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Examines William Howard Taft's presidency against the backdrop of early twentieth century politics, placing particular emphasis on Taft's theory of presidential leadership. The book's focus on Taft's leadership adds new dimension to our understandings of the Progressive era and presidential leadership in general.

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.

The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Today, more than sixty years after he first stepped onto a stage, Delbert McClinton shows no signs of slowing down. He continues to play sold-out concert and dance halls, theaters, and festival events across America. This book offers readers a soundtrack to some of the most pivotal moments in the history of American popular music - all backed by a cooking rhythm section.

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.

To understand the American Civil War in Texas also requires an understanding of the history of Mexico. The Civil War on the Rio Grande focuses on the region's forced annexation from Mexico in 1848 through the Civil War and Reconstruction.

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.

Avian ecology and raptor experts Craig Farquhar and Clint Boal present the first comprehensive volume on raptors in Texas. This reference is a must-have for serious birders, ornithologists, avian ecologists, and wildlife professionals who want to know more about these birds of prey and the important roles they play in our environment.

Explores the experience of landscape through the lens of art and art-making. It is a place-based meditation on nature, art, memory, and time, grounded in Deborah Paris's experiences over the course of a year in Lennox Woods. Her account unfolds through the twin arcs of the changing seasons and her creative process as a landscape painter.

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.

What was once a shrine to a particular manifestation of American frontier life has transformed into a world-class art and historical museum that represents the broad sweep of the American West - both lived and imagined - with its full range of social, ethnic, and economic diversity.

The rich, multicultural heritage of San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country provide the backdrop for this first comprehensive guide to the culturally significant vernacular buildings of this diverse and historic region: structures designed and constructed by the people who used them rather than by professional architects or builders.

Provides a wide view of the myriad contributions Mexican American artists have made to music in Texas and the United States. Based on interviews with longtime stalwarts of Mexican American music and conversations with newer voices, Kathleen Hudson allows the musicians to tell their own stories in a unique and personal way.

In 1924, Achilles Mehault 'Mayo' Bessan and his eighteen-year-old bride journeyed from New Orleans to Mexico, where he ultimately transformed a dirt-floored cantina in Nuevo Laredo into a bar and restaurant renowned across the United States for its fine seafood and fancy cocktails. Step into the Cadillac Bar and take a seat.

Visitors to Texas and New Mexico have marvelled for centuries at the immensity of the Llano Estacado. In this volume, Sharing Paul Chaplo's unique view from the southwestern sky, readers will experience from afar the sunlit canyons, storm-covered plains, and winding rivers cutting deep into the red earth that drew him to this region.

Complete with an introduction chronicling the stories of biologists and naturalists who have explored the ecological areas of Texas over time, this book explores the formation of the region more than 600 million years ago, the adaptability of its ecosystems, and the conservation efforts to keep these wildly diverse environments flourishing.