Bøger udgivet af Texas Tech Press,U.S.

An anthology of thirty-four writers who published during the settlement years of the American frontier. It assembles nonfiction, fiction, poetry, and occasional writings from women of Anglo, Chinese, Hispanic, and Native American ethnicity, addressing such themes as isolation, drudgery, friendship, mourning, and even mysticism.

Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. This guide features many species that are characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert environment. It describes 109 species found in the US only in Trans-Pecos Texas; 62 of these occur only in the Big Bend portion of the Trans-Pecos, and 24 of them only within Big Bend National Park.

Collects the historical research and writing on African Americans in Texas. Covering the time period between 1820 and the late 1970s, this title highlights the significant role that black Texans played in the development of the state. It is suitable for those interested in the history of black Texans.

As Captain Lorenzo Sitgreaves set out in 1851 to explore the southern portion of the Four Corners region, his party included Dr Samuel Woodhouse, a thirty-year-old physician and naturalist who kept a journal of their travels from New York to California. This title offers Sam Woodhouse's private journal.

On March 16, 1758, the turmoil sweeping North America came crashing down on the little log mission on the banks of the San Saba River. Allied northern tribes, pressed from all sides, attacked the Mission Santa Cruz de San Sab and burned it to the ground. In this book, the author chronicles the events following the attack.

Delfinos sister Teresa attempts to defy the odds and reunite with her brother and cousin. Already widowed at age nineteen, Teresa knows that the only way she will be able to provide a good life for her infant son Antonio is by making the long trek to Texas from her home in Mexico. The grueling journey is filled with adventure and danger.

It was Christmas time in Old Tascosa. The year was 1931, well into the Great Depression and on the brink of the worst days of the Dust Bowl. This title tells a story about Tascosa, the Christmas pageant of 1931, and how twelve children, stranded in a one-room school house by an untimely blizzard, met Frenchie.

The javelina, or collared peccary, is the only peccary species native to the United States and is as much a part of the Southwestern landscape as the roadrunner, armadillo, and horned lizard. With illustrations of this misunderstood animal, this book offers the natural and cultural history of the javelina.

In immaculate, subtly musical meter and rhyme, the author conjures scenes of the city, modern history, marriage and family, love in the Italian Renaissance, and the women of the Bible that fully engage the mind and the heart.

From a safe in the corner of their new store, the brothers - John and Mahlon Thatcher - founded what was to become the First National Bank of Pueblo, Coloradoand the beginnings of a financial empire that would encompass cattle companies from New Mexico to Canada. This title tells their stories, spanning the years after the Civil War through WWII.

The authors grandfather, settled the area of the mouth of Independence Creek in 1900 and ranched it for many years. But her father, saw more potential for the green valley than ranchland. This title goes beyond the history of the ranch to tell a personal story of the experiences of her grandparents and parents and of her growing up on the ranch.

Lucy Fischer-West knows the power of birthplace and of borders and rivers. This memoir begins with the story of her parents, one reared in Germany, the other in Mexico, and how they found each other on the Texas-Mexico border.

Reveals how, time and again, the judicial system of nineteenth-century Arizona denied Apaches justice. Through case studies of different murder trials, this title probes the federal and state governments treatment of Americas indigenous populations and the cultural clashes that left justice the greatest casualty.

The Caribbean islands are home to some of the most unusual species of bats. On Puerto Rico alone, thirteen different species have been found. This title presents a compilation of the distribution, natural history, taxonomy, and ecology of the bats of Puerto Rico. It is suitable for ecologists, mammalogists, and wildlife biologists.

Tells the story of one of the largest and most famous ranches in the Panhandle, the west Texas ranch. This title shows how the West was, and still is, on a 290,000-acre working cattle outfit in Texas. It captures the essence of the West Texas cattle outfit and its history, featuring 150 photographs.

Of the 132 species and varieties of cacti in Texas, about 104 of them occur in the fifteen counties of the Trans-Pecos region. This title includes descriptions of those many genera, species, and varieties of cacti, with sixty-four maps showing the distribution of each species in the region.

Includes stories some humorous, some haunting, and some just late-night terrifying, gathered by two Texas tellers, span a rich cultural heritage from the earliest Spanish explorers to the present, from ""La Llorona (the Weeping Woman)"" to the ""Vanishing Hitchhiker"". This title is suitable for tellers, teachers, readers, and collectors.

Suitable for those who love the bird we call roadrunner, this photo study presents the author's personal account of the years he has spent observing and recording the daily routine of several roadrunner families. Through his lens, it chronicles roadrunners courting, mating, nesting, hunting, and rearing their young.

From a pioneer in catch-and-release and a legend in saltwater wade-fishing, Rudy Grigar, one of Americas most notorious characters of saltwater wade-fishing, claims to have caught more than a million pounds of fish in his sixty years along the coast. This title presents his tales and tips suitable for those wading the Pluggers favorite spots.

Lured by the promise of rich Oregon farmland, young George Wendt heads west. His journey is interrupted, however, when he encounters Woody, a tired old mountain man who needs help. George promises that help, but his best is not enough. After Woodys death, George reluctantly forsakes his own dreams and turns back east to bring Woodys sister.

Shows the ways in which emerging public figures entered in other discourses of authority during the eighteenth century.

Robert Hopkins Miller spent nearly one-third of his forty-year Foreign Service career on Americas unsuccessful Vietnam venture from 1962 to the end of the war. This memoir of his full career emphasizes his Vietnam years, covering his postings in Europe and assignments as ambassador to Malaysia, 1977-80, and to Cte dIvoire, 1983-86.

Conrads life and fiction are often read through the lens of Freudian thought, though Conrad understood his own health from a pre-Freudian perspective. This title recovers that perspective, revises our understanding of Conrads life, and rethinks the dominant themes of his work in light of pre-Freudian medical psychology.

Ferns are usually thought of as plants of moist, humid regions, and at first glance the Trans-Pecos region of Texas, a rugged portion of the arid Chihuahuan Desert, does not appear to be a likely location for ferns and their relatives. This book presents a review of the true ferns and the related spikemosses and scouring rushes of the Trans-Pecos.

As any social studies or reading teacher will tell you, instilling in middle readers the ardent realization that they have stories of their own to record that their day-to-day lives are history, too is just as important as getting them to read. This companion writing journal encourages youngsters to chronicle their daily lives.

Drawing upon his experiences during the frontiers heyday, the author focuses on the area around old Fort Griffin during the 1870s, a time and place that was fast fading from memory. He successfully presents the vanishing shadows of the frontier past and set them down for posterity.

When brothers William and John Wright arrived in the United States from Ireland in 1850 and could find no other suitable employment, they joined the US Armys Regiment of Mounted Rifles, which served on the Texas frontier. This title presents a description of their experiences on several counts.

New Mexico is an enchanted land and from this beautiful place with its rich cultural diversity and complex history, a strong Hispanic literary tradition has grown spanning several centuries. This title includes a series of interviews with six contemporary Hispano writers from that New Mexico tradition.

Who more than the Southwesterners who've boldly claimed their home under the same tornado skies could have more cause to celebrate the millennium? This title includes poems that connect to the moments in time that the photographs preserve, and evoke stories that focus on the scope of life then and in the century since ranching came to the region.

A story-book travelogue covering the big ranches of West and South Texas. It documents the fifteen largest ranches in Texas and the ways they adapted to changing conditions in the ranching industry, with photographs and maps.