Tcu Press: 75 books

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History of Texas Christian University

A College of the Cattle Frontier

by Colby D. Hall
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,...
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by Dan Jenkins
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...
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Fort Worth

A Frontier Triumph

by Julia Kathryn Garrett
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013

In the 1950s, history teacher Julia Kathryn Garrett of Fort Worth began collecting stories from old-timers and pioneers whose memory or knowledge reached back to the early days of the city. For fifteen summer vacations she worked from morning to night on her book, creating an anecdotal chronicle of the...
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Carmen Tafolla

New and Selected Poems

by Carmen Tafolla
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019

Carmen Tafolla’s New and Selected Poems continues TCU Press’s series of collections by the Poets Laureate of Texas. Named the first-ever Poet Laureate of San Antonio in 2012, Tafolla was named Poet Laureate of Texas in 2015. This collection displays her mastery of the art of bilingual code...
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by Jay Milner
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016

Republished with a foreword by John Tisdale, director of TCU’s School of Journalism, the late Jay Milner’s novel is a riveting portrayal of a scenario that unhappily mirrored real-life incidents throughout the South in the mid-twentieth century. In Ashton, a fictional town in the deep South, an elderly...
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Adele Briscoe Looscan

Daughter of the Republic

by Laura McLemore
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...
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Elmer Kelton:

Essays and Memories

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Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011

When Elmer Kelton died in the fall of 2009, the literary world lost a consummate writer, a man the New York Times called a “novelist who brought the sensibility of the old-style western to bear on a modern Texas landscape of oil fields and financially troubled ranches.” Kelton was also a modest,...
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Portraits of a Soldier

The Extraordinary Life of Jon Lippens

by Jon Lippens
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2019

At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippens’s worst troubles found him in a predawn Nazi invasion that left his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, enveloped in mass death and destruction. His childhood ended that day. Jon’s life...
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by Gerald Duff
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015

Playing Custer is a novel narrated from varying points of view and time, illuminating personal and political events leading up to the death of General George Armstrong Custer. The historic events are framed by the story of two men from the late twentieth century—one white and one Native American—who...
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A Mexican Dream

and Other Compositions

by Barbara Gonzalez Cigarroa
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:...
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Giant Country

Essays on Texas

by Don Graham
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...
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Amado Muro and Me

A Tale of Honesty and Deception

by Robert Seltzer
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2016

In Amado Muro and Me, ten-year-old Robert Seltzer discovers that his father, Chester, actually leads two lives—one as a newspaperman and father who somehow always knows what his son is thinking; the other as Amado Muro, a passionate and gifted writer whose pseudonym is adapted from the name of his...
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Food and Philosophy

Selected Essays

by Spencer Wertz
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017

These essays on food and philosophy were written over several decades. Not only philosophers and historians but individuals who have an ongoing interest in food should relish them. The essays cover wide-ranging topics that include genetically modified organisms, chocolate and its world, food as art,...
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Yours in Filial Regard

The Civil War Letters of a Texas Family

by Kassia Waggoner, Adam Nemmers
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015

In March of 1861 Texas seceded from the Union, and the Love brothers of Limestone County—Cyrus, Samuel, James, and John—enlisted to fight for the Confederate cause. For the next four years, the brothers travelled the war-torn South as cavalry in Terry's Texas Rangers, seeing action in some of the...
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