Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest – serie
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Horned Lizards
Häftad, 2002
204 kr
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Horned lizards, or horny toads, as they are popularly known throughout the West, have long had a particular mystique in American folklore. The ancient people of the Southwest, the Anasazi and the Mimbres, depicted the little lizard on pottery and in petroglyphs. In more recent times, it represented …
Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
History and Geology
Inbunden, 2005
415 kr
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Carlson writes well in a style that lends itself to an understanding of how man got to the high plains, and what he did once he arrived. Highly recommended reading' - New Mexico Historical Notebook"". Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for …
Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
History and Geology
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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'Carlson writes well in a style that lends itself to an understanding of how man got to the high plains, and what he did once he arrived. Highly recommended reading' - ""New Mexico Historical Notebook"". Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for …
Texas Quilts and Quilters
A Lone Star Legacy
Inbunden, 2007
462 kr
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This title is winner of Violet Crown Award, Writers League of Texas, 2008. For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad …
Cacti of Texas
A Field Guide, with Emphasis on the Trans-Pecos Species
Av A.Michael Powell, James F. Weedin m. fl.
Häftad, 2008
312 kr
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One hundred thirty-two species, subspecies, and varieties of cacti may be found in Texas. About one hundred of them occur in the states Trans-Pecos region, one of the most cactus-rich areas of the United States, but at least one kind can be found in every county of the state. This volume is an …
Little Big Bend
Common, Uncommon, and Rare Plants of Big Bend National Park
Av Roy Morey
Häftad, 2008
408 kr
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Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. The wide range of habitats within the park - desert, foothills, mountains and moist woodlands, river canyons and floodplain - as well as the Big Bends three major blooming seasons of spring, summer, and fall - guarantee a stunning show of …
Cowboy Park
Steer-Roping Contests on the Border
Inbunden, 2008
298 kr
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A century ago, when Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona outlawed steer roping contests, there was one place a southwestern roper could go to hone his skills: Cowboy Park, the arena established in 1907 in Ciudad Jurez, Mexico, just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. During the formative years of …
Dance All Night
Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present
Av Jean A. Boyd
Inbunden, 2012
764 kr
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Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even comprehend its heyday. For them, the term may evoke the nationally known country music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys and the Spade Cooley Band. Yet on …
Dance All Night
Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present
Av Jean A. Boyd
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even comprehend its heyday. For them, the term may evoke the nationally known country music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys and the Spade Cooley Band. Yet on …
Myth, Memory, and Massacre
The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
Häftad, 2012
284 kr
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In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross 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 …
Truly Texas Mexican
A Native Culinary Heritage in Recipes
Av Adán Medrano
Inbunden, 2014
364 kr
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Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding and blending. From one generation to another, these ancestors of Texas’s Mexican American community lent their culinary skills to combining native and …
Finding the Great Western Trail
Inbunden, 2015
403 kr
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The Great Western Trail (GWT) is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in northern Mexico, ran west parallel to the Chisholm Trail, traversed the United States for some two thousand miles, and terminated after crossing the Canadian border. Yet through time, misinformation, and the …
Brujerías
Stories of Witchcraft and the Supernatural in the American Southwest and Beyond
Häftad, 2020
287 kr
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These stories come from a variety of Southwestern states — as well as Latin America — and demonstrate how the magical world of witchcraft and the supernatural connects Spain to Latin America, and Latin America to North America. This rich tradition of supernatural tales illuminates an unexplored …
Between Two Rivers
Photographs and Poems Between the Brazos and the Rio Grande
Inbunden, 2019
409 kr
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The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the border of Mexico, west across the Trans-Pecos, and up through Northern New Mexico into Colorado. Photographer Jerod Foster and poet John Poch praise and …
Don't Count the Tortillas
The Art of Texas Mexican Cooking
Av Adán Medrano
Inbunden, 2019
363 kr
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From an early age, Chef Adán Medrano understood the power of cooking to enthrall, to grant artistic agency, and to solidify identity as well as succor and hospitality. In this second cookbook, he documents and explains native ingredients, traditional techniques, and innovations in casero …
