Bøger udgivet af Texas Tech Press,U.S.

During the early 1890s, William Niven's explorations in the Valley of Mexico were sponsored by the American Museum of Natural History. Later, he continued to explore on his own. This book is based upon Niven's surviving manuscripts and personal papers.

Collects some of the author's personal favorite works that include short novels, essays, short stories, introductions to other works, and magazine articles spanning several genres and most of his writing career.

The Texas Panhandleits eastern edge descending sharply from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa Blanca, and Yellow House is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. This work contributes to the historiography of the American West, focusing on the Texas Panhandle.

Those who will recall the Simpson trial as the legal extravaganza of its century might be surprised by striking parallels between it and the late-nineteenth century trial of the infamous Frank James. This title explores the trial of James.

Explains the vital contributions made by West Texas musicians to the music of America and the world. This title presents a historical documentation of the music and the musicians who brought it to life.

The coyote has become the symbol of western freedom in popular culture, and historically its range was limited to west of the Mississippi River. This title chronicles the life of the coyote from a flea-covered, one-pound fuzzball whelp into a glistening, furry jewel that moves with fluid grace across the Texas plains.

A photo study of the intriguing range of the architecture in West Texas. From the half-forgotten legacies of small country towns to the carefully preserved public buildings and historic homes of the cities, it tells the story of a pioneering society and its rapid transformation.

Windmills made life possible in the semi-arid Southwest. This book describes the work of a team of Texas-based windmill erectors in the early 1900s. It chronicles the windmillers harsh, semi-nomadic lifestyle, and their courage as they clambered about on the high-rise towers.

A collection of Turkish oral narratives.

A collection of works from various writers that explore the literature of emigration and exile. It examines poetic, fictional, and biographical voices from settings such as Turkey, renaissance Italy, modern Spain, Central and South America, Eastern Europe, China, Canada, and elsewhere.

Every country has its folk hero - real or legendary, and in Turkey he goes by the name of Nasreddin Hoca, pronounced Nahz-red'-din Hoe'-djah. He lived several years ago and he served as a religious teacher, Moslem priest or judge as the occasion demanded. This work features a collection of Hoca tales.

Topics that will prove useful to all persons involved with natural history museums include: conservation, care, use, management, and preservation of collections; role of exhibits and guidelines for approaches to creating new exhibits; the future for natural history museums and prospects for funding.

Aims to capture the flavor and excitement of the Turkish telling, while not infringing 'on the narrator's right to have the tale recreated as he had told it'.

Cowboys, frontiersmen, and Indians live and work in the Southwest that Joe Belt re-creates in a real-life tapestry of mythic proportion.

Based on archival research and interviews with more than forty sailors who participated in Task Force 90, this title illuminates a mission that has been all but forgotten and also explores how the initial humanitarian involvement of the United States in Vietnam eventually led to massive military involvement in the 1960s and 1970s.

"Describes, analyzes, and contextualizes the courthouses and other public buildings of James Riely Gordon, an architect working in Texas in the late nineteenth century who went on to establish his reputation at a national level. Includes photographs and illustrations"--Provided by publisher.

Michael Ventura's owned only one car his entire life: a green '69 Chevy Malibu. Its wheels have crisscrossed the American landscape over more miles than a round trip to the moon. His essays convey a tactile and intimate relationship with land and people - and of course the car. In this collection the essays switch lanes with Hancock's evocative black-and-white photographs.

A legal odyssey of the Indian scout who became a Western legend.

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.

Stories of grit and gumption, as told by the "Mud Marines"

In her first volume of poetry, novelist Sarah Strong celebrates silence and what can be learned when we wait and listen. In this stillness, she shows us, we may hear answers to questions we have learned not to ask.

A former CIA officer led one hell of an interesting life, from Montana to Southeast Asia. Equally embraces a rowdy Western life, the brutal realities of ground war, and the beauty of tribal funeral rituals.

Lofty dreams and harsh realities clash on the Texas frontier

The arid American Southwest is host to numerous organisms described as desert-loving, or xerophilous. Extending this term to include the regions writers and the works that mirror their love of desert places, this title presents a systematically ecocritical study of its multicultural literature.