Keepers of the Spirit: The Corps of Cadets at Texas A&m University, 1876-2001, Paperback - John A. Adams

Reducere. New in paperback " . . . skillfully analyzed hundreds of primary source documents and integrated contemporary political, social and cultural elemen...

Reducere. Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer is known as the "father of Texas botany." While he was not the first botanist to collect plants for scientific examinati...

With a laugh, Laura Lewis says of her art, "I am uncomfortable painting mountains, because they get in the way of the view." The challenge for this...

Reducere. When America entered World War II, the surge of patriotism was not confined to men. Congress authorized the organization of the Women's Army Auxili...

The Book of Aggie Lists brings together in one volume a vast amount of information that will be welcomed by current and former students of Texas A&...

Reducere. In 1542 members of the thriving Caddo Indian culture came face to face with Luis de Moscoso, successor to Hernando de Soto as leader of a Spanish e...

Reducere. Snakes inspire extreme reactions. Love or hate these limbless reptiles, almost everyone is fascinated by them. Although snakes are widespread and f...

Reducere. A measure of our need for integrity, John Beebe writes, is that "we rarely allow ourselves an examination of the concept itself. To do so would bet...

Reducere. Built overlooking Corpus Christi Bay, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi has a history as unique as its location as the nation's only university l...

Reducere. "The stories these cowboys tell are exciting and lively. Reading the book is like meeting them face to face and sharing in the active lives they le...

Tells the little known story of the contribution of Texas A&M University to early aviation in World War I. Through painstaking research - using uni...

Reducere. The rich, multicultural heritage of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country provide the backdrop for this first comprehensive guide to the culturall...

In a career spanning four decades, Gerald R. North contributed groundbreaking research that continues to shape the modern field of climate science....

Reducere. This book written by James Madison Page, a Northern soldier, represents an important narrative of Andersonville prison in Georgia. Madison brings h...

Reducere. Now in its sixth printing, the first of Elton Miles's folklore collections tells stories as inseparable from the region as the Rio Grande itself. T...

Much has happened with Delbert McClinton since the first edition of Delbert McClinton: One Of The Fortunate Few was released in 2017. That year, Ro...

Reducere. DescriptionIn the early days of Texas, the work of the cowhand was essential to the newly arrived settlers building a life on the frontier. The sto...

Reducere. Big Bend resident rancher Hallie Stillwell has added her voice and favorite chili recipe to her friend Frank X. Tolbert's classic book, A Bowl of R...

In 1956, the era of tail-finned cars and nineteen-cents-a-gallon gasoline, the Missouri Pacific Railroad emerged on the corporate scene as a privat...

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At 102 years of age, Louise Tobin is one of the last surviving musicians of the Swing Era. Born in Aubrey, Texas, in 1918, she grew up in a large f...

Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York's Whitney Museum,...

A decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the ...

Reducere. 2001 Summerfield G. Roberts Award, presented by the Sons of the Republic of Texas Drawing on a wealth of contemporary accounts, including several f...

Reducere. The myth of the cowboy is powerful in American folklore, but the real life of the cowboy was hard, lonely, and rewarding, if one was seeking the le...

Reducere. In Wild Focus, Earl Nottingham, chief photographer for the Texas Parks & Wildlife Department and its magazine, provides a unique perspective on Tex...

Reducere. Bob Denhardt first "penned up" The Quarter Horse and had it printed in Houston in 1941. It was the first book ever published about this then-new br...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

In 1970, the small nation of Cambodia was sucked into the vortex of Cold War geopolitics, a war whose denouement led to one of the worst bloodbaths...

Reducere. DescriptionLike many Texans, Michael H. Marvins has been making regular pilgrimages to the Hill Country for much of his life. Traveling the back ro...

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Reducere. This true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It...

Reducere. The Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were dis...

Reducere. Nicholas Aloysius Gallagher became the third Roman Catholic bishop for the Diocese of Galveston in1882. During his thirty-six year tenure as bishop...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Elena Zamora O'SheaIntroduction by: Leticia M. Garza FalconIntroduction by: Andres TijerinaThe open country of Texas betwee...

Reducere. Visitors to Texas and New Mexico have marveled for centuries at the immensity of the Llano Estacado and the surprising contrast as, at the edges of...

Reducere. In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south...

DescriptionFrom the defeat of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam at Ap Bac to the battles of the Ia Drang Valley, Khe Sanh, and more, Storms over ...

Reducere. In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled me...

Reducere. During the night of 27-28 March 1971, a Viet Cong sapper company infiltrated Fire Support Base Mary Ann, the forwardmost position in the 23d Divisi...

In the spring of 1874 a handful of men and one women set out for the Texas Panhandle to seek their fortunes in the great buffalo hunt. Moving south...

Reducere. Historian David La Vere has culled from the Indian-Pioneer Histories housed in the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma C...

Reducere. In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the U.S. Army in the West. The Plains Indians dubbed them buffalo sol...

The army that engineered Mexico's independence was a melting pot of insurgent and royalist forces held together by the lure of rapid promotions and...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle, author Paul H. Carlson tells the story of Chicago-based William Henry Bush and his role in sha...

Reducere. "The power which has always started the greatest religious and political avalanches in history rolling has from time immemorial been the magic powe...

Reducere. Ed Blanchard was best known for making spurs that fit a cowboy's boots. Yet Blanchard was known to family and friends as a wild, reckless cowboy lo...

Reducere. Fruit filled, fun filled and most importantly spirit filled, sums up this amazing book presented to you by the Zkids.It depicts the fruits of the s...

Reducere. Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine are the names of popular quilt patterns, and in this volume, now in its seventh printing, sixteen pioneer women desc...