United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Santa Fe: 400 Years, 400 Questions
$30.00 Add to cartThis question-and-answer book about Santa Fe, New Mexico contains 400 reminders of what is known and what is sometimes forgotten or misunderstood about a city that was founded more than four hundred y… [more below]
- Author: West, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: July 25 2012
- ISBN10: 0865348766
- Language: English
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Miraflores: San Antonio’s Mexican Garden of Memory
$32.95 Add to cartAureliano Urrutia, a prominent physician in Mexico City, built Miraflores garden after he immigrated to San Antonio, Texas, from Mexico in 1914 during the Mexican Revolution. A man of science, Urrutia
- Author: Urrutia, Anne Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 28 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349367
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Arizona
$24.00 Read moreJoin Marshall Trimble, state historian, storyteller, and native son, on the highways and back roads of Arizona, where a Grand Canyon’s worth of facts and stories add up to a portrait of a state. Along… [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Trimble, Marshall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 489
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0878424717
- Language: English
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The Five Civilized Tribes: Volume 8
$26.95 Add to cartSide by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830’s was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed a
- Series: Civilization of the American Indian #8
- Author: Foreman, Grant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 478
- Publish Date: March 15 1971
- ISBN10: 0806109238
- Language: English
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New Mexico’s Stolen Lands: A History of Racism, Fraud and Deceit
$23.99 Add to cartWhen the Mexican-American War ended in 1848, the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo guaranteed previous Spanish and Mexican land grants, as well as rights for Native Americans to their ancestral homelands. H… [more below]
- Author: Aragón, Ray John de
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 24 2020
- ISBN10: 1467144037
- Language: English
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The Spider Rock Treasure: A Texas Mystery of Lost Spanish Gold
$24.95 Add to cartHidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to… [more below]
- Author: Wilson, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1571687769
- Language: English
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Lost Restaurants of Houston
$35.99 Add to cartWith more than fourteen thousand eating establishments covering seventy different ethnic cuisines, Houston is a foodie town. But even in a place where eating out is a way of life and restaurants come … [more below]
- Author: Galvani, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1540228940
- Language: English
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Antes: Stories from the Past, Rural Cuba, New Mexico 1769-1949
$24.95 Add to cartCuba, New Mexico, was first settled in 1769. Originally known as Nacimiento, it was located on the northwestern edge of the Spanish Colonial Empire. It was very isolated and the people who settled Cub
- Author: Cordova May, Esther V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0865348405
- Language: English
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The Mesilla Valley
$16.95 Add to cartThe Mesilla Valley in southern New Mexico is an oasis in the Chihuahuan desert. It has attracted people for hundreds of years to its bosques of cottonwood trees, its life giving water, and its opportu… [more below]
- Series: New Mexico Centennial History Series Book
- Author: Hunner, Jon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: April 20 2008
- ISBN10: 0865346275
- Language: English
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Camp Verde
$24.99 Add to cartIn February 1864, a party of 17 men and two women left the security of the territorial capital at Prescott, Arizona, and headed east into the Verde Valley, homeland of the Yavapai and Apache. Drawn by… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Ayers, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 11 2010
- ISBN10: 0738579122
- Language: English
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Lost in Austin: The Evolution of an American City
$30.00 Read more- Author: Hannaford, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 006325302X
- Language: English
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New Mexico Chiles: History, Legend and Lore
$26.99 Add to cartTo some, chile might be considered a condiment, but in New Mexico it takes center stage. Going back four centuries, native tribes, Spanish missionaries, conquistadors and Anglos alike craved capsicum,… [more below]
- Series: American Palate
- Author: Urig, Kelly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 20 2015
- ISBN10: 1626198640
- Language: English
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History of Arizona: A Captivating Guide to Historical Events and Facts You Should Know About the Grand Canyon State
$23.99 Add to cartDid you know that Arizona was the last of the contiguous states to be admitted into the Union?
Even being the last, Arizona’s rich history predates its statehood by centuries, and that can be hard to d
- Author: History, Captivating
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 110
- Publish Date: October 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1637169140
- Language: English
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Tombstone
$23.99 Add to cartTombstone sits less than 100 miles from the Mexico border in the middle of the picturesque Arizona desert and also squarely at the heart of America’s Old West. Silver was discovered nearby in 1878, an… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Eppinga, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 16 2003
- ISBN10: 0738520969
- Language: English
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Austin’s Old Three Hundred: The First Anglo Colony in Texas
$24.95 Add to cartThe Texas equivalent of the “Mayflower” adventures, the three hundred families who settled Stephen F. Austin’s original colony formed the foundation on which a republic and then a state was built. In … [more below]
- Author: Von-Maszewski, Wolfman M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 276
- Publish Date: June 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1940130573
- Language: English
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Where Have All the Sheep Gone?: Sheepherders and Ranchers in Arizona — A Disappearing Industry
$19.95 Add to cartAt one time, more than one million sheep roamed the grassy areas of Arizona. Herding sheep was a critical component of the economy, building Arizona from its early territorial days into statehood. For
- Author: Jaquay, Barbara G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 278
- Publish Date: February 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1627874585
- Language: English
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Oklahoma Freedmen of the Five Tribes
$36.99 Add to cartExplore accounts of Oklahoma’s Freedmen as told by their descendants in these stories of resistance and resilience on the Western frontier.
The Freedmen of Oklahoma were black people, both enslaved and
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Walton-Raji, Angela Y.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 162
- Publish Date: August 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1540257924
- Language: English
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Black Texans: A History of African Americans in Texas, 1528-1995
$24.95 Add to cartAfrican American have lived in Texas for more than four hundred years–longer than in any other region of the United States. Beginning with the arrival of the first African American in 1528, Alwyn Bar
- Author: Barr, Alwyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 15 1996
- ISBN10: 080612878X
- Language: English
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Historical Atlas of Arizona
$26.95 Add to cartThis Second Edition, updated from the 1980 census, reflects the new county boundaries, the continuing Hopi-Navajo land dispute, the changes in Indian populations and congressional districts, the growt
- Author: Walker, Henry P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 154
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 080612024X
- Language: English
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Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire
$23.99 Add to cartPraise 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- Author: Graham, Don
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0471589055
- Language: English
