Cultural Region/Southwest U.S.
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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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Spurs Nation: Major Moments in San Antonio Basketball
$29.95 Read moreFrom the Memorial Day Miracle to coach Gregg Popovich’s legendary leadership to winning five NBA championships, the San Antonio Spurs have brought excitement to the Alamo City and the greater NBA fami… [more below]
- Author: Staff of the San Antonio Express-News
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15 2016
- ISBN10: 159534795X
- 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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New Mexico’s Magnificent Sandia Mountain (Hardcover): The Complete Geological Story
$50.00 Add to cartThe magnificent Sandia Mountain forms an enormous rampart towering over the city of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Regionally, the feature’s distinctive “whale back” profile utterly dominates the horizon wi
- Author: Van Hart, Dirk
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: October 04 2023
- ISBN10: 163293650X
- Language: English
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Blue Desert
$19.95 Add to cartIn the promised land of the Sunbelt, people come by the thousands to escape the crush of Eastern cities and end up duplicating the very world they have fled. Can the land remain unchanged? In Blue Des… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 179
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0816510814
- 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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Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside
$20.00 Add to cartIn this wise and lyrical book about landscapes of the desert and the mind, Edward Abbey guides us beyond the wall of the city and asphalt belting of superhighways to special pockets of wilderness that
- Author: Abbey, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 15 1984
- ISBN10: 0805008209
- Language: English
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They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School
$20.00 Add to cartEstablished in 1884 and operative for nearly a century, the Chilocco Indian School in Oklahoma was one of a series of off-reservation boarding schools intended to assimilate American Indian children i… [more below]
- Series: North American Indian Prose Award
- Author: Lomawaima, K. Tsianina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0803279574
- Language: English
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Wildflowers of the Western Plains: A Field Guide
$29.95 Add to cartStretching from western Texas and eastern New Mexico up through Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, the Dakotas, and into Canada, the vast western plains often appear sparse and dr… [more below]
- Author: Kirkpatrick, Zoe Merriman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0803219059
- 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
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Lost Texas Treasure: Sunken Ships, Rawhide Maps and Buried Plunder
$34.99 Add to cartTrack pirate gold and misplaced riches across 168 counties in this comprehensive guide to the lost treasures of Texas.
Countless fortunes have disappeared into the vast expanse of the Lone Star State.
- Author: Gaines, W. Craig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: July 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1540252817
- Language: English
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West Side Rising: How San Antonio’s 1921 Flood Devastated a City and Sparked a Latino Environmental Justice Movement
$19.95 Add to cartOn September 9, 1921, a tropical depression stalled just north of San Antonio and within hours overwhelmed its winding network of creeks and rivers. Floodwaters ripped through the city’s Latino West S… [more below]
- Author: Miller, Char
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 14 2022
- ISBN10: 1595349731
- Language: English
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This Land Is Herland: Gendered Activism in Oklahoma from the 1870s to the 2010s Volume 1
$24.95 Add to cartSince well before ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment in 1920 secured their right to vote, women in Oklahoma have sought to change and uplift their communities through political activism. This La… [more below]
- Series: Women and the American West #1
- Author: Janda, Sarah Eppler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: July 08 2021
- ISBN10: 0806169265
- Language: English
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Native Plant Gardening for Birds, Bees & Butterflies: Southern California
$24.95 Add to cartPlan Your Landscape or Garden to Help Beloved Backyard Visitors
The presence of birds, bees, and butterflies suggests a healthy, earth-friendly place. These most welcome guests also bring joy to those
- Series: Nature-Friendly Gardens
- Author: Miller, George Oxford
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1647551900
- Language: English
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Tascosa: Its Life and Gaudy Times
$24.95 Add to cartAs well as being the center of ranching activity in the Panhandle, Tascosa also became the last best hiding place in Texas for killers on the run, horse thieves, tinhorn gamblers, hair-trigger shootis… [more below]
- Author: Nolan, Frederick W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 361
- Publish Date: September 30 2020
- ISBN10: 1682830284
- Language: English
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Historic Photos of Lake Tahoe
$41.99 Add to cart“I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords,” wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe. Countless other visitors have agreed, and since the turn of the century the lake’s clear, pure water
- Series: Historic Photos
- Author: Drewes, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: July 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1684420229
- Language: English
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Texas Iron: The Guns of the Texas Rangers
$19.95 Add to cartTexas Iron: Guns of the Texas Rangers is the not only the most comprehensive books ever published profiling the guns of the Rangers, but it is also the only book to tackle the subject. Chapters on sel
- Author: Moser, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: January 23 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791056
- Language: English
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Prince Hall Freemasonry in the Lone Star State
$26.95 Add to cartFreemasonry is one of the world’s oldest fraternal organizations. It is a society of men concerned with moral and spiritual values. Members are taught its precepts by a series of ritual dramas that fo… [more below]
- Author: Uzzel, Robert L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: May 08 2004
- ISBN10: 157168834X
- Language: English
