Texas Christian University Press imprint: 75 books
History of Texas Christian University
A College of the Cattle Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
First published by TCU Press in 1947, Colby Hall’s book History of Texas Christian University: A College of the Cattle Frontier is the story of the first seventy-five years of the institution. Tracing the evolution of Add Ran College to Add Ran University, and ultimately to Texas Christian University,...
Texas Literary Outlaws
Six Writers in the Sixties and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2017
At the height of the sixties, a group of Texas writers stood apart from Texas’ conservative establishment. Calling themselves the Mad Dogs, these six writers—Bud Shrake, Larry L. King, Billy Lee Brammer, Gary Cartwright, Dan Jenkins, and Peter Gent—closely observed the effects of the Vietnam...
Giant Country
Essays on Texas
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
In Giant Country Don Graham brings together a collection of lively, absorbing essays written over the past two decades. The collection begins with a twist on book introductions that sets the tone for the essays to come—a self-interview conducted poolside at an eccentric Houston motel favored by regional...
Lay Bare the Heart
An Autobiography of the Civil Rights Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Texas native James Farmer is one of the “Big Four” of the turbulent 1960s civil rights movement, along with Martin Luther King Jr., Roy Wilkins, and Whitney Young. Farmer might be called the forgotten man of the movement, overshadowed by Martin Luther King Jr., who was deeply influenced by Farmer’s...
Texas, My Texas
Musings of the Rambling Boy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In a collection of essays about Texas gathered from his West Texas newspaper column, Lonn Taylor traverses the very best of Texas geography, Texas history, and Texas personalities. In a state so famous for its pride, Taylor manages to write a very honest, witty, and wise book about Texas past and Texas...
Adele Briscoe Looscan
Daughter of the Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Adele Briscoe Looscan was the first woman president of the Texas State Historical Association, the longest-serving president of the association (1915–1925), and a remarkable individual. Daughter of Andrew Briscoe, signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and granddaughter of John Richardson...
Texas People, Texas Places
More Musings of the Rambling Boy
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2014
Following up Texas, My Texas: Musings of the Rambling Boy with a second collection of essays, Lonn Taylor’s Texas People, Texas Places again explores the very best of Texas geography, Texas history, and Texas personalities. In a state so famous for its pride, Taylor manages to write an exceptionally...
A Mexican Dream
and Other Compositions
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
A Mexican Dream and Other Compositions presents a rare collection of interwoven essays chronicling the fascinating history of the Cigarroa family and their influence on the Texas-Mexico border landscape. Barbara González Cigarroa brings to life stories of her ancestors and other family members, including:...
Notes From Texas
On Writing in the Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
From the Guadalupe Mountains of the Chihuahuan Desert to the Hill Country to the Red River, the vast geographic landscape of Texas has afforded the cultural depth and diversity to inspire its writers. The richness of Texas folklore, history, and traditions has left an unmistakable mark on the art of...
by Dan Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2001
In 1935 Betsy Throckmorton’s father lures her from a New York job with Time magazine back to Claybelle, Texas, with the promise that she can be the editor of his Claybelle Standard-Times. Betsy brings along her husband, Ted Winton, an easterner and Yale graduate to whom she is constantly explaining...
by Lonn Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019
Turning the Pages of Texas is a collection of sixty essays about Texas books, authors, book collectors, libraries, and bookstores. It is a book for booklovers and bookish readers.
Lonn Taylor writes from the point of view of a historian who has been reading books about Texas for seventy years,...
Tejano Tiger
Jose de los Santos Benavides and the Texas-Mexico Borderlands, 1823-1891
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2017
Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides’s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of Webb County. When...
by Jon McConal
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Part travelogue, part natural history, and part documentary, A Walk across Texas is the record of three friends’ journey from the Panhandle to Granbury—a 450-mile walk across West Texas. Jon McConal and his two friends, Eddie Lane and Norm Snyder, hiked for twenty-eight days through the less traveled...
Inside Texas
Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
“Inside Texas: Culture, Identity and Houses, 1878–1920” is a 464 page book with 296 photos that tests and rejects the notion that Texas homes, like all things Texan, were unique and different. Over the 40 year time span covered by the book, decorating ideas nationally and in Texas went...