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The Cotton Patch Gift Shop at the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum sells books, memorabilia, art and novelties relating to the history of Hunt County. Titles currently in our Gift Shop include books relating to Audie Murphy and Hunt County History, as well as the history of cotton in Texas and the U.S.
Books:
An account of the drama behind the scenes of the first American movie filmed in Vietnam in 1957.
Memoir of the AVG (American Volunteer Group) and how they commanded the air against enemy forces. Complete with amusing anecdotes and descriptions of wartime activities.
War diary of a Flying Tiger American Volunteer Group crew chief supplemented with interviews and photographs providing a multi dimensional view of the time period.
Complete account of Jimmy Doolittle’s raid against Tokyo and the Japanese empire. Recounts the raiders struggle to escape and how the raid altered Japanese thinking about the security of their homeland.
Depicts the colorful stories of 16 women who drove the cattle trail up from Texas. It tells of the diverse experiences that these women endured during the harsh frontier conditions.
Foreword by Tom
Brokaw. Audie Murphy bring us his own first experience
of death in war. He recounts his most remarkable military
career in World War II which lead to him becoming
the most decorated soldier of World War II.
An entertaining
blend of reminiscences and research. Mr. Crenshaw's
personal account of life as it used to be in the region
adds color to the description of Hunt County and the
surrounding areas during the late 19th and early 20th
century.
Blackland Memories is a pictorial
history of Greenville's first 100 years. It covers Greenville history
from the date that the original deed was conveyed from McQuinney
Howell Wright to create Greenville on March 22, 1850 to the centennial
celebration of that event 100 years later. It contains 280 photographs,
each chosen because of the glimpse it gives of early businesses,
downtown street scenes, local people, common folk, ads from newspapers,
college pictures, and photos that show what an integral part cotton
played in the city's development.
Ainsworth's book
is a journal of a 14 day journey across 9 counties
in northeast Texas in 1998. Not an ordinary journey...but
history. Ainsworth along with family and friends made
every effort to duplicate the experience of his great
grandparents when they set out to find a new home
for themselves in 1918. Take a covered wagon ride
across the Brazos River with the Ainsworth family.
Somewhere along the journey you will most likely acquire
a new since of appreciation and admiration for your
own ancestors and the trials they endured in settling
our "roots". And you will come to realize
the importance of sharing family folklore from generation
to generation.
At the request of the Board
of Dirctors of the Boles Home, Mr Keith-Lucas wrote the
sixty year history of the institution trying to present
objectively a history of the Home, noting weaknesses as
well as strengths, defeats as well as victories.
Dr. Waddle's book depicts rural life in Hunt County during a time of great economic depression of this country. It details the families of Waddles, Dodsons and Taylors as they lived and died and how they helped shape and influence his life. It spans the communities of Jacobia, Neola and Black Cat Thicket while detailing mud ball fights and threshing and church activities, schooldays in the one- room schoolhouses and life in the cotton fields of a family struggling to make ends meet during a time when the entire nation was in an economic depression.
Harry Thompson’s story of survival as a non-famous,
ordinary citizen, non-commissioned military drafted before Pearl Harbor
into regimented life where danger seemed to be everywhere. Captured
on the 2nd day of the Battle of the Bulge, imprisoned in German POW
camps where the captors spoke an unfamiliar language, a forced walk
across 241 miles of European soil, bombing by both the enemy and his
own American Air Force and of waiting, praying and believing he would
survive. Tells of imprisonment as POW in the same camp with General
George Patton’s son-in-law and what happened when Patton made
a raid on Hammelburg. His story of patriotism pictures the realism
of war experiences yet catches the reader off-guard with his appreciation
of the beauty of the land across which he was walking and with his
unexpected moments of humor.
Eddie Barker was the first reporter to announce to America
that John F. Kennedy was dead. Barker’s reporting on the assassination
and all the other events closely associated with it are at the heart
of this book. But this is also a book by one of the true pioneers
of local television news.
June True's prints. 11 x 14 inches on white. Audie Murphy in
western gear. $7.50 each
Audie Murphy Days 2008 items-Plaques, T-shirts, mugs, mouse pads, hats, etc.can be purchased at Omni Sources Marketing
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Dogface
Soldiers by Daniel R. Champagne
A
Thinker’s Damn by William Russo
With
Chennault in China – A Flying Tiger’s Diary
by: Robert M. Smith
Flying
Tiger – A Crew Chief’s Story by Frank S. Losonsky
and Terry M. Losonsky
The
Doolittle Raid by Carroll V. Glines
Texas
Women on the Cattle Trails by Sara Massey
American
Hero: The Audie Murphy Story by Peggy Caravantes
A
Myth in Action: The Heroic Life of Audie Murphy by Ann
Levingston Joiner
Audie
Murphy: Now Showing by Sue Gossett
The
Films and Career of Audie Murphy- America's Real Hero by Sue
Gossett
To
Hell and Back: The Epic Combat Journal of World War II's Most Decorated
G.I. Audie Murphy by Audie Murphy 
Texas
Blackland Heritage by Troy C. Crenshaw , 
Blackland
Memories: A Pictorial History of Greenville, Texas 1850-1950.
Hunt County Historical Commission . 
Biscuits
Across The Brazos...."A Family Journey" by Jim H.
Ainsworth. 
Boles
Home: A History and an Anthology 1924-1984 compiled by Alan Keith-Lucas
Cow
Hill "Bits and Pieces" by Otha
C. Spencer . 
Texas
Signs On by Richard Schroeder. 
A
Place Called Hopkins County by Bobby McDonald. 
The
Way it Was 1920-1942 by Brad Waddle 
Patton’s
Ill-fated Raid by Harry A. Thompson, WWII POW
Eddie
Barker’s Notebook: Stories that Made the News (and some better
ones that didn’t) by Eddie Barker and John Mark Dempsey
11
x 14 inches on white. Audie Murphy in Military uniform.