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Growing up in Fort Worth during the 1950s never lacked in excitement for David Murph. Murph's story follows him from early childhood through high school graduation and leaving for college at the University of Texas. His enthusiasm for leaving home is tempered by the reality of what it means to leave his parents and younger brother behind.

In August 1914, recently orphaned Cooper Harrison arrives in El Paso to live with grandparents she's never met. The minute the fifteen-year-old steps off the train, everything seems wrong. She discovers that her grandfather Luther not only runs a shady concern but also profits from the Mexican Revolution smuggling arms across the border.

Cile Tate is leaving her Presbyterian preacher husband to return to the early love of her life, Drew Williams. When Cile decides to leave Eben Tate, she is amazed that he announces her abandonment of him and their two daughters from his pulpit. All this makes Cile a fallen woman in the eyes of the church members and the citizens of Waco.

Examines the human condition from a viewpoint. A pet canary is caught between the author's nesting instinct and her desire for solitude. A jaguar is guardian spirit to a middle-aged woman. And in this title story, a young girl is transformed during recess into a wild stallion.

Presents a recreation of the life experiences of Pedro Peres, a leather jacket soldier in the Spanish colonial army in 18th century Texas. Each chapter begins with a signpost artifact related to one of Pedro's roles-soldier, horseman, explorer, guard, spouse, messenger, and cowboy, and ends with a fictional account of an event in Pedro's life.

Presents an illustrated history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's theatrical fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book chronicles the early amateur theatricals of the 1870s, the development of ""Hell's Half Acre"" and the opening of Evans Hall, the town's first legitimate theater.

A novel for a city with a rich heritage. This book captures the history of Fort Worth, the wild and wooly city ""where the West begins,"" by following the fortunes of one family. This is often the story of ruthless, fiercely ambitious men, of betrayal and tragedy, but it is also a story of strength and achievement.

A story of two men with a love of the out-doors and the Brazos River and the people they met along their journey. It explores the Brazos and its bridges. The Brazos River meanders 923 miles from the Texas Panhandle to the Gulf of Mexico. Journalist Jon McConal and Eddie Lane met the people who lived near the bridges, and heard their stories.

A four-part evocation of memory and place and the yearning for home. Each part of this novel begins with a meditation on one aspect of Will's life as he watches the unpredictable weather of East Texas. Along the way, a red-breasted hawk comes to represent the spiritual for Will, and he is forced to face the consequences of earlier decisions.

From dinosaurs to Conquistadores, this illustrated collection of natural history and early-day recorded history, takes its cue from the tradition of storytelling in pictures. A popular feature in the West Texas newspaper where it originated more than 50 years ago, it has been restored and annotated

Galveston widow Rose Parrish, 76 years old and in failing health, is coming to grips with her life. Her only companions are her housekeeper, Pearl, her financial advisor, Captain Broussard, and a medical student, Jesse Martin. Mary Powell weaves the separate stories of these people into tale of ""the good life"" and ""the good death"".

Those who like to think Texas is special believe that Christmas there is bigger, better, and more treasured than anywhere else. This collection, first published in 1983, grew out of that conviction.

In the first two essays in this volume - ""The Age of Dobie"" and ""The Age of McMurtry"" - James Ward Lee places the writers, the politicians, and the cultural leaders in the context of each age. Subsequent chapters discuss writers and trends in Texas literature.

In 1856 J.C. Terrell, a young lawyer in his twenties set up a practice in Fort Worth, a city then in its infancy. In 1906 Terrell wrote his memories of those early days.

Actress Pauline Terry is so successful in a performance of Chekhov's Uncle Vanya that one critic calls her "the perfect Sonya." But her life is not what she expected when she left Texas for Broadway. She swims in a fish tank in a New Jersey bar to make a living, most auditions do not result in callbacks, and her marriage is shaky. Called home by her father's imminent death, she confronts both the past she thought she'd left behind and her uncertain future. For solace she turns to her aunt's former husband, Will Hand, a professor and nature writer. But their affair is brief and leaves her more uncertain than ever. Back in New York, Pauline realizes that her life onstage cannot make up for the emptiness of her life offstage. Her return to Texas was a transforming experience, leading her ultimately to come to terms with her childhood memories, her marriage, her dramatic ambitions, and finally, herself. The Perfect Sonya, first published in 1987 by Viking Penguin, won the Jesse Jones Award for the Best Novel of 1987 from the Texas Institute of Letters.

