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  • The Cradle of Texas Road

    A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation

    by Robin Navarro Montgomery, Joy Montgomery ...
    The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.Thoroughly researched and ambitious in scope, The Cradle of Texas Road explores this region of Texas to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • The Land of Little Rain

    Enriched edition. Exploring the Beauty of Southwest Wilderness

    by Mary Austin, Sabrina Hendricks ...
    Mary Austin's "The Land of Little Rain" is a lyrical exploration of the natural beauty and stark realities of the high desert of California. Through a series of evocative essays, Austin masterfully intertwines the landscape's physicality with its cultural and spiritual significance to native peoples and settlers alike. Her keen observations render the region's flora and fauna not merely as ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Closure

    The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission

    by Lt. William Keegan ...
    The first book to chronicle the cleanup of the World Trade Center site from 9/11 through its closing ceremony, told by Lieutenant William Keegan of the Port Authority Police Department—one of the four operations commanders at the site—as he comes to his own closure with the tragedy.On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority Police Department was the first uniformed service to respond to the attack ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Coronado National Memorial

    A History of Montezuma Canyon and the Southern Huachucas

    by Joseph P. Sánchez ...
    Series series America's National Parks
    Coronado National Memorial explores forgotten pathways through Montezuma Canyon in southeastern Arizona, and provides an essential history of the southern Huachuca Mountains. This is a magical place that shaped the region and two countries, the United States and Mexico. Its history dates back to the expedition led by Conquistador Francisco Vásquez de Coronado in 1540, a mere forty-eight years ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Underground Prescott

    A Historical Review of the Stories About Catacombs, Tunnels, Speakeasys, Opium Dens and Bordellos in Early Prescott, Arizona

    by Patricia Ireland-Williams ...
    Underground Prescott is a historical look at the old west in Arizona's first territorial capitol, Prescott, Arizona. There are many stories about life underground whether it be passageways, tunnels, catacombs, opium dens, gambling halls, prohibition or brothels. Underground Prescott talks about this history and includes photos of areas below Prescott that are no longer accessible to the public. ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • A History of Highway 60

    and the Railroad Towns on the Belen, New Mexico Cutoff

    by Dixie Boyle ...
    In 1903 the AT&SF Railroad began laying track on the Belen Cutoff from Belen, New Mexico to Amarillo, Texas. The railroad company encouraged settlement of New Mexico’s eastern plains by sponsoring emigrant trains, a quicker method of transport for settlers moving their belongings and livestock across the country. Towns were founded along the route with the arrival of the railroad. Billy the Kid ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Good, the Bad, the Butlers:

    Story of a Texas Pioneer Family

    by Charles L. Olmsted ...
    Despite his challenges as a deaf-mute, Burnell Butler was one of those who dreamed of a better life in Texas. Lured by all the twenty-eighth state offered, Butler, his wife, twelve children, and seven slaves gambled big in 1852, migrating from Mississippi in covered wagons to the unknown prairies of Texas. It was there that the Butlers would begin a new chapter, fueled by their rugged, hard ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • 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

  • Hispano Homesteaders

    The Last New Mexico Pioneers, 1850-1910

    by F. Harlan Flint ...
    After Santa Fe was founded in 1610, the Hispano people were restless to expand their colony. They slowly pushed their borders to the north, establishing little villages along the Rio Grande and dozens of its tributaries. Their progress was often interrupted, first by the Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and later by fierce resistance from the native people whose territory they were invading. Nonetheless, ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Blackwater Draw

    Three Lives, Billy the Kid and the Murders That Started the Lincoln County War

    by David S. Turk ...
    On March 9, 1878, three men were murdered in isolated Blackwater Canyon in New Mexico. The suspects were Billy the Kid and a number of his Regulators. This action, almost assuredly taken in retaliation for the death of the Kid’s friend, John Henry Tunstall, became the real catalyst in the Lincoln County War. In 2006, the author and a team of investigators searched for the remains of the men and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Five Years in Texas

    by Thomas North ...
    To conceive the idea, and execute the purpose of making a book, is, to a modest man, not a little monstrous; and yet, modest or immodest, monstrous or not, the author makes his best bow to the reader, and holds himself subject to criticism for not making it better. But many are running to and fro in the earth, and knowledge is being increased; for the runners, are they not making books for the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Abilene Stories

    From Then to Now

    by Glenn Dromgoole, Jay Moore, Joe W. Specht ...
    A collection of fascinating and colorful stories spanning the history of Abilene, Texas.Although Abilene has long lived in the shadows of the literary limelight, it has not been for a lack of good writing, good writers, or interesting stories. Now coming out of the shadows, Abilene Stories: From Then to Now offers a community scrapbook, a gathering of the civic congregation where more than a ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus