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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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Guadalupe San MiguelStrikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations, and litigation marked the efforts of Mexican-origin community...

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. 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. "This is the fascinating story of Howard E. Perry and his Terlingua fiefdom on the edge of Big Bend National Park. Ragsdale's Quicksilver: Terlingu...

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 February 1971, the Army of the Republic of Vietnam (ARVN) launched an incursion into Laos in an attempt to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and destroy...

Reducere. In the previous century a large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents...

DescriptionTexas singer-songwriter Hayes Carll declared, "Ray would be at the top of the list if I were gonna read about somebody's life." In The M...

DescriptionMost general histories of the Civil War pay scant attention to the many important military events that took place in the Lower Rio Grand...

Reducere. From the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores h...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Xiaoming ZhangThe Korean conflict was a pivotal event in China's modern military history. The fighting in Korea constituted...

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...

Reducere. A victorious American army, having driven through Belgium almost unopposed, ran head-on into German soldiers on their own home ground, in some of t...

Reducere. Curanderas-traditional healers in Mexican culture-bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence-spiritual and material, modern and pre-moder...

When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South T...

Reducere. The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demogr...

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