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

Reducere. Battleship Texas, visited by thousands of tourists each year at its berth at San Jacinto, is the lone survivor of the first generation of dreadnoug...

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. Like many pioneer western cattlemen, Ed C. Lasater was confident, optimistic, and an aggressive user of bank credit. This history of the South Texa...

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. Texas Range Plants offers a handy and attractive identification guide for the soil conservationist, range ecologist, amateur botanist, land apprais...

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...

DescriptionFountain Goodlet Oxsheer--like "Slaughter" or "Goodnight"--was an unusual and appealing name for one of Texas' most dynamic cattle ranch...

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...

Reducere. Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this cany...

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. "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...

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. Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85764 What we wish to know, and most desire,...

Description". . . an excellent resource as well as a useful classroom text." -- Journal of Wildlife Management"Guthery has written a tour de force ...

In 1943 Claire Chevrillon (code named Christiane Clouet) became head of the Code Service in Paris for General de Gaulle's Delegation and served as ...

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

Reducere. XQuery is the best language for querying, manipulating, and transforming XML and JSON documents. Because XML is in many ways the lingua franca of t...

Reducere. A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle...

This important new study examines the intricately linked phenomena of interwoven population growth, economic power, quality education, business lea...

Reducere. will copy some infor later later this is only a testAbout the AuthorMARCIA MYERS BONTA has written three books and has published extensively in Ame...

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...

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

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. Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independe...

Reducere. Also available in an open-access, full-text edition at http: //oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/85768 With the evolution of human consciousn...

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...

Reducere. Winner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of Texas In its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-mil...

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

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

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. 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...

The Big Bend region of Texas-variously referred to as "El Despoblado" (the uninhabited land), "a land of contrasts, " "Texas' last frontier, " or s...

Reducere. "Ricardo Palacios gives us a vivid portrait of his uncle, Hall of Fame roper Juan Salinas, the first great Mexican cowboy to brush prejudices aside...

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...

Reducere. Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith ...

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...

During the Second World War few countries provided a more difficult challenge for Gen. "Wild Bill" Donovan's Office of Strategic Services than did ...

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. Description"A self-proclaimed 'rut nut' prone to ground-truth his research, Gary L. Pinkerton brings considerable historical and geoarchaeological ...

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...

Reducere. The United States Military Academy at West Point is one of America s oldest and most revered institutions. Founded in 1802, its first and only miss...

Reducere. In their own vivid words, the women members of the Soviet air force recount their dramatic efforts against the German forces in World War II. These...

Contributor(s): Editor: Richard J. JensenEditor: John C. HammerbackC sar Ch vez's relentless campaign for social justice for farm workers and labor...

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 era: the 1970s. The location: an airplane en route to Washington, DC. Kathryn Clark Childers chats with a fellow passenger."Are you visiting?" ...

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

DescriptionHistorians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands af...

Javelinas and Other Peccaries is certain to be regarded as the definitive source on this family of piglike creatures consisting of three species. B...

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...

Reducere. "America had a secret weapon, " writes Steve Call of the period immediately following September 11, 2001, as planners contemplated the invasion of ...

Reducere. Description"Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Ken Roberts' The Cedar Choppers leads us on a fascinating journey to the heart of this ...

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...

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

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

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 ...

Three centuries after the French explorer La Salle was murdered in the Texas wilds, this volume presents translations of three obscure documents th...

Reducere. "A deeply meaningful collection that navigates important nuances of identity."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review Nepantla Familias brings together Me...

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

Reducere. Houston was Boomtown USA in the 1970s, growing through tremendous immigration of people and through frequent annexation of outlying areas. But in t...

The Shimmering Is All There Is: On Nature, God, Science, and More is a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. A native of...

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. The eastern screech owl, widespread over the eastern half of North America and noticeably tolerant of human activity, is one of America's most fami...

Reducere. DescriptionIn When Everything Beyond the Walls Is Wild, Lilace Mellin Guignard draws from emblematic moments and relationships in her own life to e...

Reducere. At the beginning of America's involvement in World War II, Galveston Island was a recreation center for area servicemen. Every evening throngs of s...

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. 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...