Cultural Region/Southwest U.S.
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Jim Bowie: A Texas Legend
$9.95 Add to cartA biography of Jim Bowie, the restless adventurer who made his reputation with a hunting knife, became a successful farmer, businessman, adventurer, and died in the siege of the Alamo. Jean Flynn give… [more below]
- Author: Flynn, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 01 1980
- ISBN10: 1940130514
- Language: English
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The Seed & the Giant Saguaro
$15.95 Read moreIt all begins with the tiniest of seeds. Here you will discover how a pack rat, a rattlesnake, a roadrunner, a coyote, and even the clouds above all play a role in helping a small seed grow into a gia… [more below]
- Author: Ward, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0873588452
- Language: English
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Armadillo Rodeo
$19.99 Read moreMost armadillos are happy scratching sand and eating, but Bo longs for adventure. And adventure Bo gets, the day Harmony Jean breaks in her brand-new chili-pepper-red cowboy boots by the banks of Can … [more below]
- Author: Brett, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0399228039
- Language: English
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Here Is the Southwestern Desert
$11.95 Add to cart
Using cumulative verse, this picture book introduces children to the cacti, jackrabbits, peccaries, roadrunners, coyotes, lizards, and bobcats of the desert, while giving young readers an understandin… [more below]- Series: Reading Rainbow Books #4
- Author: Dunphy, Madeleine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 07 2006
- ISBN10: 0977379566
- Language: English
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Tomas Y La Senora de la Biblioteca (Tomas and the Library Lady Spanish Edition) = Tomas & the Library Lady
$8.99 Add to cartTom s es hijo de trabajadores migratorios. Cada verano, l y su familia viajan a Iowa, desde Tejas, donde pasan largos y dif ciles d as en el campo, durante la temporada de la cosecha de frutas y verd… [more below]
- Author: Mora, Pat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 23 1997
- ISBN10: 0679841733
- Language: Spanish
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Navajo Long Walk
$11.95 Add to cartNavajo Long Walk is the story of Kee, a young boy who traveled this long, arduous route with his mother, grandmother, sister and what few domestic animals they could bring. Over the four-year period, … [more below]
- Series: Council for Indian Education
- Author: Armstrong, Nancy M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 1994
- ISBN10: 1879373564
- Language: English
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Arrow to the Sun: A Pueblo Indian Tale
$19.99 Add to cartWith vibrant colors and bold geometric forms, Gerald McDermott brilliantly captures the stylized look of Pueblo Indian art in this Caldecott Award-winning retelling of an ancient legend. A young boy s… [more below]
- Author: McDermott, Gerald
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: June 10 1974
- ISBN10: 0670133698
- Language: English
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The Big New Mexico Activity Book
$16.95 Add to cartHere is a comprehensive activity book for children that entertains and stretches the mind. Field-tested and educator-approved, the book provides a wonderful introduction into the romance and excitemen… [more below]
- Author: Yoder, Walter D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 98
- Publish Date: May 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0865342091
- Language: English
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Before Billy the Kid: The Boy Behind the Legendary Outlaw
$34.75 Add to cartIn Before Billy the Kid, author Melody Groves explores the early life of the infamous outlaw, the teenage boy who loved to sing and dance. The young man who was polite, educated, and popular. A boy wh
- Author: Groves, Melody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 188
- Publish Date: August 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1493063499
- Language: English
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Foods of the Southwest Indian Nations: Traditional and Contemporary Native American Recipes [A Cookbook]
$35.00 Read moreIn this gloriously photographed book, renowned photographer and Native American-food expert Lois Ellen Frank, herself part Kiowa, presents more than 80 recipes that are rich in natural flavors and per… [more below]
- Author: Frank, Lois Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 06 2002
- ISBN10: 1580083986
- Language: English
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A Desert Feast: Celebrating Tucson’s Culinary Heritage
$24.95 Read moreSouthwest Book of the Year Award Winner
Pubwest Book Design Award Winner
Drawing on thousands of years of foodways, Tucson cuisine blends the influences of Indigenous, Mexican, mission-era Mediterranean
- Series: Southwest Center
- Author: Niethammer, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0816538891
- Language: English
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In the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio
$34.95 Add to cartIn the Loop: A Political and Economic History of San Antonio, is the culmination of urban historian David Johnson’s extensive research into the development of Texas’s oldest city. Beginning with San … [more below]
- Author: Johnson, David R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1595349227
- Language: English
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Forgotten Battlefield of the First Texas Revolution: The First Battle of Medina August 18, 1813
$19.95 Add to cartThe biggest, bloodiest battle ever fought on Texas soil took place in a sandy valley in Atascosa County near the Medina River in 1813, twenty-three years before the battles of the Alamo, Goliad, and S… [more below]
- Author: Schwarz, Ted
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: January 01 1986
- ISBN10: 1940130999
- Language: English
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Texas: A Compact History
$27.95 Add to cartTexas “a whole other country”-a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State as elsewhere-is familiar to native Texans and those adopted sons and daughters who “got here just as qui… [more below]
- Author: McDonald, Archie P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: November 15 2011
- ISBN10: 193333715X
- Language: English
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Platicas: Conversations About and Among Friends and Neighbors in Cuba, New Mexico
$19.95 Add to cartThe community of Cuba, New Mexico, its institutions and economy are changing rapidly and radically. Our town is losing its former identity and its precious historical resources. Personally, I feel an
- Author: May, Esther V. Cordova
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 190
- Publish Date: January 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1632932091
- Language: English
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Riot on Greenwood: The Total Destruction of Black Wall Street
$24.95 Add to cartHere is an in-depth account of the worst riot in U.S. history, the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921, assembled by one of Tulsa’s most important oral historians and community activists. “Using her breadth of kn
- Author: Gates, Eddie Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: April 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1571688188
- Language: English
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Texas Wit & Wisdom
$19.95 Add to cartThis book is a friendly, entertaining collection of stories, anecdotes, amusing quotations, funny signs, some classic Texas jokes, and even some surprisingly sound advice from the often wacky but alwa… [more below]
- Author: Chariton, Wallace O.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 1556222572
- Language: English
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Galveston’s Maceo Family Empire: Bootlegging and the Balinese Room
$31.99 Add to cart- Author: McCaslin, Richard B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: November 18 2014
- ISBN10: 1540212106
- Language: English
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The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon
$31.00 Add to cartFrom one of Outside magazine’s “Literary All-Stars” comes the thrilling true tale of the fastest boat ride ever, down the entire length of the Colorado River and through the Grand Canyon, during the l… [more below]
- Author: Fedarko, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 07 2013
- ISBN10: 1439159858
- Language: English
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Blood in the Borderlands: Conflict, Kinship, and the Bent Family, 1821-1920
$29.95 Add to cartHistorical Society of New Mexico’s Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá Award
The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American W
Santa Fe Trail Association’s Louise Barry Writing Award- Author: Beyreis, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 270
- Publish Date: May 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496234650
- Language: English
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