title: Historic Tales from the Texas Republic: A Glimpse of Texas Past (American Chronicles)
author:  Jeffery Robenalt 
description: Jeffery Robenalt is a resident of Lockhart, Texas where he teaches middle school Texas history. He served as a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter crew chief in Vietnam and later with Company C, 1-506th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division. Mr. Robenalt earned a doctor of jurisprudence in law from Texas Tech University and served as an attorney for the State of Texas for ten years. Mr. Robenalt has also written three historical fiction novels--Saga of a Texas Ranger, Star Over Texas and The Bloody Frontier--and writes a historical column on Texas history for Texas Escapes Online Magazine, also entitled A Glimpse of Texas Past."
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  # ALSO BY JAMES L. HALEY
  
  
  THE BLIVEN PUTNAM NAVAL SERIES
  
  
  
  
  
  _A Darker Sea: Master Commandant Putnam and the War of 1812_
  
  
  _The Shores of Tripoli: Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates_
  
  
  
  
  
  OTHER FICTION
  
  
  
  
  
  _Final Refuge_
  
  
  _The Lions of Tsavo_
  
  
  _The Kings of San Carlos_
  
  
  
  
  
  NONFICTION
  
  
  
  
  
  _The Handy Texas Answer Book_
  
  
  _Captive Paradise: A History of Hawaii_
  
  
  _The Texas Supreme Court: A Narrative History, 1836–1986_
  
  
  _Burleson Century_
  
  
  _Wolf: The Lives of Jack London_
  
  
  _Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas_
  
  
  _Sam Houston_
  
  
  _Texas: From Spindletop Through World War II_
  
  
  _Most Excellent Sir: Letters Received by Sam Houston, President of the
  Republic of Texas, at Columbia, 1836–1837_
  
  
  _Texas: An Album of History_
  
  
  _Apaches: A History and Culture Portrait_
  
  
  _The Buffalo War: The History of the Red River Indian Uprising of 1874_
  
  
  
  
  
  JUVENILE
  
  
  
  
  
  _Taming Texas: Law