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A portrait of the rowdy life and mysterious death of a former CIA officer, as told by those who knew him

Geoffrey Hartman is best known as one of the most eminent literary scholars and theorists of the past half century. Through his poetry Hartman has been able to express more fully and imaginatively his thoughts about life, religion, and poetry itself. The Eighth Day combines never-before-seen poems with his previous two volumes.

Writing from the vantage point of the Texas-New Mexico boundary issue, Mark J. Stegmaier provides definitive analysis of the dispute settled by the last great accord on sectional issues between North and South - the Compromise of 1850. Considering the crisis's overall implication for the Civil War, he meticulously examines Texas and New Mexico documents, U.S. government records, maps, newspapers and collections of personal letters.

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Jorge was the brother of the MacFarlane family's longtime fishing guide, Carla, girlfriend of Frankies brother. But when the Tucson murder victims turn out to be Frankies colleague, Frankie joins the hunt for the killers, bringing her geologists eye and analytical skills to aid sheriffs detective Toni Navarro and private investigator Philo Dane.

Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall or even comprehend its heyday. On the local level, western swing bands dominated the airways and dance halls in every town and rural setting throughout the Southwest in the 1930s and by the 1940s. This presents the history and music of those bands that did not garner national fame, but were local sensations.

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The author traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. This book showcases thirty-four of those quilts.

Lucy Fischer-West knows the power of birthplace and of borders and rivers. This memoir begins with the story of her parents, one reared in Germany, the other in Mexico, and how they found each other on the Texas-Mexico border.

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By all accounts, Uriah Phillips Levy, the first Jewish commodore in the US Navy, was both a principled and pugnacious man. This richly detailed historical novel closely follows the actual events of Levy's life. Set against a broad panorama of US history, Commodore Levy describes the American Jewish community from 1790 to 1860, the beginnings of the US Navy and the great nautical traditions of the Age of Sail before its surrender to the age of ...

Although the Latino/a population of the US has exploded since the 1960s, an analysis of its place in the history of American sport has, until recently, been sorely underrepresented. The thoughtful and coherent essays in More Than Just Peloteros demonstrate that participation in sport and recreation develops identity and involvement in the lives of Spanish-speaking people throughout what is now the United States.

An exploration of illness and family life, memory and desire, friendship and loss. It focuses the poet's relationship to his brother Jonathan, who was born with spina bifida, a disease that rendered him both physically and mentally disabled. It uncovers those aspects of the self and others that are considered freakish, unnatural, or 'monstrous'.

Ben Hogan, Byron Nelson, Ben Crenshaw, Judy Rankin, Tom Kite, Fred Cobb, Harvey Penick, Babe Zaharias, Lee Trevino... the list of Texas golf legends reads like the leader board of an imaginary 20th-Century Golf Greats Invitational. This collection of portraits and interviews features fifty of the best golfers.

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Contains the proceedings of the Seventeenth Annual Comparative Literature Symposium, held on February 29 through March 2, 1984.

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Drawing upon collections at the Northern Indiana Center for History and the Museum of Texas Tech University, this title illuminates the evolution of wedding dress in the United States from 1859 to 1899. It situates the white wedding dress and perceptions of tradition within a varied and colorful history.