Historia / Historia por país / Estados Unidos / Sudoeste (AZ, NM, OK, TX)

Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History

de S. C. Gwynne

In the tradition of Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, a stunningly vivid historical account of the forty-year battle between Comanche Indians and white settlers for control of the American West, centering on Quanah,...

In Their Own Words: The Lives of Arizona Pioneer Women

de Barbara Marriott

"I have lived for months where my only neighbors were Indians and my one music the howl of the coyote." - Charlotte Tanner Nelson It was a land the devil wouldn't have, made of sand and mountains filled with...

Cowboy Conservatism

de Sean Cunningham

During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Despite its century-long heritage of solidly Democratic politics, the state became a Republican stronghold virtually overnight,...

Pidge, Texas Ranger

de Chuck Parsons

Thomas C. (Pidge) Robinson came to Texas from Virginia at the age of 27, fleeing a feud with a neighbor who opposed Robinson’s amorous intentions toward the neighbor’s sister. He joined the Texas Rangers...

Uncle John's Bathroom Reader Plunges into Texas Expanded Edition

de Bathroom Readers' Institute

Packed with 60 new pages, Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Texas Bigger and Better! is bigger and badder than the previous edition. This cowboy-sized collection of Texas talents, truisms, and tales...

Texas Labor History

de Bruce A. Glasrud & James C. Maroney

Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state—both organized and not—that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly...

Jane's Window: My Spirited Life in West Texas and Austin

de Jim Comer, Jane Dunn Sibley & James L. Haley

On the southern portion of what was known as the Sibley’s Pezuna del Caballo (Horse’s Hoof) Ranch in West Texas’ Culberson County are two mountains that nearly meet, forming a gap that frames a salt flat...

Kings of Texas: The 150-Year Saga of an American Ranching Empire

de Don Graham

Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS

"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."...

The Ranch That Was Us

de Becky Crouch Patterson & Willie Nelson

Braiding strands of earthen insight with uproarious storytelling, Texas Hill Country legendary author Becky Patterson recreates the history of the Steiler Hill Ranch in twenty-four anecdotal chapters interspersed...

Jose Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas

de David R. McDonald & De León|| Arnoldo

The first biography to appear in more than a generation on the most influential Tejano leader of the nineteenth century, José Antonio Navarro: In Search of the American Dream in Nineteenth-Century Texas fills...

Jon McConal's Texas

de Jon McConal

The native Texan writes about a wide variety of subjects including ghost, cemeteries, celebrations, pets, veterans, and personal stories.

More Wild Camp Tales

de Mike Blakely

A lighthearted look at some of the stories Texans have been improving on since their first telling around the glow of a campfire.

Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right: What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

de Erica Grieder

Texas may well be America’s most controversial state. Evangelicals dominate the halls of power, millions of its people live in poverty, and its death row is the busiest in the country. Skeptical outsiders...

Texas Gulag: The Chain Gang Years 1875-1925

de Gary Brown

For fifty years prison inmates in Texas were leased out to railroads, coal mines, farm plantations, and sawmill crews with terrible incidences of brutality, cruelty, injury, and death to the prisoners. It was...

Singin' a Lonesome Song: Texas Prison Tales

de Gary Brown

These prison tales include chain-bus drivers, wild bull riders, and a prison baseball team that took on the Texas semi-pro champions in Houston's old Buff Stadium. They include inmates and prisoners of war supplying...

Texas Boys In Gray

de Evault Boswell

Based on a 1912 publication about Texans who fought for the South in the Civil War, Texas Boys in Gray presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there. Sometimes humorous and sometimes...

Waiting for Jose: The Minutemen's Pursuit of America

de Harel Shapira

They live in the suburbs of Tennessee and Indiana. They fought in Vietnam and Desert Storm. They speak about an older, better America, an America that once was, and is no more. And for the past decade, they...

Imagining Geronimo: An Apache Icon in Popular Culture

de William M. Clements

Clements's study samples the repertoire of Geronimo stories and examines Americans' changing sense of Geronimo in terms of traditional patterns-trickster, social bandit, patriot chief, sage elder, and culture...

Frontier Cavalry Trooper: The Letters of Private Eddie Matthews, 1869-1874

de Douglas C. McChristian

During his five years in the army, Private Edward L. Matthews wrote a series of exceptionally detailed and engaging letters to his family back home in Maryland describing his life in the Arizona and New Mexico...

New Mexico's Spanish Livestock Heritage: Four Centuries of Animals, Land, and People

de William W. Dunmire

The Spanish introduced European livestock to the New World-not only cattle and horses but also mules, donkeys, sheep, goats, pigs, and poultry. This survey of the history of domestic livestock in New Mexico...