University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Mier Expedition Diary
A Texan Prisoner's Account
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Few episodes in Texas history have excited more popular interest than the Mier Expedition of 1842. Nineteen-year-old Joseph D. McCutchan was among the 300 Texans who, without the cover of the Lone Star flag, launched their own disastrous invasion across the Rio Grande. McCutchan's diary provides a...
Border Renaissance
The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The Texas Centennial of 1936, commemorated by statewide celebrations of independence from Mexico, proved to be a powerful catalyst for the formation of a distinctly Mexican American identity. Confronted by a media frenzy that vilified "Meskins" as the antithesis of Texan liberty, Mexican...
Austin, Cleared for Takeoff
Aviators, Businessmen, and the Growth of an American City
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the present-day intersection of Duval and 45th Streets. Some 3,000 excited people rushed out to see the pilot and his plane, much like the hundreds of thousands...
If I Can Do It Horseback
A Cow-Country Sketchbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman. Touching upon virtually every facet of the cattle industry, they examine economic influences and technological...
We Came Naked and Barefoot
The Journey of Cabeza de Vaca across North America
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as álvar Nez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, an open-boat crossing of the Gulf of Mexico, shipwreck on the Texas coast, six...
Black Texas Women
A Sourcebook
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
When Black Texas Women: 150 Years of Trial and Triumph was published in 1995, it was acclaimed as the first comprehensive history of black women's struggles and achievements. This companion volume contains the original source materials that Ruthe Winegarten uncovered during her extensive research. Like...
by Erwin E. Smith, J. Evetts Haley
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
First published in 1953, this photographic record of the real life and work of cowboys remains a perennial favorite. Erwin E. Smith was the outstanding cowboy photographer of the West, and these eighty photographs were among those he chose for an exhibit of his best work at the 1936 Texas Centennial....
Mexican Revolution
The Constitutionalist Years
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The years 1913-1920 were the most critical years of the Mexican revolution. This study of the period, a sequel to Cumberland's Mexican Revolution: Genesis under Madero (University of Texas Press, 1952), traces Mexico's course through the anguish of civil war to the establishment of a tenuous new government,...
The River Has Never Divided Us
A Border History of La Junta de los Rios
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de los Rios straddles the border between Texas and Chihuahua, occupying the basin formed by the conjunction of the Rio Grande and the Rio Conchos. It is one of the oldest continuously inhabited settlements in the Chihuahuan Desert, ranking in...
Twilight on the Range
Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Billie Timmons was fourteen when he met Charles Goodnight—over a wagonload of manure that had been jammed on a gatepost—and he went to work on the Goodnight Cross J Ranch shortly thereafter. The spirit of helpfulness that led Mr. Goodnight to strip off his coat and lift the wagon free for a lad in...
Three Men in Texas
Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This book is a tribute to "an incomparable triumvirate." "One was a naturalist, one a historian, and one a chronicler, but each of them was each of these. The manly love between them, a handsome thing in times and places blighted by great ugliness and banality, shone from them into their friends and...
Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants
A Texas History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a majority of the Mexican immigrant population in the United States resided in Texas, making the state a flashpoint in debates over whether to deny naturalization rights. As Texas federal courts grappled with the issue, policies pertaining to Mexican...
Marfa
The Transformation of a West Texas Town
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2017
A small town in the vast desert of West Texas, Marfa attracts visitors from around the world to its art foundations and galleries, film and music festivals, and design and architecture symposiums. While newcomers sometimes see it as “another Santa Fe,” long-time residents often take a bemused,...
Land of the Tejas
Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texas during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Through this revolutionary approach, John Wesley Arnn reconstructs Native identity and social...