University of Texas Press
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Ghostlight
$50.00 Read moreA collection of otherworldly photographs of Southern wetlands featuring an original ghost story.
Southern wetlands, with their moss-draped trees and dark water obscuring mysteries below, are eerily b- Author: Carter, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1477326553
- Language: English
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Juneteenth Rodeo
$45.00 Read moreTimeless photos offer a rare portrait of the jubilant, vibrant, vital, nearly hidden, and now all-but-vanished world of small-town Black rodeos.
Long before Americans began to officially commemorate J
- Author: Bird, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 1477329544
- Language: English
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American Coal: Russell Lee Portraits
$45.00 Read moreMore than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an ex
- Author: Appel, Mary Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1477329560
- Language: English
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Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites: New Edition
$29.95 Add to cartThe essential guide to Texas’s state parks and historic sites.
Updated with a new park, Palo Pinto Mountains State Park west of Forth Worth; new historic sites; and scores of beautiful new photographs
- Author: Parent, Laurence
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 1477328645
- Language: English
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Why Sin?ad O’Connor Matters
$19.95 Read moreA stirring defense of Sin?ad O’Connor’s music and activism, and an indictment of the culture that cancelled her.
In 1990, Sin?ad O’Connor’s video for “Nothing Compares 2 U” turned her into a supersta- Series: Music Matters
- Author: McCabe, Allyson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1477330739
- Language: English
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Colonel Sanders and the American Dream
$21.95 Add to cartFrom Aunt Jemima and Uncle Ben to the Jolly Green Giant and Ronald McDonald, corporate icons sell billions of dollars’ worth of products. But only one of them was ever a real person–Colonel Sanders o
- Series: Discovering America #3
- Author: Ozersky, Josh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 156
- Publish Date: April 01, 2012
- ISBN10: 147731475X
- Language: English
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Ace Reid and the Cowpokes Cartoons
$25.00 Add to cartWinner, Mitchell A. Wilder Award for Publication Design, Texas Association of Museums
Folks across the West know a cowpoke named Jake. A good-hearted guy, he’s always up to his eyebrows in debt or drou
- Series: Southwestern Writers Collection Series, Wittliff Collections
- Author: Reid, Ace
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 0292770979
- Language: English
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Bat Bomb: World War II’s Other Secret Weapon
$27.95 Add to cartIt was a crazy way to win World War II in the Pacific–
All the United States had to do was to attach small incendiary bombs to millions of bats and release them over Japan’s major cities. As the bats
- Author: Couffer, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: February 19, 2008
- ISBN10: 0292718721
- Language: English
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Now You Hear My Horn: The Journal of James Wilson Nichols, 1820-1887
$25.00 Add to cartJim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols’ formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with
- Author: Nichols, James Wilson
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: January 01, 1981
- ISBN10: 0292755821
- Language: English
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One Hundred Thousand Hearts: A Surgeon’s Memoir
$24.95 Add to cartThe pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley performed his first human heart transplant in 1968 and astounded the world in 1969 by conducting the first successful implantation of a totally artificial hear
- Author: Cooley, Denton A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 06, 2021
- ISBN10: 0999731874
- 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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Chuco Punk: Sonic Insurgency in El Paso
$21.95 Read moreAn immersive study of the influential and predominantly Chicanx punk rock scene in El Paso, Texas.
Punk rock is known for its daring subversion, and so is the West Texas city of El Paso. In Chuco Punk
- Series: American Music
- Author: López, Tara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 04 2024
- ISBN10: 147732481X
- Language: English
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The Swimming Holes of Texas
$24.95 Add to cartNothing beats a natural swimming hole for cooling off on a scorching summer day in Texas. Cold, clear spring water, big old shade trees, and a quiet stretch of beach or lawn offer the perfect excuse t
- Author: Wernersbach, Julie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1477321527
- 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
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Coronado’s Children: Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
$16.95 Add to cartWritten in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those ha
- Series: Barker Texas History Center Series
- Author: Dobie, J. Frank
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01, 1978
- ISBN10: 0292710526
- Language: English
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A Political Education: A Washington Memoir
$35.00 Add to cartThis insider’s view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president’s staff has become a political classic sinc
- Author: McPherson, Harry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 515
- Publish Date: March 01, 1995
- ISBN10: 0292751818
- 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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Conspiracy Theory in America
$17.95 Add to cartEver since the Warren Commission concluded that a lone gunman assassinated President John F. Kennedy, people who doubt that finding have been widely dismissed as conspiracy theorists, despite credible
- Series: Discovering America #6
- Author: Dehaven-Smith, Lance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15, 2014
- ISBN10: 0292757697
- 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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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
