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  • The Samuel May Williams Home

    The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur

    by Margaret Swett Henson, Deoloce Parmalee ...
    Series Book 7 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite—Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others—a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • The Call of the Canyon

    by Zane Grey ...
    "The Call of the Canyon" tells the story of Glenn Kilbourne, a wealthy and successful New York businessman who has experienced the horrors of World War I. After the war, he returns to his high-society life in New York City, but he finds it empty and unfulfilling.As Glenn struggles with the emotional scars of war and a sense of disillusionment, he receives a letter from a woman named Carley Burch, ... Read more

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  • Lone Star

    A History of Texas and the Texans

    by T. R. Fehrenbach ...
    The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico.T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

    What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

    by Erica Grieder ...
    Erica Grieder's Texas is a state that is not only an outlier but an exaggeration of some of America's most striking virtues and flaws. Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right is a witty, enlightening inquiry into how Texas works, and why, in the future, the rest of America may look a lot like Texas. ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • 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

  • Charles Goodnight

    Father of the Texas Panhandle

    by William T. Hagan ...
    Series series The Oklahoma Western Biographies
    Charles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry—an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this brief, authoritative account that considers the role of ranching in general—and Goodnight in particular—in the development of the Texas Panhandle. The first major reassessment of his life in seventy years ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • My Boys and Girls Are in There

    The 1937 New London School Explosion

    by Ron Rozelle ...
    On March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a vast pool of natural gas that had collected beneath the school building in New London, a tiny community in East Texas. The resulting explosion leveled the four-year-old structure and resulted in a death toll of more than three hundred—most of them children. To this day, it is the worst school disaster in the history of the United States. The tragedy and its ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Listening to Rosita

    The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

    by Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn’t hurt.When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • No Pretty Picture

    Maud Hawk Wright and Villa's Raid on Columbus, A Novel Based on Historical Facts

    by Michael Archie Hays ...
    A testament to strength and determination, Maud Hawk Wright recounts the true story of a young American woman who is kidnapped from her ranch in Chihuahua during the Mexican Revolution by Villista raiders. The raiders force her and her husband off their land, leaving their infant child with a hired hand, and shortly afterward, murdering her husband. Bereft and grieving, Maud is taken to Pancho ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • 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

  • Casa Grande

    by Dawn Snell, Casa Grande Valley Historical Society ...
    Series series Images of America
    Casa Grande, Arizona, is located on desert and farmland between Tucson and Phoenix and began as the end of an unfinished railroad line�thus its early name, Terminus. On May 19, 1879, when early summer heat halted construction of the railroad in what would soon become Casa Grande, only three buildings and five residents constituted the town. The names reflect the ethnic diversity of the sparse ... Read more

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  • Out Where the West Begins, Volume 2

    Creating and Civilizing the American West

    by Philip F. Anschutz ...
    In 1790, it was not a given that the young United States, bruised and healing from its struggle for independence and populated by fewer than 4 million inhabitants, would even survive, much less flourish. But the great adventure that came next—the exploration and settlement of the lands lying to the west and stretching to the Pacific Ocean—would build a nation where only a patchwork of eastern ... Read more

    $21.59 USD