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Year after year, colored balls and garland adorn the tree at Christmastime, but one year, the woman does not come. Will there be a Christmas for homeless? This story is based on actual events about a funny-looking mimosa tree that sits above a busy freeway in Fort Worth, Texas. A formerly homeless woman decorated the tree, year after year, so that the homeless would have a Christmas tree. When she died, neighbors took over the custom and now decorate it for Easter, Halloween, and other holidays as well. It can be seen on the north side of Interstate 30 near the Oakland exit.

After the Civil War, the United States Army faced a tremendous challenge on the Texas frontier. Military authorities had to overcome major obstacles in mobility and communications, and they had to learn a far different kind of warfare to defeat the Kiowa, Apache, and Comanche Indians. Large military posts have been examined in detail in numerous books written about the Texas frontier, but the importance of smaller outposts and picket stations has been generally overlooked. In Standing in the Gap, Loyd M. Uglow examines these smaller outposts in relation to the larger forts that controlled them and explores their significance in military strategy and the pacification of the frontier. The army's role in the settlement of West Texas has been, until now, explained through biographies of prominent officers and histories of both Indian campaigns and the larger forts. With only passing mention of outposts such as Grierson's Spring, Van Horn's Wells, and Pecos Station in these texts, the stories of picket posts have gone, for the most part, untold. Relying on sources such as archival records of the commanding forts, newspapers, and letters and journals, Uglow describes the reasons for establishing and deactivating approximately seventy outposts, as well as detailing their functions, contributions, accomplishments, inhabitants, and overall importance in populating the frontier.

"The TCU Press is not affiliated with Thunder Bay Press and this book is not a part of its 'Then and Now' book series." Fort Worth evokes fond memories of its places, people, and events. Residents and sojourners alike have favorites that help define what makes the city special for them. Perhaps the favorite site was a downtown intersection where the "people-watching" was grand, or some remember a school playground with its impressive array of jungle gyms and slides. Although the details fade with time, memories of a location don't change substantially--the way the place looked, a sense of how people used it, or the feelings it evoked. In reality, though, things do change, whether the alterations involve only minor details or major changes to the landscape, movement patterns, and buildings. Fort Worth Then and Now explores the changes that have taken place in the city by comparing a historic photograph with a contemporary image taken at the same place or in the same setting. Over time, some scenes have changed so substantially that they are scarcely recognizable, yet others retain many of the elements that would have made them familiar to current residents and to past generations. This approach allows the reader to compare memories with a view made generations ago and evaluate the two. Take down the overhead freeway, and most people familiar with Fort Worth would recall a Lancaster Avenue that was more human in scale and flanked with buildings that are local architectural landmarks. Yet, the historic photographs of this gateway boulevard show an odd mix of pleasing urban design and gritty commercial practicality. The pictures lead to speculation: will the Lancaster Avenue of memory be-come a reality once the proposed landscaped boulevard is substituted for the concrete hulk that has defined the corridor for the past forty-four years? Fort Worth Then and Now follows the tradition of "repeat photography" projects that have examined the working methods and images of Western explorer photographers such as William Henry Jackson and Timothy O'Sullivan. Historians, preservationists, cultural geographers, and genealogists have also become interested in the technique to document the effect time has had on the urban landscape. Richly illustrated with historic photographs and new images destined to become benchmarks for Fort Worth in 2001, Fort Worth Then and Now is certain to work its own magic in shaping memories of the city.

Although Fort Worth has the trappings of any major metropolitan city - shopping malls, suburbs, and office towers - it is enriched by the many buildings that reflect a colorful and diverse heritage shaped by the frontier, the railroad and other major industries, cattle drives and ranching, oil, and both the poverty of the Depression and the largesse of various benefactors. Presenting the city's most architecturally significant buildings, this volume focuses on historical buildings whose design and background reflect periods of the city's history, but whose stories are not always well known today. Fort Worth's legendary landmarks demonstrate the brick-and-mortar responses the community made to the forces that shaped its history.

"The TCU Retirees' Association cookbook is a compilation of a variety of delicious recipes from the association's members. Some of the recipes have been passed from one family generation to the next. Other recipes show more current trends, such as an emphasis on nutrition and healthy eating. Many of the recipes are favorites of Horned Frog tailgaters. The book is enriched by memories about each dish that accompany the recipes. The title of the cookbook reflects these memories ("mem'ries sweet"), many of which refer to colleagues, family, and friends ("comrades true"). Iconic pictures of the TCU campus that represent Horned Frog life are used on the cover and throughout the book. Unlike similar cookbooks published by nonprofit organizations such as the Junior League, each recipe includes a nutritional analysis of the food. Dr. Anne Vanbeber and her students from the Department of Nutrition Science at TCU provide these analyses. Dr. Vanbeber has also provided an appendix containing universal substitutions and suggestions for reducing the calorie count of some recipes where appropriate"--

