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by John Edward Weems
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The Tornado gives account of one of the world’s most terrifying natural disasters. Twisters have left their wake of freakish consequences throughout the United States and the world, and The Tornado vividly describes some of the most bizarre from around the country—houseboats sailing through the...
by Mike Cox
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 1999
Mike Cox knows as much about the Texas Rangers as anybody on the planet. And in this, his second book on the Rangers, he spins more great tales of these larger-than-life heroes and their sometimes almost unvelievable adventures. These are all new stories, some only told among the Rangers themselves,...
by Jon McConal
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2002
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2002
Jon McConal, longtime columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, takes readers on a trip back through years of writing about Texas-its history, people, and unusual places.
by Mac Blewer
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
A historic and folkloric path that meandered from Canada to Mexico, the Outlaw Trail was used by outlaws such as Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and the James brothers. Following existing Western routes such as the Oregon Trail, the highway connected towns and natural hideouts essential for bandits...
Los Arabes of New Mexico
Compadres from a Distant Land
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2016
At the outset, Los Arabes (Arabic-speaking individuals) were peddlers, carrying a variety of wares that often included exotic items from the Holy Land. These skilled cross-cultural traders expected to strike it rich in the United States and then return to
by Mona D. Sizer
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2000
Everyone loves a good murder mystery, and in this case, the murders and the outcomes are both quite real. Justice, it seems, like everything else, has its price. There is a long history of prominent Texans who have bought their way out of the heinous criminal systems.
Blackwater Draw
Three Lives, Billy the Kid and the Murders That Started the Lincoln County War
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2014
On March 9, 1878, three men were murdered in isolated Blackwater Canyon in New Mexico. The suspects were Billy the Kid and a number of his Regulators. This action, almost assuredly taken in retaliation for the death of the Kid’s friend, John Henry Tunstall, became the real catalyst in the Lincoln...
by W.C. Jameson
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Border Bandits is an account of the many, many stories of back and forth skirmishes between the Mexicans and Texans during the late 1800s and early 1900s. There practically wasn't a border, which caused a lot of problems and thievery between the two countries. These seventeen tales in this book re-create...
The Indigenous Black People of Monroe, Louisiana and the Surrounding Cities, Towns, and Villages
A 100 Year Documentary
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
This book is for those Louisiana slaves (and all the American slaves) whose labor was forced without regard to their humanity, even further, with unrestrained disrespect for their existence. This book is a tribute to the indigenous (originated in or native to the region) Black people of Northeast...
We Love Our City
How a Church in the Community Became the Community’S Church
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
The subtitle of the book is an actual quote from one of our City Council members. I was asked to make a presentation to the City Council one evening on all the projects we as a church, had partnered with the city on to provide social services to our community. One of the reasons for the report was...
Long Live Glosser's
A Department Store History
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2015
The Glosser Bros. Department Store in Johnstown, Pennsylvania has reopened, just for you, in the pages of this one-of-a-kind nonfiction book. For the first time, the whole true story of Glosser’s has been told, on the 25th anniversary of the fabled department store’s closing. Step through the...
Takilma Tales
The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2014
Takilma Tales: The Hippie History of Takilma, Oregon, explores the evolution of a small village near the former town of Waldo; a Gold Rush ghost town, in remote Southwest Oregon. In the 60s and 70s, young hippies flocked to the run-down mining and logging town of Takilma on the edge of the Siskiyou...
Dead End
Suburban Sprawl and the Rebirth of American Urbanism
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2014
More than five decades have passed since Jane Jacobs wrote her classic The Death and Life of Great American Cities, and since a front page headline in the New York Times read, "Cars Choking Cities as 'Urban Sprawl' Takes Over." Yet sprawl persists, and not by mistake. It happens for a reason....
Al-Britannia, My Country
A Journey Through Muslim Britain
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2018
Shortlisted for the British Academy Nayef Al-Rodhan Prize for Global Cultural Understanding 2018.
'A SERIOUSLY NECESSARY BOOK.' ROWAN WILLIAMS, FORMER ARCHBISHOP OF CANTERBURY
'A MUST READ.' MIQDAAD VERSI, MUSLIM COUNCIL OF BRITAIN
'A COMPELLING AND COMPASSIONATE SURVEY OF BRITISH...