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Set in the arid lands of Arizona and the political backdrop of Washington, DC, this book documents the life and career of Arizona senator, Carl Hayden. One of the powerful figures in the US Congress, his public service career, centered on water and it's distribution, is inseparable from the history of the West and the development of arid lands.

Provides a synthesis between scientific and common names of the plants. Intended as a companion to field guides of common flowers in the region, this dictionary offers an opportunity to reference both names. The scientific or binomial name is translated from its Latin form and its original language, even a personal name, is identified.

Timothy Isaiah ""Longhair Jim"" Courtright operated on both sides of the law and became a legend in his lifetime and after his death. Robert K. DeArment deconstructs the myth of Longhair Jim and reconstructs the gunfighter as a real human being, complex, flawed, often courageous, usually both honorable and dishonorable.

The story of Sam Bass, both outlaw and romantic figure, has become a familiar part of Texas folklore and is well documented in nonfiction. But in this novel, Bryan Woolley creates a compelling story by giving the antihero fictional life.

In this biography, commissioned by the Disciples of Christ Historical Society, D. Duane Cummins crafts a picture of a remarkable church leader and chronicles the way a significant religious body dealt with the ambivalences of its own existence.

Fourteen-year-old Cat Jennings takes off on horseback to ride across South Texas to urge volunteers to join Sam Houston's army after she learns her father and brother have died at the Alamo. This story is fiction based on historical research.

Raised in poverty in Tyler, Texas, Helen Harris Green became the first black woman admitted into a Dallas school of professional nursing and went on to become the first black chair of board of directors of TSHE. In this personal account, she details the battles fought and the insults endured.

Paul Baker is a theatre director, as well as a teacher and mentor to the arts. He has directed plays such as ""A Different Drummer"" and ""As I Lay Dying"", as well as contributing to theatre architecture. This work presents Baker's life and work.

When Gordo O'Connor answers the doorbell one night when he is at home alone with his sons, he encounters an angry man who shoots him in the chest. Fortunately he escapes serious injury, but the gunshot begins a chain of events that alters the course of his life forever.

Almon suggests that Texas autobiography reveals as much about the state as it does the writer, recording geography and history; and economic, social, and religious practices. A sense of place distinguishes Texas autobiographical writing, for it springs from a state considered unique.

Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town until oil is discovered in the 1920s. Suddenly thousands of people stream in to find their fortune; some are honest folk, but too many are two-bit swindlers. This is the story of how an entire community draws together to save itself.

For more than a century Fort Worth writers have written well about a city too often dismissed as a semi-rural cow town. This collection of novel extracts, short stories and poetry catches the city's atmosphere and odd bits of history.

This novel is set at the time of Tulsa's Greenwood race riot that killed and wounded hundreds of people. When Berneen O'Brien moves to Tulsa she secures a teaching position in a black school. There she becomes drawn to the principal Nelson Flowers, then racial tension erupts into violence.

In a survey taken primarily from literary sources, this volume reveals the link between the human spirit and the art of connecting threads. It discusses tapestries, manuscripts, novels, poetry and more to trace the importance to humankind of a craft that began thousands of years ago.

Lionel Garcia believes that no one should read a short story and be the same person afterward. The fifteen stories in this collection have that effect. They will affect each reader differently but leave none untouched. These stories focus on South Texas' Hispanic culture most frequently--but not always. It is a world Garcia knows well, and he portrays its complexities with a clearly realistic and often bemused eye. In some stories he sees his subjects with a gentle vision that stops just short of sentimentality--in "Alone," Constancia, lonely after years of divorce, nearly throws herself at the plumber, with surprising results. In "Always Verbena," Beatrice and Antonio are reunited after tragedy and years of cowardice have separated them. Sometimes Garcia veers off into the hilariously funny, such as "West Texas Cowboys," where inept cowboys use dynamite to blast postholes in a mountain--and blow the top off the mountain. Or the title story where an insane uncle, about to be taken to an institution by the sheriff, is protected by his guardian and aunt. The final scene becomes a wild tangle of people tripping over one another, all searching for the missing uncle. Sometimes Garcia's vision of his world is grimly realistic--in "Girl" a bipolar woman indulges in a monologue as she recounts her bizarre marital history and sex life. But Garcia's imagination can also lead him to the surreal--in "The Wedding," a stranger stumbles into a home where a woman keeps her husband prisoner in his bedroom. The story ends with a surprise twist. Some stories demonstrate the confusion between Hispanic and Anglo cultures--in "Mammogram," River Oaks meets illegal alien in a sketch that will make you smile. In "The Sergeant" the confusion takes on more serious overtones because the Latin protagonist believes everything American is perfect. The truth is a bitter lesson. Garcia writes in his introduction that short stories should begin and end, "in a flash." These stories do.

This novel is set in the Lone Star State during the Cold War at the beginning of the 1960s. The post-war generation is in a frenzy of high living and profligate spending. The characters here are all caught in this brave new world: some are the princes of prosperity, others are the victims of it.

The border region between Mexico and the United States has become a sort of Mexamerica - a world fuelled by corporate colonialism, the North American Free Trade Agreement (or NAFTA) and contraband. This text reveals how the borderlands have come to be this way.

