Geographic Orientation/Texas
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Little Big Bend: Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plants of Big Bend National Park
$34.95 Add to cartPlant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. The wide range of habitats within the park–desert, foothills, mountains and moist woodlands, river canyons and floodplain–as well as the B… [more below]
- Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
- Author: Morey, Roy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0896726134
- Language: English
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The Village Horse Doctor: West of the Pecos
$18.95 Add to cartBen K. Green takes us back to the deep Southwest and the never-a-dull-moment years he spent as a practicing horse doctor along the Pecos and the Rio Grande. With precious little formal schooling but a… [more below]
- Author: Green, Ben K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 307
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0803270909
- Language: English
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Black Dawn
$22.00 Add to cartWith its eclectic mix of vampire and human citizens, Morganville, Texas, has always been a risky place to call home. But with the invasion of the vampire’s deadliest enemy, Morganville isn’t just in d… [more below]
- Series: Morganville Vampires #12
- Author: Caine, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0451237935
- Language: English
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Federico Villalba’s Texas: The Story of a Mexican Pioneer’s Life in the Big Bend
$24.00 Add to cartIn the 1880s Federico Villalba left old San Ger nimo (Aldama, Chihuahua) and began ranching near the village of San Carlos, about fifteen miles south of the Lajitas ford of the Rio Grande. Villalba pr
- Author: Casas, Juan Manuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 13 2019
- ISBN10: 0974504866
- Language: English
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Backroads of the Texas Hill Country: Your Guide to the Most Scenic Adventures
$26.99 Add to cartTexas has hill country? Who knew? Well, the Lonely Planet guide to Texas, which calls the Hill Country “rightfully one of the state’s biggest tourist draws . . . an area of gently rolling hills and va
- Series: Backroads of …
- Author: Clark, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0760326908
- Language: English
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The Longhorns
$16.95 Add to cartThe Texas Longhorn made more history than any other breed of cattle the world has known. These wiry, intractable beasts were themselves pioneers in a harsh land, moving elementally with drouth, grass,
- Series: J. Frank Dobie Paperback Library
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: March 01 1980
- ISBN10: 029274627X
- Language: English
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Journal of an Indian Trader: Anthony Glass and the Texas Trading Frountier, 1790-1810
$16.95 Add to cartA decade before the celebrated mountain men entered the Northern Plains and Rockies, some dozen little-known trading forays were launched into the plains of the Southwest. Anthony Glass led one of the… [more below]
- Series: Texas A & M Southwestern Studies (Paperback) #4
- Author: Flores, Dan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: December 19 1985
- ISBN10: 1585440167
- 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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Scream at the Sky: Five Texas Murders and One Man’s Crusade for Justice
$23.99 Add to cartAn unsolved murder spree that left a town frozen in fear…
In rural Texas, just before Christmas in 1984, a young nurse was found raped and murdered in her Wichita Falls home. Within weeks, a second w- Author: Stowers, Carlton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 01 2011
- ISBN10: 1250001692
- 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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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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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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Texas BBQ: Platefuls of Legendary Lone Star Flavor
$19.99 Add to cartExperience flavor as big as the Lone Star State itself
Texans aren’t shy to proclaim that the nation’s best barbecue comes from inside the borders of the Lone Star State. Tipping ten-gallon hats to- Author: The Editors of Southern Living
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 11 2017
- ISBN10: 0848753364
- 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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The Midnight Assassin: The Hunt for America’s First Serial Killer
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Texas Institute of Letters’s Carr P. Collins Award
A New York Times Bestseller
One of Book Riot Best Book of the Year
In nineteenth-century Austin, Texas, a ruthless murderer terrorized th- Author: Hollandsworth, Skip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 11, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118492
- Language: English
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A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett of the State of Tennessee
$16.95 Add to cartEven as a pup, Davy Crockett “always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger.” In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days in Tennessee, his two marriages, his career as an Indi… [more below]
- Author: Crockett, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 211
- Publish Date: September 01 1987
- ISBN10: 0803263252
- Language: English
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Big Bend: A Photographic Journey
$14.95 Add to cart- Author: Braden, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: March 15 2021
- ISBN10: 1560377925
- Language: English
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The Kennedy Detail: Jfk’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence
$20.99 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling and extraordinary true story of the critical events leading up to and following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, as told by the Secret Service agents who
- Author: Blaine, Gerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 15, 2011
- ISBN10: 1439192995
- Language: English
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Remembering the Days of Sorrow: The Wpa and the Texas Slave Narratives
$24.95 Add to cartBuoyed by the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s, historians began reevaluating previously held beliefs of American slavery. Under particular scrutiny was the belief in slavery’s paternalist
- Author: Goodwin, Ronald E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 03 2014
- ISBN10: 1933337478
- Language: English
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They Called Him Wild Bill: The Life and Adventures of James Butler Hickok
$26.95 Add to cartHis contemporaries called him Wild Bill, and newspapermen and others made him a legend in his own time. Among western characters only General George Armstrong Custer and Buffalo Bill Cody are as readi… [more below]
- Author: Rosa, Joseph G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 15 1979
- ISBN10: 0806115386
- Language: English
