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  • The Great Texas Stamp Collection

    How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the World's Greatest Philatelists Created, Discovered, and Preserved Some of the World's Most Valuable Postage Stamps

    by Charles W. Deaton ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    Among the many difficulties the newly formed Confederate States of America endured in the summer of 1861 was the failure of its post office department to provide sufficient numbers of that item most crucial to its service: the postage stamp. Faced with the resulting din of customer complaints, a handful of industrious Texas postmasters solved the problem by simply making their own homemade stamps ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • The Call of the Canyon (Unabridged) (Annotated)

    Enriched Edition. A Postwar Western Romance of Arizona Canyons, Wounded Veterans, and East-West Transformation

    by Zane Grey, Corin Mordenby ...
    The Call of the Canyon (Unabridged) is a Western romance shaped by the dislocations of post–World War I America. Its heroine, Carley Burch, travels from fashionable New York to the rugged Arizona canyon country to reclaim Glenn Kilbourne, a wounded veteran who has found moral and physical renewal in the West. Grey's prose is expansive, pictorial, and melodramatic, placing intimate emotional ... Read more

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  • The Emerald Mile

    The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon

    by Kevin Fedarko ...
    From one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever through the Grand Canyon, atop the legendary Colorado River flood of 1983.In the spring of 1983, massive flooding along the length of the Colorado River confronted a team of engineers at the Glen Canyon Dam with an unprecedented emergency that may have resulted in the most catastrophic ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • The Comanches

    Lords of the South Plains

    by Ernest Wallace, E. Adamson Hoebel ...
    Series Book 34 - The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    The fierce bands of Comanche Indians, on the testimony of their contemporaries, both red and white, numbered some of the most splendid horsemen the world has ever produced. Often the terror of other tribes, who, on finding a Comanche footprint in the Western plains country, would turn and go in the other direction, they were indeed the Lords of the South Plains.For more than a century and a half, ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • 1960s Austin Gangsters

    Organized Crime that Rocked the Capital

    by Jesse Sublett ...
    Series series True Crime
    Timmy Overton of Austin and Jerry Ray James of Odessa were football stars who traded athletics for lives of crime. The original rebels without causes, nihilists with Cadillacs and Elvis hair, the Overton gang and their associates formed a ragtag white trash mafia that bedazzled Austin law enforcement for most of the 1960s. Tied into a loose network of crooked lawyers, pimps and used car dealers ... Read more

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  • Haunted Austin

    History and Hauntings in the Capital City

    by Jeanine Plumer ...
    Series series Haunted America
    Discover the spirits and ghosts that have been keeping Austin weird for centuries in this guidebook to the city's supernatural residents.A killer lurks in the dark streets, victimizing servant girls throughout 1885, and Austin becomes the first American city to claim a serial killer. The spirits of convicts wander amidst the manicured grounds of the Texas State Capitol, while inside a public ... Read more

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  • Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado

    The Assassination of J. W. Jarrott, a Forgotten Hero

    by Bill Neal ...
    In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these “nesters.” In August 1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Historic Manzanita Speedway in Phoenix

    by Larry Upton, Judy McDonald, Stock Car Racing Association ...
    Series series Images of America
    Phoenix's Manzanita Speedway, the last of the big dirt tracks located near the central corridor of a major metropolitan area, is now gone. The track opened in the early 1950s when Jack Holloway, president of the Arizona Jalopy Racing Association, along with Avery Doyle and Gene Gunn, set about convincing Rudy Everett and Larry Meskimen to convert their unprofitable dog-racing operation into a ... Read more

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  • Los Arabes of New Mexico

    Compadres from a Distant Land

    by Monika Ghattas ...
    At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return to ... Read more

    $7.19 USD

  • Rawhide Ranger

    Enforcing Law on the Texas Frontier

    by Bob Alexander ...
    Series series Frances B. Vick Series
    Ira Aten (1862-1953) was the epitome of a frontier lawman. At age twenty he enrolled in Company D during the transition of the Rangers from Indian fighters to topnotch peace officers. This unitand Atenwould have a lively time making their mark in nineteenth-century Texas. The preponderance of Texas Ranger treatments center on the outfit as an institution or spotlight the narratives of specific ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Texas and the Mexican War

    A History and a Guide

    by Charles M. Robinson III ...
    Series Book 16 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Written for both the specialist and the casual reader, Texas and the Mexican War discusses the pivotal role Texas played in the Mexican War, battles fought on Texas soil, and the contributions—for better or sometimes worse—of Texas troops throughout the war. Since the opening of hostilities in 1846, the Mexican War has remained controversial. Author Charles M. Robinson III describes how attitudes ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Jane's Window

    My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin

    by Jane Dunn Sibley ...
    Series Book 14 - Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series
    On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs. According to the US Geological Survey, the gap that provides this breathtaking and historic view is named “Jane’s ... Read more

    $8.69 USD