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Reducere. Ever since the first Spanish soldiers and priests set foot on land that would be called Texas, a unique history has evolved. That history, as well ...

Reducere. A summer of drought and epidemic illness in 1847 forces Mina, Papa, and his new wife, Lisette, to move on from Fredericksburg, Texas, to a larger l...

Reducere. UP FROM THE ASHES tells the story of the development, destruction, and rebuilding of a dynamic neighborhood from a child's perspective. Based on ac...

Reducere. JosE Gregorio Esparza, also known as Gregorio Esparza, was the last Texian defender to enter the Alamo during the early days of the siege and was t...

Reducere. UP FROM THE ASHES tells the story of the development, destruction, and rebuilding of a dynamic neighborhood from a child's perspective. Based on ac...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Janice Jordan ShefelmanIllustrator: Tom ShefelmanIllustrator: Karl ShefelmanSearching for a better life, Mina, Papa, and Ma...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NealAlthough only a cook, Doris Miller fought bravely against Japanese attackers at Pearl Harbor. The young African-...

Reducere. Bluebonnet, dubbed "everyone's favorite armadillo" by Texas Highways magazine, is off to visit Mount Vernon, Texas, in this tenth book of the Blueb...

Reducere. No other name is more associated with the Gulf Coast than that of privateer, Jean Laffite. He has been called everything from a blood-thirsty pirat...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bill O'NealIn the early 1890s Wyoming's northern rangeland was torn by the Johnson County War, a violent western collision ...

Reducere. Once upon a time in the late nineteenth century, there was an outlaw that captured the imagination of the American public like no other. He can be ...

Reducere. Texas is a land of legends and folktales. Some of them are based on characters like Pecos Bill, Bigfoot Wallace, and Davy Crockett - loud, outgoing...

Reducere. What other state has been governed under six flags? What other state has lived independently as a republic? Or been influenced by so many diverse c...

Reducere. By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, J...

Publisher: Polity PressAuthor(s): Marshall EakinNumber of pages: 176Collection: What is History?Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 18Cov...

Reducere. Texas' most famous fighting man, James (Jim) Bowie, a descendant of the fierce natives of the Scottish Highlands, gets the full treatment in Cliffo...

Reducere. The story of Bonnie and Clyde--their love, their desperate killings, and their destruction in an explosion of gun fire--has fueled an American lege...

Reducere. In April of 1910, two courageous boys, ages six and ten, left Frederick, Oklahoma, on a 2, 500 mile horseback ride to New York. Temple and Louie (B...

Reducere. Whether short or tall, children of the world want to be a cowboy at some time. Charley & Amanda introduces children to the rodeo clown and a behind...

Reducere. George Redman Tucker was a well-known lawman during his time but almost lost to the pages of history. Norman Wayne Brown brings to life a man whose...

"Haunted Land: The Devil's Backbone 3" is the third in this popular Texas series of ghosts, the supernatural and the mysterious. It picks up where ...

In this powerful, fact-based novel, Alan Huffines has created a new Western classic. Beginning with Indian Territory's Marlow family and their real...

"Who will go with old Ben Milam into San Antonio?" That rallying call from the Texian soldier named Ben Milam still resounds from the pages of Texa...

Reducere. Tumbleweed Smith loves to bring the sounds and stories to radio and newspaper audiences across Texas. "Texas Highways" magazine says he has probabl...

Reducere. "Ghostly Chills: The Devil's Backbone 2" picks up where "The Devil's Backbone: Ghost Stories from the Texas Hill Country" left off. This volume bri...

Reducere. Aransas: The Life of a Texas Coastal County is a wonderfully researched history of an exciting part of Texas. This is the story of a little place t...

All too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English coloni...

Reducere. "The Arizona Rangers" is the first documented history of the Rangers ever published, and fills a sizeable void in the annals of Arizona Territory. ...

When twelve-year-old Ruthy Donohue is sent away from home, because of an awful tragedy in the fall of 1837, she has to figure out how to cope with ...

Reducere. The Pacific Coast League is one of the oldest baseball leagues and has a rich and colorful history. Bill O'Neal's exhaustive research brings back f...

Reducere. SUNSHINE ON THE PRAIRIE is the story of CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, captured by a band of Comanches as a nine-year-old while living in Fort Parker with her...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: John E. ClarkThe name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election w...

Dear Reader, I am afraid for us. So begins Sophie's journal on Christmas Eve, 1861. And no wonder. She lives in Comfort, Texas, during the Civil Wa...