This is the account of a boy's quest to save an important piece of Arlington, Texas, history and in the process convince his recently widowed grandfather how important he really is. The novel is based on the real efforts to save the Witness Tree in 1991.

Living in a small conservative and racist town, Thomas Patterson, a stiff young criminal lawyer, is running for state district judge and hoping for endorsements from either the governor or young Lyndon Johnson, who's running for the senate.

This historical guide explores the past and present of ""Cowtown"" and its neighbouring cities. It introduces the reader to the places where Tarrant County history was made. Book in hand you can visit these sites and many more.

Ellen Marshall, divorced and remarried, is troubled by her son's refusal to accept her second husband, but takes great comfort from her five-year-old daughter of her second marriage. She hopes to help little Ellen see that women need to break the bonds that society has forced upon them.

When 14-year-old Abby Kate leaves Austin to spend three weeks with her gran in Galveston, she's full of excitement, but things soon go wrong. When she does arrive, her brother's illness means she has to stay for longer and an ill-advised trip plunges her into the Galveston hurricane of 1900.

A selection of representative Texas poems from the early days of the colony to the beginning of the 21st century. All the well-known poets in the state are included - writers such as Walter McDonald, Betsy Colquitt and Vassar Miller, as well as newer writers.

Urban legends, Las Vegas and life in the army are deftly captured in this collection of stories. With imagination bordering on the quirky or absurd, John Irsfeld brings to life a fictional character from ""The Great Gatsby"" and presents Elvis as alive and in hiding after his reported death.

A study of Western American poets. A consistent theme in this poetry is that the West, as a land of imposing geography, has a spirit of its own. Sensitive souls raised in or transplanted to places like the New Mexico desert absorb these spirits as part of their identities.

In the mid-19th century, various groups formed north of the border to invade Mexico. They were called filibusters. The Mexican government saw these invasions as a threat to sovereignty. In this book, Joseph A. Stout focuses on the more elusive members of these groups.

Reynolds is a 40-something liquor-store owner in East Texas, with a bible-beating mother and a brother who illegally sells automatic weapons. This novel captures small-town East Texas, its attitudes and habits and language, with a wonderful sense of place.

Set in the river bottoms of southeast Texas where the Navasota and Brazos rivers come together, High John the Conqueror tells the story of African American cotton farmers struggling to hold on to their land during the last years of the Great Depression.

Temple Emanu-El, the first Jewish congregation in North Texas, has played a historic role in the growth of Dallas. Founded in 1875, the temple evolved from the Hebrew Benevolent Association, organized in 1872 by eleven men who established a cemetery and held the first Jewish services. This initial gathering of pioneer Jews occurred just two weeks before the arrival of the first train - the indispensable catalyst for Dallas' development into a bustling commercial center. While retaining the basic principles of their ancestral faith, Temple Emanu-El's Reform Jews adapted their religious practices to conform to the secular demands of life in America. With confidence in the city's promise of progress, congregants actively promoted Dallas' business, civic and cultural development. Each succeeding generation of temple families produced important leaders whose contribution to the advancement and enrichment of both the temple and the city shaped both. The temple's rabbis addressed controversial issues - Dr. David Lefkowitz denounced the Ku Klux Klan in the early 1920s and Levi A. Olan preached to the troubled city after President Kennedy's assassination in 1963.

"Since 1940, Texas has flip-flopped its population from country to city. We're now eighty-two percent urban. Many of these essays touch therefore upon a vanishing Texas. There is also in this book an evaluation of what our mythology tells us about our past and what our actual experience tells us. I'm interested in the gap between mythology and experience. It's where I live, in Irony Gap."--Don Graham

When twelve-year-old Max Miller immigrates to America with his mother and sister in 1912, he wants only to be together with his family and forget the old country where they were persecuted for being Jewish and where his two brothers died. The family lives above Max's uncle's store, and Max, on a treasured new bicycle, makes deliveries for his uncle. Not at all a typical Texan, Max likes to go to school, doesn't know how to swim or fish and is afraid of horses, completely the opposite of Joe Hollis, the blacksmith's son, who taunts Max about being Jewish and a greenhorn. When his papa, a peddler, doesn't come home for Passover, Max fears he may be a victim of an outbreak of meningitis. Max decides to ride his bicycle in search of his father, and his journey leads over flooded creeks and unfamiliar territory. Joe follows him out of town and joins him on his journey. The two boys learn to understand each other and become fast friends as they survive the perils of wilderness Texas.