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Culture in the American Southwest
Humans create culture, but in the American Southwest, argues the author of this book, the land itself has also influenced that creation. The peoples of the American Southwest share …
The Texas Calaboose and Other Forgotten Jails
A calaboose is, quite simply, a tiny jail. Designed to house prisoners only for a short time, a calaboose could be anything from an iron cage to a poured concrete blockhouse. …
Pancho Villa's Saddle at the Cadillac Bar
In 1924, Achilles Mehault 'Mayo' Bessan and his eighteen-year-old bride journeyed from New Orleans to Mexico, where he ultimately transformed a dirt-floored cantina in Nuevo Laredo …
San Antonio on Parade
Cities, like people, may be best known by the way they party. For nearly a century and a half. San Antonio has partied well. In this look at late-nineteenth-century festivals in …
Alexandre Hogue
Presenting the unique vision of an American original . . . Alexandre Hogue, a renowned artist whose career spanned from the 1920s to his death in 1994, inherited the view of an …
Exploding the Western
The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the …
The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town Volume 22
The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town: Thurber 1886–1933 provides readers with a detailed history of the rise and fall of one of the most notable coal-mining and brick-producing …
Still Turning
The Aermotor Windmill Company, which commenced operations in Chicago in 1888, is the nation’s sole remaining full-time manufacturer of water-pumping machines. The company’s imprint …
State of Mind: Texas Literature and Culture
Pilkington traces the evolution of Texas literature from its roots (including Alvar Nunez Cabeza de Vaca, the state's literary "prototype, " and J. Frank Dobie, who "taught Texans …
From the Frio to Del Rio
Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly …
The Birth of a Texas Ghost Town
In its heyday, Thurber was home to coal miners and brick plant workers from Italy, Poland, and as many as fourteen other European nations, not to mention the many Mexican …