Oaxaca, 1998 is a richly textured story of new beginnings that follows Maggie O'Neill, whose life in Houston has become a story of loss. Maggie, always in a contentious relationship with her mother, becomes her caretaker when the difficult woman is dying of cancer. Maggie's marriage of almost twenty-five years ends in divorce, and her only child has left Houston to find his independence. Maggie is left with little more than her camera, to which she, a novice, warily entrusts her future.Desperate to begin a new life, she drives her old SUV to Laredo and fights off her doubts as she crosses the border into Mexico. Slowly, the Mexican landscape and people open her eyes to a fresh way of seeing through the lens of her camera. During a stopover in San Miguel de Allende, she receives unsolicited advice to go to Casa Azul, Frida Kahlo's house in Coyoacan. Disturbed by Frida's self-portraits, Maggie pushes on to Oaxaca, where, on impulse, she enrolls in a watercolor class taught by Connor, a visiting Texas artist. From there the story unfolds through both Maggie's and Connor's eyes. Donley Watt's own experiences of living in Oaxaca and his close observation of detail help to people his novel with flesh-and-blood characters-and animate the beauty and violence of life south of the border.

Paul G. Wassenich was a beloved and much-honored professor of religion at Texas Christian University after serving as Bible Chair of the University of Texas at Austin. Paul Wassenich was a man of principles. He was a conscientious objector, earning the wrath of the American Legionnaires in Fort Worth for his comments about war. He was an independent thinker and matched wits with the dean of the Disciples House at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He supported labor in Detroit even though prominent business owners were members of his church. In Austin and Fort Worth, he was a strong supporter of civil rights for Blacks. Paul's wife lovingly collected his sermons, lecture notes, and seminar outlines to add to his memoirs. Arranged somewhat chronologically, these documents show the growth in his thinking. After he retired he grew peaches at the Wassenich farm near Mineral Wells, Texas, and gave seminars for lay people on contemporary theologians at churches across the state.

When Jackrabbit Jewel's friend Pecos Bill cannot take a herd of longhorn cows to a big ranch in Montana, the task falls to Jewel. She follows the Goodnight-Loving Trail and must face many of the tribulations historical cowboys would have faced. Jackrabbit Jewel's character is based loosely on Jewel Frost Duncan, a pioneer ranchwoman and cowgirl who was elected to the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame in 1976. As a publicity stunt, in 1937 Howard's Studio in Pecos modified an image of her to make it appear she was riding a "Texas-sized jackrabbit." This historical photo was the inspiration for Conejo Grande, the giant jackrabbit who is Jewel's mount and loyal companion throughout the story. Jackrabbit Jewel is a children's story that gently mixes Texas tall tale with the history of Texas and the Southwest.

In Amado Muro and Me, ten-year-old Robert Seltzer discovers that his father, Chester, actually leads two lives - one as a newspaperman and father who somehow always knows what his son is thinking; the other as Amado Muro, a passionate and gifted writer whose pseudonym is adapted from the name of his Mexican immigrant wife.

Stroll around the idyllic campus, cheer on Horned Frog sports teams, celebrate graduation, and embark on more TCU journeys with these illustrations waiting to be brought to life with colour.

Presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape. In presenting richly detailed vignettes with keen observation and grace, Barbara González Cigarroa offers captivating and original insights not only into her family's remarkable story, but also into the enduring spirit of the people of the Texas borderlands.

Filled with images depicting people, places, and events in state history, Coloring Texas is a treat for all ages. Artist Deran Wright's carefully researched drawings depict such familiar characters as Santa Anna and Sam Houston; lesser-known personalities such as Corrine Williams and Davey O'Brien; and unnamed Native Americans, Buffalo Soldiers, ranchers, oilmen, and others who inhabit the story of Texas. Educational captions written by Gregg Cantrell and translated by Arturo Flores accompany Wright's work. Coloring Texas will be an entertaining historical refresher and stress reliever for any adult, but teachers will find that it highlights many topics covered in TEKS, while the bilingual descriptions make it especially useful in ESL classes.

Many Catholic families blessed their children before they left home. After the Blessing tells the stories of many young Mexican Americans who left home to fight for their country. During the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920), many families fled Mexico to prevent their underage sons from being forced to fight. Ironically, the offspring of these immigrants often ended up across the ocean in a much larger war. Despite the bias and mistreatment most Mexican Americans faced in the US, some 500,000 fought bravely for their country during World War II. Their stories range from hair-raising accounts of the Battle of the Bulge to gut-wrenching testimony about cannibalism in the Pacific. In After the Blessing Mexican Americans reveal their experiences in combat during WWII-stories that have rarely been told.

