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This much is fact: at noon on May 29, 1970, Argentinean general and former president Pablo Eugenio Aramburu was abducted from his Buenos Aires apartment by the Montoneros, an urban guerilla group. Only after a month-long search was it discovered that the Montoneros had executed Aramburu three days after kidnapping him. José Pablo Feinmann's fictionalization of this momentous event in Argentine history raises as many questions as it answers, ab...

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Veteran defense attorney and prosecutor Bill Neal takes readers from Mississippi to the frontiers of West Texas, Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, and finally the frozen Montana wilderness through a series of linked, true-life tales of crimes and trials. Tracing the struggles of incipient criminal justice in the Southwest, Neal reveals how law and society matured together.

Illicit sex is the catalyst in all the Texas murder trials recounted in Sex, Murder, and the Unwritten Law. Bill Neal explores the imaginative machinations of defense lawyers who extricated obviously guilty clients when there appeared no legal basis upon which to peg a defense. The courtroom triumphs and underlying strategies detailed in this book are remarkable and entertaining.

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Photographs, original art, and descriptive text celebrate the wild canyonlands of the Texas Plains.

Chronicles the Spanish expedition to punish the Taovaya Indians and their allies after the Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba was burned to the ground.

Based on extensive ethnographic field work focusing on one station of three hundred agents over a two year period. It follows twelve typical agents, men and women, as they go about their regular ten-hour patrols along the border.

Bob Horton began his journalism career as a reporter for the Lubbock Avalanche Journal. Skill and good fortune took him to Washington, DC. The success Horton enjoyed as a journalist mostly hid his gradual descent into alcoholism. Of Bulletins and Booze candidly recounts the unforgettable moments of Horton's career, as well as the moments he would just as soon forget.

With a distinctive blend of craft and deep feeling, clarity and subtle thought, Catherine Tufariello gives new resonance to the historical and mythic past by drawing larger significance and universal themes from contemporary life.

For 25 years, Cambodia's Khmer Rouge have avoided responsibility for their crimes against humanity. For 30 long years, from the late 1960s to the late 1990s, the Cambodian people suffered from a war that has no name. Arguing that this series of hostilities, which included both civil and external war, amounted to one long conflict--The Thirty Years War--Craig Etcheson demonstrates that there was one "constant, churning presence" that drove that...

Clothing is the most personal expression of a culture. Objects of dress and adornment reveal so much about the individuals who wore them and the cultures and times in which they lived. History, art, technology, psychology, culture, social systems, customs--all are reflected in people's clothing. Countless treasures exist in clothing and textile collections across the U.S., but until now no comprehensive directory to the collections was availab...

Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, Monte Hartman's perceptive photographs provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great "empty middle" between our coasts. These images inspired William Kittredge to travel the Meridian himself. His essay, an unblinking yet sensitive musing on what once was and wha...

Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child's life-threatening illness, a mother's struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of marriages, the deaths of lovers, the slow demise of parents, one's own mortality, humanity's physical and emotional frailties. But the poems in Leap are not grim. They resonate with life and survival, with richness of rhythm and language. They reach ba...

While ascending the Missouri in 1804, Lewis and Clark met trader Jean Valle, who had wintered in Cheyenne camps near the Black Hills and who recounted extensive horse-raiding upon Spanish settlements. This novel depicts such a raid through Cheyenne eyes.

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Suitable for two types of people in Texas: those who play 42 and those who need to learn, this title contains instructions in all the basics, from bidding a hand or setting an opponent to the challenge of the 84 hand. This book illumines a cherished tradition that links Texans from different walks of life.

On September 27, 1939, after the Nazi invasion, Poland ceased to exist as a nation. Ten-year-old Hanna Davidson's father, Simon, and older brother, Kazik, had been drafted to defend Warsaw. Hanna and her mother, Sofia, found themselves subjected to Hitlers efforts to dehumanize Poland's Jewish population. This title tells their story.

On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. This title tells the story of the complex legal battles set in motion that tragic night on the western Nebraska plains.

Before playwright Charles Gordone (1925???1995) became a Texan, he became the first African American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, for No Place to Be Somebody, in 1970. His search for a home in the West led him in 1987 to Texas A&M, University, where he taught playwriting for the last nine years of his life, and to an influential role in the Cowboy Renaissance of the 1990s. Much as Mary Austin saw the West as a place without gender, Gor...