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Following the successful pattern established in his works on Townes Van Zandt and Ray Wylie Hubbard, music journalist Brian Atkinson has interviewed artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle, and many others to learn how Mickey Newbury's influence continues to shape the musical and artistic approach of both seasoned and newer performers.

"Birdsall P. Briscoe (1876-1971) practiced architecture from 1912 to 1956, the span of years during which Houston was transformed from an ambitious town on Buffalo Bayou into an international city, its economy powered by cotton, trade, and oil. The country houses Briscoe designed for three generations of affluent clients, sited in such Houston neighborhoods as Courtlandt Place, Shadyside, Broadacres, and River Oaks, display his exceptional skill in formulating stylistic and social identities for his wealthy clients and their families. In The Architecture of Birdsall P. Briscoe, architectural historian Stephen Fox examines the country houses designed by Briscoe, offering a glimpse into the architect's methods as well as analyzing how Briscoe constructed a "social architecture" to frame his clientele during periods of economic expansion and contraction. Fox demonstrates how Briscoe cultivated and managed elements of taste, style, and fashion to embody assertions of class identity and solidarity in the context of Houston's capitalist economy. Additionally, Fox shows how Briscoe and his peers interpreted and reflected early twentieth-century Progressive Era design ideals in giving shape to the vision of local civic leaders. Illustrated throughout with masterful color photography by Paul Hester, this original study of one of Texas' most distinguished residential architects will enthrall readers with both its detail and its contextual clarity. As he did in his book on the architecture of John F. Staub, Fox delivers a treasure trove of insight into a vital period of Houston's social history and the architect who helped design it"--

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

From the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have changed over the past fifty years as the workforce became more diverse and fields once closed to women began to open.

Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas' Trinity and Houston counties. A blend of natural, cultural, and business history, this book presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present.

A user-friendly, illustrated follow-up to Lynne and Jim Weber's highly successful Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies, this book describes over 100 native, larval host plants for moths in Texas. More than 150 moth species are illustrated in the book, both larval and adult phases, with one to two species for each of the larval host plants.

This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta - poet, historian, author, and activist - spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into poems, essays, a children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced from her childhood to the present.

Many of Texas' leading writers have had their hearts captured by a river, and they have created sparkling accounts of the waterways they love. Now, editors Steven Davis and Sam Pfiester have assembled the best of those works into a revelatory collection of diverse literary voices.

Austin artist David Everett was born and raised in Texas, and his work reflects an organic and wholly original Lone Star State ethos. His stunning vision and exquisite craftsmanship evoke nature's essential grace and harmony in beautiful sculptures, bas-relief carvings, woodcuts, and drawings.

Often characterized by distinctive chipped-stone technology, the Calf Creek cultural horizon made its first appearance in the central and southern plains of North America some six thousand years ago. Jon Lohse, Marjorie Duncan, and Don Wyckoff have collected in this volume much of what is currently known about the Calf Creek cultural horizon.

Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People's Court takes readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating.

Describes the sheep industry's place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history - and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive.

Mary Jo O'Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. From the earliest human settlements to the twentieth century, O'Rear explores the complex interplay between people and economies struggling to survive in a region dominated by indifferent forces of nature.

Offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labour, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture.

The Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were disappearing. Founded in 1898, the Lazy S grew to comprise nearly 250,000 acres. Here, David Murrah covers the entire, fascinating history in The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch.

Based on extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Texas Jazz Singer recalls both the glamour and the challenges of life on the road and onstage during the golden age of swing and beyond.

When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South Texas. In Henry C. 'Hank' Smith and the Cross B Ranch, historian M. Scott Sosebee tells the story of one pioneer settler's small but significant ranch in West Texas.

Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American history. This book presents a beautiful, informative account of the ranch, its human and animal inhabitants, and its place in the artistic heritage of the region.

Billy Joe Shaver wrote ten of the eleven songs included on Waylon Jennings's landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. This book seeks to give Shaver the recognition his prolific output deserves.

Chronicles how a small Texas town, whose economy was based on fishing, shrimping, and tourism, became a major regional centre for the visual arts. Generously illustrated with images of boats, bays, birds, and other hallmarks of the community, this book is a visual and narrative treat for art lovers, conservationists, and historians alike.

Presents a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. Her essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship.

With breathtaking color photography and absorbing historical detail, Carolyn Brown and J'Nell Pate tell the story of the Fort Worth Stockyards, the place that earned the city the nickname 'Cowtown'. Brown's lens captures the vibrancy of today's stockyards while Pate's research depicts the drama of the area's rise, fall, and rebirth.

From Ojinaga, Mexico, to Alpine, Texas, and most points in between, writer Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and photographer Bill Wright have gathered, through hours of interviews, a trove of anecdotes, images, and personal recollections that explore what makes music - and musicians - in the Big Bend slightly different from anything found elsewhere.

Mexican artisan Dionicio Rodriguez created concrete bus stop shelters, park benches, footbridges, and other structures in the style known as trabajo rustico. This book presents a comprehensive look at the legacy of Rodriguez as reflected in the works of those whom he trained, mentored, or influenced.

In Sul Ross at Texas A&M, John A. Adams Jr., chronicler of Texas A&M University history, presents an in-depth examination of Ross's life as a college president. Adams details the steps Ross took to bring order out of chaos, expanding and modernizing the college and leading the school's finances out of the red.

The mine-resistant, ambush-protected vehicle, or MRAP, required years of entrepreneurial marketing by the defense industry. In Securing theMRAP, James Hasik explores how these vehicles, which the American military mostly rejected despite the great need for them, eventually came to be adopted as the Pentagon's top procurement priority.

Kathryn Clark Childers was recruited to the Secret Service as one of its first five female agents. Written in a lighthearted but highly informative style, Scared Fearless details the obstacles and the joys, the moments of high adventure, and the laughable fashion dilemmas that were part of Childers' groundbreaking role.