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$29.95  Buy | Music of the Alamo
From 19th Century Ballads to Big-Screen Soundtracks
William R. Chemerka and Allen J. Wiener
The story of the famous siege and battle of the Alamo has been told in prose, poetry, art, film, and staged productions for over 170 years. And it has been told in song. For 13 days in 1836, a small band of Texian and Tejano defenders, including Davy Crockett, William B. Travis, and Jim Bowie, stood their ground inside the Alamo against an overwhelming Mexican force. The valiant struggle of the gallant garrison would resonate from sea to shining sea in the decades that followed. From 19th century folk ballads, minstrel show tunes and orchestral marches... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$24.95 Buy | Baseball and the Baby Boomer
A History, Commentary, and Memoir
Talmage Boston
Over the last 50 years, most Baby Boomers have played the game of baseball, watched it, coached their kids in it, read about it, or best of all, replayed it in that special place Bart Giamatti named "the green fields of the mind." Baseball and the Baby Boomer is in large part a baseball history book, but it is also a commentary on baseball's "political" issues — Pete Rose's gambling, steroids, etc. — as well as a fan's memoir of the National Pastime over the last half century. It traces a Baby Boomer's lifetime experience with the game from childhood heroes to adult friends, and from Ford Frick's asterisk to the Mitchell Report. ... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$34.95 Buy | Shine On (HB)
100 Years of Shiner Beer
Mike Renfro
On Commemorating the 100-year anniversary of Shiner Beer, this entertaining history tells the complete story of a famous Texas establishment. Shiner Bock has entered into the pantheon of Texan icons, and Shine On: 100 Years of Shiner Beer chronicles its development, from the improbable beginning of German and Czech immigrants who founded the brewery to the successes and struggles of a growing business, and the many times the brand was as good as dead. For beer connoisseurs, Texas history buffs, or simply those who appreciate a story of beating the odds, Shine On is a tribute to an independent and well-made beer. ... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$34.95 Buy | El Vaquero Real
The Original American Cowboy
John Dyer
The Vaquero was in Texas before there was a Texas. They came north from Mexico with the big Spanish land grants of the 18th century. Descended from a long, illustrious line of mounted riders, the Vaquero can trace his ancestry many hundreds of years ago to the North African riders of Morocco, to the original Vaqueros in Spain, and to Mexico. When Captain King and other early ranchers came into South Texas and began amassing huge swathes of land, it was the Vaquero who enabled him to go into the cattle business. It was the Vaquero who taught the Anglo cowboy everything he needed to know about cattle and horses. ... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$24.95 Buy | Houston Deco (HB)
Modernistic Architecture of the Texas Coast
Jim Parsons and David Bush
In the 1920s, as Houston was beginning its transition from medium-sized Southern city to major American metropolis, local business and civic leaders made a conscious decision to create a new image for their community. For many, modernistic architecture symbolized their best hopes for Houston's future. As the Roaring Twenties gave way to the Great Depression, Art Deco zigzags and Art Moderne streamlining reshaped the city's stores and skyscrapers, factories and apartment buildings. Modernistic design was a major force in Houston architecture through the post- World War II building boom. As the style fell from fashion... More » | | | |  Soft Cover
$19.95 Buy | Historic Texas Book of Days
Yvonne Bruce and Anne Bruce Henaff
Historic Texas Book of Days is an undated journal of watercolors, a sampling of flora and fauna, art and architecture, cuisine and recipes, traditions large and small. Architectural styles show the evolution from simple log cabins and dog-trot plantation homes, to Greek Revival stagecoach inns, and on to elaborate Victorian buildings found in Houston in the 1880s. All structures mentioned in the book are extant. For mothers and daughters, quilts were both creative and practical, and their motifs often reflected the world around them (Log Cabin, Lone Star, Courthouse Steps), or the perhaps the world they left behind... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$34.95 Buy | Interwoven Family Memories
John Burns, Glenn Reynolds and Ethel Matthews Casey
Steeped in historical drama and the long-forgotten tradition of family history, Interwoven Family Memories is a collection of three small books, written by members of the Reynolds-Matthews ranching families of early West Texas. Each book was originally written decades ago in the form of privately printed pamphlets that were illustrated with old family photographs. Reminiscences by Ethel Matthews Casey tells of a childhood on the frontier, of ranching before fences, and of the simple joys of nature and family. For this edition, chronologies have been added for the Matthews family, the Reynolds family, and the combined families... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$14.95 Buy | John Barclay Armstrong, Texas Ranger
Judy Alter
John Barclay Armstrong was a lieutenant in the Texas Rangers, a marshal, a rancher, and civic leader. But he is best remembered for capturing outlaw John Wesley Hardin. Hardin was wanted for killing Comanche County Deputy Charles Webb in May 1874. Armstrong arrested Hardin as he boarded a train in Florida and brought him back to Texas, where he was sentenced to twenty-five years in prison. Like many young men after the Civil War, Armstrong left his home in Tennessee to find his fortune in the West. He ended up in Austin and on April 1, 1875 joined McNelly's unit of the Texas Rangers, the oldest state law enforcement agency... More » | | | |  Hard Cover
$17.95 Buy | David & The Mighty Eighth
Marjorie Hodgson Parker
A young British boy, David Freeman, is caught in the cruelty of World War II from the time he’s 10 until he’s 15 years old. Evacuated from his war-torn London home during the Blitz, devastated by the news that his father, a Royal Air Force pilot, is missing in action, and determined to become a man, David seeks what it takes to have courage. Based on a true story, this historical fiction recounts David’s adventures and the forging of his friendship with an American pilot, “Tex,” and his crew. The friendly airmen with the United States’ Eighth Air Force, “The Mighty Eighth,” give David hope when Hitler’s Nazis... More » |
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