Reducere. DescriptionInky and Me: Stories about Growing Up on a Ranch in Texas is about much more than just a boy and his dog. It is about a way of life that...

Reducere. When the Civil War broke out, Missouri was secured for the Union, but many Southern-leaning citizens in the border state resented the Federal occup...

Reducere. You are only a few remaining skeletons after the invasion of East Asia for the past few centuries, and are pitiful victims. We will build the railr...

In this volume are thoughts on twenty-five subjects encouraging readers to think. The topics include: truth, reason, prayer, time, abortion and hom...

Reducere. Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist fed...

Reducere. Krasna Amerika (Beautiful America) will make Texans of Czech descent proud of their heritage. Various aspects of Czech Texan life are presented in ...

Reducere. DescriptionFreemasonry is one of the world's oldest fraternal organizations. It is a society of men concerned with moral and spiritual values. Memb...

Reducere. The Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, "transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth." Indeed, the sieg...

Reducere. The binding persons of African descent and Native Americans trace back centuries. In Oklahoma, both free and enslaved Africans lived among the "Fiv...

Reducere. For a fan, few things match the pleasure of entering a college football stadium on a Saturday afternoon. The significance of these buildings to the...

Reducere. The Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, -transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth.- Indeed, the sieg...

Reducere. DescriptionA unique volume of information and colorful anecdotes about historic ranches, located throughout the American West. In all, almost sixty...

Reducere. For the lawless, the Big Thicket offered the best natural hiding place in Texas. Wanda Landrey tells the tales of various outlaws and their deeds f...

Reducere. Beulah Land. Paradise. Shangri-la. Oklahoma seemed to be all of these in the hostile, racist, post-Civil War South. Seeking both refuge and respect...

Reducere. Here is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa's most important oral histori...

DescriptionThis story, set in 1920, revolves around Charles "Charlie" Jackson, a twelve-and-a-half-year-old from Boley, Oklahoma, one of America's ...

Reducere. Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, ranc...

Reducere. A gripping account of rampant crime in Fort Worth, Texas during the 1930s, through the 1950's, with hoodlums, gamblers, murderers, dopers, pimps an...

Reducere. From 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carniva...

An ancient demon plays cowboy and takes on the Texas Rangers. Three teenage girls sneak into a "body farm." An aging African American couple defies...

Reducere. Bert Wall, a fifth-generation Texan, grew up in Houston where he graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in history and political sc...

Reducere. Black, Buckskin, and Blue takes an in-depth look at African Americans who were scouts and soldiers on the United States western frontier during the...

Reducere. Old Blue, Texas' most revered longhorn, worked for rancher Charles Goodnight. But Blue has almost been forgotten by history. In 1998 a mysterious o...

Reducere. What started as an exhibition to entertain audiences has turned into the most popular-and dangerous-event in rodeo: bull riding. When a 150-pound m...

Unique among animals that ever trod across Texas, Uncle Sam was a camel born at sea. Arriving in Texas in 1856 as part of the U.S. Army's experimen...

Reducere. Early in the twentieth century, the black community in Tulsa- the "Greenwood District"- became a nationally renowned entrepreneurial center. Freque...

Reducere. The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre occurred over two days, May 30 and June 1, 1921, when a white mob destroyed the African American section of Tulsa, Okl...

Reducere. A hanging tree takes the law into its own limbs in "The Tree Servant." A mother's love is tested by the walking, crawling and thumb-sucking dead in...

Reducere. DescriptionThe first battle of the Texas Revolution was fought in Gonzales in October 1835. The fight was between the Texans and Mexican soldiers o...

Reducere. Hangings and Lynchings in Dallas County, Texas: 1853 to 1920 documents all of the known hangings in Dallas County including . . . Jane Elkins, a sl...

Reducere. Imbibing the promise of Jeffersonian egalitarianism, some Americans in the early nineteenth century sought to gain positions of leadership in polit...

Reducere. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...

Reducere. Black Wall Street 100: An American City Grapples with its Historical Racial Trauma, endorsed by the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre Centennial Commission ...

Reducere. Between 1926 and his untimely death in 1929, Blind Lemon Jefferson was the largest-selling African-American blues singer in the United States. Blin...

Reducere. The biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River in 1813, twenty-three...

Reducere. The Texas equivalent of the "Mayflower" adventures, the three hundred families who settled Stephen F. Austin's original colony formed the foundatio...

Reducere. DescriptionMurder, violence, and intimidation are the bitter grapes of the Becerra and de la Garza families, early day Spanish settlers who had bee...