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Broke, Not Broken

Broke, Not Broken

Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War

by Broadus Spivey and Jesse Sublett

Foreword by Gordon Morris Bakken

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9781682830277

Pub Date: December 2022

Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government...
Driller

Driller

An Oilman's Fifty Years in the Field

by Hubert H. Hays

Other primary creator W. R. McAfee and Catherine Hefferan

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9781682831458

Pub Date: May 2022

The life and insights of a roughneck, engineer, and consulting oilman.
The Lady Makes Boots

The Lady Makes Boots

Enid Justin and the Nocona Boot Company

by Carol A. Lipscomb

Price: $29.95

ISBN: 9781682830956

Pub Date: November 2021

A biography of the life of Enid Justin, female entrepreneur and creator of an iconic Western business, the Nocona Boot Company.
Dancin’ in Anson

Dancin’ in Anson

A History of the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball

by Paul H. Carlson

Foreword by Michael Martin Murphey

Price: $26.95

ISBN: 9780896728912

Pub Date: November 2014

In the 1880s, there wasn't much in Anson, Texas, in the way of entertainment for the area’s cowhands. But Star Hotel operator M. G. Rhodes changed that when he hosted a Grand Ball the weekend before...
Seat of Empire

Seat of Empire

The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas

by Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

Price: $39.95

ISBN: 9780896727823

Pub Date: April 2013

In 1838 Texas vice president Mirabeau B. Lamar, flush from the excitement of a successful buffalo hunt, gazed from a hilltop toward the paradise at his feet and saw the future. His poetic eye admired...
Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer

Oysters, Macaroni, and Beer

Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store

by Gene Rhea Tucker

Foreword by Richard Francaviglia

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896727687

Pub Date: September 2012

A thoroughgoing analysis of the labor history and culture of an American company town.
Myth, Memory, and Massacre

Myth, Memory, and Massacre

The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker

by Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780896727465

Pub Date: February 2012

In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry and Texas Rangers raided a Comanche hunting camp, killed several Indians, and took three prisoners. One was the woman they would identify as Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive from her white family as a child a quarter century before. The event became the stuff of history and legend—based, as it turns out, on errors, falsifications, and mysteries. Myth, Memory, and Massacre peels away assumptions surrounding one of the most infamous episodes in Texas history, even while it adds new dimensions to the question of what constitutes reliable knowledge.
Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850

Texas, New Mexico, and the Compromise of 1850

Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis

by Mark J. Stegmaier

Price: $34.95

ISBN: 9780896726970

Pub Date: January 2012

Writing from the vantage point of the Texas–New Mexico boundary issue, Mark J. Stegmaier provides definitive analysis of the dispute settled by the last great accord on sectional issues between North...
Hotter ’n Pecos

Hotter ’n Pecos

And Other West Texas Lies

by Bobby D. Weaver

Foreword by Barry Corbin

Illustrated by Boots Reynolds

Price: $19.95

ISBN: 9780896727038

Pub Date: April 2010

These collected tales—some taller than others—offer revealing glimpses into how and why West Texans are different. Rugged enough to make the harshest of environments their own, this species thrives in hundred-degree-plus heat and near-zero humidity. Folks like the “boll weevil” whose naiveté is tested in the oil patch and Frank the “Goofy Roofer,” who enters a bullfight with nothing more than a denim jacket and a bottle of beer, are far from rare. All these yarns contain a grain of truth, and some of them actually happened just as related. Most of them have a humorous bent; some are reasonably serious; a few are totally outrageous. But all of them illustrate the character of this distinctive region of the Lone Star State. Weaver’s lively anecdotes prove several truths about Texas west of the hundredth meridian: you may learn how not to haul hogs, ride in rodeos, conduct bullfights, or drill...
The Line from Here to There

The Line from Here to There

A Storyteller's Scottish West Texas

by Rosanna Taylor Herndon

Price: $24.95

ISBN: 9780896726307

Pub Date: May 2008

Eighteen stories covering several generations of Scottish West Texans, from immigrant history to recent experience
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