Bøger udgivet af Texas Christian University Press,U.S.

The adventures of a young greenhorn "cowpoke" in Texas after the Civil War.

A few minutes from downtown Fort Worth, the Garden of Eden neighbourhood has endured for well over a century as a homeplace for freed African American slaves and their descendants. Major and Malinda Cheney assembled over 200 acres of productive farmland on which they raised crops and cattle. Their great-great-grandson, Drew Sanders, recounts engaging tales of the family's life in this volume.

At age thirteen, most boys are finding trouble in all its infinite forms. In 1939, thirteen-year-old Jon Lippens's worst troubles found him in a predawn Nazi invasion that left his hometown of Ghent, Belgium, enveloped in mass death and destruction. His childhood ended that day. Jon's life thereafter was a series of traumatic events and close scrapes with death. He resisted Hitler Youth recruiters and avoided being sent to death in a labor camp, disappearing into the Belgian Underground Resistance, where he ultimately joined the Allied effort. Jon was witness to unspeakable horrors and suffering, but those years of clandestine struggles taught him not only how to survive but how to fight back. Life in postwar Europe was a struggle, and ultimately Jon was able to emigrate to the United States, eventually settling in Texas. The horrors of World War II and his part in it still dogged his memories, but Jon learned to make peace with his past through painting and mapmaking. His artistic talent kept his belly full, while newfound faith kept his soul alive. As he aged, Jon turned from his haunting memories to create beauty with his paintbrush. At once a remarkable hero and a very modest man, he finally decided, as his life neared its conclusion, to share his unparalleled story of survival and healing--a story largely unknown until now.

A novel narrated from varying points of view and time, illuminating personal and political events leading up to the death of General George Armstrong Custer. The historic events are framed by the story of two men from the late twentieth century - one white and one Native American - who travel together to the annual reenactment of the battle at the Little Bighorn National Monument battlefield.

This is a fascinating tour of the 1936 Texas Centennial Exposition. It focuses specifically on the Art Deco art and architecture of Fair Park - the public spaces, buildings, sculptures and murals that were designed for the 1936 exposition. Most of the chapters in the book represent different areas of Fair Park, with buildings and artwork effectively arranged in the same order that a visitor to the Texas Centennial Exposition might have seen them.

Documents the unique bi-cultural heritage that is El Paso. This title presents time-lapsed evocations of traffic at twilight and explorations of the majestic mountains of the area that celebrate the city that occupies a unique vantage point - on the border of two countries, three states, a military installation, and an Indian reservation.

A biography of Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) founder Alexander Campbell that deals with the leader's early manhood, from his schooling to his turning from the Calvinistic doctrine of his youth and his arrival in America.

Contains brief biographies of twenty-seven Texas singers. This book includes names such as Vernon Dalhart, the earliest Texas country singer to make a national name, and Moon Mullican, a singer/pianist who influenced Jerry Lee Lewis and other piano playing singers.

For Arizona, the seminal water case, Arizona v California, the longest Supreme Court case in American history (1952-1963), constituted an important step in the construction of the Central Arizona Project. This work looks at Arizona's herculean legal and political battle for an equitable share of the Colorado River.

Beginning with drawings and woodcuts depicting the days before photography, this book follows the story of life at the Pass of the North, documenting change as El Paso took shape and grew from a dirt-street frontier town into a modern city in 1970s.

Illustrates the history of the Lone Star State through color plates of sixty-four historic Texas maps from the Marty and Yana Davis Map Collection, Sul Ross State University, Alpine, and includes ten essays. This book reflects much of the American movement toward Manifest Destiny and the creation of the myths of ""The West.

Talks about Birkelbach who writes of the Texas landscape and its people. He balances the ordinary and the phenomenal, the factual and the suppositional, the temporal and the eternal in poems remarkable for their depth of insight.

Barbara Whitehead is one of the few artists in Texas who regularly work in woodcuts and linoleum prints. She began her career as an illustrator in 1969 for Bill Wittliff's Encino Press. Her work soon became widely known among collectors and lovers of fine printing. This book showcases the best of her work.

The many units of Texans who joined the Civil War had a second objective - to keep the enemy out of their home state by placing themselves. This book studies a Texas unit, Parsons's Cavalry Brigade, to show how the war west of the Mississippi was fought. It is for those interested in the role of mounted troops in the Trans-Mississippi Department.

Stories from the Barrio offers a new look at the history of Fort Worth. Carlos E. Cuellar uses public records such as city to examine this community and its history

After graduating as the first black from West Point in 1877, Henry O. Flipper was dismissed from the U. S. Army in 1882 following a financial scandal. This is Flipper's account of his service with the Tenth U. S. Cavalry in Texas and Oklahoma and the years that followed.

Once described as the primary mover behind the Mexican Revolution, Ricardo Flores Magon was a liberal journalist working in Mexico in 1900. This work aims to make clear the journalist's significance in Mexican history and explains modern Mexico's growing appreciation for him.

This volume records impressions of life on the 19th- and early-20th-century American frontier by 21 artists better known for their paintings, sculptures and photographs. Most, but not all, of the selections come from journals or diaries kept during trips to the West.

Often thought of as the inventor of baseball - the great American pastime - Abner Doubleday was first and foremost a soldier. My Life in the Old Army is comprised of a set of previously unpublished writings (the originals are housed at the New-York Historical Society) with an emphasis on Doubleday's tour of duty during the Mexican War. He was on hand for the first shots of the conflict, for the battles of Monterrey and Buena Vista, and later served in Saltillo after the campaign moved farther south toward Mexico City. Fluent in Spanish, he traveled far and wide in Mexico and describes his experiences in this volume.

Was the West really hell on horses and women? Not always. This collection of short stories refutes the traditional stereotypes of women in western fiction--the pure schoolmarm, the soiled dove with a heart of gold, the worn and weary settler's wife--to show that both male and female authors have created strong and interesting women in western fiction, both past and present. Four major women authors--Mary Hallock Foote, Willa Cather, Mari Sandoz, and Dorothy Johnson--are represented by several selections each. Individual stories follow by Gertrude Atherton, Mary Austin, Jeanne Williams, Carla Kelly, Marcia Muller, Judy Alter, Bret Harte, O. Henry, Owen Wister, Charles Eastman, Jack London, Jack Schaefer, Elmer Kelton, Robert Flynn, and Elmore Leonard.

A twelve-year-old runaway slave is torn between desire for freedom and affection for the woman who has protected him, as the impending Battle of Sabine Pass threatens to engulf their part of Texas.

Many people in northern Texas and southwestern Oklahoma believe that the Marlow brothers - George, Charles, Alf, and Epp - were thieves and killers. In 1888 they were charged with rustling and murder, tried by public opinion, and betrayed by law officials responsible for their safety.

A collection of essays that provides an analyses of the principal ideas expressed in a major church body formed in the United States, the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).

Offering a comprehensive study of the more than forty ""Boys'"" aviation series, this work reveals the part played by the books and their writers in spurring the American nation's fascination with flying. It sheds light on how popular art can transform technological progress into cultural idealism and reform.

The 1846-1848 war between the US and Mexico had conventional battles waged between two sovereign nations. However, two little-known guerrilla wars also took place. Using information from 24 archives, including the normally closed files of Mexico's National Defense Archives, this book argues that these other conflicts were crucial.

Caprock, Texas, is a sleepy cow town until oil is discovered in the 1920s. Suddenly thousands of people stream in to find their fortune; some are honest folk, but too many are two-bit swindlers. This is the story of how an entire community draws together to save itself.