Erickson’s articles and essays have been published in Texas Highways, Livestock Weekly, TheDallas Morning News, The Dallas Times Herald, and AmericanCowboy . This collection is arranged by Place; From
A case study of two brothers, Julius and Wilhelm Wagner, who immigrated to the United States from Baden, Germany. Julius immigrated as part of an early communist group, the Darmstadters” or Forty,” wh
Who better to know what is the best” than the man who made Neiman Marcus synonymous with excellence for more than fifty years? The sequel toMinding the Store , Quest for the Best outlines Marcus’s phi
There is never a good sale for Neiman Marcus unless it’s a good buy for the customer.’ That was one of the first declarations of business philosophy I heard my father, Herbert Marcus, make soon after
Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-cent
Chronicles the rise and collapse of the Vietnamese army between 1950 and 1975 as witnessed by a highly decorated South Vietnamese general, in an account that covers the Indochina War, Geneva Accords,
As the great-great-granddaughter of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea, Madge Thornall Roberts played in her great-grandparents’ home in Independence, Texas, which had Santa Anna’s saddle in the upstairs ha
Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organ
Recaptures the era through photographs (260, in b&w), letters, and memories. Foreword by Texas Governor Ann Richards. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.
"I see no way that we junior officers will ever be prepared for any major surgery....I've a premonition that in time it is inevitable. We'll have to perform major surgery on our own, ready or not." T
Interweaving the personal, private voice with scholarly, public intent, Nelson and the other contributors argue for a more interactive and cooperative approach to the teaching, reading, critiquing, an
During the Second World War Byron Winborn was part of a covert military operation in an area of southeastern China overrun and nominally controlled by Japanese forces. As a Naval lieutenant attached
Prairie Gothic is full of Texas lore. Erickson tells the story of people in the context of a specific place. This place, instrumental in shaping their lives, is the flatland prairie of northwestern Te
Watson, a former National Park Service plant ecologist/ranger who lives on her private nature reserve in East Texas, offers an in-depth introduction to the uniquely diverse ecology of the Big Thicket
Did you know that Pre-Columbian Mexican cuisine was low in fat and high in fiber and vitamins? Based on corn, squash, tomatoes, beans, and lean meats, the everyday diet of the first Americans was rema
Largely set in the South, the eleven stories of Body Language guide us into the hidden worlds of the culture wars. The people in these stories belong to the fringes of society, struggling for an ident
Rattler One-Seven puts you in the helicopter seat, to see the war in Vietnam through the eyes of an inexperienced pilot as he transforms himself into a seasoned combat veteran.When Chuck Gross left fo
James ?Jim” Davis lived what he considered ?an impossible dream” as he piloted a B-24, as part of the 8th Air Force, on nearly thirty missions in the European Theatre during World War II. In this memo
