Copano Bay Press

Imagine you spent fourteen hundred and ninety-one days fighting the bloodiest war in your country's history, and while you were fighting in and witnessing the ravages of war, you wrote down what...

As a teen August Santleben blew like a leaf, back and forth, across the border, going wherever the magnet of opportunity pulled him.August Santleben was just seventeen when Civil War came. He...

How different might our maps look today were it not for the gun? Would there be a Texas were it not for improvements in firearm technology? Texas Independence was won by the gun...and kept by the gun...

Ira Aten left this world in 1953, aged ninety years. In that time he had been a sheriff, range detective, ranch manager (of the XIT), and political leader. He even spent some time picking cotton. But...

Sandwiched like a middle child between the fall of the Alamo and the Battle of San Jacinto, Goliad never gets the attention it deserves in the canon of Texas history. The rallying cry at San Jacinto,...

The earliest history of the Texas Revolution, penned by Rev. Chester Newell, who traveled to Texas to gather firsthand information on how the Republic was taking shape. Gleaned from interviews with...

John Joseph "Juan" saw a lot. He witnessed much of what led up to the Texas Revolution, experienced a lot of the Revolution itself, and saw every single day of the Republic's existence. In 1883, when...

Some writers can relay the facts, but they can't tell the story. Others can spin a yarn, but stretch the truth and omit details. John Myers clothes dry bones in living flesh, and makes it sweat,...