Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Texas Women and Ranching
On the Range, at the Rodeo, and in Their Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
The realm of ranching history has long been dominated by men, from tales—tall or true—of cowboys and cattlemen, to a century’s worth of male writers and historians who have been the primary chroniclers of Texas history. As women’s history has increasingly gained a foothold not only as a field...
Our Fighting Governor
The Life of Thomas M. Campbell and the Politics of Progressive Reform in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014
At the apex of progressive reform in Texas from 1907 to 1911, Thomas M. Campbell served as the state’s chief executive. Closely associated with former Texas Governor James Stephen Hogg, Campbell played a central role in reviving the Hogg reform movement and building a strong record of progressive...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2013
Too often, observers and writers of Texas history have accepted assumptions about labor movements in the state—both organized and not—that do not bear up under the light of careful scrutiny. Offering a scholarly corrective to such misplaced suppositions, the studies in Texas Labor History provide...
Texas Market Hunting
Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds.
By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons...
Chasing Thugs, Nazis, and Reds
Texas Ranger Norman K. Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
Texas Ranger Norman Dixon made the front pages of newspapers, but his rigid sense of integrity prevented him from discussing his cases with his wife or his sons, or anyone else, even decades later.
As a Ranger, Dixon broke up the largest oil field theft ring in Texas history, worked to solve...
by Michael Lee Lanning
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Texas, home to more than 1.7 million living veterans (the second largest number of any state), is also home to six nationally run and four state-run veterans cemeteries. Each year, more than 12,000 veterans are laid to rest in these hallowed grounds. The Veterans Cemeteries of Texas recounts the stories...
A Texas Suffragist
Diaries and Writings of Jane Y. McCallum
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
A leader in the successful fight for woman suffrage in Texas, Jane Yelvington McCallum (1878–1957) left an absorbing written record of an exceptionally productive life. McCallum was a wife, mother, and clubwoman; unlike most, she was also a suffrage leader, lobbyist, journalist, publicist, Democratic...
by Lola Orellano Norris
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2017
In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of French intruders who had settled on lands claimed by the Spanish crown. Lola Orellano Norris has identified sixteen manuscript copies of de León’s meticulously...
by Loren C. Steffy
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
J. Richard “Dick” Steffy stood inside the limestone hall of the Crusader castle in Cyprus and looked at the wood fragments arrayed before him. They were old beyond belief. For more than two millennia they had remained on the sea floor, eaten by worms and soaking up seawater until they had the...
by Brian R. Chapman, Eric G. Bolen
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
From two veteran ecologists comes a new and sweeping exploration of the natural history of Texas in all its biological diversity and geological variation. Few states, if any, can match Texas for its myriad species, past and present, and its many distinctive landscapes, from prairie grasslands and...
Beef, Brush, and Bobwhites
Quail Management in Cattle Country
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2012
In this completely revised Texas A&M University Press edition, Guthery and coauthor Fidel Hernández have breathed new life into a classic work that for more than twenty years has been teaching biologists, managers, and ranchers to "think like a quail."
Updated with the latest...
by Mark W. Lockwood, Brush Freeman
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
“. . . includes some stunning images of Mexican and less-well-known Texas species . . . the authors have provided a unique and elegant publication that is truly an important contribution to Texas ornithology.” --*Great Plains Research*“Everyone interested in Texas birds must have the Handbook...
Connecting with South Africa
Cultural Communication and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Available electronically in an open-access, full-text edition from the Texas A&M University Libraries' Digital Repository at* http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/146845.*
Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that “South Africa is a microcosm.” It is...
Pickers and Poets
The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on...