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Along the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie two square miles of relict ecosystem named the Ottine Wetlands. This area of swamps, marshes, and ponds is especially notable for its geographic isolation from other wetlands in southeastern Texas and for its fascinating intermixture of eastern North American plants and animals and western flora and fauna. The scientific importance of the Ottine Wetlands in the surrounding, relatively dry region was first recognized as early as 1928, yet the swamps and marshes have not been thoroughly studied. This is the first examination of the invertebrates--insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and others--that depend directly or indirectly on the abundant moisture of the wetlands. With nearly 290 full-color illustrations, this book describes and illustrates 241 species of flies, beetles, grasshoppers, wasps, ants, bugs, spiders, scorpions, snails, crustaceans, and millipedes that inhabit the Ottine waters, wetlands, and woodlands. In a brief introduction the authors describe the geological formation of the region and discuss the plant life of the area. They also provide a description of Palmetto State Park, with its easily accessed hiking and nature trails. Following the species descriptions, the book concludes with a glossary and a thorough bibliography of other relevant works on invertebrates. Scientifically thorough, yet readable, this book will appeal to nature lovers of all kinds.

The short stories and essays in this collection, with strong emphasis on individual triumphs and failures, remind West Texans of their heritage and share with all readers an understanding of what it means to live in the endless space these authors call home.

Unaccustomed Mercy brings together in one volume many of the finest poets and finest poems to emerge from America's trial in Vietnam. The moral chaos of that war is here translated into the aesthetic order of art. Subject matter aside, this book contains works of true literature, poems born of passion and made good by skill, poems that will haunt the human spirit as long as art endures. This is a uniformly superb collection, the best I've come across.Unaccustomed Mercy will do for Vietnam poetry what Platoon did for Vietnam movies -- hit the senses with the force of a claymore.

The first of the Frankie MacFarlane Series, Death Assemblage is a multilayered mystery nestled in the mountains of Nevada -- just west of Pair-a-Dice.The mountains hold mysteries -- geological, historical, and personal. Geologist Frankie MacFarlane has mapped the rocks of the range for the past three summers. In the final week of her dissertation fieldwork, she searches for an elusive final key to her research: a limestone marker bed -- a death assemblage -- hidden by dangerous, shifting talus. But as Frankie strives to piece together her geologic jigsaw puzzle, she is embroiled in a web of ancient and recent murders, a manhunt, kidnappings, and blackmail.

Offered here is a consideration of films and the dramas or books from which they derive as seen through the eyes of literary critics, a veteran Hollywood producer, and the screenwriters themselves. From their varying vantage points, the contributors to this volume explore classic American and foreign films, the novels and dramas from which they ...

This book illuminates the myriad personalities and interests that combined and clashed over the Pecos Valley reservoirs and canals. Many Americans, including western lawmakers, considered irrigation to be America at its best. Wealthy easterners invested in its development in the great traditions of American capitalism. Farmers laboring side by s...

Here, for the first time, is the true, detailed, down-and-dirty story of Tascosa, the "cowboy capital of the Texas Panhandle" and "the hardest place on the frontier." Here at last are the facts that connect the stories of the "beef bonanza," Pat Garrett's "Home Rangers," the 1883 Cowboy Strike and the relentless, undeclared war that ensued betwe...

Recounts the raging legal conflict that lasted three times as long as World War II. The book is titled Broke, Not Broken because that describes Maxey at the time of his legal war. It is being read widely in Lubbock and also across the state. -Ray Westbrook, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal The story of a rich man's rise and fall is not that unusual, but when set in ultra-conservative, pro-business Lubbock, and the man is Homer Maxey, you've got an exceptional chronicle of the American Dream gone bad. - Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire, and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels, banks, shopping centers, and subdivisions. On the afternoon of February 16, 1966, executives of Citizens National Bank of Lubbock met to launch foreclosure proceedings against Maxey. In a secret sale, more than 35,000 acres of ranch land and other holdings were divided up and sold for pennies on the dollar. By closing time, Maxey was penniless. Maxey sued the bank and every member of the board of directors, including long-time friends and business partners. Almost fifteen years, two jury trials, and nine separate appeals later, the case was settled on September 22, 1980. Broke, Not Broken, the story of this record-breaking, precedent-setting legal case, illuminates a community and a self-styled go-getter who refused to back down, even when his opponents were old friends, well-heeled leaders of the community, a bank backed by powerful Odessa oil men, and the most formidable attorneys in West Texas.

Meticulously researched and documented, The Reckoning examines all the players in the struggle for law and order in the vast, waterless tablelands of the Edwards Plateau of Texas. Rose shows frontier West Texas as it really was: a raw, lawless, unforgiving place and time that yielded only stubbornly to Order and its handmaiden, the Rule of Law

From a perspective unusual on the Great Plains--the problem of too much water--Flood on the Tracks offers an intimate portrait of life in the Elkhorn River Basin of northeast Nebraska. In a region often defined by aridity, rivers and their basins have provided sustenance, shelter, fertile soil, and overland highways. In many ways Plains rivers o...