Opus in Brick and Stone
The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University
Inbunden, 2020
352 kr
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Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech University System, which was inspired by the sixteenth-century Plateresque Spanish Renaissance architectural style. This book details the parallels between …
Texas Natural History in the 21st Century
Av David J. Schmidly, Robert D. Bradley m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
481 kr
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One hundred fifty years ago, Texas was very different. A rural population was spread thinly across the eastern and central parts of the state, and vast lands in the western regions were still undisturbed.Texas's habitats and biota changed dramatically as its population increased and people spread …
Frontier Centennial
Fort Worth and the New West
Inbunden, 2021
449 kr
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In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city's identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the …
More Than Running Cattle
The Mallet Ranch of the South Plains
Inbunden, 2023
363 kr
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The Mallet Ranch, from its founding to the present, has followed the arc of most Texas ranches. It has experienced booms and busts, and its owners have fretted over droughts and floods as well as fights in courtrooms. Despite hardships that may have outnumbered successes, the Mallet, headquartered …
Blackdom, New Mexico
The Significance of the Afro-Frontier, 1900-1930
Häftad, 2023
297 kr
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Blackdom, New Mexico, was a township that lasted about thirty years. In this book, Timothy E. Nelson situates the township’s story where it belongs: along the continuum of settlement in Mexico’s Northern Frontier. Dr. Nelson illuminates the set of conscious efforts that helped Black pioneers …
Auto Touring America's National Parks
The Photography of H.a. Spallholz
Av Julian E. Spallholz, Lance O. Spallholz m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
524 kr
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In 1919 there were just 6.7 million cars in America. There was no interstate system. The national park system was thirty-seven years young.In this fledgling environment for long-distance travel, H. A. Spallholz and family set out from Salem, New York, to see America's national parks. In his 1917 …
Edge Rover
The Life and Times of Mountain Man Isaac Slover
Häftad, 2024
299 kr
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The Edge Rover chronicles the expansive life of Isaac Slover, a fur trapper who was born in Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary War and who ranged throughout the early American West. The variety and extensiveness of Slover's encounters among Indigenous peoples and the Hispanic Southwest …
Birds of the Texas Coast
Photographs
Av Ron Grimes, B. C. Robison m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
495 kr
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Birds of the Texas Coast: Photographs is the first large-format photography work covering the entire Lone Star coast and its representative bird life. Through Ron Grimes's dramatic photography of more than 200 coastal species, this book encompasses a deep and wide natural history of the region. The …
Artists of the Horse
Capturing the Spirit of America's West
Inbunden, 2025
449 kr
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Since the frontiers of the American West were explored and settled, the horse has become its icon, representing freedom, individualism, toughness, determination, and the idiosyncratic way of life inherent to the region. The horse was a vital partner of the cowboy, Native American, and settler of …
Frontier Centennial
Fort Worth and the New West
Häftad, 2025
195 kr
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In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city's identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the …
Engineering the Modern American West
The Life of Frederick Haynes Newell
Av Cole Bedford
Häftad, 2026
299 kr
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During the second half of the 19th century, Americans dramatically altered the landscape of the arid American West—especially its precious few rivers. Engineers built ever more ambitious dams, canals, diversions, and reservoirs until, by the dawn of the 20th century, only the federal government …
Down in the Dirt
Graphic Art by Terry Allen, 1970–2025
Inbunden, 2026
495 kr
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Down in the Dirtchronicles more than fifty years of multidisciplinary artist Terry Allen's printmaking and visual storytelling. Rooted in West Texas yet reaching far beyond, Allen's work fuses image, text, music, and performance into layered narratives shaped by memory, geography, and personal …
Story the Bones Tell
A History of the Lubbock Lake Landmark
Häftad, 2026
242 kr
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Twelve thousand years of history are buried in the dust of the Texas Panhandle—and the bones are finally ready to speak.Hidden within the Yellowhouse Draw on the edge of Lubbock, Texas, lies one of the most significant archaeological sites in North America. The Lubbock Lake Landmark was a secret …
Wineslinger Chronicles
Texas on the Vine
Häftad, 2017
318 kr
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In his pursuit of Texas terroir, the sense of place manifest in Texas wine country's sun-baked soils, variable climate, and human intervention, Russell Kane has traveled the state tasting wine, interviewing the major players in Texas wine culture, and reflecting on the state's extraordinary history …
