Under 22 pseudonyms, Wallmann has written over 200 novels, not all of them dealing with the American west. Here he surveys the whole course of the western in its myriad manifestations from the earlies
When Markku Henriksson was growing up in Finland, the song “(Get Your Kicks on) Route 66” was one of only two he could recognize—in English or Finnish. It was not until 1989 that Henriksson would catc
From rock climbing to rodeo, sumo wrestling to slow-pitch softball, boomerangs to bowling, this collection of articles by one of America’s leading journalists probes the recreational lives of people o
This field guide/technical resource provides descriptions and over 140 color photographs of 72 of the most common plants occurring in the playa wetlands of Southeastern Colorado, Southwestern Kansas,
Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. The day before she died unexpectedly in January of 1999, she met with her w
On September 27, 1939, after the Nazi invasion, Poland ceased to exist as a nation. Ten-year-old Hanna Davidson’s father, Simon, and older brother, Kazik, had been drafted to defend Warsaw. Hanna and
There is such excitement and joy in the poems of Laura Fargas?a rush to embrace the earth, an exuberant "giddy greed" for life. "I like the voice, the spirit I find in her poems," says Walter McDonald
The Great Plains of North America stretch from Texas to Alberta. The region’s history is rich and its population diverse. But throughout this huge area, one issue has dominated culture and politics si
In 1909, former frontier judge and editor Edgar Rye introduced The Quirt and the Spur: Vanishing Shadows of the Texas Frontier to a reading public hungry for stories of this vanishing world. Drawing u
When Gerald Hickey went to Vietnam in 1956 to complete his Ph.D. in anthropology, he didn’t realize he would be there for most of the next eighteen years?through the entire Vietnam War. After working
Quincie, the motherless thirteen-year-old daughter of an itinerant muleskinner, is the captivating protagonist of this Depression-era novel set in the Texas oil patch. Her story’s value resides not on
When colleague Dora Simpson asks Frankie MacFarlane to fill in as geology professor on a whitewater trip through the heart of the Grand Canyon, Frankie jumps at the chance. Eight days. Nearly two hund
Winner of the Belmont University Prize for Best Book on Country Western Music. Alan Munde and Joe Carr are the best known as superb bluegrass musicians. In this book they demonstrate that they are als
A short literary guide to one of this country’s greatest African American dramatists,August Wilson’s Twentieth-Century Cycle Plays: A Reader’s Companion will serve a wide range of students, teachers,
Many of the great Texas ranches established during the cattle boom of the 1880s became immediate business successes, but as time passed, many of them failed. Oil, Taxes, and Cats is the story of one o
Isaac Webb, a young Texas ranger, struggles for decency amid the violence of the Texas Revolution and the early days of the Republic. Still in his teens when he joins Captain Noah Smithwick, Isaac dis
A remarkable memoir, written by Texan Robert H. Williams, ranging from the wild prairies of central Texas at the turn of the century into WWI with the infant Army Air force, around the world in the me
An ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy BookRobert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on America’s unsuccessful Vietnam venture—from 1962 to the end of the wa
When brothers William and John Wright arrived in the United States from Ireland in 1850 and could find no other suitable employment, they joined the U.S. Army’s Regiment of Mounted Rifles, which serve
