"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
Millions of people each year visit the 4.2-acre complex known worldwide as ?The Alamo.” According to Richard Bruce Winders, Historian and Curator at the Alamo, they come to see the old mission in San
A growing number of individuals with special needs are discovering the benefits of therapies and activities involving horseback riding. Special Needs, Special Horses, by Naomi Scott, offers informatio
This third volume of the Savage Frontier series focuses on the evolution of the Texas Rangers and frontier warfare in Texas during the years 1840 and 1841. Comanche Indians were the leading rival to t
James Abijah Brooks (1855?1944) was one of the four Great Captains in Texas Ranger history, others including Bill McDonald, John Hughes, and John Rogers. Over the years historians have referred to the
Cozine (U. of Louisiana-Monroe) revises his 1976 dissertation Assault on a Wilderness, for Texas A&M University, completed in the aftermath of the 1974 creation of the Big Thicket National Preserv
The compilation reaffirms our fascination with cemeteries and their status as tourist attractions. People visit cemeteries in large numbers. Evidence of crowd control abounds from signs directing traf
In 1915 it has been three years since Lucy Richards left her teaching post in West Texas and returned home where she is busy being indispensable to her eccentric mother, keeping her Aunt Catherine co
Bilingual education policy in the United States raises contentious issues of national identity, federalism, power, ethnicity, and power. San Miguel (history, U. of Houston) looks at the origins and ev
Andrews, who has been called the first lady of Chile peppers,” the godmother of the chile world,” as well as her own registered trademark The Pepper Lady,” follows the spice trade and early movements
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
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
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
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
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,
Having both served with the First Infantry Division of the US Army during Operation Desert Storm, Bourque, who served at Division Headquarters and is now a professor of history at the US Army Command
This unique collection of narratives, essays, and poems includes an original interview with Maya Angelou and pieces by Naomi Shihab Nye, Pat Mora, Rosemary Catacalos, and many others. Each work relate
This first volume of the Savage Frontier series is a comprehensive account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers. Stephen L. Moore provides fresh detail about each ranging unit formed
