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Landowners and managers, municipalities, the logging and livestock industries, and conservation professionals all increasingly recognize that setting prescribed fires may reduce the devastating effects of wildfire. This manual offers a step-by-step guide to the systematic application of burning to meet specific land management needs and goals.

In 1881, a Chicago-based businessman secured interest in a sprawling ranch in the heart of Texas' great Panhandle. The celebrated Frying Pan Ranch spread across two counties and bordered what later became Amarillo, a raw frontier settlement. The land's unlikely new owner from the North, William Henry Bush - clothing wholesaler, real estate developer, philanthropist, and fledgling cattleman - represented a new figure at the beginning of the boom era in the Western cattle industry. An outsider, he brought his business savvy and vision of civic growth to bear on America's last frontier. In an age of unrestricted capitalism and flamboyant displays of wealth by big industry's leaders, Bush operated quietly and unassumingly. A major real estate owner in the burned-over district of post-1871 Chicago, Bush cast his eye on opportunity in the Texas Panhandle, risking his future and his fortune on a region that had been left largely untouched by commerce. By the late 1880s, he had taken greater control over the operations at the Frying Pan Ranch and had assumed a role as an important business and civic leader in the region, pioneering in agricultural and economic diversification. Bush's philanthropic efforts focused on the vitalization of Amarillo - helping to create a community that would come to dominate the Panhandle by the 1930s.

Some presidents enter office with an uphill climb in front of them: their political party represents a different governing philosophy than the dominant strain of the day. These, David A. Crockett says, are "opposition presidents." If they are, in a sense, out of step with their times, how do they ever get elected in the first place? In Running against the Grain: How Opposition Presidents Win the White House, Crockett employs historical comparisons to draw conclusions about what it takes for these candidates to win the office. He focuses on seven presidents in twelve elections: William Henry Harrison (1840) and Zachary Taylor (1848), Grover Cleveland (1884 and 1892) and Woodrow Wilson (1912 and 1916), Dwight Eisenhower (1952 and 1956) and Richard Nixon (1968 and 1972), and Bill Clinton (1992 and 1996). Crockett draws on the work of Stephen Skowronek and others in the tradition of American political development to establish the periodization for his study. Through a comparative analysis of victorious opposition candidates, Crockett finds explanations that transcend specific campaigns or even specific eras. He contends that, because the way one acquires the office may have an effect on the practice of leadership in the office, "running against the grain" has implications far beyond Election Day.

Surveys the major landmarks of the Hasinai experience - the Caddo Indians of the American Southwest.

Hal M. Friedman analyzes the major issues concerning the Pacific Basin that confronted the executive branch departments between 1945 and 1947.

Curanderas - traditional healers in Mexican culture - bridge the gaps between multiple planes of existence - spiritual and material, modern and pre-modern - dispensing medicinal herbs, prayers, and instruction. This book writes of the world and practices of San Antonio curanderas.

Presents a comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. This title chronicles the shift away from the heroic, patriotic posture of the years just after WW II, toward the threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like Catch-22, On the Beach, and Dr Strangelove.

" Draws aside the curtain of mythology and shows the AVG members--pilots, mechanics, nurses, and Chennault himself--as recognizable humans with a full spectrum of virtues and faults. Yet, the glory remains undiminished . . . A Flying Tiger's Diary is highly readable and is wholeheartedly recommended."-Military ReviewThe Flying Tigers, under the leadership of Claire Chennault, fought legendary air battles in the skies over Burma and China. This journal of ace pilot Charles Bond, now in its fifth printing, vividly preserves his experiences in aerial combat against the Japanese, all recorded within twenty-four hours of the action. It also documents the training and living conditions of the men whom Gen. Bruce K. Holloway has called "the most colorful group of warriors in modern times."A limited, specially bound edition of A Flying Tiger's Diary, signed and with a laid-in print by Terry Pyles, is available while supply lasts."

Provides studies of how words have served - or failed to serve - American presidents. This book contains chapters which examine George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton.

Presents a study of eighteenth-century cartography along the Gulf Coast, that reveals a mix of cooperation and competition between Spain and France. This book is suitable for cartographers and can also be of interest to the lay historian and the Gulf Coast enthusiast.

