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Reducere. This new study revolves around the Tonkawa tribe in the history of the Lone Star State and the greater Southwest. The chronological account allows ...

Reducere. Juneteenth has been touted as a national day celebrating the end of slavery. Observances from coast to coast have turned this event into part of th...

Reducere. The near extinction of the North American buffalo, which in 1850 covered the mid-western plains by countless millions but which had been hunted to ...

Miriam Ferguson was a quiet, private person who preferred to stay home in her big house in Temple, Texas, and take care of her husband, raise her t...

Reducere. DescriptionIn early 1861, most Missourians hoped they could remain neutral in the upcoming conflict between North and South. In fact, a popularly e...

Reducere. Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant dur...

Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): Gary D. JoinerIllustration(s): Sidebarsw 19;maps 20; b&w photos 20Number of pages: 224Collection: Civil War ...

Jos Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and facilitator for Stephen F. Austin, he was a signat...

Reducere. The West Texas frontier--the area encompassing the region stretching from Fort Worth to the Caprock, from Palo Duro Canyon to the San Saba River--h...

Sword of Empire: The Spanish Conquest of the Americas from Columbus to Cortés, 1492-1529 is, by design, an approachable and accessible history of s...

Reducere. DescriptionLust for Glory: An Epic Story of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation is a concise, reader friendly depiction of the "Her...

Reducere. Every city has a look and feel that informs how people respond to it. Visitors react to the skyline, clean streets, traffic patterns and the like, ...

Reducere. Gen. Phil Sheridan called the Red River War of 1874 the most successful Indian campaign ever waged. Many of its incidents have become frontier lege...

Publisher: State House PressAuthor(s): John A. PearceNumber of pages: 300Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 152 x 227 x 30Cover type: Paperback / so...

House is an Enigma is an investigation of the language used to house descriptions of the body, which so often seek to define and determine the boun...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Blue Lynx Prize for PoetryIn The Present State of the Garden, both childhood and the natural world are elegized as the speaker w...

Reducere. "Brilliant...Evenson manages to capture madness with a masterful tone. The specific genius of Fugue State rests in subtlety, in Evenson's ability t...

Reducere. The perverse world of a sexual sadist who terrorized women on Cleveland's East Side To his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony...

In post-independence Ireland, the country house was not regarded as an integral part of the national heritage. Despite this, the relationship betwe...

Reducere. William Kauffman Scarborough has produced a work of incomparable scope and depth, offering the challenge to see afresh one of the most powerful gro...