University Of North Texas Press: 174 books
No Hope for Heaven, No Fear of Hell
The Stafford-Townsend Feud of Colorado County, Texas, 1871-1911
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Two family names have come to be associated with the violence that plagued Colorado County, Texas, for decades after the end of the Civil War: the Townsends and the Staffords. Both prominent families amassed wealth and achieved status, but it was their resolve to hold on to both, by whatever means necessary,...
Ben Thompson
Portrait of a Gunfighter
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2018
Ben Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun for a railroad, an elected lawman, professional...
Old Riot, New Ranger
Captain Jack Dean, Texas Ranger and U.S. Marshal
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2018
Award-winning author Bob Alexander presents a biography of 20th-century Ranger Captain Jack Dean, who holds the distinction of being one of only five men to serve in both the Officer’s Corps of the Rangers and also as a President-appointed United States Marshal. Jack Dean’s service in Texas Ranger...
Goodbye Gluten
Happy Healthy Delicious Eating with a Texas Twist
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
There are many gluten-free cookbooks on the market, but none like Goodbye Gluten! Roughly one-third of people in the U.S. are either gluten intolerant or have celiac disease, and for these people, eating gluten can make them sick--very sick. The engaging team of Kim Stanford and Bill Backhaus represents...
Andersonvilles of the North
The Myths and Realities of Northern Treatment of Civil War Confederate Prisoners
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2008
Soon after the close of military operations in the American Civil War, another war began over how it would be remembered by future generations. The prisoner-of-war issue has figured prominently in Northern and Southern writing about the conflict. Northerners used tales of Andersonville to demonize the...
by Patty Vineyard MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2000
Stanley Marcus declared Helen Corbitt "the Balenciaga of Food." Earl Wilson described her simply as "the best cook in Texas." Lyndon B. Johnson loved her stroganoff and wished she would accompany himand Lady Birdto the White House to run the dining room.
by John R. Erickson
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2004
The American cowboy is a mythical character who refuses to die, says author John R. Erickson. On the one hand he is a common man: a laborer, a hired hand who works for wages. Yet in his lonely struggle against nature and animal cunning, he becomes larger than life. Who is this cowboy? Where did he come...
by Jane Roberts Wood
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2010
From Jane Roberts Wood comes a quietly riveting novel revealing the banal faces of evil in a small East Texas town. In 1946 a young couple is brutally murdered in Cold Springs. And now thirty-four years later the rumor is that Jackson Morris who had been the only person of interest in the murders has...
Roseborough
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2009
In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in small-town Texas. Three weeks after Mary Lous Gypsy husband dies, her fourteen-year-old daughter, Echo, runs away. Numbed by grief and grounded only by her job at the Dairy Queen, she impulsively signs up for...
The Peppers Cookbook
200 Recipes from the Pepper Lady's Kitchen
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2005
Award-winner Jean Andrews has been called the first lady of chili peppers and her own registered trademark, The Pepper Lady. She now follows up on the success of her earlier books, Peppers: The Domesticated Capsicums and The Pepper Trail , with a new collection of more than two hundred recipes for pepper...
by Stanley Marcus
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2001
“‘There is never a good sale for Neiman Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer.’ That was one of the first declarations of business philosophy I heard my father, Herbert Marcus, make soon after I came to work at Neiman Marcus in 1926.” Thus began the 1974 edition of Minding the Store....
by Robert Earl Hardy
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2009
Like Jimmie Rodgers Woody Guthrie Robert Johnson and Hank Williams Townes Van Zandt was the embodiment of that mythic American figure the troubled troubadour. A Deeper Blue traces Van Zandts background as the scion of a prominent Texas family; his troubled early years and his transformation from promising...
Big Thicket Guidebook
Exploring the Backroads and History of Southeast Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocatesall as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from...
Cold Anger
A Story of Faith and Power Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 1990
"Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his...