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"Spring Thru the Seasons: Stories of a Texas Town" is a composite picture of Spring as formed with interviews, personal experiences, photographs, documents, and research into the history and people...

Ever since the first Spanish soldiers and priests set foot on land that would be called Texas, a unique history has evolved. That history, as well as the many other dynamic aspects of Texas, is...

Stephen F. Austin established the first successful Anglo-American colony in what would become Texas. Today he is recognized as "The Father of Texas."Author: Jean FlynnPublisher: Eakin...

SUNSHINE ON THE PRAIRIE is the story of CYNTHIA ANN PARKER, captured by a band of Comanches as a nine-year-old while living in Fort Parker with her family. It was 24 years before she was...

In 1997, on a five-hour car trip, Victoria's grandfather, Eugen, began to tell a story from his past. Soon Victoria began to document her grandparents' lives . . . -Growing up under the Nazi...

Based on extensive research over three decades "Texas and Texans in the Civil War," fills a glaring gap in the literature on the Confederacy with this excellent study of Texas and its people during...

Several years ago, while writing the entry for Texas in World War II for the "New Handbook of Texas," Ralph Wooster was struck by the fact that no overall study of Texas and Texans in the second...

Texas is known as a stronghold of conservative politics and values--in many cases ultraconservative--but those beliefs are taken to task in E.R. Bills' new book, Texas Dissident: Dispatches from a...

Volume II of a three-volume set spotlights the river ports of Red, Brazos, and Rio Grande rivers as well as landings on Caddo Lake, ports of Jefferson, Houston, Galveston, and Buffalo Bayou Landings,...

Veteran newspaper publisher Keith Guthrie, always fascinated by the stories of old ports in his native South Texas, launched an in-depth study of the Gulf of Mexico ports from Corpus Christi on the...

Texas Market Hunting : Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and OutlawsAuthor: R. K. SawyerPublisher: Eakin PressPublication Date: Jun 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Overcrowded and understaffed, Texas prisons are nearing the meltdown stage. It wasn't always that way. A few California lawyers and an activist federal judge ruined what was widely acknowledged as...

Touchy and tough Texans have always been inflammable-but never more dangerous than in the nineteenth century. During those turbulent times, Texans forged a unique character for themselves, tough and...

Texans are indebted to the strong, determined women who challenged society's structure and gave us role models to follow. This book profiles notable women in Texas who challenged the structure of...

Eleazar Louis Ripley Wheelock had fortunate beginnings as the grandson of the founder of Dartmouth College. But he would not take the easy route in life. His personal odyssey would lead him through...

In April of 1910, two courageous boys, ages six and ten, left Frederick, Oklahoma, on a 2,500 mile horseback ride to New York. Temple and Louie (Bud) Abernathy were adventurous youngsters who rodeo...

In 1863 Luke Cochrane and his father go to Galveston to deliver bales of cotton to the Confederate Army and find themselves in the middle of a fierce naval battle. The battle was fought on January 1,...

The discovery of the Black Giant in 1930 was the largest oil strike in the U.S. at that time, and its gushers changed the face of the oil industry. Oilmen, promoters, oil patch workers, and the...

Pink Higgins was a rugged Texan who lived a life of classic Western adventure. He was a cowboy, Indian fighter, trail driver, stock detective, rancher, and deadly shootist who killed more adversaries...

Charles August Leuschner was born on December 15, 1845, in Torgau, Prussia, to Gottlieg August and Emelie (Heller) Leuschner. He arrived on October 15, 1855, in Galveston, via New Orleans, with his...

When the Civil War broke out, Missouri was secured for the Union, but many Southern-leaning citizens in the border state resented the Federal occupation. Fighting along the border flared up again as...

For a century, the student journalists at "The Daily Texan" have reported and commented on The University of Texas. From Prohibition to the sexual revolution, from Vietnam peace protests to the Tower...

Bert Wall, a fifth-generation Texan, grew up in Houston where he graduated from the University of Houston with a degree in history and political science. But he also spent a lot of time growing up in...

In 1836, Sonnyboy Parker sets out to join the Texas army. He's too young, he needs a weapon, and instead of a horse, he has an ornery old donkey named Kate. But Sonnyboy is an orphan, adopted by the...

In The Durhams of Fairfield: An African American Genealogy, Robert L. Uzzel traced his wife Debra's roots to the slaves of the family of Robert Winfield Durham. Evidence indicates that Gobi, the...

The name Parr may not be familiar to most readers, but many know Lyndon Johnson's first U.S. Senate election was tainted: this 1948 "Box 13" fraud was perpetrated in the town of Alice in Jim Wells...

One of the largest distributors of food service products and Anheuser-Busch beers in the country, the privately held Ben E. Keith Company has focused on the Southwest from it's headquarters in Fort...

"The First Texans: Sixteen Tribes of Natives Peoples and How They Lived" profiles the earliest Texans from the Alabama-Coushatta to the Wichitas. Included are each tribe's food, clothing, shelter,...

During the 1890s and past the turn of the century, the land of the Five Civilized Tribes (roughly the eastern half of present day Oklahoma, known as the Indian Territory) was a volcanic society...

In the year 1854, the first Polish settlement of America was founded at Panna Maria, Texas. After enduring a long, perilous voyage from Poland, the first Polish settlers faced many hardships in Texas...