'Texas Confidential' Bibliography (Books)

Following are the books I used as resources when doing the research for Texas Confidential; many are available and I have hotlinked the titles to their pages on Amazon.com for those who might be interested in any of them. My bibliography also contains newspapers, websites/online resources, and a list of specific newspaper, magazine, and online articles and reports. In addition to these sorts of listed sources, I also drew upon my firsthand experiences with various sites, incidents, and the like.

Bellesiles, Michael A. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture(Alfred A. Knopf, 2000).

Cartwright, Gary. Galveston: A History of the Island (Chisholm Trail Series)(MacMillan Publishing Company, 1991).

Cartwright, Gary. Dirty Dealing: Drug Smuggling on the Mexican Border and the Assassination of a Federal Judge(Cinco Puntos Press, 1998 (2nd Edition)).

Chamberlain, Samuel. My Confession: Recollections of a Rogue(Harper and Brothers, 1853).

Deaton, Charles. The Year They Threw the Rascals Out(Shoal Creek Publishers, 1973).

Durham, George. Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers(University of Texas Press, 1962).

Davis, Jeff C. and Fisher, Ovie C. King Fisher: His Life and Times(University of Oklahoma Press, 1966).

Fanning. Diane. Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells(St. Martin’s True Crime, 2007).

Griffin, John Howard. Land of the High Sky(The First National Bank of Midland, 1959).

Hunt, Linda. Secret Agenda: The United States Government, Nazi Scientists, and Project Paperclip, 1945 to 1990(St. Martin’s Press, 1991).

Kinch, Jr., Sam and Procter, Ben. Texas Under a Cloud(Jenkins Publishing Company, 1972).

Lynch, Dudley. The Duke of Duval - The Life & Times of George B. Parr(Texian Press, 1976).

Marrs, Jim. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America(William Morrow, 2008). (A feature review of this book appears on this site and can be read by clicking here.)

McCarthy, Cormac. Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West(Vintage International, 1992).

McCarthy, Cormac. No Country for Old Men (Vintage International)(Vintage International, 2006).

Neal, Bill. Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law: Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style (American Liberty and Justice)(Texas Tech University Press, 2009).

Silverstein, Jake. Nothing Happened and Then It Did: A Chronicle in Fact and Fiction(W.W. Norton and Company, 2010).

Stephens, A. Ray. Texas: A Historical Atlas(University of Oklahoma Press, 2010).

Wright, James C. Relections of a Public Man(Madison Publishing, 1984).