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  • Inventing Los Alamos

    The Growth of an Atomic Community

    by Jon Hunner ...
    A social history of New Mexico’s “Atomic City”Los Alamos, New Mexico, birthplace of the Atomic Age, is the community that revolutionized modern weaponry and science. An “instant city,” created in 1943, Los Alamos quickly grew to accommodate six thousand people—scientists and experts who came to work in the top-secret laboratories, others drawn by jobs in support industries, and the families. How ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • The Call of the Canyon

    by Zane Grey ...
    Embark on an adventurous journey with Zane Grey’s captivating novel, The Call of the Canyon. Set in the breathtaking landscapes of the American West, this story combines romance, adventure, and the stunning beauty of nature.What draws characters into the canyon’s wild embrace, and how does it shape their destinies? Grey’s vivid descriptions and gripping plot invite you to explore the rugged beauty ... Read more

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  • Whose Names Are Unknown: A Novel

    A Novel

    by Sanora Babb ...
    Sanora Babb’s long-hidden novel Whose Names Are Unknown tells of the High Plains farmers who fled drought and dust storms during the Great Depression. Written with empathy for the farmers’ plight, this powerful narrative is based upon the author’s firsthand experience.Babb submitted the manuscript for this book to Random House for consideration in 1939. Editor Bennett Cerf planned to publish this ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • A Great Aridness

    Climate Change and the Future of the American Southwest

    by William deBuys ...
    With its soaring azure sky and stark landscapes, the American Southwest is one of the most hauntingly beautiful regions on earth. Yet staggering population growth, combined with the intensifying effects of climate change, is driving the oasis-based society close to the brink of a Dust-Bowl-scale catastrophe. In A Great Aridness, William deBuys paints a compelling picture of what the Southwest ... Read more

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  • The Alamo

    by John Myers Myers ...
    John Myers Myers authored sixteen books, including Doc Holliday and Tombstone's Early Years, also available as Bison Books. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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  • The McLaurys in Tombstone, Arizona: An O.K. Corral Obituary

    by Paul Lee Johnson ...
    On a chilly October afternoon in 1881, two brothers named Tom and Frank McLaury were gunned down on the streets of Tombstone, Arizona, by the Earp brothers and Doc Holliday. The deadly event became known as the gunfight at the O.K. Corral, and in a quirk of fate, the brothers names became well-known, but only as bad men and outlaws. Did they deserve that reputation? The McLaurys in Tombstone, ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • Storm over Texas

    The Annexation Controversy and the Road to Civil War

    by Joel H. Silbey ...
    Series series Pivotal Moments in American History
    In the Spring of 1844, a fiery political conflict erupted over the admission of Texas into the Union, a hard-fought and bitter controversy that profoundly changed the course of American history. Indeed, as Joel Silbey argues in Storm Over Texas, the battle over Texas marked the crucial moment when partisan differences were transformed into a North-vs-South antagonism, and the momentum towards ... Read more

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  • Ten-Gallon War

    The NFL's Cowboys, the AFL's Texans, and the Feud for Dallas's Pro Football Future

    by John Eisenberg ...
    "It's every bit as fascinating to read about the battles between the Cowboys and the Texans as it is to follow today's never-ending NFL dramas." —Mike Florio, ProFootballTalkIn the 1960s, on the heels of the "Greatest Game Ever Played," professional football began to flourish across the country—except in Texas, where college football was still the only game in town. But in an unlikely series of ... Read more

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  • Gold-Mining Boomtown

    People of White Oaks, Lincoln County, New Mexico Territory

    by Roberta Key Haldane ...
    The town of White Oaks, New Mexico Territory, was born in 1879 when prospectors discovered gold at nearby Baxter Mountain. In Gold-Mining Boomtown, Roberta Key Haldane offers an intimate portrait of the southeastern New Mexico community by profiling more than forty families and individuals who made their homes there during its heyday.Today, fewer than a hundred people live in White Oaks. Its ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Recollections of a Tejano Life

    Antonio Menchaca in Texas History

    by Justin Poché ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    San Antonio native, military veteran, merchant, and mayor pro tem José Antonio Menchaca (1800–1879) was one of only a few Tejano leaders to leave behind an extensive manuscript of recollections. Portions of the document were published in 1907, followed by a “corrected” edition in 1937, but the complete work could not be published without painstaking reconstruction. At last available in its ... Read more

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  • Texas Almanac 2014–2015

    Edited by Ms. Elizabeth Cruce Alvarez, Robert Plocheck ...
    FEATURES OF THE TEXAS ALMANAC 2014–2015• Sketches of eight historic ranches of Texas by Texana writer Mike Cox.• Article on the Texas art and artists by Houston businessman and art collector J.P. Bryan, who has amassed the world’s largest Texana collection.• Coverage of the 2012 elections, redistricting, and the 2012 Texas Olympic medalists.• An update on Major League Baseball in Texas.• Lists of ... Read more

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  • My Eighty Years in Texas

    by William Physick Zuber ...
    Almost a century and a half went into the making of My Eighty Years in Texas. It began as a diary, kept by fifteen-year-old William Physick Zuber after he joined Sam Houston’s Texas army in 1836, hoping he could emulate the heroism of American Revolutionary patriots. Although his hopes were never realized, Zuber recorded the privations, victories, and defeats of armies on the move during the Texas ... Read more

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