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          Finding Karen

          Finding Karen

          An Ancestral Mystery

          by Dorothy Allred Solomon

          Price: $27.95

          ISBN: 9781682830611

          Pub Date: August 2020

          A journey of discovery—both of ancestral past and personal present
          Will Rogers

          Will Rogers

          A Political Life

          by Richard D. White Jr.

          Price: $19.95

          ISBN: 9780896728127

          Pub Date: October 2019

          He was the top male box office attraction at the movies, one of the most widely read newspaper columnists in America, a radio commentator with an audience of more than 60 million, and a globetrotting...
          A Witness to History

          A Witness to History

          George H. Mahon, West Texas Congressman

          by Janet M. Neugebauer

          Foreword by Kent Hance

          Price: $45.00

          ISBN: 9780896729889

          Pub Date: June 2017

          This is the story of George H. Mahon, a man who went to Congress in 1935, when the House Committee on Appropriations still allocated a small amount of money to buy military horses. Forty-four years later, when Mahon retired as Chairman of that same committee, the committee was debating funds to purchase a bomber capable of traveling at 2,000 miles an hour. With a career spanning nearly a half century—spanning almost the entire Cold War—Mahon grew from a West Texas country lawyer to one of the most powerful men in the US House of Representatives, serving twenty-two consecutive terms from 1935–1978. During his time in Congress, Mahon worked easily with the giants of government, enjoying the friendship and confidence of seven of the eight presidents with whom he served. He worked just as comfortably with his constituents in the Nineteenth Congressional District of Texas. Mahon served on several Congressional committees,...
          Mysteries of Love and Grief

          Mysteries of Love and Grief

          Reflections on a Plainswoman’s Life

          by Sandra Scofield

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780896729414

          Pub Date: September 2015

          Frieda Harms was born into a farming family in Indian Territory in 1906. Widowed at thirty and left with three children in the midst of the Great Depression, she worked as a farmer, a railroad cook,...
          From Texas to San Diego in 1851

          From Texas to San Diego in 1851

          The Overland Journal of Dr. S. W. Woodhouse, Surgeon-Naturalist of the Sitgreaves Expedition

          by S. W. Woodhouse

          Edited by Andrew Wallace and Richard Hevly

          Price: $45.00

          ISBN: 9780896725973

          Pub Date: July 2007

          As Capt. Lorenzo Sitgreaves set out in 1851 to explore the southern portion of the Four Corners region (won in the recent war with Mexico), his party included Dr. Samuel Woodhouse, a thirty-year-old...
          Through the Shadows with O. Henry

          Through the Shadows with O. Henry

          by Al Jennings

          Foreword by Mike Cox

          Afterword by Patrick McConal

          Price: $17.95

          ISBN: 9780896724808

          Pub Date: April 2002

          Al Jennings, if we are to believe him, was for several years a close friend of O. Henry (William Sydney Porter), perhaps America’s favorite short-story writer. They met, Jennings claims, as outlaws...
          The Quirt and the Spur

          The Quirt and the Spur

          Vanishing Shadows of the Texas Frontier

          by Edgar Rye

          Foreword by Ty Cashion

          Afterword by Charles Linck Jr.

          Price: $17.95

          ISBN: 9780896724419

          Pub Date: September 2000

          In 1909, former frontier judge and editor Edgar Rye introduced The Quirt and the Spur: Vanishing Shadows of the Texas Frontier to a reading public hungry for stories of this vanishing world. Drawing...
          Ice

          Ice

          The Antarctic Diary of Charles F. Passel

          Edited by T. H. Baughman

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780896723474

          Pub Date: January 1995

          Charles and Alda Passel have been married for fifty-five years. They reside in Abilene, Texas. T.H. Baughman is chair of the history department of Benedictine College, Atchison, Kansas. He is the author of Before the Heroes Came: Antarctica in the 1890s.
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