Geographic Orientation/Texas
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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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Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder, and Family
$21.99 Read moreLionel Bruno Jordan was murdered on January 20, 1995, in an El Paso parking lot, but he keeps coming back as the key to a multibillion-dollar drug industry, two corrupt governments — one called the U… [more below]
- Author: Bowden, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: January 08 2004
- ISBN10: 0743244575
- Language: English
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The Royal Air Force in Texas: Training British Pilots in Terrell During World War II
$19.95 Add to cartWith the outbreak of World War II, British Royal Air Force (RAF) officials sought to train aircrews outside of England, safe from enemy attack and poor weather. In the United States the first of six s… [more below]
- Series: War and the Southwest #8
- Author: Killebrew, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 13 2009
- ISBN10: 1574412728
- Language: English
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Roadside History of Texas
$24.00 Add to cartTexas history reaches far back in time by North American standards. It is fascinating by anyone’s measure. Modern Texas is woven from the frayed but still firm-and always colorful-strands of its rich … [more below]
- Series: Roadside History (Paperback)
- Author: Metz, C. Leon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 466
- Publish Date: January 01 1994
- ISBN10: 0878422943
- Language: English
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Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle
$21.95 Add to cartCharles Goodnight was a pioneer of the early range cattle industry–an opinionated and profane but energetic and well-liked rancher.
Goodnight’s story is now re-examined by William T. Hagan in this bri
- Series: Oklahoma Western Biographies #21
- Author: Hagan, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0806141956
- Language: English
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Some More Horse Tradin’
$21.95 Add to cartFrom the same corral that produced the widely loved Horse Tradin’, Ben K. Green has rounded up fifteen new yarns filled with the ornery yet irresistible style that has earned his books a place in clas
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803270925
- Language: English
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The Texas Rangers
$24.99 Add to cartThe Texas Rangers. The words evoke exciting images of daring, courage, high adventure. The Rangers began as a handful of men protecting their homes from savage raiding parties; now in their third cent… [more below]
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Parsons, Chuck
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2011
- ISBN10: 0738579823
- Language: English
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Alamo Defenders – A Genealogy: The People and Their Words
$19.95 Add to cartCompiled by one of the foremost experts on the Alamo, Bill Groneman, Alamo Defenders – A Genealogy: The People and Their Words provides an in-depth look at the individuals who fought and died at the A… [more below]
- Author: Groneman, Bill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: September 01 1990
- ISBN10: 089015757X
- Language: English
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Texas Rangers: Volume I: Wearing the Cinco Peso, 1821-1900
$34.99 Add to cartTexas writer/historian Mike Cox explores the inception and rise of the famed Texas Rangers.
Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers’ first purpose was to keep settlers safe from the- Author: Cox, Mike
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 15 2009
- ISBN10: 076531892X
- Language: English
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Prairie Time
$29.95 Add to cartWinner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of Texas In its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-million-acre grassy swath across the state from the San … [more below]
- Series: Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce #10
- Author: White, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2013
- ISBN10: 1623491363
- 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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Anatomy of a Kidnapping: A Doctor’s Story
$27.95 Add to cartFour hours. That was the amount of time between looking down the barrel of a gun and finding myself free along a silent highway lined by cotton fields. In the time period that seemed eternal, my uniqu… [more below]
- Author: Berk, Steven L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0896726932
- Language: English
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The Log of a Cowboy: A Narrative of the Old Trail Days
$14.95 Add to cartJ. Frank Dobie, in his Guide to Life and Literature of the Old Southwest, has declared that “if all other books on trail-driving were destroyed, a reader could still get a just and authentic conceptio… [more below]
- Series: Bison Book S
- Author: Adams, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 397
- Publish Date: May 01 1964
- ISBN10: 0803250002
- Language: English
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Texas and Northeastern Mexico, 1630-1690
$24.95 Add to cartAn English translation of Chapa’s Historia de Nuevo Le, the first history of the region that eventually became Texas and northeastern Mexico.
Winner, Presidio La Bah僘 Award, Sons of the Republic- Author: Chapa, Juan Bautista
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 247
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0292717954
- Language: English
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Walking Historic Galveston: A Guide to Its Neighborhoods
$19.95 Add to cartWalking Historic Galveston: A Guide to its Neighborhoods is the city’s first practical, comprehensive walking guide of the Islands most concentrated historic areas with interesting anecdotes about the… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Jan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: March 25 2009
- ISBN10: 1934645796
- Language: English
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Lost Galveston
$31.99 Add to cartFor nearly 200 years, a permanent settlement at the mouth of Galveston Bay has welcomed pirates, sailors, immigrants, and visitors from around the world. As Galveston grew, its buildings were visible … [more below]
- Author: Davis, Brian M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: July 14 2010
- ISBN10: 1531643868
- Language: English
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Tejano Tiger: Jose de Los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
$29.95 Add to cartRiding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benav… [more below]
- Series: Texas Biography
- Author: Thompson, Jerry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 414
- Publish Date: February 24 2017
- ISBN10: 087565407X
- Language: English
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Bravo of the Brazos: John Larn of Fort Griffin, Texas
$21.95 Add to cartMore than a century after his death in 1878, the mere mention of John Larn’s name can trigger strong reactions along the Clear Fork of the Brazos River in northern Texas. In Bravo of the Brazos, Rober
- Author: Dearment, Robert K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: February 26 2018
- ISBN10: 0806137142
- Language: English
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Isaac’s Storm: A Man, a Time, and the Deadliest Hurricane in History
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The riveting true story of the Galveston hurricane of 1900, still the deadliest natural disaster in American history–from the acclaimed author of The Devil in the White Ci… [more below]
- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 24 1999
- ISBN10: 0609602330
- Language: English
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A Vaquero of the Brush Country: The Life and Times of John D. Young
$29.95 Add to cartThis true story of the Texas brush range and the first cowboys, as thrilling as any tale of fiction, has become a classic in Western literature. It is the story of the land where cattle by tens of tho
- Author: Young, John D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: August 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 0292787049
- Language: English
