Bøger udgivet af Texas Christian University Press

Set in southwestern New Mexico, "Thin Men of Haddam" deals with the problems of Hispanics trying to make their way in an Anglo world. Orphaned as a child and reared by an Anglo family, Raphael Mendez lives in a nether world, neither de la raza nor Anglo. Having dropped out of graduate school after a squabble with his fellowship sponsors, he is foreman of the ranch of his childhood. Paired against Mendez in this striking first novel is his cousin, Manuelo --practically literature, broke, and the father of six starving children, and unable to find work. When Manuelo's desperation pushes him to the other side of the law, Mendez must choose sides.The novel is impressive for its crisp, clear depiction of local life in the area known as "Little Texas" and for its intense portrayal of the desperation of some Hispanics at the time.

A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas.

Aging cowboy and bronco-buster Wes Hendricks just wants to be left alone on his poor ranch, even when town developers offer him big money to sell it. Wes's grandson reluctantly tries to convince him to give up his home, but that was before he, too, succumbs to the ranch's--and a young cowgirl's--wild beauty.

Ten-year-old Skeeter comes of age following the murder of two young girls in her east Texas college town.

The autonomous tales in this collection are linked by a set of recurring characters and the common backdrop of New Mexico and the American West.

Decades before it saturated the airwaves, Dan Jenkins and Bud Shrake actually invented reality TV, and skewered it into a comic novel that was way ahead of its time. Frank Mallory is a big gun at one of the four major networks. After Frank struggles to fill all his number-four network's prime-time slots he is forced him to create a show called ""Just Up The Street"", which is meant to entertain ordinary Americans with the ""real"" lives of other ordinary Americans.

Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth, an esteemed translator, poet, editor, and professor emeritus at the University of Texas at Austin, has been publishing his original English and Spanish poetry since 1946. Editor David Colón has compiled a selection of Gonzalez-Gerth's poems that demonstrate the range of interests, themes, and styles that span more than a century of a life dedicated to Hispanic literature studies.

Examines the development of the arid western US - in particular the development of Arizona - as seen through the experiences of three generations of John Ruddle Nortons of Arizona. From the administration of Teddy Roosevelt and the earliest reclamation acts to the monumental case between California and Arizona that would determine how the waters of the Colorado River would be divided, the Nortons were at the centre of Arizona's development.

Nine stories set in the era of the frontier army give an entertaining and educational glimpse into a world not often explored in fiction. ""Kathleen Flaherty's Long Winter"" weaves a tale of an Irish woman who marries a man she barely knows, while ""Mary Murphy"" tells of the hard life of a laundress.

Taking us well off the beaten path, Peter Szok leads readers on a cultural journey that will make your stomach—and heart—hunger for more. Szok sets the stage by suggesting that Fort Worth is more than just cowboys and world-class museums, but also a city with a rich immigrant heritage. With mouthwatering depictions, he highlights the best Latino restaurants serving foods like birría, cabrito, buche, and pupusas.

Reprint. Originally published: Garden City, N.Y., 1973.

Using a host of vibrant images, David Bush and Jim Parsons' Hill Country Deco captures the essence of the Art Deco style of architecture as represented in the Hill Country of Texas. Hill Country Deco explores how the rich history of these structures collides with progressive notions of historic preservation for remodeling buildings and restoring facades.

Janis Stout tackles the memoir with a new and inventive approach - she organizes her memories around the houses she's lived in. Houses, she claims, are metaphors for the structures of our lives, and Stout's houses twine their way through this memoir, along with reflections on work and retirement, marriages good and bad, and quietness for engaging in the important last work of life.

This contains the story of faculties, deans, presidents, and chancellors, and the struggle among them to define either the goals of theological education or the quality of a university and the role of religion within it. The struggle takes place in the midst of the changing nature of both theological education and higher education in general, whether private or public.

Presents a collection of stories that spring from the bedrock shared with the author by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure is Texas heritage.

In the 1870s, buffalo hunters moved onto the High Plains of Texas. The Plains Indians watched hunters slaughter the animals that gave them shelter and clothing, food and weapons. The author presents both sides of a clash between cultures. With a firm grasp of Comanche life, he describes 'The People' as very human and very threatened.