In a career forged in the saddle on scout duty along the Rio Grande, Arthur Hill witnessed dramatic changes from 1947 to 1974. Whether inspecting brands, deterring smugglers of everything from cattle
In the thirty years since the second edition of A Manual of Acarology was published, acarologists have discovered a multitude of new mite taxa, made major modifications in acarine classification, and
Soaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture; from the European landscape of World War II to the current war in Iraq, Christine Rhein opens
Southeastern Arizona is a tinderbox. Down Under Copper's plans to explore for minerals have pitted landowners, worried about their water supply and property values, against those hoping to profit fro
On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. Massive media attention to the grisly story soon spawned a his
Peering from under his work hat into the dawn mist, the young man watched the light emerge. He walked slowly and quietly through the cornfield and felt his shoulders brush the young sturdy stalks of
Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in The Crisis and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. Reflecting and illuminating
Travel just about anywhere in the southern United States, and you will find pecan trees. The ?nut too hard to crack by hand”?the derivation of the pecan’s Algonquian name?is one of the most successful
The botany, ecology, and rich lore of Texas wildflowers, in easy-to-locate color groupingsEach spring throughout the celebrated Hill Country and well beyond, locals and visitors revel in the palettes
Before Big Love, before Eldorado, a groundbreaking memoir explored polygamy, not with outrage but with honesty and grace. In 1984, when polygamous groups knew little but the fear and pain of secrecy
Leap is a book about not looking away. These poems focus on the hard subjects: a child’s life-threatening illness, a mother’s struggle with the serious illnesses of all her children, the ends of ma
For four decades, the embroiderers of Ninhue, Chile, have been stitching scenes of rural life in the ?place of stones”?their village in the foothills of the Coastal Range between Santiago and Concepci
In 1916, in the tiny West Texas town of Benjamin, a gunman slips into a courtroom and murders the defendant. In 1912, in Fort Worth’s finest hotel, a young man kills an old gentleman in cold blood in
The first book-length study to specifically examine the many intersections in the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and Joseph Conrad, this volume extends the focus of current debate beyond the writers
After the Civil War ended in 1865, many freed slaves in central Texas began new lives in or near the capital city. At least fifteen freedmen communities formed in Austin proper and nearby rural settle
A voice as resonant as her love of the Plains, a commitment even deeperAuthor Mari Sandoz was as passionate about Plains peoples as she was about language and literary acclaim. That the mastery of Cr
Winner of the Walt McDonald First-Book Competition in PoetrySoaring across extensive terrain, from the working world of Detroit to American suburbia and pop culture, from the European landscape of Wo
Representing at once a diversity of style, medium, and scale and an intersection of inspiration and response, Art of West Texas Women celebrates twenty women visual artists living and working in an ex
At the outset of summer break in 1959, Texas Tech senior Jerry Craft had no more enticing options than to stay home and help on the family ranch?so the telephoned offer to play for a semipro baseball
While baseball may have long been considered an all-American sport in which a melting pot could celebrate ethnic heroes like Joe DiMaggio, Lou Gehrig, Hank Greenberg, Connie Mack, and Stan Musial, rac
