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  • Seabrook

    Series series Images of America
    Seabrook enjoys a prime location on Galveston Bay at the outflow of Clear Creek. Formerly a Spanish land grant known as Morris Cove, the town began to assume its modern shape in 1895 when Seabrook Sydnor purchased part of the Morris league and platted the town site. Brothers Albert and Ernest Fay founded the Seabrook Shipyard in 1938, which went on to build submarine chasers and rescue boats ... Read more

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  • Evidence of Love

    A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

    The "fascinating" true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ).Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • House of Rain

    Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest

    by Craig Childs ...
    An eye-opening historic guidebook that draws on the latest scholarly research as well as a lifetime of exploration to put a light on the extraordinary Anasazi culture of the American Southwest.The greatest "unsolved mystery" of the American Southwest is the fate of the Anasazi, the native peoples who in the eleventh century converged on Chaco Canyon (in today's southwestern New Mexico) and built ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Pueblos, Spaniards, and the Kingdom of New Mexico

    For more than four hundred years in New Mexico, Pueblo Indians and Spaniards have lived “together yet apart.” Now the preeminent historian of that region’s colonial past offers a fresh, balanced look at the origins of a precarious relationship.John L. Kessell has written the first narrative history devoted to the tumultuous seventeenth century in New Mexico. Setting aside stereotypes of a Native ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Big Thicket Guidebook

    Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas

    Series series Temple Big Thicket Series
    Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocatesall as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet some unusual characters who inhabited an ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • A Lawless Breed

    John Wesley Hardin, Texas Reconstruction, and Violence in the Wild West

    John Wesley Hardin! His name spread terror in much of Texas in the years following the Civil War as the most wanted fugitive with a 4000 reward on his head. A Texas Ranger wrote that he killed men just to see them kick. Hardin began his killing career in the late 1860s and remained a wanted man until his capture in 1877 by Texas Rangers and Florida law officials. He certainly killed twenty men; ... Read more

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  • On the Border

    Portraits of America's Southwestern Frontier

    by Tom Miller ...
    Tom Miller's On the Border frames the land between the United States and Mexico as a Third Country, one 2,000 miles long and twenty miles wide. This Third Country has its own laws and its own outlaws. Its music, language, and food are unique. On the Border, a first-person travel narrative, portrays this bi-national culture, "unforgettable to every reader lucky enough to discover this gem of ... Read more

    $5.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Horrell Wars

    Feuding in Texas and New Mexico

    by David Johnson ...
    For decades the Horrell brothers of Lampasas, Texas, have been portrayed as ruthless killers and outlaws, but author David Johnson paints a different picture of these controversial men. The Horrells were ranchers, and while folklore has encouraged the belief that they built their herds by rustling, contemporary records indicate a far different picture. The family patriarch, Sam Horrell, was slain ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Wings Over San Antonio

    by Mel Brown ...
    Series series Images of Aviation
    In March 1910, Lt. Benjamin Foulois was ordered to Fort Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas, with a used Wright Brothers aeroplane and a small contingent of enlisted men. His mission was to teach himself how to operate this primitive flying machine and begin demonstrating the practical uses it might have for the United States Army. This history is chronicled through in-depth captions and over 200 ... Read more

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  • New Mexico: A History

    by Marc Simmons ...
    Today, as much as ever before, the red-rock, pinon-covered state of New Mexico remains tierra encantada, "the land of enchantment," to Indians, Anglos, and descendants of the conquistadores.New Mexico's long history of intermingling peoples and of efforts to balance human needs with nature's resources can instruct a nation facing similar hard decisions in the late twentieth century. It is a story, ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Republic of Football

    Legends of the Texas High School Game

    Anywhere football is played, Texas is the force to reckon with. Its powerhouse programs produce the best football players in America. In The Republic of Football, Chad S. Conine vividly captures Texas’s impact on the game with action-filled stories about legendary high school players, coaches, and teams from around the state and across seven decades.Drawing on dozens of interviews, Conine offers ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Vanished Arizona

    Recollections of the Army Life of a New England Woman, Second Edition

    Series series Bison Classic Editions
    When Martha Summerhayes (1844–1926) came as a bride to Fort Russell in Wyoming Territory in 1874, she “saw not much in those first few days besides bright buttons, blue uniforms, and shining swords,” but soon enough the hard facts of army life began to intrude. Remonstrating with her husband, Jack Wyder Summerhayes, that she had only three rooms and a kitchen instead of “a whole house,” she was ... Read more

    $14.39 USD