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Rock beneath the Sand
Cotton has disappeared from the land of Texas and only the churches remain of the communities that grew around it. This title set out to understand the staying power of these rural …
Mennonites in Texas
With their distinctive head coverings, plain dress, and quiet, unassuming demeanor, the Mennonites are a striking presence within the often flamboyant and proud people of Texas. If …
Brush Men and Vigilantes
As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatizes, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger throughout the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the …
The Birds of Tanglewood
In the intimate language of one who watched birds daily, Karle Wilson Baker brought readers face to face with the wonders of the East Texas woods in the 1930s. She wrote about tiny …
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
Cotton supplied the Native Americans with clothing fibers before the Spanish ever entered Texas. It drew Southern settlers fleeing U.S. antislavery trends during the Mexican …
A Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker
Karle Wilson Baker was the best-known Texas poet of the early twentieth century. Yet, while many of her male contemporaries remain well known to Texas literature, she does not. Her …
The Ground on Which I Stand
In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community ofTamina—then called “Tammany”—north of Houston, near therich timber lands of Montgomery County. Located in proximityto the …
The Feud That Wasn't
Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called ""Taylor-Sutton feud"" has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing …
The Bootlegger's Other Daughter
The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as ""the greatest generation."" But not all of them qualified for that …
Texas Women on the Cattle Trails
"In these pages, you won't find a single damsel in distress. There are no dance hall queens or saloon floozies, either. The sixteen women profiled here validate the importance of …
Lone Star Picture Shows
An examination of the evolution of the movie industry in Texas, recreating the environment of the darkened movie theatre. Drawing on interviews with theatre managers, cashiers, …
Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor
Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the …