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Books by Bill Neal
  | | Skullduggery, Secrets, and Murders(1st Edition) The 1894 Wells Fargo Scam That Backfired (American Liberty and Justice) by Bill Neal, Gordon Morris Bakken Hardcover, 256 Pages, Published 2015 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-917-9, ISBN: 0-89672-917-6 "In 1894, George Isaacs, the penniless black sheep of his family, was running with the worst of the outlaws in the Oklahoma Territory. There, a get-rich-quick scheme that seemed foolproof was hatched up. The plan was for George to present money packets falsely purporting to contain $25,000 in cash to the Wells Fargo office in Kansas City. Wells Fargo was to ship the packets via the Santa Fe railroad to George at Canadian, Texas, where Ge ..." |
 | | From Guns to Gavels(1st Edition) How Justice Grew Up in the Outlaw West by Bill Neal Hardcover, 384 Pages, Published 2008 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-637-6, ISBN: 0-89672-637-1 "When a thirteen-year-old boy strikes out on his own in 1885, leaving his Civil War–ravaged Mississippi homeland for the wild Red River borderland between North Texas and Indian Territory, the American West is a land beyond the reach of the law. Crime thrives in the absence of law officers, courtrooms, judges, and jails. Vigilante justice, the posse, and the hangman’s noose fill the void. But by the time the young man—now a veteran outla ..." |
 | | Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie(1st Edition) by Bill Neal Paperback, 360 Pages, Published 2003 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-5474-7, ISBN: 0-8078-5474-3 "This delightful cookbook celebrates the glories of southern baking, with 300 recipes for the breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweets that have been the pride of southern cooks for generations. From his first chapter on cornmeal--with recipes for dumplings, hushpuppies, and four styles of spoonbread--to his delicious array of desserts--including persimmon pudding, lemon chess pie, and pecan cake with caramel icing--Bill Neal i ..." |
 | | Vengeance Is Mine(1st Edition) The Scandalous Love Triangle That Triggered the Boyce-Sneed Feud (A.C. Greene Series) by Bill Neal Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2011 by University Of North Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57441-317-5, ISBN: 1-57441-317-1 "Almost half a century after the Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas erupted in bloodshed in 1912, two Texas historians attempted to write about the affair. But no one would talk to them. Lewis Nordyke abandoned the idea, and C. L. Sonnichsen, another chronicler of Texas feuds, wrote that it was 'too soon to talk about the Boyce-Sneed affair.' Not until the 1990s did the whole story emerge, when descendants of the feuding families finally cal ..." |
 | | Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier(Updated) Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials by Bill Neal, Gordon Morris Bakken Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-651-2, ISBN: 0-89672-651-7 "In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth’s finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers’ trials? Not guilty. The explanation? This is Texas.” Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justic ..." |
 | | Gardener's Latin(1st Edition) A Lexicon (English and Latin Edition) by Bill Neal, Barbara Damrosch Hardcover, 144 Pages, Published 1992 by Algonquin Books Of Chapel Hill ISBN-13: 978-0-945575-94-8, ISBN: 0-945575-94-7 "A gardener's guide to Latin provides green thumbs with the expertise they need to wade through the technical terms they may encounter in the nursery or in mail-order catalogs. By the author of Bill Neal's Southern Cooking. " |
 | | Good Old Grits Cookbook(1st Edition) by Bill Neal, David Perry, Emily Polishook Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 1991 by Workman Publishing Company ISBN-13: 978-0-89480-865-4, ISBN: 0-89480-865-6 " Think risotto or polenta, but funkier. Think texture, and the wholesome goodness and flavor of stone-ground corn. And think Cheese Grits Souffle, Blueberry Grits Muffins, Grits Pizza, and the quintessential dish that's been published in The New York Times: Shrimp and Grits. Bill Neal and David Perry love grits, and in this Passionate cookbook they export grits out of the Southern kitchen-and attempt to demystify the food that's fed a r ..." |
 | | Biscuits, Spoonbread & Sweet Potato Pie(1st Edition) (Knopf Cooks American Series) by Bill Neal Hardcover, 334 Pages, Published 1990 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-394-55941-4, ISBN: 0-394-55941-X "A study of the breads, sweets, and desserts of Southern United States cuisine features 150 recipes for treats ranging from butter pecan ice cream to Mississippi praline pound cake, accompanied by historical notes, cooking lore, and personal reminiscences" |
 | | Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado The Assassination of J. W. Jarrott, a Forgotten Hero (A.C. Greene Series) by Bill Neal, Chuck Lanehart Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2017 by University Of North Texas Press ISBN-13: 978-1-57441-695-4, ISBN: 1-57441-695-2 "In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these "nesters." In August 1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered J. W. Jarrott. Who hired Miller? ..." |
 | | Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style (American Liberty and Justice) by Bill Neal, Gordon Morris Bakken Paperback, 356 Pages, Published 2016 by Texas Tech Univ. ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-981-0, ISBN: 0-89672-981-8 "From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrongs. “Unwritten law” seemed to justify the killing―or at least maiming―of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inappropriate comment offended southern notions of female virtue, ..." |
