University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Institutional Adjustment
A Challenge to a Changing Economy
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This collection of essays presents a stimulating and challenging examination of the nature of institutional adjustment, its history and its future, its problems and its purposes. The focus is on the pioneer work done by the late Clarence Ayres, of the University of Texas, in the study of the processes...
by H. Joaquin Jackson
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
No Texas Ranger memoir has captured the public's imagination like Joaquin Jackson's One Ranger. Readers thrilled to Jackson's stories of catching criminals and keeping the peace across a wide swath of the Texas-Mexico border—and clamored for more. Now in One Ranger Returns, Jackson reopens his case...
Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
A crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer—a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities—Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband...
by Hermann Seele
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
When Hermann Seele anived in New Braunfels in 1845, the raw colony was plagued by poverty, disease, lack of food, and hostile Indians. This personal record of the Germans in Texas shows their evolution from struggling colonists to prosperous citizens. From his viewpoint of a hardworking yet imaginative...
The Texanist
Fine Advice on Living in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017
The Texanist, Texas Monthly's perennially popular advice column, has become the magazine's most-read feature. With an inimitable style and an unassailable wholesomeness, columnist David Courtney has counseled many a well-intentioned Texan, native or wannabe, on how to properly conduct him- or herself....
A Hanging in Nacogdoches
Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On October 17, 1902, in Nacogdoches, Texas, a black man named James Buchanan was tried without representation, condemned, and executed for the murder of a white family—all in the course of three hours. Two white men played pivotal roles in these events: Bill Haltom, a leading local Democrat and the...
by Stanley Siegel
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This book is unique among the histories of the Texas Republic: it is the first to examine the fledgling nation from the point of view of its dynamic political life. Policies with far-reaching results were formulated in the nine years of Texas' independence, and the author clearly presents the many...
Taming the Nueces Strip
The Story of McNelly's Rangers
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
Only an extraordinary Texas Ranger could have cleaned up bandit-plagued Southwest Texas, between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande, in the years following the Civil War. Thousands of raiders on horseback, some of them Anglo-Americans, regularly crossed the river from Mexico to pillage, murder, and...
Winifred Sanford
The Life and Times of a Texas Writer
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Winifred Sanford is generally regarded by critics as one of the best and most important early twentieth-century Texas women writers, despite publishing only a handful of short stories before slipping into relative obscurity. First championed by her mentor, H. L. Mencken, and published in his magazine,...
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle
Capital Punishment in Texas, 1923-1990
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In late summer 1923, legal hangings in Texas came to an end, and the electric chair replaced the gallows. Of 520 convicted capital offenders sentenced to die between 1923 and 1972, 361 were actually executed, thus maintaining Texas’ traditional reputation as a staunch supporter of capital punishment.This...
by Laurence Parent
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
Since it was first published in 1996, Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites has become Texans’ one-stop source for information on great places to camp, fish, hike, backpack, swim, ride horseback, go rock climbing, view scenic landscapes, tour historical sites, and enjoy almost any...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Mapping old trails has a romantic allure at least as great as the difficulty involved in doing it. In this book, William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768.Foster draws upon...
Soldiers of Misfortune
The Somervell and Mier Expeditions
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous "black bean episode" in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public imagination in Texas. But were the Texans really martyrs in...
The Indians of Texas
From Prehistoric to Modern Times
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
A classic work on the indigenous peoples of Texas.