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Johnson-Sims Feud
University of North Texas Press 2010; US$ 11.96In the early 1900s, two families in Scurry and Kent counties in West Texas united in a marriage of fourteen-year-old Gladys Johnson to twenty-one-year-old Ed Sims. Billy Johnson, the father, set up Gladys and Ed on a ranch, and the young couple had two daughters. But Gladys was headstrong and willful, and Ed drank too much, and both sought affection... more...
Frommer's Texas
Wiley 2011; US$ 19.99Our authors hit all the highlights, from the nightlife in funky Austin to bright lights of Dallas to the trails of Big Bend. They've checked out all the state's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage... more...
Frommer's San Antonio and Austin
Wiley 2011; US$ 16.99Our author, a longtime resident of Texas, hits all the highlights, from the Alamo to Lake Travis. He's checked out all the city's best hotels and restaurants in person, and offers authoritative, candid reviews that will help you find the choices that suit your tastes and budget. You'll also get up-to-the-minute coverage of shopping and nightlife;... more...
Oddball Texas
Chicago Review Press 2006; US$ 13.95This amusing travel guide to the Lone Star State doesn't waste travelers' time telling them where to find antiques in the Hill Country, take breathtaking hikes through Big Bend, or gaze upon the Alamo. Instead, it guides television fans to a modern replica of the Munsters's mansion, leads the nonsqueamish to the world's only Cockroach Hall of Fame,... more...
Cold Anger
University of North Texas Press 1990; US$ 11.96?Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. . . . The book is structured around the political life of Ernesto Cortes, Jr., the lead IAF (Industrial Areas Foundation) organizer who has earned recognition as one of the most powerful individuals in Texas.??Southwestern Historical... more...
Antebellum Jefferson, Texas
University of North Texas Press 2012; US$ 44.00Founded in 1845 as a steamboat port at the entryway to western markets from the Red River, Jefferson was a thriving center of trade until the steamboat traffic dried up in the 1870s. Jefferson was the unofficial capital of East Texas, but it was also typical of boom towns in general. This title examines the frontier town. more...
The Settlers' War
Caxton Press 2011; US$ 19.95Distributed by the University of Nebraska Press for Caxton Press During the decades from 1820 to 1870, the American frontier expanded two thousand miles across the trans-Mississippi West. In Texas the frontier line expanded only about two hundred miles. The supposedly irresistible European force met nearly immovable Native American resistance,... more...
Exploring Fort Worth With Children
Taylor Trade Publishing 2000; US$ 18.95Come to where the west begins! Fort Worth is a big city with a hometown heart and a "Howdy, neighbor" attitude. Visitors from all parts of the world and of all ages can find something here to interest and excite them. more...
Alamo Traces
Taylor Trade Publishing 2003; US$ 19.95Never wavering in its search for the bedrock of fact, this book is a methodical, piece-by-piece dismantling of what we thought we knew and a convincing speculation about what might have really happened during that courageous fight for independence. more...
Rainy days in Texas funbook
Taylor Trade Publishing 1991; US$ 7.95Puzzles, games, and trivia questions introduce the history, symbols, and people of Texas. more...









