Geographic Orientation/Texas
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Betting Booze and Brothels: Vice, Corruption, and Justice in Jefferson County, Texas
$24.95 Add to cartBy the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, ga
- Author: Landrey, Wanda a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 01 2006
- ISBN10: 1571689176
- 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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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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Cherry
$18.00 Add to cartFrom Mary Karr comes this gorgeously written, often hilarious story of her tumultuous teens and sexual coming-of-age. Picking up where the bestselling The Liars’ Club left off, Karr dashes down the tr… [more below]
- Author: Karr, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 04 2001
- ISBN10: 0141002077
- Language: English
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Kinky Friedman’s Guide to Texas Etiquette: Or How to Get to Heaven or Hell Without Going Through Dallas-Fort Worth
$16.99 Add to cartWell, butter my butt and call me a biscuit! Delivering belly laughs, hee-haws, and downright slackjaw amazement, this hilarious guide to the homeland of George W. and Willie Nelson is the essential ho
- Author: Friedman, Kinky
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0060935359
- 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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Port Aransas
$31.99 Add to cartPort Aransas, known colloquially as Port A, is on Mustang Island, one of the Texas barrier islands. This community grew from the seed of El Mar Rancho, the homestead an Englishman established for his … [more below]
- Author: Guthrie Ford, J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: February 28 2011
- ISBN10: 1531652530
- Language: English
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Oak Cliff
$31.99 Add to cartAn advertisement heralded, “Oak Cliff gets its name from the massive oaks that crown the soft green cliffs.” Originally called Hord’s Ridge for its founder William Henry Hord, the area was purchased b… [more below]
- Author: Elliott, Alan C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: April 22 2009
- ISBN10: 153164631X
- Language: English
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Daily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans Texas A&M Aggies
$19.99 Add to cartDaily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans: Texas A&M Aggies combines the great passion of the Aggie fan with the grand passion of the fan of Christ in one set of devotions. The result is a book that is fun wh
- Author: McMinn, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0984084789
- Language: English
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Daily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans Texas Longhorns
$19.99 Add to cartDaily Devotions for Die-Hard Fans: Texas Longhorns combines the great passion of the Longhorn fan with the grand passion of the fan of Christ in one set of devotions. The result is a book that is fun
- Author: McMinn, Ed
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0984084762
- Language: English
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Corpus Christi: A History
$59.93 Add to cartCorpus Christi – A History documents the stories of the people who strove to make South Texas their home. Adventurers, outlaws, settlers, cowboys, ranchers and entrepreneurs from the United States, Eu… [more below]
- Author: Givens, Murphy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 01 2011
- ISBN10: 0983256500
- Language: English
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The Lipan Apaches: People of Wind and Lightning
$27.95 Add to cartDespite the significant role they have played in Texas history for nearly four hundred years, the Lipan Apaches remain among the least studied and least understood tribal groups in the West. Considere
- Author: Britten, Thomas A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: February 15 2011
- ISBN10: 0826345875
- Language: English
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Land of Bears and Honey: A Natural History of East Texas
$19.95 Add to cartWinner, Ottis Lock Endowment Award for the best book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 1985
Texas Literary Festival Award for Nonfiction (Southwestern Booksellers Association & Dallas- Series: Texas Pan American
- Author: Truett, Joe C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: September 01, 1994
- ISBN10: 0292781342
- Language: English
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John Wesley Hardin: Dark Angel of Texas
$21.95 Add to cartThus spoke one lawman about John Wesley Hardin, easily the most feared and fearless of all the gunfighters in the West. Nobody knows the exact number of his victims-perhaps as few as twenty or as many
- Author: Metz, Leon C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 15 1998
- ISBN10: 0806129956
- Language: English
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Terlingua Teacher: The Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
$22.00 Add to cartThe Remarkable Lessons Taught and Learned in a One-room Texas Schoolhouse.
A search for a simpler, more rewarding lifestyle brings Trent Jones and his wife Olga to the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas so
- Author: Jones, Trent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: March 13 2017
- ISBN10: 0974504831
- Language: English
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Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
$7.99 Add to cartFeatured in the Netflix limited series: Crime Scene, The Texas Killing Fields!
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Tex
- Author: Casey, Kathryn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 0062300490
- Language: English
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Texas Forgotten Ports Volume 1 – Mid-Gulf Ports From Corpus Christi to Matagorda Bay
$22.95 Add to cartVeteran newspaper publisher Keith Guthrie, always fascinated by the stories of old ports in his native South Texas, launched an in-depth study of the Gulf of Mexico ports from Corpus Christi on the so… [more below]
- Author: Guthrie, Keith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: October 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1681790246
- Language: English
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Portrait of Houston
$26.95 Add to cart- Author: Clark, Kathy Adams
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: September 17 2012
- ISBN10: 1560375272
- Language: English
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How to Be a Texan: The Manual
$23.95 Read moreThere are certain things every Texan should know how to do and say, whether your Lone Star roots reach all the way back to the 1836 Republic or you were just transplanted here yesterday. Some of these
- Author: Valdez, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: May 03 2016
- ISBN10: 1477309314
- Language: English
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Texas Ranger: The Epic Life of Frank Hamer, the Man Who Killed Bonnie and Clyde
$25.00 Read moreThe New York Times Best Seller
“Frank Hamer, last of the old breed of Texas Rangers, has not fared well in history or popular culture. John Boessenecker now restores this incredible Ranger to his pro- Author: Boessenecker, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: July 03 2017
- ISBN10: 1250131596
- Language: English
