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The founding of Austin sparked one of the Republic of Texas's first great political battles, pitting against each other two Texas titans: Lamar, who in less than a year had risen to vice president from army private, and Sam Houston, the hero of San Jacinto and a man both loved and hated throughout the Republic.

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An entrepreneurial and engineering genius, Leroy Hill left his mark on 20th century aviation. But that was just the beginning. As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous 'Liberty Engine' of World War I to fit into the legendary fighter DH-4, or 'Flying Coffin'.

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Imagine Chaucer's pilgrims - without a Canterbury. Across a landscape devoid of monumental shrines, they would wander still, having no more alternative than the planet swimming in its system, just as they would continue to talk the stories of their lives. This book focuses on such pilgrims.

The lives of American cowboys have been both real and mythic, hence our continuing fascination with their history and culture. Containing sixteen essays and an annotated bibliography, this title explores cowboy music, dress, humour, films, and literature. It examines the cowboys powerful symbolic life.

Ten-year-old Junior is thrilled and a bit nervous about moving from an El Paso barrio to the house his father has purchased in an Anglo part of town. Junior and his little brother make friends with Tim and Kim, the children living above them. But soon tensions erupt between Juniors mother and Tim and Kims parents.

Newspaperman Don Hampton Biggers witnessed the last years of the West Texas frontier and grew intrigued with the buffalo hunters, the early cattlemen, and the stories they told. Suitable for collectors of Texana, this book combines two of Biggers' works, "History That Will Never Be Repeated" (1901) and "Pictures of the Past" (1902).

Throughout the 19th century, the roots of American industrialism began to take shape, and the railroad became the embodiment of mechanical progress. This title traces the history of the development and growth of the transcontinental lines of American Railroads. It covers such issues as labor disputes, mail and freight service, and train disasters.

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Amy Hale Auker's first book of essays, Rightful Place, was the story of awoman finding beauty in her place, the Llano Estacado. Her new collection of creative non-fiction, Ordinary Skin, explores her mid-life transition with prose poems and essays that illustrate a new terrain as well as new ways of being in the world.

Betty Grant Henshaw was born into a large family of tenant farmers in Oklahoma during the Dust Bowl era. For years her father, Bill, worked himself to exhaustion, trying to earn enough to provide for his wife and nine children and to buy his own small farm, but he was never able to get ahead.

Amid the deadly racial violence of the 1960s, an unassuming student from a fundamentalist Christian home in Omaha emerged as a leader and nationally recognised black activist. Ernest Chambers, elected to the Nebraska State Legislature in 1970, eventually became one of the most influential legislators the state has ever known. In her revealing study of the man and those he represented, Ali Johnson portrays one intellectual's struggle alongside ...

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Examines the historical debate surrounding Texas's identity: investigates whether Texas, with its heritage of slavery, segregation, and cotton production, is 'Southern' or, with its cowboys, cattle drives, mountains, and desert, is 'Western'"--Provided by publisher.

A journey to Japan seen through the eyes of two Brazilians: Haruki and Celina. Through a counterpoint of narration and text, and with reference to haiku by seventeenth-century master Matsuo Basho, the pair's losses and struggles unfold"--Provided by publisher.

In this magical and original look at the movies during the time of Hugo and The Artist, the son of a New Jersey filmmaker and his actress wife imagine stories that his uncle's camera turns into two-reel silent movies. Crossing paths with the likes of D.W. Griffith, Lillian Gish, and Mary Pickford during the era of transition from silent film to the 'talkies', Joey searches for love and identity in a tale worthy of a studio whose moguls might h...