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Slaughter (Texas Tradition Series) מאת Elmer Kelton In the 1870s, buffalo hunters moved onto the High Plains of Texas. The Plains Indians watched hunters slaughter the animals that gave them shelter and clothing, food and weapons. The battles at and near the ruins of a trading fort, Adobe Walls, became symbolic of the struggles between hunters and th...

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Dictionary of the American West מאת Win Blevins Did you ever need to spell "dogie" (as in, get-along-little) or need to know what a "sakey" is? This is the book that can tell you how to spell, pronounce, and define over 5,000 terms relative to the American West. Want to know what a "breachy" cow is? Turn to page 43 to learn that it's an adjec...

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Emily Austin of Texas 1795-1851 (Texas Biography) מאת Light Townsend Cummins The Austin family left an indelible mark on Texas and the expanding American nation. In this insightful biography, Light Townsend Cummins turns the historical spotlight on Emily Austin, the daughter who followed the trails of the western frontier to Texas, where she saw the burgeoning young colony e...

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Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White מאת Mr. Bob Ray Sanders   In 1934, the year Calvin Littlejohn came to Fort Worth, the city was a sleepy little burg. This was the Jim Crow era, when mainstream newspapers wouldn’t publish pictures of black citizens and white photographers wouldn’t take pictures in black schools. In Fort Worth, Littlejohn began w...

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Adversity is my Angel: The Life and Career of Raul H. Castro מאת Raul H. Castro Raul H. Castro was the first Hispanic governor of Arizona, ambassador to El Salvador, Bolivia, and Argentina, lawyer, judge, and teacher. Born in Mexico in 1916, he moved with his family to a small mining community in Arizona in 1926. His earliest memories include collecting cactus fruit in the dese...

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Dancing Naked: Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans מאת Mary Rogers "Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth. Only Mary Rogers requires them to 'dance naked.'"--Jeff Guinn To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that term signifies a pact between the writer, the subject and the reader: only w...

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Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change מאת Sherrie Reynolds In "Higher Education Reconceived: A Geography of Change", authors Sherrie Reynolds and Toni Craven examine the process of change in higher education as they engage the reader in conversation about how we relate to ourselves and to one another. They draw on modern and post-modern elements of higher e...

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The Fighting Marlows: Men Who Wouldn't Be Lynched (Chisholm Trail Series) מאת Glenn Shirley Many people in northern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma still believe that the Marlow brothers—George, Charles, Alf, and Epp—were thieves and killers. In 1888 they were charged with rustling and murder, tried by public opinion, and betrayed by law officials responsible for their safety. Aft...

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Celebrating El Paso מאת Mr. Mark Paulda London mentors Kobi Israel and Rupert Truman taught Mark Paulda the rules of photography and how to break them. From "straight photography" to more innovative work, the camera is never far from his side. In Celebrating El Paso, Paulda turns to documenting the unique bi-cultural heritage...

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Alexander Campbell: Adventurer in Freedom: A Literary Biography, Volume Three מאת Eva Jean Wrather Eva Jean Wrather (1908-2001) spent most of her adult lifetime writing a biography of Alexander Campbell, founder of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), the only Protestant denomination to spring from American soil. Shortly before Wrather’s death, the manuscript totaled 800,000 words o...

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True West: An Illustrated Guide to the Heyday of the Western מאת Michael Barson Return with us to yesteryear, when cowboys were cowboys and gunslingers lurked around every corner. Today that colorful period continues to resonate in the collective imagination of red-blooded Americans everywhere--and now we have True West, which illustrates, in hundreds of full-color illus...