 | | Gardener's Latin(1st Edition) A Lexicon by Bill Neal, Barbara Damrosch Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2003 by Algonquin Books ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-384-7, ISBN: 1-56512-384-0 " For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help. So he weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish among plants and flowers and compiled a volume of select, brief, clear definitions.Gardener's Latin ..." |
 | | Bill Neal's Southern Cooking(2nd Edition) by Bill Neal Paperback, 219 Pages, Published 1989 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4255-3, ISBN: 0-8078-4255-9 "Southern cooking, the most interesting and complex regional cuisine in America, remains a mystery to many professional cooks and southerners. With a stellar collection of recipes, Neal reveals the background and subtleties of southern foods. He uses imaginative new ways with old standards to make the recipes more accessible, but he never resorts to shortcuts or processed ingredients. He also shows how the meeting of Native American, Wes ..." |
 | | Through the Garden Gate(1st Edition) (Chapel Hill Books) by Elizabeth Lawrence, Bill Neal Paperback, 270 Pages, Published 1990 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-1907-4, ISBN: 0-8078-1907-7 ""Through the Garden Gate" is a collection of 144 of the popular weekly articles that Elizabeth Lawrence wrote for "The Charlotte Observer" from 1957 to 1971. With those columns, a delightful blend of gardening lore, horticultural expertise, and personal adventures, Lawrence inspired thousands of southern gardeners. "[A] fine contribution to the green-thumb genre.--"Publishers Weekly"" |
 | | Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law(1st Edition) Courting Judicial Mayhem, Texas Style (American Liberty and Justice) by Bill Neal, Gordon Morris Bakken Hardcover, 356 Pages, Published 2009 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-662-8, ISBN: 0-89672-662-2 "This title presents the 'honor defense' in six celebrated murder trials, 1896-1977. From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed insufficiently stringent to southerners, who often sought other redress. 'Unwritten law' seemed to justify the killing - or at least maiming - of almost anyone who by actual physical contact or inapprop ..." |
 | | Biscuits, Spoonbread, and Sweet Potato Pie KCA Pbk by Bill Neal Paperback, 334 Pages, Published 1996 by Knopf ISBN-13: 978-0-679-76580-6, ISBN: 0-679-76580-8 "This delightful cookbook celebrates the glories of southern baking, with 300 recipes for the breads, biscuits, cakes, pies, cookies, and sweets that have been the pride of southern cooks for generations. From his first chapter on cornmeal--with recipes for dumplings, hushpuppies, and four styles of spoonbread--to his delicious array of desserts--including persimmon pudding, lemon chess pie, and pecan cake with caramel icing--Bill Neal i ..." |
 | | A Little Piece of Ground(6th Edition) by Elizabeth Laird, Sonia Nimr, Bill Neal Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 2006 by Haymarket Books ISBN-13: 978-1-931859-38-7, ISBN: 1-931859-38-8 " A Little Piece Of Ground will help young readers understand more about one of the worst conflicts afflicting our world today. Written by Elizabeth Laird, one of Great Britain’s best-known young adult authors, A Little Piece Of Ground explores the human cost of the occupation of Palestinian lands through the eyes of a young boy. Twelve-year-old Karim Aboudi and his family are trapped in their Ramallah home by a strict curfew. In res ..." |
 | | Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier(1st Edition) Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials by Bill Neal, Gordon Morris Bakken, Alice Nichols Hardcover, 328 Pages, Published 2006 by Texas Tech University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-89672-579-9, ISBN: 0-89672-579-0 "In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth’s finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in the middle of the lobby. The verdict in both of these murderers’ trials? Not guilty. The explanation? “This is Texas.”Laws passed by politicians in far-off Austin meant little to Westerners living on the Texas frontier. Sagebrush justice re ..." |
 | | Gardener's Latin(Reprint) Discovering the Origins, Lore and Meanings of Botanical Names by Bill Neal Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 1995 by Robert Hale ISBN-13: 978-0-7090-5106-0, ISBN: 0-7090-5106-9 "Author Bill Neal has weeded through the Latin words that describe and distinguish plants and flowers and compiled a single volume of select definitions and gardening lore. Narcissus bulbocodium or Narcissus cyclamineus? Isabellinus, iadinus, ianthinus? Basilaris or basilicus? Today's gardeners encounter Latin terms like these whenever they enter garden centres or pick up mail-order catalogues. They must still, of course, decide whether ..." |
 | | Through the Garden Gate(Reprint) (Chapel Hill Books) by Elizabeth Lawrence, Bill Neal Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-4519-6, ISBN: 0-8078-4519-1 "... Oxford English Dictionary, and found a quotation from Delamer's Kitchen Garden (1861): "A pretty litde old- fashioned variety, — Queen Anne's pocket melon . . . produces green- fleshed well-flavoured fruit, the size of a large orange. " (They must have grown them bigger in those days.) But still no Latin name. As I was going to Monroe, Louisiana, to lecture on vines, Helen Mayer brought me a melon to take with me. When I held it ..." |
 | | Remembering Bill Neal(1st Edition) Favorite Recipes from a Life in Cooking by Moreton Neal, Remembering Bill Neal, John T. Edge Hardcover, 233 Pages, Published 2004 by The University Of North Carolina Press ISBN-13: 978-0-8078-2913-4, ISBN: 0-8078-2913-7 |
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