"A Fire to Light Our Tongues: Texas Writers on Spirituality brings together the works of writers in Texas. The title is taken, with permission, from Naomi Shihab Nye's introduction to Salting the Ocean: 100 Poems by Young Poets, where she states the role of poetry serves as "a fire to light our tongues." This view describes the role that creative writers, encountering the challenges of this past decade, face as they grapple with shifting views of spirituality. While the project started before COVID-19, given the current worldwide pandemic, a book of creative work responding to writers' spirituality could not be more timely. This anthology offers readers creative works by Texas writers as they wrestle with evolving systems of belief or nonbelief"--

Thousands of American Marines stationed in the Pacific will engage in some of the costliest battles of World War II. John Reynolds is one of them. Wounded on Guadalcanal, he recuperates in a navy hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, before rejoining his battalion at the sprawling Marine encampment just north of Wellington. Visiting the city on a weekend pass, he meets Grace Lucas, a local girl, and they begin a love affair that culminates in the couple's secret engagement just weeks before the Marines set sail on a mission from which many will not return. What neither of them know is that Grace is pregnant and will soon be banished to a remote farm by her disapproving parents."Always Faithful" is both a love story and a nail-biting narrative that details the first American offensive in the central Pacific region. It was the first landing to meet Japanese resistance and one of the bloodiest battles of the war: the amphibious assault on Tarawa. Paddling frail rubber boats under heavy fire from the island, the Marines must land on beaches protected by nearly impregnable pillboxes and thousands of Japanese soldiers who will fight to the death. In the midst of fascinating details about American military operations in the Pacific and pulse-pounding battle scenes, "Always Faithful" delivers a heartwarming story of faithfulness and redemption.

In 2006, Texas businessman, historian, and photographer Bill Wright was encouraged - though not officially invited - by the US Department of State to teach a class in digital photography to young Afghans in Kabul. This book records Wright's experiences and celebrates the creativity he saw flourish at the heart of a war zone.

In the early 1950s, a Mexican American man named Gus has become a top Texas civil rights attorney - a climb that has been bedeviled by his competing obsessions with the law, la raza, the ladies, and Chivas Regal whisky.

A man to rival a strong character drawn from fiction, Carol Henderson's great-grandfather was frontier Texas-born in the year 1860. Full of grit and determination, Thomas Henry (T.H.) Cherryhomes lived to crease the edges of Texana. It'll Rain Someday... Always Does is the tale of that strong, remarkable man.

Come join Shelley and her grandfather, Pop, on a fun spring break adventure to Shiner, Texas. You never know who you might meet.... Shelley and her new furry friend could possibly teach you a trick or two to help pronounce that sometimes 'sheepish' SH sound.

In the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. Blood Ties describes the Azteca's organisational structure and ranks, identifying characteristics, and how the organisation appropriated Aztec culture.

Who knew a street mutt could win the hearts of a whole town? Happy, a scruffy stray dog, becomes a beloved hero when a fire threatens his new home. In this true story, neighbours work together to find a creative way to put out the fire, and Happy discovers that having a friend is the best reward.

From Hell's Half Acre to Quality Grove, We're for Smoke tells the wild and woolly story of turn-of-the-century Fort Worth, a cow town on the cusp of becoming a modern industrial city.

Arizona Governor Fife Symington was an early pioneer in successfully navigating what is now an existential threat for moderates in the Republican Party: how to govern with conservative-leaning values without kowtowing to the worst instincts of the radicalized, nativist right.

Homer Thornberry was a lifelong public servant widely respected for his integrity and championship of equal rights. He is one of just a few dozen individuals in US history to serve at least ten years in both the legislative and judicial branches at the federal level. Written by his grandson, this book takes a critical look at Thornberry's compelling life story and distinguished career.

A historical novel set in nineteenth-century Texas. It is a coming-of-age story involving Billy McCulloch, a fifteen-year old boy who accompanies a former Texas Ranger, a black man, and two of his uncles on a quest to rescue a fourteen-year-old girl.

Colonel Thurman Shuller's war diary traces his story from Las Vegas Army Airfield in the summer of 1941 to the desperate days of the air war in Europe. Shuller's diary brings his wartime experience back to life, and his accounts of life among the British during the war bring a fresh look at the air war.

And what a reunion it is! Dan Jenkins reunites many of the most memorable and irascible characters from his most memorable and hilarious novels-starting with Semi-Tough. This is a special commemorative edition of Dan Jenkins's last novel, including a foreword by Tom Brokaw and an afterword by Sally Jenkins.