Tcu Press: 75 books
Chili Queen
Mi historia
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2015
“It happened on the plaza that never slept—my favorite place in the whole of the city,” writes Lupe Pérez, to begin her memoir. A mix of historical fact, vintage photos and maps, recipes, music, folklore, and south Texan culture, Lupe’s story offers an eyewitness account of life on Military...
Between the Enemy and Texas
Parsons's Texas Cavalry in the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Much of the Civil War west of the Mississippi was a war of waiting for action, of foraging already stripped land for an army that supposedly could provision itself, and of disease in camp, while trying to hold out against Union pressure. There were none of the major engagements that characterized...
The Garden of Eden
The Story of a Freedmen's Community in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2015
Tucked in a bend of the Trinity River a few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden neighborhood has endured for well over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants. Among the earliest inhabitants in the Garden, Major and Malinda Cheney assembled over...
by Ron Rozelle
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2009
When Ron Rozelle and Bill Cornwell, the publisher of The Brazosport Facts, met for their annual lunch, Bill asked what current book Ron was writing. During lunch, they agreed that Ron should try his hand at a weekly column. Ron saw an opportunity both to allow his imagination to wander and to flex his...
Restaurantes, rumba y más
A Gringo's Guide to Latino Fort Worth
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2015
Taking us well off the beaten path, Peter Szok leads readers on a cultural journey that will make your stomach—and heart—hunger for more.
Szok sets the stage by suggesting that Fort Worth is more than just cowboys and world-class museums, but also a city with a rich immigrant heritage....
by Patrick Dearen
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2012
The Pecos River flows snake-like out of New Mexico and across West Texas before striking the Rio Grande. In frontier Texas, the Pecos was more moat than river—a deadly barrier of quicksand, treacherous currents, and impossibly steep banks. Only at its crossings, with legendary names such as Horsehead...
by Mary Powell
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Vibrant, opinionated, and independent—that’s Galveston widow Rose Parrish. Seventy-six years old and in failing health, Rose is coming to grips with her life. She lives alone in a stately home once full of life; her only companions are her housekeeper, Pearl, her financial advisor, Captain J.J. Broussard,...
Dinosaur Highway
A History of Dinosaur Valley State Park
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Where the Paluxy River now winds through the North Texas Hill Country, the great lizards of prehistory once roamed, leaving their impressive footprints deep in the limy sludge of what would become the earth’s Cretaceous layer. It wouldn’t be until a summer day in1909, however, when young George...
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...
Dancing Naked
Memorable Encounters with Unforgettable Texans
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2008
Almost every journalist asks the subjects of profiles to tell the truth.Only Mary Rogers requires them to “dance naked.”To Rogers, an award-winning columnist for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, that term signifies a pact between the writer, the subject and the reader: only when stories eliminate artifice...
by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel, Mimi R. Gladstein
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2019
Once there was a place called Smeltertown, and it was known as the largest industrial city on the banks of the Rio Grande. The smokestacks of the American Smelting and Refining Company, which polluted the air for three miles in every direction, grew so tall over the decades that they became a landmark...
The Rebirth of Hope
My Journey from Vietnam War Child to American Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Born in a demilitarized zone during the Vietnam War to a Vietnamese mother and American soldier, Sau Le arrived in the United States as a young woman with only twenty dollars in her pocket. Though bullied and abused since childhood, she nevertheless came to her new homeland armed with a commitment to...
by Mike Tapia
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2017
Barrio Gangs is the most comprehensive academic case study of barrio group dynamics in a major Texas city to date. This is a sociological work on the history of barrio gangs in San Antonio and other large Texas cities to the present day. It examines the century-long evolution of urban barrio subcultures...
In the Rough
The Business Game of Golf
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
There has never been a book about the inner workings of the golf business or its leading players from an insider’s point of view. In the Rough reads like a novel, but it could also be required reading in a business school. This book takes the reader on a ride through the author’s unusual professional...