University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
How to Be a Texan
The Manual
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2016
There are certain things every Texan should know how to do and say, whether your Lone Star roots reach all the way back to the 1836 Republic or you were just transplanted here yesterday. Some of these may be second nature to you, but others . . . well, maybe it wouldn't hurt to have a few handy hints...
Ross Sterling, Texan
A Memoir by the Founder of Humble Oil and Refining Company
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Born on a farm near Anahuac, Texas, in 1875 and possessed of only a fourth-grade education, Ross Sterling was one of the most successful Texans of his generation. Driven by a relentless work ethic, he become a wealthy oilman, banker, newspaper publisher, and, from 1931 to 1933, one-term governor of Texas....
City on Fire
The Explosion that Devastated a Texas Town and Ignited a Historic Legal Battle
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
First published in 2003, City on Fire is a gripping, intimate account of the explosions of two ships loaded with ammonium nitrate fertilizer that demolished Texas City, Texas, in April 1947, in one of the most catastrophic disasters in American history.
We're the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill
An Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Light Crust Doughboys are one of the most long-lived and musically versatile bands in America. Formed in the early 1930s under the sponsorship of Burrus Mill and Elevator Company of Fort Worth, Texas, with Bob Wills and Milton Brown (the originator of western swing) at the musical helm and future...
A Law for the Lion
A Tale of Crime and Injustice in the Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
"Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutirrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and killed him and his son, Manuel Gutirrez. What began as a simple dispute over Allee's unauthorized tenancy on a Gutirrez family ranch near Laredo, Texas, led...
An Appeal to Justice
Litigated Reform of Texas Prisons
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2014
How does a prison achieve institutional order while safeguarding prisoners' rights? Since the early 1960s, prison reform advocates have aggressively used the courts to extend rights and improve life for inmates, while prison administrators have been slow to alter the status quo. Litigated reform has...
by Brantley Hightower
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2015
The county courthouse has long held a central place on the Texas landscape—literally, as the center of the town in which it is located, and figuratively, as the symbol of governmental authority. As a county's most important public building, the courthouse makes an architectural statement about a community's...
The Road to Spindletop
Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
This book is an economic history of Texas at the end of the nineteenth century. In 1875, Texas was an agrarian state with limited industry. A generation later, agriculture was heavily commercialized, thousands of miles of railroads carried people and goods around the state, and urban populations increased...
by Julie Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
A perennial garden is an ever-changing source of delight. Each season brings new colors and textures in flowers and foliage. As the years go by, perennial plantings mature and interweave into forms more beautiful and surprising than a season's growth of annuals can ever give. Best of all, a perennial...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
The Renaissance has long posed a problem to scholars. It has been generalized as an emergence of intellect and will in all fields of human endeavor, but because it is diversely manifested in varying attitudes and forms at various times in the Western world, this vast era of Western European history has...
Farmers in Rebellion
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The years after the Civil War brought struggle to the Southern farmer as the economic mainstay of the South—cotton—steadily dropped in price. Prompted by hard times, farmers in Lampasas County, Texas, gathered in 1877 to discuss what could be done. From these modest origins emerged the National Farmers...
by Virginia H. Taylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The Franco-Texan Land Company was formed, ostensibly, by the French bondholders of the Memphis, El Paso, and Pacific Railroad in an attempt to salvage their investments through sale of lands in the railroad's Texas land grant. Most of the land company's wealth, however, went into the pockets of unscrupulous...
The Republic of Football
Legends of the Texas High School Game
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Anywhere football is played, Texas is the force to reckon with. Its powerhouse programs produce the best football players in America. In The Republic of Football, Chad S. Conine vividly captures Texas’s impact on the game with action-filled stories about legendary high school players, coaches, and...
