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  • Nameless Towns

    Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880–1942

    by Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad ...
    A comprehensive history of the sawmill towns of East Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom Colonies

    Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow

    by Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad, Richard Orton ...
    Series Book 15 - Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    A history of independent African American settlements in Texas during the Jim Crow era, featuring historical and contemporary photographs.In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Resurrection of Springs

    Krause Ranch and the Frio River Hill Country

    by Thad Sitton, Cynthia Nesser, Adrian F. Van Dellen, Gary Krause ...
    The Krause Ranch is not the usual Hill Country landscape one might expect—it has bottomless holes, dinosaur tracks, high limestone river cliffs where golden eagles nest, and occasional visits by pumas and black bears. Historian Thad Sitton paints a detailed portrait of the 1,670-acre property, its human history, its natural history, and Gary Krause—the man who spent several decades clearing cedar ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Big Thicket People

    Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier

    by Larry Jene Fisher, C.E. Hunt, Thad Sitton ...
    Series series Bridwell Texas History Series
    Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional photographer Larry Jene Fisher spent a decade between the 1930s and 1940s photographing Big Thicket people ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • From Can See to Can’t

    Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies

    by Thad Sitton, Dan K. Utley ...
    Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," process that required not only a wide range of specialized skills but also a willingness to gamble on forces often beyond a farmer's control—weather, insects, plant diseases, and the cotton market.This ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Oral History

    A Guide for Teachers (and Others)

    by Thad Sitton, George L. Mehaffy, O.L. Davis Jr. ...
    More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an international movement. Historians, folklorists, and other educational and religious groups now recognize the importance of preserving the recollections of people about the past. The recorded memories of famous and common folk alike provide a vital complement to textbook history, bringing the past to life through ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Riverwoods

    Exploring the Wild Neches

    by Charles Kruvand ...
    Series series Will and Pamela Nelson Harte Series on Water and the Environment, sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    In this stunning photographic tribute to one of Texas’ most intriguing and perhaps least understood rivers, Riverwoods: Exploring the Wild Neches takes readers on a unique adventure along, and sometimes into, the wild and murky waters of the Neches River.The Neches flows through the heart of East Texas, past primordial bottomland forests, timber and oil industries, and elusive denizens—humans, ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Every Sun That Rises

    Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake

    Edited by Thad Sitton, James H. Conrad ...
    “What I done and what I been accused of covers everything, you put ’em both together.” Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake exaggerates, but perhaps not very much. During his long life at Caddo Lake, Moore was at various times a boat operator, commercial fisherman, boat builder, farmer, fishing and hunting camp operator, guide, commercial hunter, trapper, raftsman, moonshiner, oil field worker, water well ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers

    American Hilltop Fox Chasing

    by Thad Sitton ...
    Around a campfire in the woods through long hours of night, men used to gather to listen to the music of hounds' voices as they chased an elusive and seemingly preternatural fox. To the highly trained ears of these backwoods hunters, the hounds told the story of the pursuit like operatic voices chanting a great epic. Although the hunt almost always ended in the escape of the fox—as the hunters ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Caddo

    Visions of a Southern Cypress Lake

    by Carolyn Elizabeth Brown ...
    Series series River Books, Sponsored by The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, Texas State University
    In a stunning tribute to one of Texas’ most enigmatic waterways, a veteran East Texas historian and a professional photographer have together created an homage to a lake like no other—half Texas, half Louisiana, a swampy labyrinth of bald cypress and water plants filled with mystery, legend, and a staggering amount of biological complexity.Classified as a Category 1 Habitat for wildlife by the US ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Ground on Which I Stand

    Tamina, a Freedmen's Town

    by Marti Corn, Tacey A. Rosolowski, Wanda Horton-Woodworth ...
    Series Book 22 - Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Commerce
    In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina—then called “Tammany”—north of Houston, near the rich timber lands of Montgomery County. Located in proximity to the just-completed railroad from Conroe to Houston, the community benefited from the burgeoning local lumber industry and available transportation. The residents built homes, churches, a one-room school, and a general store ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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  • A Shot in the Moonlight

    How a Freed Slave and a Confederate Soldier Fought for Justice in the Jim Crow South

    by Ben Montgomery ...
    The sensational true story of George Dinning, a freed slave, who in 1899 joined forces with a Confederate war hero in search of justice in the Jim Crow south. “Taut and tense. Inspiring and terrifying in its timelessness.”(Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad )Named a most anticipated book of 2021 by O, The Oprah MagazineNamed a "must-read" by the Chicago ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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