes note of Eva’s dedication to the Ranger during the Civil War.  The Lancasters eventually moved their paper to Navasota after the Civil War.   Eva Lancaster was inducted as member #330 of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas with her papers being signed by early Texas preservationist Adina de Zavala and Mrs. Anson Jones, 1st DRT president. It includes photos of both Joseph and Eva Lancaster as well as his gravestone in Navasota’s Oakland cemetery.

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Navasota- Images of America: Pictorial History

Navasota is named for the nearby Navasota River. The naming of the river is linked, most plausibly, to an encounter on its banks in the 1540s between Indians and a Spanish expedition led initially by the then-deceased Hernando de Soto. Indians believed that spirits of the dead were associated with rivers. Accordingly, though he was interred earlier in the Mississippi River, the Indians saw de Soto’s spirit reborn in their river, hence the legendary term “Nativity de Soto,” shortened to Navasota. As this book shows, the history of Navasota has revolved around the theme of birth. It stands in the Cradle of Texas, associated endemically with the founding of Spanish Texas and later with the birth of the Republic of Texas. At the crossroads of Texas, Navasotians have pioneered new industries while moderating equilibrium between a genteel society bent on expanding the mind and a ruffian element tamed only at the hands of an icon in American folklore.

Author Bio: With the City of Navasota, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and a generous outpouring of Navasota’s citizenry, the Texas Center for Regional Studies has brought forth the best in photographic data for this work. The authors, Joy Montgomery, MA, and Robin Montgomery, PhD, are, respectively, the executive director and the president of the Texas Center for Regional Studies.

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Who was James Lockhart Farquhar??  by Betty Dunn

Read about a prominent early pioneer resident of  Washington County who has been neglected in Texas history.  A wealthy planter who generously shared his monies, Farquhar was an original Board of Trustee member initiating Baylor University at Independence  in 1845.  He was a close friend of  Republic of Texas President Anson Jones; an early Washington County commissioner; a devoted Baptist; and a champion for education. Farquhar also established a public, now historical, cemetery on his land a short distance off Highway 105 west of Washington-on-the-Brazos.  This cemetery has been neglected and begs for restoration.
 
Buried in Farquhar’s cemetery are three other historical Washington County pioneers – Captain James R. Cook, a Battle of San Jacinto and Somervell Expedition veteran, General Tilghman Ashurst Howard, a U.S. Charge de’affairs, and R. M. Whitman, for whom the now extinct town of Whitman was named.  There life stories are also told in this booklet.

(Available and printed on demand at $9.95 including  postage.)

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Celebrating Togetherness

Anglos, Mexicans and the 1st Republic of Texas, 1813 -The Green Flag Republic

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March to Destiny: Cultural Legacy of Stephen F. Austin's Original Colony

Explores critical issues of culure which history has destined for seven counties carved largely from the original Washington County.  These are Montgomery, Grimes, Walker, Washington, Brazos, Burleson and Lee Counties.  Washington County, in turn was heir to Washington Municipality, a political entity part of Stephen F. Austin's Original Colony.

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Indians & Pioneers in Original Montgomery County

Original Montgomery County included Montgomery, Walker, Grimes, Madison and San Jacinto Counties. Study portrays the history of the tribes of the original Montgomery County Area with special attention focused on their interaction with each other and with the non Indian races in their midst.

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Tortured Destingy: Lament of a Shaman Princess

Story based on real events surrounding the last days of the Bidai tribe of Native Americans.

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Historic Montgomery County

An Illustrated History of Montgomery County, Texas. A publication of the Montgomery County Genealogical & Historical Society.

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Heritage and Progress: History of Grimes County Texas

A history of Grimes County Texas, its Communities and Families. 760 pages.

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