Rape, incest, and battery change a woman's life forever. Some women never rise above the pain, the rage, the humiliation, while others seem to transcend the violence and rebuild their lives. This text is a collection of stories from around the world of women who have survived such abuse.

Hunter Jacob Trance is peacefully trapping mountain lions miles away in the Big Bend, Texas, when violent turbulence rocks a DC-10 on a cross-Atlantic flight. The crew is unaware that three Siberian tigers in the hold, being sent to US zoos, have been jolted out of their cages.

From explorer Cabeza de Vaca, who was shipwrecked on Galveston Island in 1528, to singer Willie Nelson and baseball superstar Nolan Ryan, Texas history, the people who made it, and the places it was made come alive on postage stamps. In over a hundred entries, Texas on Stamps displays stamps from the United States and foreign countries; the stamps are accompanied by explanatory text. First issued in May 1840, postage stamps soon became collectibles. Until about 1900, most portrayed reigning monarchs or, in this country, former presidents. Then pictorials were introduced featuring events, places, animals, any subject of national significance. Rather than collecting stamps by countries, some philatelists began topical or thematic collections. Published in the year of the Texas Philatelic Association's centennial, Texas on Stamps offers an unusual way to look at Texas history and a guide for topical collectors.

The Pecos River flows snake-like out of New Mexico and across West Texas before striking the Rio Grande. In frontier Texas, the Pecos was more moat than river-a deadly barrier of quicksand, treacherous currents, and impossibly steep banks. Only at its crossings, with legendary names such as Horsehead and Pontoon, could travelers hope to gain passage. Even if the river proved obliging, Indian raiders and outlaws often did not.Long after irrigation and dams rendered the river a polluted trickle, Patrick Dearen went seeking out the crossings and the stories behind them. In Crossing Rio Pecos-a follow-up to his Castle Gap and the Pecos Frontier-he draws upon years of research to relate the history and folklore of all the crossings-Horsehead, Pontoon, Pope's, Emigrant, Salt, Spanish Dam, Adobe, "S," and Lancaster. Meticulously documented, Crossing Rio Pecos emerges as the definitive study of these gateways which were so vital to the opening of the western frontier.

In 1848 the York and Gilmore families stopped their covered wagons north of the Trinity River near present-day Fort Worth. A century and a half later, the settlement they founded is North Fort Worth, with a colorful history centered around livestock, tourism, and family life. After the Civil War, life often revolved around massive cattle drives passing through North Fort Worth. Later, stockyards were built and the meat packing industry boomed, attracting thousands of people from around the world - Austria, Greece, Russia, Mexico, and Poland. North Fort Worth is now incorporated within the city of Fort Worth and continues to contribute a unique history and atmosphere essential to one of Texas' most diverse and fascinating cities.

Presents a new perspective on the series of novels that created the stereotype of The Old West, published 1912-39, by looking at the romantic and erotic elements in Grey's portrayal of the landscape, the Code of the West, good guys and bad guys, and women. An appendix lists all 56 novels with short

In a play that is realistic, sometimes humorous, and always profoundly moving, Larry L. King deals with the problems of aging and our mistaken stereotypes and impersonal treatment of the elderly. Cowboy Bennett, long a resident of the Golden Shadows Senior Citizens Home, is a man with not only memories of the past but also dreams of the future for himself and his companions--especially the charming widow, Flora Harper. At the play's end, you'll want to stand and yell, "Ya! Ya!" with Cowboy. Best known as coauthor of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, Larry L. King as both essayist and play-wright consistently demonstrates an uncanny ability to use Texas settings and characters successfully to explore universal themes. Author of five plays, one novel, and eleven nonfiction books (including Warning: Writer at Work and Larry L. King: A Writer's Life in Letters, Or, Reflections in a Bloodshot Eye, both from TCU Press), King has won numerous awards for his writing, held a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard, and has taught at the university level. The Golden Shadows Old West Museum is based on Michael Blackman's short story, which was named the Best Short Fiction of 1973 by the Texas Institute of Letters. The text of the short story is included in this edition. Cover drawing by Pat Oliphant.

Texas is a place where legends are made, die, and are revived. Fort Worth, Texas, claims its own legend - Hell's Half Acre - a wild 'n woolly accumulation of bordellos, cribs, dance houses, saloons, and gambling parlors. Tenderloin districts were a fact of life in every major town in the American West, but Hell's Half Acre - its myth and its reality - can be said to be a microcosm of them all. The most famous and infamous westerners visited the Acre: Timothy ("Longhair Jim") Courtright, Luke Short, Bat Masterson, Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Sam Bass, Mary Porter, Etta Place, along with Butch Cassidy and his Wild Bunch, and many more. For civic leaders and reformers, the Acre presented a dilemma - the very establishments they sought to close down or regulate were major contributors to the local economy. Controversial in its heyday and receiving new attention by such movies as Lonesome Dove, Hell's Half Acre remains the subject of debate among historians and researchers today. Richard Selcer successfully separates fact from fiction, myth from reality, in this vibrant study of the men and women of Cowtown's notorious Acre.