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Article: Smallwood, James M., Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock. Murder and Mayhem: the War of Reconstruction in Texas.(Book Review)
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- International Social Science Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2004
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Smallwood, James M., Barry A. Crouch, and Larry Peacock. Murder and Mayhem: The War of Reconstruction in Texas. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003. 182 pp. Cloth, $24.95.
When I agreed to review this book, I knew only its title and the book's approximate length. Since I am a native of Texas with a Ph.D. degree in economics, I thought that the book might provide an interesting mix of nostalgia and economic history. I was little prepared for the
primary setting: the four-county area of Texas including Collin, Fannin, Grayson, and Hunt. The son of parents who had lived virtually all of their lives in Fannin and Grayson counties, I was born ...