Texas Classics Series

The Texas Classics Series from the University of Texas Press is a collection of books that provide insights into pivotal people, moments and events in Texas history. In partnership with The University of Texas Libraries, the University of Texas Press will present selected titles from the Texas Classics Series in digital form at no charge through UTOPIA.

For a complete list of the titles in this series and to purchase print copies of the books, please visit the University of Texas Press.

The Trail Drivers of Texas:

This digitized book tells the real-life tales of the cowboys who blazed trails while moving cattle and horses from Texas northward between the end of the Civil War and the turn of the century. Read the Trail Drivers of Texas.

Taming the Nueces Strip:

Preview (images of scanned pages only): Taming the Nueces Strip: The Story of McNelly's Rangers by George Durham as told to Clyde Wantland.