Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the
most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. There was a
famous gunslinger in the 1800s and a burlesque stripper in the
1950s. There were notorious gang members in the thirties, a Kiowa
Indian chief, a blues musician, an escape artist, and a Mexican
vaquero.These prison tales include chain-bus drivers, wild bull
riders, and a prison baseball team that took on the Texas semi-pro
champions in Houston's old Buff Stadium. They include inmates and
prisoners of war supplying materials to the Confederate army and
convict laborers building a state railroad and quarrying granite
for the beautiful state capitol in Austin.You can read the history
of [Old Sparky] and the final moments leading up to the
electrocution of two of Texas's most infamous criminals.Author Gary
Brown spent twenty-three years working as counselor and teacher in
the Texas prison system. He is also the author of Volunteers in the
Texas Revolution: The New Orleans Greys and Hesitant Martyr in the
Texas Revolution: James Walker Fannin.
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