University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Texas Tornado
The Times and Music of Doug Sahm
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Doug Sahm was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist of legendary range and reputation. The first American musician to capitalize on the 1960s British invasion, Sahm vaulted to international fame leading a faux-British band called the Sir Douglas Quintet, whose hits included "She's About a Mover," "The...
by Noah Smithwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise." Noah Smithwick was an old man,...
The Best I Recall
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Gary Cartwright is one of Texas's legendary writers. In a career spanning nearly six decades, he has been a newspaper reporter, Senior Editor of Texas Monthly, and author of several acclaimed books, including Blood Will Tell, Confessions of a Washed-up Sportswriter, and Dirty Dealing. Cartwright was...
The Trials of Eroy Brown
The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in a ditch....
Texas Cemeteries
The Resting Places of Famous, Infamous, and Just Plain Interesting Texans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker in a Texas cemetery bears witness to a life that—in ways small or large—helped shape the history and culture of the state. Telling the stories of some of these significant lives is the purpose of this book....
The Chief Executive In Texas
A Study in Gubernatorial Leadership
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
"A Texas governor has only two happy days: the day he is inaugurated and the day he retires." So spoke Joseph D. Sayers at the beginning of the twentieth century. Now, in an analysis of the Texas governorship by Fred Gantt, Jr., the reader learns why Governor Sayers' remark remains true many years after...
One Ranger
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When his picture appeared on the cover of Texas Monthly, Joaquin Jackson became the icon of the modern Texas Rangers. Nick Nolte modeled his character in the movie Extreme Prejudice on him. Jackson even had a speaking part of his own in The Good Old Boys with Tommy Lee Jones. But the role that Jackson...
John O. Meusebach
German Colonizer in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2014
Otfried Hans Freiherr von Meusebach chose a life of hardship and freedom in Texas rather than a life of comfort and influence in his native Germany, where he had lived his formative years within a framework of unconstitutional government. In 1845 the young liberal relinquished his hereditary German title,...
In Search of the Blues
A Journey to the Soul of Black Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2010
The rich, complex lives of African Americans in Texas were often neglected by the mainstream media, which historically seldom ventured into Houston's Fourth Ward, San Antonio's East Side, South Dallas, or the black neighborhoods in smaller cities. When Bill Minutaglio began writing for Texas newspapers...
by Walter L. Buenger
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2013
In 1845 Texans voted overwhelmingly to join the Union. They voted just as overwhelmingly to secede in 1861. The story of why and how that happened is filled with colorful characters, such as the aged Sam Houston, and with the southwestern flavor of raiding Comanches, German opponents of slavery, and...
by William C. Foster
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
Several hundred tribes of Native Americans were living within or hunting and trading across the present-day borders of Texas when Cabeza de Vaca and his shipwrecked companions washed up on a Gulf Coast beach in 1528. Over the next two centuries, as Spanish and French expeditions explored the state,...
by Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
After World War II, Mexican American veterans returned home to lead the civil rights struggles of the fifties, sixties, and seventies. Many of their stories have been recorded by the Voces Oral History Project (formerly the U.S. Latino & Latina World War II Oral History Project), founded and directed...
Lost Causes
Blended Sentencing, Second Chances, and the Texas Youth Commission
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
What should be done with minors who kill, maim, defile, and destroy the lives of others? The state of Texas deals with some of its most serious and violent youthful offenders through "determinate sentencing," a unique sentencing structure that blends parts of the juvenile and adult justice...
On the Edge of the Law
Culture, Labor, and Deviance on the South Texas Border
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2009
The Valley of South Texas is a region of puzzling contradictions. Despite a booming economy fueled by free trade and rapid population growth, the Valley typically experiences high unemployment and low per capita income. The region has the highest rate of drug seizures in the United States, yet its violent...