Few department stores symbolized the aspirations of a community or represented the identity of its citizens in a stronger or more enduring way than Leonards in Fort Worth, Texas. For over fifty years, Marvin Leonard, the store's founder, and his brother Obie ran a store that was always a unique place to shop.

Texans of Mexican descent built a unique and highly developed ranching culture that thrived in South Texas until the 1880s. This book describes the major elements that gave the Tejano ranch community its identity: shared reaction to Anglo-American in-migration, tightly interconnected families, cultural loyalty, and networks of communication.

Ed Blanchard was known to family and friends as a wild, reckless cowboy long before horsemen of the West recognized him as a noted maker of cowboy spurs. Through Blanchard's experiences, this book traces the changes of Western life, from horse to pickup truck, from hand-forged spurs to commercial manufacture.

Under Ben Love's competent management as CEO of Texas Commerce Bancshares in the 1980s, TCB was the only ""Big Five"" Texas bank to survive that decade's collapse of the Texas banking industry. This work provides an insightful perspective on the evolution of Texas banks after World War II, their decline, and their subsequent recovery.

Shows how federal courts and agencies have failed to implement many of the values and goals fundamental to the success of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). This book examines NEPA's origins, and addresses how it had been implemented and enforced, and highlights its shortcomings.

Tells the story of a fifteen-year-old boy heading west alone, working the range, recovering stolen stock, seeing men killed over card games and buckets of buttermilk, and, most of all, growing to manhood on the Texas frontier.

Offers practical lessons on the human urge to know about nature through science. This work describes the principles of the scientific endeavor, discussing the nature of reasoning, of facts, of creativity and critical thinking. It also presents the ""mechanics"" of science, explaining the roles of experiment, observation, models, and statistics.

Gives readers a look at the brief, doomed struggle of Hungarian freedom fighters against Russian oppressors. This work sketches the conflict between university students, factory workers, and Hungarian nationalists on the one side and the hated Hungarian secret police and Russian army troops on the other.

Demonstrates that moral and religious rhetoric is a strategic tool presidents can use to enhance their constitutional authority. This work analyzes the president's role as the nation's moral spokesman. It employs content analysis of the inaugural and annual addresses of all the presidents from George Washington through George W Bush.

A large portion of the smallest of the Slavonic nations left their German homeland and migrated to three distant continents. This edition presents a study of Wendish migration that describes the details of immigration and weighs the possible explanations for the exodus, the settlement, and acculturation patterns that resulted.

In the beginning years of the 21st century, at a time when Latinos are the most numerous ethnic minority in the US and a growing part of the middle and professional classes, a Mexican American educator takes stock.

Reporting data and predicting trends through the 2008 campaign, this volume offers James E Campbell's ""theory of the predictable campaign,"" incorporating the fundamental conditions that systematically affect the presidential vote: political competition, presidential incumbency, and election-year economic conditions.

In the decades following the Civil War, scores of African Americans served in the US Army in the West. This anthology focuses on the careers and accomplishments of black soldiers, the lives they developed for themselves, their relationships to their officers, and the discrimination they faced from the very whites they were trying to protect.

Provides an account of life of the author's first tour of duty in Vietnam - the blood, fear, camaraderie, and tedium of combat and maneuver. First published in 1987, this book shows an eager young recruit growing before the reader's eyes into a proud but bloodied combat veteran.

This volume traces the educational policies and their underlying rationales, from Stephen F. Austin's proposal in the 1830s to "Mexicanize" Anglo children by teaching them Spanish along with English and French, through the 1981 passage of the most encompassing bilingual education law in the state's history.

Examines Texas' pasts, featuring chapters by a wide range of scholars. This work talks about historians' views of Texas in the nineteenth century and especially the significance of the Alamo as a site of memory in architecture, art, and film across the years.

Chronicles the hundred years of Spanish ranching that came before Mexico, and subsequently Texas, gained independence. From the introduction of livestock into the province by various early entradas (expeditions), to the first big roundup in 1787, and beyond, this book traces the development of the range and of cattle working.

In 1916, a crowd of cheering spectators watched as Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, accused and convicted in a kangaroo court. Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also its aftermath.