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At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippens's worst troubles found him in a predawn Nazi invasion that left his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, enveloped in mass death and destruction. His childhood ended that day. Jon's life thereafter was a series of traumatic events and close scrapes with death. He resisted Hitler Youth recruiters and avoided being sent to death in a labor cam...

Describes how independent oilman George P. Mitchell developed technology that would unlock trillions of cubic feet of natural gas in the North Texas rock formation known as the Barnett Shale. When he succeeded, other oilmen used it to uncover vast reserves, prompting a gas boom extending through twenty-one North Texas counties including the Fort Worth metropolitan area.

C.W. Smith's gift for creating three-dimensional characters, abundantly demonstrated in his previous TCU Press titles including Understanding Women and Purple Hearts, lends Steplings an unexpected quality of honesty and sophisticated narrative rarely seen in contemporary young-adult fiction. Mary Powell, author of the TCU Press books Auslander and Galveston Rose, describes Smith's prose as 'rich and sophisticated, yet accessible, and the dialo...

Tells the tale of ninety-five-year-old John Quincy Adams the Second (no relation to the famous historic figure), who meets a graduate student named Annie Baxter and agrees to help her write a history of the culture of the South. The Girls of the Golden West is ultimately a story of finding love for other people and for one's homeland.

At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers - the Mad Dogs: Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent - stood apart from Texas's conservative establishment. Steven L. Davis makes extensive use of untapped literary archives to weave a fascinating portrait of writers who came of age during a period of rapid social change.

The story of two ordinary people, Harold and Sarah, who lived ordinary lives, each born more than a century ago. Perhaps there are millions of people who have similar stories. But the lives of Harold and Sarah were preserved not in the memories of others but in the pages of scrapbooks, photographs, letters, postcards, and bits of memorabilia from which their lives together may be reconstructed.

A superb souvenir of this exotic terrain, Big Bend Vistas takes you on five journeys that begin at Panther Junction and travel to Study Butte, then on to the Chisos Basin, Santa Elena Canyon, Boquillas Canyon, and finally to Persimmon Gap. Easy to read and understand, Big Bend Vistas describes how volcanoes created some of the most striking scenery in Texas.

Prepared on the seventy-fifth anniversary of his election as Speaker of the US House of Representatives, this collection includes valedictory thoughts about Mr. Rayburn by two of the most significant leaders of Fort Worth history - Speaker Jim Wright and Dee J. Kelly - as well as essays by academics about Mr. Rayburn's lasting impact on his district, on major legislation, and on Texas.

The Girls of the Golden West tells the tale of ninety-five-year-old John Quincy Adams the Second (no relation to the famous historic figure), who meets a graduate student named Annie Baxter and agrees to help her write a history of the culture of the South by sharing his experiences through the decades. The redheaded Annie looks just like Liz Denney, one of John Q.'s old lovers, which immediately endears her to him. After welcoming Annie to th...

It was a time when you could drive a hundred miles without seeing another vehicle. The year was 1961, and the tides of humanity that ebbed and flowed into the lower reaches of the Big Bend were at their historic nadir. Six generations of Ben H. English's family have called this region "home". English separates fact from fiction and brings the reader into a world that few these days could imagine, much less experience

This novel is set in three Aprils, those of 1967, '68, and '69, in Music City. It presents characters caught up in events ranging from the thoughtful and sincerely well meaning to the truly felonious and certifiably insane. The novel is humorous, yet serious. Its fire is literal and emotional, and it is not to be stoked.

This authorized biography by Robert Bonazzi, is based on John Howard Griffin's Journals from 1950-1980. Griffin was blinded in the South Seas during WWII, but regained sight in 1957, after which he wrote the classic Black Like Me. Bonazzi follows Griffin year by year after 1961, when Griffin toured the globe as a lecturer on human rights.

These poems trace the stages of a journey into wholeness and maturity of being. The collection includes poems rooted in physical locations, but they also ground themselves in spiritual locations that trace the journey's arc and weigh the heft of its meaning.

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The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history. This horrifying event is at the centre of a compelling novel by author Mark Busby. He has not only researched original documents but has used family oral histories to probe the mysteries that still shroud a lynching that is as horrifying and baffling now as it must have been over a hundred years ago.

Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV, and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. After Frank struggles to fill all his number-four network's prime-time slots he is forced him to create a show called "Just Up The Street", which is meant to entertain ordinary Americans with the "real" lives of other o...

Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, an esteemed translator, poet, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, has been publishing his original English and Spanish poetry since 1946. Editor David Colón has compiled a selection of Gonzalez-Gerth's poems that demonstrate the range of interests, themes, and styles that span more than a century of a life dedicated to Hispanic literature studies.

Karla K. Morton's "Hometown, Texas" is a collection of beautiful poems and artwork, created by high school and middle school students of small towns all over Texas and by Morton herself, making the collection very unique and intriguing. Each poem brings to life another piece of Texas that can easily be overlooked by those who do not quite understand why Texans are so passionate about their state. The 2010 Texas Poet Laureate hit the road in Se...

Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized the conflict farther east. Instead, small units of Confederate cavalry and infantry skirmished with Federal forces in Arkansas, Missouri, and Louisia...

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