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  • Austin's Montopolis Neighborhood

    by Fred L. McGhee Ph.D. ...
    Series series Images of America
    Montopolis is a multiethnic neighborhood located approximately four miles southeast of downtown Austin. The area was long visited and occasionally occupied by various Texas Indian nations; the first documented European or American to settle here was Jessie C. Tannehill, who in 1830 built a cabin and townsite and gave the new community its pretentious name. Instead of establishing a permanent ... Read more

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  • Legends of the West: The Gunfight at the O.K. Corral

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events. .*Explains the origins of the Gunfight and the controversial details that continue to be debated today.*Includes witness accounts and newspaper accounts of the gunfight. *Includes a Bibliography for further reading. “The 26th of October, 1881, will always be marked as one of the crimson days in the annals of Tombstone, a day when blood ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Mesa of Sorrows

    A History of the Awat'ovi Massacre

    by James F. Brooks ...
    A scrupulously researched investigation of the mysterious massacre of Hopi Indians at Awat'ovi, and the event's echo through American history.The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi, slaughtering their neighboring men, women, and children. While ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Dreams to Dust

    A Tale of the Oklahoma Land Rush

    by Sheldon Russell ...
    On a fateful day in 1889, the Oklahoma land rush begins, and for thousands of settlers the future is up for grabs. One of those people is Creed McReynolds, fresh from the East with a lawyer’s education and a head full of aspirations. The mixed-blood son of a Kiowa mother and a U.S. Cavalry doctor, Creed lands in Guthrie station, the designated Territorial Capital, where he must prove that he is ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Forgotten Tales of New Mexico

    by Ellen Dornan ...
    Series series Forgotten Tales
    New Mexico, a place defined by a history of grand conflicts, conquistadores, Pueblo warriors, and nuclear scientists, will celebrate its state centennial in 2012. What better time for a collection of forgotten tales that recounts the adventures and exploits of priests, soldiers, witches, and politicians, who carved out a living in the harsh frontier. Ellen will introduce the reader to a cross ... Read more

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  • The Cradle of Texas Road

    A Model of Cultural Integration for the Nation

    by Robin Navarro Montgomery, Joy Montgomery ...
    The region north of Houston, Texas, is a cultural enclave of communities and sites distinctive in Texas history. Here, significant contributions to the history of the great state of Texas emerged, along with some of its most noted and distinctive personalities, communities, and historical sites.Thoroughly researched and ambitious in scope, The Cradle of Texas Road explores this region of Texas to ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Trials of Eroy Brown

    The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System

    by Michael Berryhill ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    "Berryhill's account of this infamous 30-year-old murder case . . . Provides a jarring portrait of a once-medieval state prison." — Publishers WeeklyIn April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Impressions of the Big Thicket

    by Michael Frary, William A. Owens ...
    Before the establishment of the Big Thicket Nature Preserve, the Big Thicket of Texas became a symbol of nature's last stand against encroaching civilization. Here, in a mingling of ecological zones, come together plants, animals, and birds—many of them rare—the flora and fauna of north and south, east and west. Northern maples and beeches stand not too great a distance from cypresses and Southern ... Read more

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  • Power Lines

    Phoenix and the Making of the Modern Southwest

    by Todd Andrew Needham ...
    Series series Politics and Society in Modern America
    How high energy consumption transformed postwar Phoenix and deepened inequalities in the American SouthwestIn 1940, Phoenix was a small, agricultural city of sixty-five thousand, and the Navajo Reservation was an open landscape of scattered sheepherders. Forty years later, Phoenix had blossomed into a metropolis of 1.5 million people and the territory of the Navajo Nation was home to two of the ... Read more

    $36.99 CAD

  • Deep in the Brush Country

    by Lucille Thomas Kruse ...
    Take a journey deep into South Texas, where Lucille Thomas Kruse grows up as a young girl in Falfurrias during the 1920s and 1930s.The Thomas familys fate is determined when Grandfather Thomas moves all his belongings and farm animals, including his beehives, to Falfurrias in an immigrant railroad car. In letters from 1907, he praises the lush and fertile land with fl owing artesian water.It also ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • How the World Moves

    The Odyssey of an American Indian Family

    by Peter Nabokov ...
    A compelling portrait of cultural transition and assimilation via the saga of one Acoma Pueblo Indian familyBorn in 1861 in New Mexico’s Acoma Pueblo, Edward Proctor Hunt lived a tribal life almost unchanged for centuries. But after attending government schools he broke with his people’s ancient codes to become a shopkeeper and controversial broker between Indian and white worlds. As a Wild West ... Read more

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  • Both Sides of the Bullpen

    Navajo Trade and Posts

    by Robert S. McPherson ...
    Between 1880 and 1940, Navajo and Ute families and westward-trending Anglos met in the “bullpens” of southwestern trading posts to barter for material goods. As the products of the livestock economy of Navajo culture were exchanged for the merchandise of an industrialized nation, a wealth of cultural knowledge also changed hands. In Both Sides of the Bullpen, Robert S. McPherson reveals the ways ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD