A county courthouse stands not only as the center of government, but also as the center of civic pride. Some with stately towers and arched doors or windows, so

T. Boone Pickens, legendary Texas oilman and infamous corporate raider from the 1980s, climbed the steps of the Reeves County courthouse in Pecos, Texas in earl

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Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibility. Ange