Texas Experience, Books Made Possible by Sarah '84 and Mark '77 Philpy – serie
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Santa Anna's Army in the Texas Revolution, 1835
Inbunden, 2025
699 kr
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The history of the Mexican Army’s activity in the Texas Revolution is well documented but often hidden away. Many important primary sources have been lost or destroyed, but an impressive amount of period documentation has survived. And yet many of these handwritten, Spanish documents have been …
Across the Border and Back
Music in the Big Bend
Inbunden, 2022
526 kr
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In the vast, sparsely populated area of West Texas known as the Big Bend, life takes place on a different scale. The nearest neighbor can be forty miles away, perhaps located not just in another town but another country, the border historically less obvious than it is today. In the small-town, …
In the Shadow of the Chinatis
A History of Pinto Canyon in the Big Bend
Häftad, 2023
310 kr
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Winner, 2020 Al Lowman Memorial Prize for Best Book on Texas County or Local HistoryThere is a deep and abiding connection between humans and the land in Pinto Canyon—a remote and rugged place near the border with Mexico in the Texas Big Bend. Here the land assumes a certain primacy, defined not by …
Texas People's Court
The Fascinating World of the Justice of the Peace
Av Mark Dunn
Inbunden, 2022
159 kr
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From 1983 to 1987, author Mark Dunn worked as a court clerk for a justice of the peace in Travis County, Texas, where, he says, “I learned more about human nature . . . than I could have learned in any other job I might have taken up as a bushy-tailed kid from Tennessee.” Based on interviews with …
Texas Dives
Enduring Neighborhood Bars of the Lone Star State
Av Anthony Head
Inbunden, 2022
410 kr
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While sometimes mischaracterized as the last respite of alcoholism, despair, and questionable motives, Texas dive bars are a reminder that life is not limited to the pressures and profits of the 9-to-5 world. A true dive earns its status through age and patron loyalty, so while dives are outposts …
Texas Secessionists Standoff
The 1997 Republic of Texas "War
Inbunden, 2023
438 kr
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On April 27, 1997, Richard Lance McLaren and his followers in the so-called “Republic of Texas (ROT)” militia held Joe and Margaret Ann Rowe hostage inside their own home at the Davis Mountain Resort, near Fort Davis, Texas, and demanded the release of jailed ROT members Jo Ann Turner and Robert …
Cemetery Birding
An Unexpected Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas
Häftad, 2023
408 kr
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It might seem unlikely that a place designed for the departed could be teeming with life. Cemeteries have a long history of serving the dual purpose of honoring the deceased while also proving a space for the living to gather and grieve in the embrace of nature. Touted as some of the earliest …
Gardening on the Dry Side of Texas
Drought-Tolerant Plants and Techniques
Av Mary Irish
Häftad, 2025
594 kr
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Nearly three-quarters of Texans live on the “dry side” of Texas—the South and Central Texas expanse west of I-35, which includes the Rio Grande Valley north through San Antonio, Austin, and the Dallas–Fort Worth area—that receives fewer than 40 inches of rain annually. In Gardening on the Dry Side …
Power
How the Electric Co-op Movement Energized the Lone Star State
Av Joe Holley
Inbunden, 2024
410 kr
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According to author Joe Holley, the story of the Texas Electric Cooperatives, a collective of some 76 member-owned electric providers throughout the state, is a story of neighborliness and community, grit and determination, and persuasion and political savvy. It’s the story of a grassroots movement …
David Crockett in Texas
His Search for New Land
Inbunden, 2024
438 kr
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David Crockett in Texas: His Search for New Land, by Allen J. Wiener, takes a fresh look at the well-known figure from the perspective of his quest for land in Texas and the new start it promised for his family. This retelling of what the author terms “the last adventure in the life of a …
Fire in the Piney Woods
Texas Lookout Towers, the Forest Service, and the Civilian Conservation Corps
Inbunden, 2025
526 kr
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Fire lookout towers are enjoying a retrospective rebirth, attracting the curious and the adventurous, as Americans seeking escape for moments of solitude rediscover the structures’ national significance. Though the Civilian Conservation Corps’ national fire control policies and reforestation …
Arrow Points of Texas and Its Borderlands
Häftad, 2025
338 kr
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State and federal entities of the relatively new United States may have set borders—but archaeological history does not. Arrow Points of Texas and Its Borderlands illuminates surviving archaeological material in the form of Native American arrow points commonly found in Texas and the surrounding …
Texas Hikes and Brews
A Rambler's Guide to a Perfect Day
Av Jason E. Maddock, Debra Kellstedt
Häftad, 2025
354 kr
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Is there a better way to spend a Texas afternoon than outdoors on a trail and then sitting back to relax with a cold one? Authors Jay Maddock and Debra Kellstedt would say there isn’t. Texas Hikes and Brews: A Rambler’s Guide to a Perfect Day presents twenty-four different hiking itineraries …
Austin–San Antonio Megaregion
Opportunity and Challenge in the Lone Star State
Av Henry Cisneros, Robert Rivard m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
324 kr
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A cascade of recent reports has described unprecedented growth in every category measured—population, employment, new business starts, manufacturing indices, traffic counts, in-migration, school attendance, and airport enplanements—highlighting the dynamism of the two “anchor cities” of Central …
Photographing Texas
The Swartz Brothers, 1880–1918
Inbunden, 2019
468 kr
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One of the most famous images in western history is a photograph of the Wild Bunch outlaw gang, also known as "The Fort Worth Five", featuring Butch Cassidy, Sundance Kid, and three other members of the gang dressed to the nines and posing in front of a studio backdrop. This picture, taken by John …
Painted Flowers Shouldn't Talk Back
The Houston Garden Artists in the Seventies
Inbunden, 2021
238 kr
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Painted Flowers Shouldn't Talk Back tells the story of a suburban women's art collective that painted together in Houston, Texas, from 1970 to 1977. They called themselves the Garden Artists, though their subjects were much more varied than just garden views. Author Margaret Killinger's artful …
Women Across Time / Mujeres a Través Del Tiempo
Sixteen Influential South Texas Women
Inbunden, 2022
410 kr
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Sixteen South Texas women stand proudly in the public mural Mujeres a TravÉs del Tiempo by Arnold GonzÁles Sr. housed on the campus of Texas A&M University–Kingsville. These women are pioneers; they are ranchers, educators, artists, politicians, and community activists; they are general and …
Three Roads to Death
The Massacre at Goliad
Inbunden, 2024
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In this thoroughly researched account of the Battle of Coleto and subsequent massacre of Texian soldiers at the Presido La BahÍa near the settlement of Goliad, Texas, author David E. Garlock describes the capture and brutal massacre of Colonel James Fannin’s soldiers by the Mexican Army. While …
County Lines
An Americana Anthology
Inbunden, 2024
364 kr
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Setting out to write an “entertaining collection of tales” about his childhood home in Fannin County, Texas, journalist Mackie Morris has created what one reviewer calls “a nostalgic memoir” in which “Morris has cleared out a field all to himself.” Morris connects historical figures such as Davy …
