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Tells the history, defining events, and critical participants in the development of higher education in Texas from approximately 1838 to 1970.

The Stafford-Townsend feud began with an 1871 shootout in Columbus, Texas, followed by the deaths of the Stafford brothers in 1890. The second phase blossomed after 1898 with the assassination of Larkin Hope, and concluded in 1911 with the violent deaths of Marion Hope, Jim Townsend, and Will Clements, all in the space of one month.

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2012 With muscular language and visceral imagery, Club Icarus will appeal to sons and fathers, to those tired of poetry that makes no sense, to those who think lyric poetry is dead, to those who think the narrative poem is stale, and to those who appreciate the vernacular as the language of living and the act of living as something worth putting into language. "A down-to-earth intelligence and an ac...

Presents the story of Vince Bell, Texas singer/songwriter. This book chronicles Vince Bell's life and near death on the road. It reveals what it means to live for one's art.

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Explores African-American folkways and traditions from both African-American and white perspectives. This title includes descriptions and classifications of different aspects of African-American folk culture in Texas. It also explores the songs and stories and specific performers such as Lightnin' Hopkins, Manse Lipscomb, and Bongo Joe.

Presents the story of the women ferry pilots who flew more than nine million miles in 72 different aircraft - 115, 000 pilot hours - for the Ferrying Division, AirTransport Command, during World War II. In the spring of 1942, Col. William H. Tunner lacked sufficient male pilots to move vital trainer aircraft from the factory to the training fields. Nancy Love found 28 experienced women pilots who could do the job.

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There is sometimes a fine line between history and folklore. This publication from the Texas Folklore Society tells stories about real-life characters from Texas's history, as well as personal reflections about life from diverse perspectives throughout the last century. All of these works capture something of our past, if only to carry it on and keep it alive for generations to come.

Charles Darwin spent the majority of his 1831-1836 voyage around the world in southern South America, and his early experiences in the Cape Horn region seem to have triggered his first ideas on human evolution. Richly illustrated with maps and coloru photographs, this book offers a guide to the sites visited by Darwin, and a compass for present-day visitors to follow Darwin's path.

Winner, Katherine Anne Porter Prize in Short FictionDrawing from fairy tales, ghost stories, and science-fiction, the stories in ActivAmerica explore how we confront (and exert) power and re-imagine ourselves through sports and athletic activities. A group of girls starts an illicit hockey league in a conservative suburb. A recently separated woman must run a mile a day in order to maintain her new corporate health insurance. Children impacted...

In 1946, World War I veteran Gerald Howell finished a memoir of the experiences of his squad from the 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division, but never published it. Jeffrey Patrick discovered the memoir and has edited it for publication, providing an introduction and annotations. This is an unpretentious account of men at war.

Powder and Propellants is the story of the U.S. Navy's premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of "energetic materials, " the chemical compounds used in gun and rocket propellants as well as in aircraft cockpit ejection seats.Initially charged to improve the penetrating power of warheads against steel armor, Indian Head became the proving grounds for testing guns, propellant powder, shells, mounts, and armor, notabl...

John Gregory Bourke kept a monumental set of diaries beginning as a young cavalry lieutenant in Arizona in 1872 and ending the evening before his death in 1896. As aide-de-camp to Brig. Gen. George Crook, he had an insider's view of the early Apache campaigns, the Great Sioux War, the Cheyenne Outbreak, and the Geronimo War. Bourke's writings reveal much about military life on the Western frontier, but he also was a noted ethnologist, writing ...

Texas' songs, tales, and traditions have lived and prospered on the other sides of Texas borders at one time or another before they crossed the rivers. "Both Sides of the Border" contains something foreveryone interested in Texas folklore.

Volume II of Sam Houston's personal correspondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston, covering the time 1846 to 1848. "Writing to people he knew and assuming confidentiality, Houston was unrestrained in his candor in discussing affairs of state and other aspects of his life and career. . . . "--AUSTIN AMERICAN-STATESMAN.

In the April, 1971, issue of "Southwestern Historical Quarterly, " historian Llerena Friend wrote that there was a "need for a new editing of Houston correspondence" to complement the eight-volume collection compiled in the 1930s by Eugene C. Barker and Amelia Williams. When author Madge Roberts began research for her previous book, "Star of Destiny: "The" Private Life of Sam and Margaret Houston, " she began to collect just such a file of pre...

Book describes the world premiere of the American opera based on Melville's novel Moby-Dick, with the same name. Wallace describes the creative process of writing the music and libretto, the rehearsals and stage design, and the opening night in Dallas in May 2010."--ECIP Data View, Summary.

Randolph B. 'Mike' Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage. In this collection of original essays, Campbell's colleagues, friends, and students offer a...

Originally published: Philadelphia: Balch Institute Press, 1990.