Texas Tech University Press
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Artists of the Horse: Capturing the Spirit of America’s West
$39.95 Add to cartSince the frontiers of the American West were explored and settled, the horse has become its icon, representing freedom, individualism, toughness, determination, and the idiosyncratic way of life inhe… [more below]
- Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
- Author: Brady, Heidi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 23 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832376
- Language: English
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Gypsy Alibi: A Gonzo Memoir
$34.95 Add to cartBorn in San Antonio and raised in
Lubbock, Bob Livingston drank from the same West Texas water as musicians like
Terry Allen, Joe Ely, Lloyd Maines, and others who were surfing the wake of
Buddy Holly, S- Series: Voice in the American West
- Author: Livingston, Bob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832686
- Language: English
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Small Town Author
$26.95 Add to cartMore than fifty years ago, John R. Erickson took a vow of discipline. Every day, he would retreat to some quiet place and write for four hours. For nearly as many years, readers have eagerly awaited t
- Series: Voice in the American West
- Author: Erickson, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832546
- Language: English
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Daughter of a Song: A Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartBorn in a Dust Bowl dugout on the hard, flat plains
outside Lubbock, Texas, Sonny Curtis picked cotton as a kid, formed a band with
his high school friend Buddy Holly, and opened shows for Elvis–and th- Series: Lou Halsell Rodenberger Prize
- Author: Curtis, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: September 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832740
- Language: English
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The Belly of the Whale: Bilingual Edition
$24.95 Add to cartIn this South American epic, poet Claudia Prado imagines her ancestors’ nineteenth-century migration from the Basque Country into Argentina and, ultimately, southward into the oceanic desert. At its o… [more below]
- Series: Desert Humanities
- Author: Prado, Claudia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: March 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1682832058
- Language: English
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The Texas Mexican Plant-Based Cookbook
$34.95 Add to cartIn 15,000-year-old archaeological
sites throughout Texas and Northeastern Mexico, records left by Coahuiltecan,
Karankawa, Apache, and other Indigenous communities tell stories about their
food practice… [more below]- Series: Indigenous Foodways
- Author: Medrano, Adán
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832732
- Language: English
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Birds at Night: Poems
$17.95 Add to cartIbe Liebenberg’s first book-length collection of poetry, Birds at Night, explores themes of loss, trauma, PTSD, indigeneity, and familial relationships.
These brief, intense poems amplify the sensatio
- Series: Sowell Emerging Writers Prize
- Author: Liebenberg, Ibe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 05 2025
- ISBN10: 1682832511
- Language: English
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Texas Red
$26.95 Add to cartI’ve been there before
And I’ll try it again
But any fool knows
That there’s no way to winThose lyrics have been sung by Ray Charles, Norah Jones, Nancy Sinatra, Dean Martin, and George
- Series: Voice in the American West
- Author: Steagall, Red
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1682832252
- Language: English
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Water Cries: Uncovering the Slave Auction Houses of Galveston, Texas
$27.95 Add to cartThe Water Cries represents an ambitious search for
the location of the slave auction houses in one of America’s most storied
cities. The author plumbs historical documentation, sifting historical
adverti… [more below]- Series: Afro-Texans
- Author: Griffin, Anthony Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 274
- Publish Date: February 14 2025
- ISBN10: 168283199X
- Language: English
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Long Live the Matadors: The Fearless History of Texas Tech’s Masked Rider
$29.95 Add to cartOn New Year’s Day in 1954, the underdog Texas Tech Red Raiders trounced Auburn, persistent pride of the SEC, in the Gator Bowl. The score was 35-13, and it would be almost twenty years before Tech wou
- Author: Caliva, Stacy Stockard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1682831949
- Language: English
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The Last Man in Willapa: And Other Poems
$22.95 Add to cartRobert Michael Pyle’s fifth full-length compilation, The Last Man in Willapa, contains more than seventy-five poems, most of which are entirely new since his previous collection (The Tidewater Reach, … [more below]
- Series: Sowell Collection Books
- Author: Pyle, Robert Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1682832171
- Language: English
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Going to Seed: Essays on Idleness, Nature, and Sustainable Work
$26.95 Add to cartAn abandoned place, a disheveled person, a shabby or deteriorating state: we describe such ruin colloquially as “going to seed.”
But gardeners will protest: going to seed as idle? No, plants are sendi
- Series: Sowell Emerging Writers Prize
- Author: Neville, Kate J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1682832031
- Language: English
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Cotton and Thrift: Feed Sacks and the Fabric of American Households
$29.95 Add to cartPrinted cotton sacks are currently fashionable aspects for material culture research, particularly in the costume and quilt history communities. Beginning in the late nineteenth century through the 19… [more below]
- Author: Montgomery, Marian Ann J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 204
- Publish Date: June 24 2019
- ISBN10: 168283042X
- 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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Latinos and Latinas in American Sport: Stories Beyond Peloteros
$39.95 Add to cartLatinos and Latinas in American Sport: Stories Beyond Peloteros expands upon the significance of sport in U.S. Latino communities by looking at sports as diverse as drag racing and community softball,… [more below]
- Series: Sport in the American West
- Author: Iber, Jorge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: November 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1682830403
- Language: English
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Your Blue and the Quiet Lament: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartYour Blue and the Quiet Lament records the textures of grief after a cousin’s murder at the hands of the Syrian state reaches the poet through a long-distance phone call. The poems trace a narrative o… [more below]
- Series: Walt McDonald First-Book Poetry
- Author: Safi, Lubna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831396
- 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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A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
$45.00 Add to cart(Volume 1 of 2) Killsback, a citizen of the Northern Cheyenne Nation, reconstructs and rekindles an ancient Cheyenne world–ways of living and thinking that became casualties of colonization and force
- Series: Plains Histories
- Author: Killsback, Leo K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 25 2019
- ISBN10: 1682830357
- Language: English
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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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100 Years, 100 Voices
$34.95 Add to cartWith the signing of Senate Bill No. 103 in 1923, an institution of higher learning was created in Lubbock, Texas. Its name would be Texas Technological College. Its aspirations–as one of its ambitiou… [more below]
- Author: Texas Tech University
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1682831558
- Language: English
