University of North Texas Press
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Outer Stars: Volume 24
$16.95 Add to cartIn these seven short stories, both realist and speculative, Sundberg Lunstrum considers life in the Anthropocene, an era marked by individual isolation, environmental degradation, and the erosion of o… [more below]
- Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
- Author: Sundberg Lunstrum, Kirsten
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419803
- Language: English
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The Reel Thrilling Events of Bank Robber Henry Starr: From Gentleman Bandit to Movie Star and Back Again
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1921 headlines across the country announced the death of Henry Starr, a burgeoning silent film star who was killed while attempting to rob a bank in Harrison, Arkansas. Cynics who knew the real Sta… [more below]
- Author: Archuleta, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 31 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419781
- Language: English
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In the Days of Billy the Kid: The Lives and Times of Jos? Ch?vez Y Ch?vez, Juan Patr?n, Mart?n Ch?vez, and Yginio Salazar
$40.00 Add to cartThe legend of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War remains prominent in the annals of American frontier history, but for men like Jos? Ch?vez y Ch?vez, Juan Patr?n, Mart?n Ch?vez, and Yginio Sala
- Author: Mills, James B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419625
- Language: English
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Jade Visions: The Life and Music of Scott Lafaro Volume 4
$21.95 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book of 2009, Jazz Division, sponsored by AllAboutJazz-New York, 2009.
Selected for “The Best of the Best” from University Presses, ALA Conference, 2010.
Winner of the 2010 Associat… [more below]- Series: North Texas Lives of Musician #4
- Author: Lafaro-Fernández, Helene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 22 2014
- ISBN10: 1574415751
- Language: English
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Where to Carry the Sound: Volume 23
$16.95 Read moreThe stories in Where to Carry the Sound center on characters excavating their own lives: unearthing family secrets, exploring inherited silences, and rediscovering what might have seemed lost to them
- Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
- Author: Sudhakar, Nina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419498
- Language: English
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Robert E. Howard: The Life and Times of a Texas Author
$40.00 Read moreRobert E. Howard (1906-1936) is most widely known today as the creator of Conan the Cimmerian, more popularly referred to as Conan the Barbarian. However, he also wrote across a wide array of genres
- Author: Oliver, Willard M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 14 2025
- ISBN10: 1574419633
- Language: English
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The Bird Cage Theater: The Curtain Rises on Tombstone, Arizona’s National Treasure
$34.95 Add to cartTombstone, Arizona, is forever associated with Wyatt Earp, Bat Masterson, Doc Holliday, and the legendary OK Corral gunfight that made it a cultural symbol of the Old West. The town’s most iconic and
- Author: Mihaljevich, Michael Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 157441948X
- Language: English
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Murder on the Largo: Volume 23
$29.95 Read moreIn western New Mexico in 1905 there rode a notorious outlaw from the Mexican border named Henry Coleman. With a Colt .45 strapped to his hip, Coleman (alias Street Hudspeth from the well-to-do Texas
- Series: A.C. Greene
- Author: Williams, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 26 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419331
- Language: English
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Elegant Hungarian Tortes and Homestyle Desserts for American Bakers: Volume 6
$29.95 Add to cartWhen Ella Szab? fled her homeland during the Hungarian Revolution of 1956, she never dreamed that someday she would become a member of the US Olympic swimming team, an accomplished baker in America, a… [more below]
- Series: Great American Cooking
- Author: Szabo, Ella Kovacs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419145
- Language: English
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Duty to Serve, Duty to Conscience: The Story of Two Conscientious Objector Combat Medics During the Vietnam War Volume 21
$34.95 Read moreDespite all that has been written about Vietnam, the story of the 1-A-O conscientious objector, who agreed to put on a uni-form and serve in the field without weapons rather than accept alternative se… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir
- Author: Kearney, James C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1574418963
- Language: English
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My Darling Boys: A Family at War, 1941-1947 Volume 23
$34.95 Read moreMy Darling Boys is the story of a New Mexico farm family whose three sons were sent to fight in World War II. All flew combat aircraft in the Army Air Forces. In 1973 one of the boys, Oscar Allison, a… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Military Biography and Memoir
- Author: Allison, Fred H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419064
- Language: English
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Cedar: The Life and Music of Cedar Walton Volume 18
$34.95 Read moreGrammy Award-winning pianist, bandleader, and composer Cedar Walton (1934-2013) is a major figure in jazz, associated with a variety of styles from bebop to funk and famous for composing several stand… [more below]
- Series: North Texas Lives of Musician
- Author: Markley, Ben
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1574418971
- Language: English
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Archive Activism: Memoir of a “Uniquely Nasty” Journey
$34.95 Read moreArchive Activism is a memoir of activism rooted in a new way to converse with history–by rescuing it. Archive activists discover documents and other important materials often classified, “gone missin… [more below]
- Author: Francis, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1574419080
- Language: English
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What Did You Do Today?: Volume 22
$16.95 Read moreThe stories in What Did You Do Today? explore the ordinary and the offbeat as if they were one and the same, asking what it’s like to be alive and what makes us human. With warmth, humor, and wonder, … [more below]
- Series: Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short Fiction
- Author: Varallo, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1574419153
- Language: English
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Framing Oak Cliff: A Visual Diary from a Dallas Neighborhood Volume 1
$45.00 Add to cartIn this stunning collection of black-and-white photographs, photographer Richard Doherty takes a deep visual dive into Oak Cliff, the southwest Dallas neighborhood where he has lived for the past fou
- Series: Seeing Texas
- Author: Doherty, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419285
- Language: English
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A Wyatt Earp Anthology: Long May His Story Be Told
$45.00 Add to cartWinner of the Best Book Award from the Wild West History Association
True West Magazine Editors’ and Readers’ Choice award for Best Author and Historical Non-Fiction Book of the Year Wyatt Earp is on- Author: Young, Roy B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 936
- Publish Date: July 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1574417738
- 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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One Long Tune: The Life and Music of Lenny Breau
$24.95 Add to cartChet Atkins called Lenny Breau (1941-1984) “the greatest guitarist who ever walked the face of the earth.” Breau’s astonishing virtuosity influenced countless performers, but unfortunately it came at … [more below]
- Author: Forbes-Roberts, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 23 2010
- ISBN10: 1574412302
- Language: English
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Felling: Volume 31
$14.95 Read moreThis collection is a record of one man’s navigation of loss, addiction, and labor. At once a meditation on the allure of a legacy in self-destruction and a giving over to hope, Felling is an explorat
- Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
- Author: Nee, Kelan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: May 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1574419315
- Language: English
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Storm Swimmer: Volume 30
$14.95 Add to cartIn poems celebrating survival and renewal, Ernest Hilbert summons the ageless conflict between human affection and the passing of time, recognizing that all we love must eventually disappear. Tender p… [more below]
- Series: Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry
- Author: Hilbert, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: February 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1574418955
- Language: English
