Cultural Region/Southwest U.S.
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Inside the Texas Chicken Ranch: The Definitive Account of the Best Little Whorehouse
$24.99 Add to cartThanks to the classic Dolly Parton film The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas and ZZ Top’s ode La Grange, many people think they know the story of the infamous Chicken Ranch. The reality is more complex… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Blaschke, Jayme Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 01 2016
- ISBN10: 1467135631
- Language: English
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The Train to Crystal City: Fdr’s Secret Prisoner Exchange Program and America’s Only Family Internment Camp During World War II
$22.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling dramatic and never-before-told story of a secret FDR-approved American internment camp in Texas during World War II: “A must-read….The Train to Crystal City is compell… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Jan Jarboe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1451693672
- Language: English
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Galveston: A History of the Island Volume 18
$21.95 Add to cartGalveston–a small, flat island off the Texas Gulf coast–has seen some of the state’s most amazing history and fascinating people. First settled by the Karankawa Indians, long suspected of cannibalis… [more below]
- Series: Chisholm Trail #18
- Author: Cartwright, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: August 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0875651909
- Language: English
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Images and Stories of Tcu’s First 100 Years, 1873-1973
$49.95 Add to cartDid you know there was a plane crash on the TCU campus? Or that TCU once had an airport? Were you aware that TCU began integrating during World War II? Discover these and other interesting tidbits in … [more below]
- Author: Smith, Gene Allen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: February 17 2023
- ISBN10: 0875658407
- Language: English
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Valley of the Guns: The Pleasant Valley War and the Trauma of Violence
$29.95 Read moreIn the late 1880s, Pleasant Valley, Arizona, descended into a nightmare of violence, murder, and mayhem. By the time the Pleasant Valley War was over, eighteen men were dead, four were wounded, and o… [more below]
- Author: Pagán, Eduardo Obregón
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 15 2018
- ISBN10: 080616154X
- Language: English
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Edinburg
$24.99 Read moreA town with two locations and multiple names, Edinburg today is the seat of Hidalgo County. Edinburgh, Texas (now known as Hidalgo) was first established on the Rio Grande River by shopkeeper John You… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Garcia, Janette
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 12 2011
- ISBN10: 0738584770
- Language: English
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Geronimo: His Own Story: The Autobiography of a Great Patriot Warrior
$15.00 Read more“I am thankful that the President of the United States has given me permission to tell my story. I hope that he and those in authority under him will read my story and judge whether my people have bee… [more below]
- Author: Geronimo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0452011558
- Language: English
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Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food
$24.99 Add to cartAs late as the 1960s, tacos were virtually unknown outside Mexico and the American Southwest. Within fifty years the United States had shipped taco shells everywhere from Alaska to Australia, Morocco … [more below]
- Author: Pilcher, Jeffrey M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0190655771
- Language: English
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History of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway
$49.95 Add to cartIf you want an interesting look at railroading plus the social, financial, and political times over 130 years of America, consider this well-researched and documented book.–Stan Moore, Denver Posse o
- Author: Bryant Jr, Keith L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1496214102
- Language: English
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Stolen Heritage: A Mexican-American’s Rediscovery of His Family’s Lost Land Grant
$24.95 Add to cartMurder, violence, and intimidation are the bitter grapes of the Becerra and de la Garza families, early day Spanish settlers who had been in Texas several generations when Stephen F. Austin and other
- Author: Rubio, Abel G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 310
- Publish Date: August 27 2018
- ISBN10: 1681791331
- Language: English
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The Texas Connection with the American Revolution
$17.95 Add to cartAll too often, when Americans think of the American Revolution, they think only in terms of the events that occurred in the thirteen English colonies. Important as they were, they do not tell the whol… [more below]
- Author: Thonhoff, Robert H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 138
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 1571684182
- Language: English
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Alias Billy the Kid
$18.00 Add to cartIn 1948 a childhood friend of Billy the Kid claimed Billy was still living and led investigators to a man in Texas known as William H. “Brushy Bill” Roberts. After iniitially denying it, Brushy finall
- Author: Sonnichsen, C. L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0692534040
- Language: English
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A Life on Fire: Oklahoma’s Kate Barnard
$26.95 Add to cart“How can women wear diamonds when babies cry for bread?” Kate Barnard demanded in one of the incendiary stump speeches for which she was well known. In A Life on Fire, Connie Cronley tells the story o
- Author: Cronley, Connie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 080616929X
- Language: English
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New Mexico Cuisine: Recipes from the Land of Enchantment
$16.95 Add to cartWinner of the 2010 New Mexico Book Award for Best Cookbook
Since he first traveled to New Mexico in the 1960s, Clyde Casey has been in love with New Mexican cuisine and has explored its evolution from
- Author: Casey, Clyde
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 193
- Publish Date: November 15 2013
- ISBN10: 0826354173
- Language: English
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The Spell of New Mexico
$16.95 Add to cartA rich gathering of essays that evoke the unique and mysterious appeal New Mexico has had for some of the twentieth century’s best-known writers. Included are selections by Mary Austin, Oliver La Farg
- Author: Hillerman, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 113
- Publish Date: May 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0826307760
- Language: English
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Historical Atlas of Oklahoma
$29.95 Add to cartThe Historical Atlas of Oklahoma has been an indispensable reference for longer than four decades. Issued on the eve of the Oklahoma Centennial, this fourth edition of the atlas is much more than an u… [more below]
- Author: Goins, Charles Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0806134836
- Language: English
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Triggernometry: A Gallery of Gunfighters
$26.95 Add to cartIn this now classic volume, Eugene Cunningham collects–in his “gallery” –biographies of nearly a score of master gunfighters, including such notables as John Wesley Hardin, Billy the Kid, Dallas Sto
- Author: Cunningham, Eugene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 0806128372
- Language: English
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Holding the Line
$20.95 Add to cartHolding the Line, Barbara Kingsolver’s first non-fiction book, is the story of women’s lives transformed by an a signal event. Set in the small mining towns of Arizona, it is part oral history and par
- Author: Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 228
- Publish Date: December 15 1996
- ISBN10: 0801483891
- Language: English
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Unflinching Courage: Pioneering Women Who Shaped Texas
$18.99 Add to cartIn Unflinching Courage, former United States Senator and New York Times bestselling author Kay Bailey Hutchison brings to life the incredible stories of the resourceful and brave women who shaped the
- Author: Hutchison, Kay Bailey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 01 2014
- ISBN10: 0062130714
- Language: English
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Trees of Texas Field Guide
$16.95 Add to cartLearn to identify Texas trees with this handy field guide, organized by leaf type and attachment.
With this famous field guide by award-winning author and naturalist Stan Tekiela, you can make tree id
- Series: Tree Identification Guides
- Author: Tekiela, Stan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1647552192
- Language: English
