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City Directories Scanned and online in this website

Others below , all are free access

 
Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families.1889
Souvenir of Denison: The Gate City of Texas, 1872-1887  (Pub. 1887)
The Hand-Book of Northern Texas
Chicago:C S Burch Publishing Co - 1886
Historic & Business Guide of Sherman, Denison, & Grayson County, Texas Ed. H. Anderson c1948
History and Business Guide of Sherman & Grayson County, Texas Ed. H. Anderson c1940
Foundations of American Grape Culture by TV Munson (of Denison)
Grayson County, Texas in the Depression and War; 1929- 1946 David Park 2099 Thesis is a PDF
 A History of Texas and Texans: by Frank W Johnson  1914

Sherman Telephone Book- July 1916



Jerry Bryan Lincecum



The list below are Biographical Books often found in Genealogical Libraries -
They are not online at this time. Others are listed above.

Ancestors and Descendants ' Grayson County Texas
Compiled & edited by Grayson County, Texas Genealogical Society 1980
This book has an Every Name index. Out of print, copies are in most large Texas Libraries and in all local libraries.

Grayson County History; Vol 1 and 2. Published by Frontier Village. Published 1978 - 1980
Both Books in Grayson County Libraries and other large Genealogical libraries
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Grayson County Books for Sale
Sorted by Author


Natalie Bauman

  • The Saga of Preston Bend and Glen Eden

  • Quantrills' Raiders in North Texas

  • History of the Early Days of Sherman, Texas

  • Pottsboro Texas and Lake Texoma Vol 1-2 (in same book)

  • School Days around Pottsboro, Texas

  • The History of Building the Denison Dam

  • Reflections on the beauty of Lake Texoma

  • The Many Faces of Texoma's Red River

  • Texoma Tales -Vol 1 (People of the Northwestern Grayson County, Texas)

  • North Western Grayson County, Texas. Cemetery list of burials.

  • The Old Country Store in Pottsboro in Northwestern Grayson County, Texas

  • Daniel and Crabtree History in Martin Springs, Pottsboro and Hagerman, Texas

  • Cook Flippin Clay Bryant Family History, From Tennessee To Pottsboro, Texas

  • When the West Was Wild in Pottsboro Texas -Vol 1

  • When the West was Wild in Preston Bend- Vol 3

  • When the West was Wild in Denison, Texas - Vol 2

  • When the West was Wild, Crime and Calamity in Pottsboro, Texas- Vol 4

  • When the West was Wild in Delaware Bend- Vol 5

  • When the West Was Wild in Gordonville and Cedar Mills, Texas -Vol 6

  • When the West Was Wild in Sadler and Basin Springs, Texas -Vol 7

  • The Law and Lawless in Denison, Texas -When the West Was Wild-Vol 8

  • Ghost Towns of Texoma - Vol 1  Preston Bend; The Lost towns of Grayson County, Texas

  • Ghost Towns of Texoma - Vol 2  Hagerman

  • Ghost Towns of Texoma - Vol 3  Martin Springs and Mineral City

  • Ghost Towns of Texoma - Vol 4  Georgetown, Fink  & Reevesville

  • Ghost Towns of Texoma  - Vol 5  Locust -Willow Springs, Overton, Mill Springs

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 1

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 2

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 3

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 4

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 5

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 6

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 7

  • Red River Hauntings -True Ghosts Stories of Grayson County Texas and Southern Oklahoma Vol 8


Dr Mavis Bryant
She and Donna Hord Hunt also worked together as "The History Gals"

  • The Downtown Community - Denison, Texas in 1900, by Mavis Anne Bryant

  • Industrial Denison: A North Texas Town in 1900 -A photographic book, Original version compiled by Frank M. Robinson. New version edited by Mavis Anne Bryant

  • Images of America: Denison by Donna Hord Hunt and Mavis Anne Bryant, A photographic book from Arcadia Publishing

  • Frontier Denison, Texas, by Donna Hord Hunt and Mavis Anne Bryant, A photographic book from Arcadia Publishing.
  • Health and Death, Denison, Texas in 1900, by Mavis Anne Bryant

  • Land, Money, Law, Tycoons, Denison, Texas in 1900, by Mavis Anne Bryant

  • Two Schools on Main Street: The Pride of Denison, Texas 1873-2007 -by Mavis Anne Bryant and Donna Hord Hunt

    Available from Main Street Mall in Denison, Available from Brian Hander in Denison
  • Denison (Images of America)

  • Lives in Photography: Denison, Texas 1872-1999, by Mavis Anne Bryant. Profiles of photographers who worked in Denison

  • Denison 150 : Celebrating Untold  & Under-Told Stories From Denison's First 150 Years

  • Little Stories of Frontier Denison by Bredette C Murray, edited by Mavis Anne Bryant

  • My life in Print, by Donna Hord Hunt, edited by Mavis Ann Bryant

    

Two of her books are out of print - But can be found and read in most local libraries and in the "Grayson Room Library" at Frontier Village.

    • Donald Mayes of Denison, Texas : An Architectural Legacy by Mavis Anne Bryant

    • Theater Row: Movie Palaces of Denison, Texas




  • High on a Windy Hill (Woodman Circle Home, west of Sherman)

Ross Estes

Hall Cemetery Book

Contact: Hall Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 664, Howe, Texas 75459-0664



Bryan C Handler

  • From the People to the Steeple: History of Waples Memorial UMC

  • Downtown Denison, Texas: a History of Denison's Commercial District

  • Ghosts of the Gate City: Hauntings in Denison, Texas

  • The Denison Public Library

  • Denison's Night of Terror, Historic Denison: Tales of the old Denison Days, Grayson County and Texas (with Mort M Scholl)

  • Local Foundation; Background information on benefactors of local foundations in Denison, Texas

  • School Days in Denison, Texas: Peabody Elementary School

  • Grandeur Exemplified: the History of the Hotel Denison

  • The Serpentine

  • Raynal Elementary School


Brian C. Hander, Dr. Mavis Bryant, Donna Hord Hunt & James K. Sears

  • Denison 150 : Celebrating Untold  & Under-Told Stories From Denison's First 150 Years



Donna Hord Hunt
See her work above with Author Mavis Anne Bryant
"Books from the History Gals"

Including : My life in Print, by Donna Hord Hunt, edited by Mavis Ann Bryant


Willie Jacobs
  • 100 years, 100 yards : The story of Austin College Football  -  Sherman : Austin College, 1996

  • James George Thompson, 1803-1879:  Cherokee Trader, Texan, Secessionist

Joki McElroy
  • 1012 Natchez : a memoir of Grace, Hardship and Love

  • Black Land, Red River: A Pictorial History of Grayson County, Texas by Sherrie McLeroy The author grew up in Texas, spending summers in her maternal grandparents' house at 1012 Natchez in Sherman.  Her grandparents, Jefferson and Julia Washington, move to Sherman in the 1890s and attended Harmony Baptist.  She mentions Sherman neighbors with the surnames of Tatum and Marant....review by Marjorie Castle


Waterman L. Ormsby

  • The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage

Gladys Bright Ray

  • Murder at the Corners 

Kris Rutherford
  • Baseball on the Prairie: how seven small town teams shaped Texas League History. Published by Arcadia Publishing. The towns were Sherman, Denison, Paris, Corsicana, Cleburne, Greenville & Temple

Dusty Williams
    • Trails of our Past

    • Trail of our Past -2023

    • The Poor Farm of Grayson County, Texas

    • Down by Dixie

    • Christmas Eve on North Main



Paper Trail
Susan Hawkins

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