The Cedar Choppers

Ken Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 24
• At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first enco... Lees meer

Her Act and Deed

Angela Boswell

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 3
• Deeds, wills, divorce decrees, and other evidence of the public lives of nineteenth-century women belie the long-held beliefs of their public invisibi... Lees meer

The Ground on Which I Stand

Marti Corn

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 22
• In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina--then called "Tammany"--north of Houston, Texas, near the rich timberlands of Montgome... Lees meer

Mennonites in Texas

Laura L Camden, Susan Gaetz Duarte

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce
• With their distinctive head coverings, plain dress, and quiet, unassuming demeanor, the Mennonites are a distinctive presence within the often flamboy... Lees meer

The Ground on Which I Stand

Marti Corn

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 22
• In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community of Tamina--then called "Tammany"--north of Houston, near the rich timber lands of Montgomery Cou... Lees meer

Why Texans Fought in the Civil War

Charles David Grear

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 20
• In Why Texans Fought in the Civil War , Charles David Grear provides insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining importan... Lees meer

Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal

Keith J Volanto

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 7
• Cotton supplied the Native Americans with clothing fibers before the Spanish ever entered Texas. It drew Southern settlers fleeing U.S. antislavery tr... Lees meer

Murder and Mayhem

James M Smallwood, Barry A Crouch, Larry Peacock

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 6
• In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An importan... Lees meer

Lone Star Picture Shows

Richard Schroeder

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 2
• When a Dallas audience in 1897 viewed the first motion picture ever shown in Texas, the state began a love affair with the movies. From the early nick... Lees meer

Ten Dollars to Hate

Patricia Bernstein

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 23
• Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s--by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashe... Lees meer

Prairie Time

Matt White

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 10
• Winner, Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, presented by the Native Plant Society of Texas In its prime, the Texas Blackland Prairie formed a twelve-millio... Lees meer

Ten Dollars to Hate

Patricia Bernstein

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 23
• Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s--by far the most "successful" incarnation since its inception in the ashe... Lees meer

Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker

Sarah Ragland Jackson

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce
• Karle Wilson Baker was the best-known Texas poet of the early twentieth century. Yet, while many of her male contemporaries remain well known to Texas... Lees meer

Gospel Tracks Through Texas

Wilma Rugh Taylor

• Hardcover | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 9
• In 1895 a different kind of railroad car rolled into Texas, bringing the "good news" of the evangelical Gospel to transient railroad workers and far-f... Lees meer

The Bootlegger's Other Daughter

Mary Cimarolli

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 4
• The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as "the greatest generation." But not all of the... Lees meer

The Other Great Migration

Bernadette Pruitt

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 21
• The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demograph... Lees meer

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 13
• "In these pages, you won't find a single damsel in distress. There are no dance hall queens or saloon floozies, either. The sixteen women profiled her... Lees meer

Brush Men and Vigilantes

David Pickering, Judith M Falls

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 1
• As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatized, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger across the South. In scattered pockets fro... Lees meer