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We believe that e-books are the best medium for making Great Texas Books available to a worldwide audience at a low cost. We believe that e-books are far superior to PDFs, text files, HTML files, and other online formats. We believe that e-books are the future. That said, we may someday offer our books in other formats, including hard copies produced by digital on-demand printing. For help and information on the available formats, click here.

Some great classics are on the way, many of which are not available elsewhere online. Here are some picks from our upcoming list, in no particular order:

• Geiser, Naturalists of the Frontier
• Kennedy, The Rise, Progress, and Prospects of the Republic of Texas (2 vols.)
• Henderson, Colonel Jack Hays, Texas Ranger
• Smith, The Annexation of Texas
• Adams, British Interests and Activities in Texas 1838-1846
• Duval, Early Times in Texas
• Green, Journal of the Texian Expedition against Mier
• Sowell, Rangers and Pioneers of Texas
• Barry, Buck Barry, Texas Ranger and Frontiersman
• Bedichek, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist
• Clark, Reminiscences of a Centenarian
• Garrett, Green Flag Over Texas
• Wade, The Dawson Men of Fayette County
• Williams, With the Border Ruffians
• Hatcher, The Opening of Texas to Foreign Settlement

Great Texas Books is an affordable collection of classic Texas histories, memoirs, journals, and reports in e-book format. We meticulously convert, proof, edit, and design each book. Our books are not mere facsimiles of the original text; they are entirely new editions designed for the modern reader of e-books.

Our e-books are "Mockingbird Digital Editions" created by Mockingbird Books, a Texana publisher that, like Great Texas Books, is a project of The Texana Foundation. Mockingbird Books has published a small number of regional Texas histories in paperback; its mission has shifted to producing Mockingbird Digital Editions for us. Mockingbird's paperback books are available on the Mockingbird Books website. The Mockingbird Books paperbacks will soon be available as e-books from Great Texas Books.

Yes. Most of our original source texts are in the public domain, but our specially edited editions are copyrighted property of Mockingbird Books, which licenses them to Great Texas Books, which in turn provides a limited license to you. For more information, please see our copyright notice and policy and please review the terms upon which we license our e-books to you.

It's an Apple thing. We hope it's temporary. In your settings section, select "ibooks" and disable full justification. Now your pages will display correctly. Well, mostly correctly—you'll have a ragged right margin.

We offer our e-books to you under the terms of our e-book license. Here's a brief summary of the license: You can share your book with three of your friends and family. They can't share the book any further. You can't post the e-book online, and you can't use it to make money or for other commercial purposes. Please read the license for the details.

Our e-books are not protected with Digital Rights Management, thus they are easy to copy and share, subject to the terms of our license.

All of our e-books are subject to our copyright provisions.