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  • The Taft Ranch

    A Texas Principality

    by A. Ray Stephens ...
    For fifty years the progressive Coleman-Fulton Pasture Company, popularly known as the Taft Ranch, led in the development of South Texas, and in the early twentieth century achieved national and international repute for its contributions to agriculture. The story of the ranch reaches its climax as the firm is absorbed into the community growing up around it—the same community the ranch had ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Captured

    A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier

    by Scott Zesch ...
    "A carefully written, well-researched contribution to Western history -- and to a promising new genre: the anthropology of the stolen." - Kirkus ReviewsOn New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comanches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • House of Rain

    Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

    by Craig Childs ...
    An eye-opening historic guidebook that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to put a light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest.The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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  • Kings of Texas

    The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    by Don Graham ...
    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Read more

    $15.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When Law Was in the Holster: The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

    The Frontier Life of Bob Paul

    by John Boessenecker ...
    One of the great lawmen of the Old West, Bob Paul (1830–1901) cast a giant shadow across the frontiers of California and Arizona Territory for nearly fifty years. Today he is remembered mainly for his friendship with Wyatt Earp and his involvement in the stirring events surrounding the famous 1881 gunfight near the OK Corral in Tombstone, Arizona. This long-overdue biography fills crucial gaps in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • New Mexico

    A History

    by Robert L. Spude, Joseph P. Sanchez, Arthur R. Gomez ...
    Since the earliest days of Spanish exploration and settlement, New Mexico has been known for lying off the beaten track. But this new history reminds readers that the world has been beating paths to New Mexico for hundreds of years, via the Camino Real, the Santa Fe Trail, several railroads, Route 66, the interstate highway system, and now the Internet.This first complete history of New Mexico in ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Roswell

    by John LeMay ...
    Series series Images of America
    Best known as the site of an alleged flying saucer crash in 1947 and the �Roswell Incident,� Roswell began as a humble trading post in the late 1860s along the Goodnight-Loving Cattle Trail and eventually grew into a metropolis of southeastern New Mexico. Once a cow town and home to famous Western figures such as John Chisum, Pat Garrett, and Capt. Joseph C. Lea, Roswell is also the birthplace of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Indians of Arizona and New Mexico

    Nineteenth Century Ethnographic Notes of Archbishop John Baptist Salpointe

    by Patricia Fogelman Lange, Louis A. Hieb, Thomas J. Steele ...
    This volume describes the little-known world of John Baptist Salpointe, successor to Archbishop Lamy and the second Archbishop of Santa Fe, who worked among Indian tribes in both Arizona and New Mexico during the tumultuous final years of the frontier between 1860-1898. All of his impressions and accumulated knowledge of Indian/White relations over this thirty-plus-year period are vividly described ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Texans and War

    New Interpretations of the State's Military History

    Edited by Alexander Mendoza, Charles David Grear ...
    Series Book 116 - Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A&M University
    Beginning with tribal wars among Native Americans before Europeans settled Texas and continuing through the Civil War, the soil of what would become the Lone Star State has frequently been stained by the blood of those contesting for control of its resources. In subsequent years and continuing to the present, its citizens have often taken up arms beyond its borders in pursuit of political values ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Blue Texas

    The Making of a Multiracial Democratic Coalition in the Civil Rights Era

    by Max Krochmal ...
    Series series Justice, Power, and Politics
    This book is about the other Texas, not the state known for its cowboy conservatism, but a mid-twentieth-century hotbed of community organizing, liberal politics, and civil rights activism. Beginning in the 1930s, Max Krochmal tells the story of the decades-long struggle for democracy in Texas, when African American, Mexican American, and white labor and community activists gradually came together ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The State Library and Archives of Texas

    A History, 1835-1962

    by David B. Gracy ...
    The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this book, he chronicles more than a century of efforts by dedicated librarians and archivists to ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Republic of Football

    Legends of the Texas High School Game

    by Chad S. Conine ...
    Anywhere football is played, Texas is the force to reckon with. Its powerhouse programs produce the best football players in America. In The Republic of Football, Chad S. Conine vividly captures Texas’s impact on the game with action-filled stories about legendary high school players, coaches, and teams from around the state and across seven decades.Drawing on dozens of interviews, Conine offers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD