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  • San Juan Bautista

    Gateway to Spanish Texas

    by Robert S. Weddle ...
    Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron

    by Robert S. Weddle ...
    Translated by François Lagarde ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    When Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, landed on the Texas coast in 1685, bent on founding a French colony, his enterprise was doomed to failure. Not only was he hundreds of miles from his intended landfall—the mouth of the Mississippi—but his supply ship, Aimable, was wrecked at the mouth of Matagorda Bay, leaving the colonists with scant provisions and little protection against local Indian ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    The #1 New York Times –bestselling author of The Miracle of Dunkirk tells the story of the Texans who fought Santa Anna's troops at the Battle of the Alamo."Probably the best of all Alamo accounts . . . a history which should last." — The New York Times Book ReviewLooking out over the walls of the whitewashed Alamo, sweltering ... ... Read more

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  • The Conquistadors

    by Hammond Innes ...
    This enthralling study which examines the impact of the Spaniards upon the Aztec and Inca worlds is dominated by the personalities involved, in particular Cortes and Montezuma. Their confrontation in the Aztec lake-city of Tenochtitlan is a moving drama of human conflict revealing the dilemma and the enigma of the Indians. It is a story of battles and voyages, full of strange episodes – Cortes ... Read more

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  • The Beast

    Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

    by Oscar Martinez ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...
    An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times)One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local ... 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

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  • Kings of Texas

    The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

    by Don Graham ...
    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Read more

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  • A Payroll to Meet

    A Story of Greed, Corruption, and Football at SMU

    by David Whitford ...
    Southern Methodist University in Dallas is one of numerous prestigious universities in Texas. The school’s football team was the pride of the university and the city. Before the late 1970s, however, the relatively small school had trouble recruiting and struggled to keep up with the big-time football universities that were often more than double its size. Under pressure to compete, the SMU ... Read more

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  • Arredondo

    Last Spanish Ruler of Texas and Northeastern New Spain

    by Bradley Folsom ...
    In this biography of Joaquín de Arredondo, historian Bradley Folsom brings to life one of the most influential and ruthless leaders in North American history. Arredondo (1776–1837), a Bourbon loyalist who governed Texas and the other interior provinces of northeastern New Spain during the Mexican War of Independence, contended with attacks by revolutionaries, U.S. citizens, generals who had served ... Read more

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  • War along the Border

    The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities

    by Sonia Hernández, Thomas H. Kreneck, Gerald Horne, Margaret Stevens, George T. Díaz, Juanita Luna Lawhn, Trinidad Gonzales, Paul Hart, Roberto R. Treviño, Miguel Antonio Levario, Raúl Ramos, Tatcho Mindiola, Richard Ribb, John Eusebio Klingemann ...
    Series Book 6 - University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies
    Table of Contents:Foreword, Tatcho MindiolaIntroduction, Arnoldo De LeónBeyond Borders: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Revolution, Paul HartThe Mexican Revolution’s Impact on Tejano Communities: The Historiographic Record, Arnoldo De LeónLa Rinchada: Revolution, Revenge, and the Rangers, 1910–1920, Richard RibbThe Mexican Revolution, Revolución de Texas, and Matanza de 1915, Trinidad ... Read more

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  • In Their Shoes

    In Their Shoes

    by Grace Halsell ...
    Series series Chisholm Trail Series
    Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson personally hired her to work in the White House, Halsell had, over a period of two decades, written her way around the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Orient, and the Americas.Born on the windswept plains of West Texas, Halsell was encouraged from the ... Read more

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  • Uprooting Community

    Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by Selfa A. Chew ...
    Joining the U.S.’ war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese Mexicans as an internal racial enemy. In spite of the broad resistance presented by the ... Read more

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