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1 - 12 de 12 resultados para “michael berryhill”
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  • The Trials of Eroy Brown

    The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System

    de 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 ... Leer más

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  • Smeltertown

    Making and Remembering a Southwest Border Community

    de Monica Perales ...
    Company town. Blighted community. Beloved home. Nestled on the banks of the Rio Grande, at the heart of a railroad, mining, and smelting empire, Smeltertown — La Esmelda, as its residents called it — was home to generations of ethnic Mexicans who labored at the American Smelting and Refining Company in El Paso, Texas.Using newspapers, personal archives, photographs, employee records, parish ... Leer más

    $23.99 USD

  • The Governor's Hounds

    The Texas State Police, 1870–1873

    de Barry A. Crouch, Donaly E. Brice ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    In the tumultuous years following the Civil War, violence and lawlessness plagued the state of Texas, often overwhelming the ability of local law enforcement to maintain order. In response, Reconstruction-era governor Edmund J. Davis created a statewide police force that could be mobilized whenever and wherever local authorities were unable or unwilling to control lawlessness. During its three ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD

  • Portrait of Route 66

    Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives

    de T. Lindsay Baker ...
    By the time Route 66 received its official numerical designation in 1926, picture postcards had become popular travel souvenirs. At the time, these postcards with colorful images served as advertisements for roadside businesses.While cherished by collectors, these postcard depictions do not always reflect reality. They often present instead a view enhanced for promotional purposes. Portrait of ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • The Chosen Folks

    Jews on the Frontiers of Texas

    de Bryan Edward Stone ...
    Series series Jewish Life, History, and Culture
    An exploration of Jewish history in the Lone Star State, from the Jews who fled the Spanish Inquisition to contemporary Jewish communities.Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks brings this rich aspect of the past to light, going beyond single biographies and photographic histories to explore ... Leer más

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  • True Stories of Old Houston and Houstonians

    de Samuel Oliver Young ...
    The stories in this book, historical and personal sketches, owe their being largely to chance. The whole series was unintentionally begun and the letters letters have come from all parts of the state and from several Eastern and Northern states. The stories are highly enjoyable, for each one will bring back some pleasant memory of oldtimes Houston. ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Mary Austin Holley

    The Texas Diary, 1835–1838

    de Mary Austin Holley ...
    Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846), a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, journeyed to Texas on three separate occasions. Her first visit, in 1831, resulted in the publication of her book, Texas. Her second and third trips, in 1835 and 1837, were depicted in her diary. This witty, observant, and highly perceptive woman captured the infant Texas in her journal—the Mexican state moving toward rebellion and the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

  • The University of Oklahoma

    A History, Volume II: 1917–1950

    de David W. Levy ...
    In 1917 it was still possible for the University of Oklahoma’s annual Catalogue to include a roster of every student’s name and hometown. A compact and close-knit community, those 2,500 students and their 130 professors studied and taught at a respectable (though small, relatively uncomplicated, and rather insular) regional university. During the following third of a century, the school underwent ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Pesos and Dollars

    Entrepreneurs in the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1880-1940

    de Alicia Marion Dewey ...
    Series series Connecting the Greater West Series
    The commercial world of South Texas between 1880 and 1940 provided an attractive environment for many seeking to start new businesses, especially businesses that linked the markets and finances of the United States and Mexico. Entrepreneurs regularly crossed the physical border in pursuit of business.But more important, more complex, and less well-known were the linguistic, cultural, and ethnic ... Leer más

    $8.99 USD

  • The Nogal Mesa

    A History of Kivas and Ranchers in Lincoln County

    de Gary Cozzens ...
    This book was a finalist for the New Mexico Book Co-Op History Book of the Year. Most people think of Billy the Kid and the Lincoln County War when Lincoln County, New Mexico is mentioned. "Yet, the county has a rich history besides that chapter of lawlessness and violence. In writing this book I wanted to tell the story of the miners and forest rangers and the Civilian Conservation Corps and ... Leer más

    $12.39 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Minorities in Phoenix

    A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992

    de Bradford Luckingham ...
    Phoenix is the largest city in the Southwest and one of the largest urban centers in the country, yet less has been published about its minority populations than those of other major metropolitan areas. Bradford Luckingham has now written a straightforward narrative history of Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans, and African Americans in Phoenix from the 1860s to the present, tracing their ... Leer más

    $23.09 USD

  • The Color of the Land

    Race, Nation, and the Politics of Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929

    de David A. Chang ...
    The Color of the Land brings the histories of Creek Indians, African Americans, and whites in Oklahoma together into one story that explores the way races and nations were made and remade in conflicts over who would own land, who would farm it, and who would rule it. This story disrupts expected narratives of the American past, revealing how identities — race, nation, and class — took new forms in ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD