Conversations with Texas Writers

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 16
• Larry McMurtry declares, "Texas itself doesn't have anything to do with why I write. It never did." Horton Foote, on the other hand, says, "I've just ... Lees meer

Quixote's Soldiers

David Montejano

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 26
• Winner, NACCS-Tejas Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, Tejas Foco, 2011 NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chic... Lees meer

Tales of the Wild Horse Desert

Betty Bailey Colley, Jane Clements Monday

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 4
• Highly skilled, hard-working, and loyal to each other and to the ranches that employ them, the Mexican and Mexican American vaqueros who work on the f... Lees meer

A Law for the Lion

Beatriz De La Garza

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 11
• "Esto no es cosa de armas" (this is not a matter for weapons). These were the last words of Don Francisco Gutiérrez before Alonzo W. Allee shot and ki... Lees meer

Austin, Cleared for Takeoff

Kenneth B Ragsdale

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 14
• Austin, Texas, entered the aviation age on October 29, 1911, when Calbraith Perry Rodgers landed his Wright EX Flyer in a vacant field near the presen... Lees meer

The River Has Never Divided Us

Jefferson Morgenthaler

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 13
• Winner, William P. Clements Prize, Best Non-Fiction Book on Southwestern America, 2004 Not quite the United States and not quite Mexico, La Junta de l... Lees meer

Freedom Colonies

Thad Sitton

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 15
• Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award, 2006 Best Book on East Texas, East Texas Historical Association, 2007 In the decades following the Civil W... Lees meer

Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas

Paul Barton

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 18
• The question of how one can be both Hispanic and Protestant has perplexed Mexican Americans in Texas ever since Anglo-American Protestants began conve... Lees meer

Homesteads Ungovernable

Mark M Carroll

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 3
• When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three ... Lees meer

Tejano South Texas

Daniel D Arreola

• Paperback | Engels | Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture (Paperback) | nr. 5
• Winner, John Brinckerhoff Jackson Prize, Association of American Geographers On the plains between the San Antonio River and the Rio Grande lies the h... Lees meer