Between Two Rivers

Jerod Foster, John Poch

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• The Brazos River and the Rio Grande: what lies between are physical and cultural geographies stretching south from the Texas Hill Country to the borde... Lees meer

More Than Running Cattle

M Scott Sosebee

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• The Mallet Ranch, from its founding to the present, has followed the arc of most Texas ranches. It has experienced booms and busts, and its owners hav... Lees meer

Myth, Memory, and Massacre

Paul H Carlson, Tom Crum

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross raided a Comanc... Lees meer

Truly Texas Mexican

Adán Medrano

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Over thousands of years, Native Americans in what is now Texas passed down their ways of roasting, boiling, steaming, salting, drying, grinding, and b... Lees meer

Equal Opportunity Hero

Phil Price

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• On April 7, 1984, T. J. Patterson became the first African American elected to the Lubbock City Council, winning handily over his four opponents. It w... Lees meer

Dancin' in Anson

Paul H Carlson

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• In the 1880s, there wasn't much in Anson, Texas, in the way of entertainment for the area's cowhands. But Star Hotel operator M. G. Rhodes changed tha... Lees meer

Dance All Night

Jean A Boyd

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even compreh... Lees meer

Opus in Brick and Stone

Brian H Griggs

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Opus in Brick and Stone: The Architectural and Planning Heritage of Texas Tech University explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech Universit... Lees meer

Don't Count the Tortillas

Adán Medrano

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• From an early age, Chef Adán Medrano understood the power of cooking to enthrall, to grant artistic agency, and to solidify identity as well as succor... Lees meer

Picturing a Different West

Janis P Stout

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Picturing a Different West addresses Willa Cather and Mary Austin as central figures in a women's tradition of the pictured West. Both Cather and Aust... Lees meer

Texas Quilts and Quilters

Marcia Kaylakie

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Winner, Violet Crown Award, Writers' League of Texas, 2008 For more than a decade, Marcia Kaylakie traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend count... Lees meer

Grasses of South Texas

James H Everitt, D Lynn Drawe, Christopher Little

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• The vast rangelands of south Texas--that portion of the state lying south of San Antonio and extending west and south to the Rio Grande and east to th... Lees meer

Javelinas

Jane Manaster

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• A natural history of this pig-like animal--the only peccary species native to the United States--which is as much a part of the Southwestern landscape... Lees meer

Little Big Bend

Roy Morey

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. The wide range of habitats within the park--desert, foothills, mountains and moist woodlan... Lees meer

Bronx Faces and Voices

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• In Bronx Faces and Voices, sixteen men and women tell their personal, uncensored stories of the New York City borough--before, during, and after the t... Lees meer

Finding the Great Western Trail

Sylvia Mahoney

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• The Great Western Trail (GWT) is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in Northern Mexico, ran west parallel to the Chisholm Trail, traver... Lees meer

Deep Time and the Texas High Plains

Paul H Carlson

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• "Carlson writes well in a style that lends itself to an understanding of how man got to the high plains, and what he did once he arrived. Highly recom... Lees meer

Lone Star Wildflowers

Lashara J Nieland, Willa F Finley

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Each spring throughout the celebrated Hill Country and well beyond, locals and visitors revel in the palettes and variety of Texas wildflowers. From t... Lees meer

A Kineño's Journey

Lauro F Cavazos

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• On September 20, 1988, the United States Senate unanimously confirmed Lauro F. Cavazos as the fourth Secretary of Education in President Ronald Reagan... Lees meer

Seat of Empire

Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• In 1838 Texas vice president Mirabeau B. Lamar, flush from the excitement of a successful buffalo hunt, gazed from a hilltop toward the paradise at hi... Lees meer

Cacti of Texas

A Michael Powell, James Weedin, Shirley Powell

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• One hundred thirty-two species, subspecies, and varieties of cacti may be found in Texas. About one hundred of them occur in the state's Trans-Pecos r... Lees meer

Kit Carson and the First Battle of Adobe Walls

Alvin R Lynn

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• On a late November morning in 1864, Col. Kit Carson and his US troops, under orders from the commander of the New Mexico Military Department, attacked... Lees meer

In the Shadow of the Carmens

Bonnie Reynolds McKinney

• Hardcover | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Just across the Rio Grande from West Texas in the state of Coahuila, Mexico, the mountain ranges of the Maderas del Carmen rise majestically. Often ca... Lees meer

Pecans

Jane Manaster

• Paperback | Engels | Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
• Travel just about anywhere in the southern United States, and you will find pecan trees. The "nut too hard to crack by hand"--the derivation of the pe... Lees meer