United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
-
We Were Illegal: Uncovering a Texas Family’s Mythmaking and Migration
$32.00 Add to cartAn award-winning author’s deep exploration of pivotal moments in Texas history through multiple generations of her own family, and a ruthless reexamination of our national and personal myths
New York- Author: Goudeau, Jessica
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 18 2024
- ISBN10: 0593300505
- Language: English
-
Parks of Oklahoma City: A History
$39.99 Read moreFrom the founding of Oklahoma City in 1889 to the present day, this ambitious narrative documents the evolution of the city’s parks, public places, and open spaces, illuminating the history of iconic
- Author: Blackburn, Bob L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 20 2025
- ISBN10: 9798992359398
- Language: English
-
Wicked Women of New Mexico
$31.99 Add to cartNew Mexico Territory attracted outlaws and desperados as its remote locations guaranteed non-detection while providing opportunists the perfect setting in which to seize wealth. Many wicked women on t… [more below]
- Author: Birchell, Donna Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1540208745
- Language: English
-
Johnson Space Center: The First 50 Years
$31.99 Add to cartNASA ‘s Johnson Space Center (JSC ) in Houston, Texas, has been the home of human spaceflight operations since its inception in 1961. The first US manned spaceflight controlled from its iconic Mission… [more below]
- Author: Bruns, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 04 2013
- ISBN10: 1531664237
- Language: English
-
The Crossing: El Paso, the Southwest, and America’s Forgotten Origin Story
$35.00 Add to cartA radical work of history that re-centers the American story around El Paso, Texas, gateway between north and south, center of indigenous power and resistance, locus of European colonization of North
- Author: Parker, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063161915
- Language: English
-
The Galveston Dispatches: A Swiss Missionary’s Account of Nineteenth-Century Texas
$24.99 Add to cartPersonal stories of life in Galveston in the mid-nineteenth century.
In 1855, Friedrich Gloor was just nineteen when he was sent from Basel, Switzerland, halfway around the world to teach at the First
- Author: Rogers, Clay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1467158712
- Language: English
-
American Oasis: Finding the Future in the Cities of the Southwest
$30.00 Add to cartAn expansive and revelatory historical exploration of the multicultural, water-seeking, land-destroying settlers of the most arid corner of North America, arguing that in order to know where the Unite… [more below]
- Author: Paoletta, Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0553387375
- Language: English
-
The University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories
$22.95 Read moreThe University of Arizona: A History in 100 Stories is a celebration of the people, ideas, inventions, teaching, and structures that have been part of the school’s evolution from a small land-grant in… [more below]
- Author: McNamee, Gregory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1941451144
- Language: English
-
Mesa Verde’s Secret Garden: A History of Managing the Backcountry and Wilderness of a National Park
$29.95 Read moreMesa Verde National Park is the only congressionally designated land-based Wilderness to prohibit all recreational use. While backcountry use was encouraged for decades, stewardship changed over time
- Author: Barns, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0826367666
- Language: English
-
The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona’s National Treasure
$34.95 Add to cartTombstone, Arizona, is forever associated with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the legendary OK Corral gunfight that made it a cultural symbol of the Old West. The town’s most iconic and
- Author: Mihaljevich, Michael Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 157441948X
- Language: English
-
Murder on the Largo: Volume 23
$29.95 Read moreIn western New Mexico in 1905 there rode a notorious outlaw from the Mexican border named Henry Coleman. With a Colt .45 strapped to his hip, Coleman (alias Street Hudspeth from the well-to-do Texas
- Series: A.C. Greene
- Author: Williams, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419331
- Language: English
-
Austin Music Is a Scene Not a Sound
$45.95 Add to cartMichael Corcoran culminates 40 years of writing about Austin music with a history of the scene, going back to the German singing societies of the late 1800s and ending with the ascent of South by Sout… [more below]
- Author: Corcoran, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: January 31 2025
- ISBN10: 0875658660
- Language: English
-
Water Cries: Uncovering the Slave Auction Houses of Galveston, Texas
$27.95 Add to cartThe Water Cries represents an ambitious search for
the location of the slave auction houses in one of America’s most storied
cities. The author plumbs historical documentation, sifting historical
adverti… [more below]- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Griffin, Anthony Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 168283199X
- Language: English
-
Texas: An American History
$35.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the multifaceted characters and complex events that have defined the Lone Star State from its inception through today
When Americans turn on their laptops, play video games, go to c- Author: Johnson, Benjamin Heber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: February 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0300226721
- Language: English
-
Amazing Girls of Arizona: True Stories of Young Pioneers
$14.95 Add to cartGrowing up can be hard enough, but when you are a teenage girl on the western frontier every day is a lesson in survival. From being held captive by a Native American tribe (like Olive Ann Oatman), to… [more below]
- Author: Cleere, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 076274135X
- Language: English
-
Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis
$21.00 Add to cartA National Bestseller – A New York Times Top 10 Book of 2024 – Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker – One of Barack Obama’s Summer Reading List Picks – Named a Notable Book by New York Time… [more below]
- Author: Blitzer, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1984880829
- Language: English
-
Old Town Plaza in Albuquerque
$24.99 Read moreWitness the evolution of Albuquerque from the perspective of its birthplace, the historic Old Town Plaza.
Explore the rich architectural heritage and traditions that frame the bustling tourist attracti
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Montoya, Debra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1467155098
- Language: English
-
Camp Wolters: Mineral Wells & World War II
$23.99 Read moreDiscover how a World War transformed a small Texas town. Located in Mineral Wells, Camp Wolters was the U.S. Army’s largest Infantry Replacement Training Center during World War II. From 1941-1946, th… [more below]
- Series: The History Press
- Author: Croushorn, Stacy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1467153575
- Language: English
-
San Antonio Uncovered: Fun Facts and Hidden Histories
$18.95 Add to cartSan Antonio is in the national spotlight as one of the fastest growing and most dynamic emerging major cities in America. Yet local lore has it that every Texan has two hometowns–his own and San Anto… [more below]
- Author: Rybczyk, Mark Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 27 2016
- ISBN10: 1595347577
- Language: English
-
Abandoned Arizona: Secrets of the Desert
$24.99 Read moreArizona, granted statehood in 1912 as the forty-eighth state, has a rich and fascinating history that dates back much further, into the early 1800s. With ancient Native American civilizations and famo… [more below]
- Series: America Through Time
- Author: Bentley, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 27 2023
- ISBN10: 163499440X
- Language: English
