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  • The Texas War of Independence 1835–36

    From Outbreak to the Alamo to San Jacinto

    by Alan C Huffines ...
    Series series Guide to...
    The Texas Revolution is remembered chiefly for the 13-day siege of the Alamo and its immortal heroes.This book describes the war and the preceding years that were marked by resentments and minor confrontations as the ambitions of Mexico's leaders clashed with the territorial determination of Texan settlers.When the war broke in October 1835, the invading Mexicans, under the leadership of the ... Read more

    $10.59 USD

  • Blood of Noble Men

    The Alamo Siege & Battle

    by Alan C Huffines ...
    The Alamo and its defenders, according to historian Stephen L. Hardin, "transcended mere history; both entered the realm of myth." Indeed, the siege and battle of the Alamo serves today as a definition of American character. The date of March 6, 1836, is forever ensconced in the annals of history. But what happened in the twelve days leading up to the final battle of March 6? And did events ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

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  • Running With Bonnie and Clyde

    The Ten Fast Years of Ralph Fults

    by John Neal Phillips ...
    One of the most sought-after criminals of the Depression era, Ralph Fults began his career of crime at the improbable age of fourteen. At nineteen he met Clyde Barrow in a Texas prison, and the two men together founded what would later be known as the Barrow gang. Running with Bonnie and Clyde is the story of Fults's experiences in the Texas criminal underworld between the years 1925 and 1935 and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Mesa of Sorrows

    A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre

    by James F. Brooks ...
    A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While ... Read more

    $12.29 USD

  • The WPA Guide to Arizona

    The Grand Canyon State

    by Federal Writers' Project ...
    Series series WPA Guides Digital Library
    During the 1930s in the United States, the Works Progress Administration developed the Federal Writers’ Project to support writers and artists while making a national effort to document the country’s shared history and culture. The American Guide series consists of individual guides to each of the states. Little-known authors-many of whom would later become celebrated literary figures-were ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Oveta Culp Hobby

    Colonel, Cabinet Member, Philanthropist

    by Debra L. Winegarten ...
    Series series Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series
    This young adult biography introduces middle school readers to a remarkable woman who founded the Women’s Army Corps, served as Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare, and ran a media empire that included the Houston Post newspaper and radio and TV stations.Winner, Gold Medal for Biography, Military Writers Society of America, 2015Oveta Culp Hobby (1905–1995) had a lifetime of stellar ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • How the World Moves

    The Odyssey of an American Indian Family

    by Peter Nabokov ...
    A compelling portrait of cultural transition and assimilation via the saga of one Acoma Pueblo Indian familyBorn in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Texas Crossings

    The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986

    by Howard R. Lamar ...
    “Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!” exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and “get-ahead” spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the “crossings” that have characterized Texas history to see what effect these migrations to and through Texas have had on Texas, the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Texas Gunslingers

    by Bill O'Neal ...
    Series series Images of America
    Images of America: Texas Gunslingers presents the concept of Texas as the Gunfighter Capital of the West. Indeed, after the cowboy�a Texas creation�the most colorful and romanticized frontier figure is the gunfighter. Nothing is more dramatic than life and death conflict, and the image of men in big hats and boots brandishing six-shooters and Winchesters has been portrayed in countless Western ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Woodward County

    by Ian D. Swart ...
    Series series Images of America
    The first settlement in what would become Woodward County was Camp Supply, a military post that had been established in 1868 during the Indian Wars on the American frontier. In 1887, a provisioning point for the post on the Southern Kansas Railway was created and named Woodward. It was not until six years later that the area known as the Cherokee Outlet would be opened to nonnative settlement. At ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Ernest L. Blumenschein

    The Life of an American Artist

    by Carole B. Larson, Robert W. Larson ...
    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    Few who appreciate the visual arts or the American Southwest can behold the masterpieces Sangre de Cristo Mountains or Haystack, Taos Valley, 1927 or Bend in the River, 1941 and come away without a vivid image burned into memory. The creator of these and many other depictions of the Southwest and its people was Ernest L. Blumenschein, cofounder of the famous Taos art colony. This insightful, ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Faded Glory

    A Century of Forgotten Military Sites in Texas, Then and Now

    by Thomas E. Alexander, Dan K. Utley ...
    Series Book 25 - Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities
    Each of the wars fought by Texans spawned the creation of scores of military sites across the state, from the lonely frontier outpost at Adobe Walls to the once-bustling World War II shipyards of Orange. Today, although vestiges of the sites still exist, many are barely discernible, their once-proud martial trappings now faded by time, neglect, the elements and, most of all, public apathy. ?In ... Read more

    $8.69 USD