Tarleton State University Southwestern Studies in the Humanities – serie
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Lone Star Chapters
The Story of Texas Literary Clubs
Inbunden, 2004
393 kr
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As Texas entered the twentieth century, it was opening a new chapter in its cultural and social life, one that would see active efforts to promote not only appreciation of regional literature but also its creation. Author Betty Holland Wiesepape examines the contributions of literary societies and …
Exploding the Western
Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier
Häftad, 2005
208 kr
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The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier - the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's …
Alexandre Hogue
An American Visionary--Paintings and Works on Paper
Av Susie Kalil
Inbunden, 2010
418 kr
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Presenting the unique vision of an American original . . . Alexandre Hogue, a renowned artist whose career spanned from the 1920s to his death in 1994, inherited the view of an America that imagined itself as filled with limitless potential for improvement, that considered high art and great ideas …
Culture in the American Southwest
The Earth, the Sky, the People
Häftad, 2014
283 kr
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If the Southwest is known for its distinctive regional culture, it is not only the indigenous influences that make it so. As Anglo Americans moved into the territories of the greater Southwest, they brought with them a desire to reestablish the highest culture of their former homes: opera, …
Undaunted
A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas
Häftad, 2015
261 kr
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Elise Waerenskjold is known to fans of Texas women writers as ""the lady with the pen,"" from the title of a book of her writings. A forward-looking journalist, she sent letters and articles back to Norway that encouraged others to follow her footsteps to Texas, where a small colony of Norwegian …
Birth of a Texas Ghost Town Volume 22
Thurber, 1886–1933
Av Mary Jane Gentry, T. Lindsay Baker
Häftad, 2023
341 kr
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The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber 1886–1933 provides readers with a detailed history of the rise and fall of one of the most notable coal-mining and brick-producing communities in Texas. . . . Any historian interested in Texas history, urban studies, and business history would find this book …
Norsemen Deep in the Heart of Texas
Norwegian Immigrants, 1845-1900
Inbunden, 2024
496 kr
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As historian Gunnar Nerheim states in his introduction, “Norway is a foreign country to Texans, and Texas is a foreign country to Norwegians. Neither in Norway nor Texas has there been any awareness that so many Norwegians settled in antebellum Texas.” Norsemen Deep in the Heart of Texas brings …
Guide to the Historic Architecture of Glen Rose, Texas Volume 30
Bypassed, Forgotten, and Preserved
Av T. Lindsay Baker, Paul V. Chaplo
Inbunden, 2022
431 kr
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Located just west of the Fort Worth/Dallas Metroplex, the community of Glen Rose, on the banks of the spring-fed Paluxy River, has attracted people for a century and a half, not only for the shaded quiet of its streets and its historic structures, but also because of the fossilized dinosaur tracks …
Wind Energy Revolution Volume 30
How the 1970s Energy Crisis Fostered Renewed Interest in Electric-Generating Technology
Inbunden, 2023
639 kr
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It may sound simple. Fashion a set of blades, attach them to a generator, set the machine on top of a tower, and let the wind do the work of creating electricity. Not so. Most of these attempts fail, even with the availability of the latest technologies. In Wind Energy Revolution, Christopher C. …
Fritos® Pie Volume 24
Stories, Recipes, and More
Häftad, 2024
363 kr
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“Kaleta has written a deep-fried, wide-eyed American saga of family and food.”—Davia Nelson of NPR’s award winning Kitchen Sisters“Fun and detailed glimpse into the history of an American snack-food icon.”—Rob DeWalt, New Mexico-based food writer “Fritos® Pie is a well-written book covering a …
Gatekeeper
Nemesio Salcedo and the North American West
Inbunden, 2026
541 kr
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From 1802 to 1813, Nemesio Salcedo served as commandant general of the Spanish Internal Provinces, making him the preeminent military and civil authority over a roughly 1.5 million square mile region that stretched from the western bank of the Mississippi River to the eastern border of modern …
Barbed Wire Frontiers
How a Simple Invention Made a Lot of Money
Inbunden, 2026
403 kr
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In 1873 "Uncle Joe" Glidden, a sixty-year-old farmer in DeKalb, Illinois, became inspired to improve fencing after seeing a thorny rail at a county fair. Taking an old hand-cranked coffee mill, he modified it to coil some wire barbs and strung them on a wire in hopes of keeping his cattle from his …
Land of Enchantment, Land of Conflict
New Mexico in English-language Fiction
Inbunden, 1999
393 kr
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Culture in the American Southwest
The Earth, the Sky, the People
Inbunden, 2001
409 kr
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Humans create culture, but in the American Southwest, argues the author of this book, the land itself has also influenced that creation. The peoples of the American Southwest share a regional consciousness that has helped to create a unified, but not homogenized, Southwestern culture.
