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  • Dr. Arthur Spohn

    Surgeon, Inventor, and Texas Medical Pioneer

    Series series Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    In this first comprehensive biography of Dr. Arthur Edward Spohn, authors Jane Clements Monday, Frances Brannen Vick, and Charles W. Monday Jr., MD, illuminate the remarkable nineteenth-century story of a trailblazing physician who helped to modernize the practice of medicine in Texas.Arthur Spohn was unusually innovative for the time and exceptionally dedicated to improving medical care. Among ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Voices from the Wild Horse Desert

    The Vaquero Families of the King and Kenedy Ranches

    Founded before the Civil War, the King and Kenedy Ranches have become legendary for their size, their wealth, and their endless herds of cattle. A major factor in the longevity of these ranches has always been the loyal workforce of vaqueros (Mexican and Mexican American cowboys) and their families. Some of the vaquero families have worked on the ranches through five or six generations.In this ... Read more

    $29.99 CAD

  • The Master Showmen of King Ranch

    The Story of Beto and Librado Maldonado

    Series series Ellen and Edward Randall Series
    Winner, San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2011Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of which is the development of the first official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among those who played a crucial role in the breed's success were Librado and Alberto "Beto" Maldonado, master showmen of the King Ranch. A true "bull ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

  • From Slave to Statesman

    The Legacy of Joshua Houston, Servant to Sam Houston

    This is the story of the “other” Houston. Born in Alabama in 1822, Joshua was the slave of Margaret Lea until she married Sam Houston and moved to Texas in 1840. He served the family as trusted servant, blacksmith, carpenter, architect, wheelwright, and driver, until General Houston freed him in 1862. In telling his story, the authors have emphasized those details which made Joshua unique among ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Letters to Alice

    Birth of the Kleberg-King Ranch Dynasty

    Series Book 22 - Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
    In the summer of 1881, Robert Justus Kleberg rode across the hot, dusty South Texas brush country to the palatial home of Capt. Richard King to consult with the cattle baron about attending to his legal affairs. On that same journey, the young lawyer also first laid eyes on Alice King, “Princess of the Wild Horse Desert.” Neither of their lives would ever be the same.Published for the first time ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

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    Over 3,000 dead. Buildings shaken to the ground. A city, surrounded by water, burnt to the ground. The San Francisco earthquake of 1906 was one of the most destructive natural disasters the world has ever known.In the aftermath of the Earthquake, authorities learned the hard way that the city was vastly unprepared for any disaster. Find out what happened and how the city was repaired in this ... Read more

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  • Dead End

    Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism

    by Benjamin Ross ...
    More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason. As an activist and a scholar, Benjamin Ross is uniquely placed to diagnose why this is so. Dead End traces ... Read more

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    by Maya Angelou ...
    In this second volume of her poignant autobiographical series, Maya Angelou powerfully captures the struggles and triumphs of her passionate life with dignity, wisdom, humor, and humanity.“A curiously heartening story in which decency, honor, truth, love do exist, imperfectly, fractionally and flickeringly, not in some Platonic realm of the ideal, but in the flawed lives of real men and women.”* ... Read more

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  • Closure

    The Untold Story of the Ground Zero Recovery Mission

    The first book to chronicle the cleanup of the World Trade Center site from 9/11 through its closing ceremony, told by Lieutenant William Keegan of the Port Authority Police Department—one of the four operations commanders at the site—as he comes to his own closure with the tragedy.On the morning of 9/11, the Port Authority Police Department was the first uniformed service to respond to the attack ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • The Last Gunfight

    The Real Story of the Shootout at the O.K. Corral-And How It Changed the American West

    by Jeff Guinn ...
    A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn’s definitive, myth-busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about—“the most thorough account of the gunfight and its circumstances ever published” (The Wall Street Journal).On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot ... Read more

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  • Texas Rising

    The Epic True Story of the Lone Star Republic and the Rise of the Texas Rangers, 1836–1846

    The official nonfiction companion to HISTORY's dramatic series Texas Rising (created by the same team that made the ratings record-breaker Hatfields & McCoys): a thrilling new narrative history of the Texas Revolution and the rise of the legendary Texas Rangers who patrolled the violent western frontierMarch 1836: The Republic of Texas, just weeks old, is already near collapse. William Barret ... Read more

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  • Hatchet Men

    The Story of the Tong Wars in San Francisco’s Chinatown

    Richard Dillon, one of California’s premier historians, tells the compelling story of San Francisco’s exotic pre-1906 Chinatown when vicious hoodlum gangs held sway. Chinatown, as demonstrated by Dillon’s fast-paced narrative, became a cauldron of chaos teeming with thugs, prostitutes, gamblers, and warlords preying on scores of helpless victims. .As the Tong Wars ripped through San Francisco’s ... Read more

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