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Fort Worth
TCU Press 2013; US$ 15.95In the 1950s, history teacher Julia Kathryn Garrett of Fort Worth began collecting stories from old-timers and pioneers whose memory or knowledge reached back to the early days of the city. For fifteen summer vacations she worked from morning to night on her book, creating an anecdotal chronicle of the early years of the city that began as a fort... more...
A Walk Across Texas
TCU Press 2013; US$ 15.95Part travelogue, part natural history, and part documentary, A Walk across Texas is the record of three friends? journey from the Panhandle to Granbury?a 450-mile walk across West Texas. Jon McConal and his two friends, Eddie Lane and Norm Snyder, hiked for twenty-eight days through the less traveled byways of the Texas outlands, and in the process... more...
River Road Rambler
LSU Press 2013; US$ 19.95The River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge hosts a fascinating mix of people, traditions, and stories. Author Mary Ann Sternberg has spent over two decades exploring this richly historic corridor, uncovering intriguing and often underappreciated places. In River Road Rambler, she presents fifteen sketches about sites along this scenic route.... more...
Along the River Road
LSU Press 2013; US$ 22.95Few thoroughfares offer as rich a history as Louisiana?s River Road between New Orleans and Baton Rouge. In this third edition of her extremely popular guide, Along the River Road, Mary Ann Sternberg provides a revised introduction, new images, and updated information on sites and attractions as well as tales and local lore about favorite and overlooked... more...
Inka Human Sacrifice and Mountain Worship
University of New Mexico Press 2013; US$ 65.00In this study, Besom explores the ritual practices of human sacrifice and the worship of mountains, attested in both archaeological investigations and ethnohistorical sources, as tools in the establishment and preservation of political power within the Inka empire. more...
Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right
PublicAffairs 2013; US$ 26.99Texas may well be America?s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders have found much to be offended by in the state?s politics and attitude. And yet, according to journalist (and Texan) Erica Grieder, the United States... more...
Jane's Window
Texas A&M University Press 2013; US$ 35.00On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley?s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse?s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas? Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat where Indians and later, pioneers came to gather salt to preserve foodstuffs. According to the US Geological Survey, the gap that provides this... more...
The Inca Princesses
The History Press 2013; US$ 29.17Stuart Stirling tells the history of the Inca princesses and of their conquistador lovers and descendants. more...
Pizarro
The History Press 2013; US$ 29.17Establishing Francisco Pizarro firmly as a man of his time, Stuart Stirling shows that there was little difference in moral terms between Elizabeth I's political expediency in ordering Mary Queen of Scots's execution and Pizarro's killing of the Inca Atahualpa - a deed for which his name has been regarded with infamy. more...









