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Broke, Not Broken
Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781682830277
Pub Date: October 2023
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
An Oilman's Fifty Years in the Field
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682831458
Pub Date: May 2022
The life and insights of a roughneck, engineer, and consulting oilman.
The Lady Makes Boots
Enid Justin and the Nocona Boot Company
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
A History of the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball
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
The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas
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
Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store
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
The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
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
Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis
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
And Other West Texas Lies
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
A Storyteller's Scottish West Texas
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896726307
Pub Date: May 2008
Eighteen stories covering several generations of Scottish West Texans, from immigrant history to recent experience
Broke, Not Broken
Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War
Price: $19.95
ISBN: 9781682830277
Pub Date: October 2023
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
An Oilman's Fifty Years in the Field
Price: $26.95
ISBN: 9781682831458
Pub Date: May 2022
The life and insights of a roughneck, engineer, and consulting oilman.
The Lady Makes Boots
Enid Justin and the Nocona Boot Company
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
A History of the Texas Cowboys’ Christmas Ball
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
The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas
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
Thurber, Texas, and the Company Store
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
The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
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
Boundary Dispute and Sectional Crisis
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
And Other West Texas Lies
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
A Storyteller's Scottish West Texas
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780896726307
Pub Date: May 2008
Eighteen stories covering several generations of Scottish West Texans, from immigrant history to recent experience