San Antonio on Parade
Six Historic Festivals
Inbunden, 2003
352 kr
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Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century and a half. San Antonio has partied well. In this look at late-nineteenth-century festivals in San Antonio, Judith Berg Sobre brings an art historian's sensibility to accounts of the pageantry, parades, and festive …
Listen Up
Stories by Texas Women Writers
Av Sylvia Ann Grider, Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Inbunden, 2003
521 kr
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A collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.
Listen Up
Stories by Texas Women Writers
Av Sylvia Ann Grider, Lou Halsell Rodenberger
Häftad, 2003
249 kr
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A collection of 22 stories by Texas women writers that weave a story of their own: the story of women's writing in the Lone Star State, from 1865 to the present. Authors include Berverly Lowry, Carolyn Osborn, Annette Sanford, Denise Chavez, Katherine Anne Porter, Judy Alter and Joyce Gibson Roach.
Pastoral Vision of Cormac McCarthy
Inbunden, 2004
393 kr
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Georg Guillemin's visionary approach to the work of Western novelist Cormac McCarthy combines an overall survey of McCarthy's eight novels in print with a comprehensive analysis of the author's evolving ecopastoralism. Using in-depth textual interpretations, Guillemin argues that even McCarthy's …
Exploding the Western
Myths of Empire on the Postmodern Frontier
Inbunden, 2005
467 kr
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The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier - the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's …
Undaunted
A Norwegian Woman in Frontier Texas
Inbunden, 2005
363 kr
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Elise Waerenskjold is known to fans of Texas women writers as ""the lady with the pen,"" from the title of a book of her writings. A forward-looking journalist, she sent letters and articles back to Norway, encouraging others to follow her footsteps to Texas, where a small colony of Norwegian …
Birth of a Texas Ghost Town
Thurber, 1886-1933
Av Mary Jane Gentry, T.Lindsay Baker
Inbunden, 2008
352 kr
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In its heyday, Thurber was home to coal miners and brick plant workers from Italy, Poland, and as many as fourteen other European nations, not to mention the many Mexican immigrants who came to the area. In this, her master's thesis, Mary Jane Gentry, who started the first grade in Thurber and …
Marfa Flights
Aerial Views of Big Bend Country
Häftad, 2014
338 kr
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Take an unforgettable sky excursion over Big Bend with photographer Paul Chaplo as he captures the shapes, textures, and colors of the craggy, weathered landforms people usually see only from the ground—and some places no photographer has gone before. Flying from Marfa, and hanging precariously …
Still Turning
A History of Aermotor Windmills
Inbunden, 2015
409 kr
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The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint on rural America, particularly across the West, is still visible today in the tens of thousands of its windmills that …
From the Frio to Del Rio
Travel Guide to the Western Hill Country and the Lower Pecos Canyonlands
Häftad, 2017
293 kr
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Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy …
Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails
Inbunden, 2018
422 kr
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A calaboose is, quite simply, a tiny jail. Designed to house prisoners only for a short time, a calaboose could be anything from an iron cage to a poured concrete blockhouse. Easily constructed and more affordable for small communities than a full-sized building, calabooses once dotted the rural …
Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar
Recipes and Memories
Inbunden, 2020
244 kr
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In 1924, Achilles Mehault 'Mayo' Bessan and his eighteen-year-old bride journeyed from New Orleans to Mexico, where he ultimately transformed a dirt-floored cantina in Nuevo Laredo into a bar and restaurant renowned across the United States for its fine seafood and fancy cocktails. The Cadillac Bar …
