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The Llano Estacado comprises all or part of thirty-three counties in Texas and four in New Mexico. Look at the Llano with eyes open to possibility, and you will encounter the unexpected, a keener understanding of the ways in which landscape and life are always inescapably intertwined, thrumming, as Barry Lopez suggests, the eternal questions: Where are we? And where do we go from here?

Describes the life of Dr. Charles Flippin, an early twentieth-century African American physician in rural Kansas and Nebraska. Flippin was charged with and prosecuted for performing illegal abortions: this book analyzes the forces behind the prosecutions, supplying context for current debate"--Provided by publisher.

Few works reveal anything about the role of federal judges in the early twentieth-century American West. Arnon Gutfeld fills that void by analyzing the major issues and dilemmas those judges faced as the West moved rapidly from frontier justice to twentieth-century legal realities. George M. Bourquin served as Federal District judge in Montana from 1912 to 1934. He dared to issue rulings that captured national attention and aroused the ire of ...

On July 8, 1860, Dallas, Texas burned. Three slaves were accused of arson and hanged without a trial. Today, most historians attribute the fire to carelessness. Texas was the darkest corner of the Old South, too remote and violent for even the even bravest abolitionists. Yet North Texas newspapers commonly reported runaway slaves, and travelers in South Texas wrote of fugitives heading to Mexico. Perhaps a few prominent people were all too hap...

Starting with popular objections to America's entry into World War I and ending with recent academic debates between Christopher Browning and Daniel Goldhagen over the legacy and meaning of the Holocaust, this provides readers with a longer historical context and a deeper study of the Holocaust's reception and place in American historiography.

The story of childhood on America's farms in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, Always Plenty to Do is a journey back to America's breadbasket. Fleshing out the contours of everyday life, it reveals what farm children saw, heard, smelled, tasted, and felt--and how they worked, played, and learned. Drawing upon rich primary sources from the Great Plains and Midwest, Riney-Kehrberg combines biography and historical narrative to inv...

From rock climbing to rodeo, bowling to boomerangs, sumo wrestling to slow-pitch softball, this collection of magazine and newspaper stories by one of America's leading writers of narrative nonfiction probes the passion people of all ages and genders pour into the games and sports they play.

With a keen eye for context - honed by a career in banking - Gene Tucker reads the pages of ledgers in the same way most historians read diaries or newspapers. In this thoroughgoing study he examines a wealth of company records, interviews, and newspaper accounts, presenting a case study not only of the microcosm of Thurber and TPM&M, but of relations between labour and management in industrialising Texas, and a larger story of the complex rol...

Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. This title celebrates how these halls bring people together and foster joy.

Winner, Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize

Ravensbruck was the only major Nazi concentration camp for women. Between 1939 and 1945, it was the site of murder by slave labour, torture, starvation, shooting, lethal injection, medical experimentation, and gassing. In its six-year history, 132, 000 women from twenty-seven countries were imprisoned in Ravensbruck. Only about 15, 000 in all survived. The Jewish Women Prisoners of Ravensbruck reclaims the lost identities of these victims. Tog...

When colleague Dora Simpson asks Frankie MacFarlane to fill in as geology professor on a white water trip through the heart of the Grand Canyon, Frankie jumps at the chance. Nearly two hundred miles on the river. One mile deep into the earth. What could go wrong? Everything. With the riveting suspense and acute attention to geological detail that readers have come to love, Frankie faces the Colorado River rapids and the perilous mystery at han...

The Great Western Trail is a nineteenth-century cattle trail that originated in northern Mexico, ran west parallel to the Chisholm Trail, traversed the United States for some two thousand miles, and terminated after crossing the Canadian border. Finding the Great Western Trail documents the first multi-community effort made to recover evidence and verify the route of the Great Western Trail.

Along the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie two square miles of relict ecosystem named the Ottine Wetlands. This area of swamps, marshes, and ponds is especially notable for its geographic isolation from other wetlands in southeastern Texas and for its fascinating intermixture of eastern North American plants and animals and western flora and fauna. The scientific importance of the Ottine Wetl...

Doll enthusiasts can re-create the fashions worn by Amanda, her family, and friends. These authentic, detailed patterns from the three-volume Amanda series are scaled to fit 15-inch and fashion dolls. Patterns may be ordered in sets of three (please specify), $13.50 per set.

As any social studies or reading teacher will tell you, instilling in middle readers the ardent realization that they have Lone Star stories of their own to record -- that their day-to-day lives are history, too -- is just as important as getting them to read. This companion writing journal encourages youngsters to chronicle their daily lives just as Hallie Lou Wells and the other protagonists of Lisa Waller Rogers's Lone Star Journals do. Eac...

Focuses on the dress of nuns in early modern Venetian Convents, investigates the intersection of dress and the city's social and economic history: includes illustrations"--Provided by publisher"--

Beloved poems of grief and triumph, now available in paperback

Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in "The Crisis" and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection presents a road map of African American life in the Southwest and West during the movements glory days.

Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. This guide features many species that are characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert environment. It describes 109 species found in the US only in Trans-Pecos Texas, 62 of these occur only in the Big Bend portion of the Trans-Pecos, and 24 of them only within Big Bend National Park.