Texas A M University Press: 358 books
Faces of Béxar
Early San Antonio and Texas
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Winner, 2019 Summerfield G. Robert Award, sponsored by The Sons of the Republic of Texas
Faces of Béxar showcases the finest work of Jesús F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. These essays trace the arc of the author’s career over...
by Steve Houser, Linda Pelon, Jimmy W. Arterberry
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
In this unprecedented effort to gather and share knowledge of the Native American practice of creating, designating, and making use of marker trees, an arborist, an anthropologist, and a Comanche tribal officer have merged their wisdom, research, and years of personal experience to create Comanche...
by Gary Clark, Kathy Adams Clark
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2016
Drawing on the knowledge and insight gained from a lifetime of watching, studying, and enjoying birds, this book is full of information about more than four hundred species of birds in Texas, most all of which author Gary Clark has seen first hand. Organized in the standard taxonomic order familiar...
Lone Star Steeples
Historic Places of Worship in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
In Lone Star Steeples: Historic Places of Worship in Texas, Carl J. Christensen Jr. and Pixie Christensen present sixty-five captivating and historically significant structures in exquisite watercolor illustrations accompanied by brief summaries and convenient, handcrafted maps. Ranging from stately...
by Bruce A. Glasrud
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2015
Anti-Black Violence in Twentieth-Century Texas provides an arresting look at the history of violence against African Americans in Texas.
From a lynching in Paris at the turn of the century to the 1998 murder of Jasper resident James Byrd Jr., who was dragged to death behind a truck, this volume...
Ten Dollars to Hate
The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2017
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 ashes of the Civil War—and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas...
Echoes of Glory
Historic Military Sites across Texas
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
In their previous book, Faded Glory: A Century of Forgotten Texas Military Sites, Then and Now, historians Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley chose to go beyond the familiar military sites of Texas—the Alamo or the San Jacinto battlefield, for example—to feature lesser known locations. The...
Texas Woollybacks
The Range Sheep and Goat Industry
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
With a new epilogue to carry the story to the present, Paul Carlson engagingly chronicles the development of the range sheep and goat industry from Spanish times to about 1930, when widespread use of mesh-wire fences brought an end to the open-range management of sheep and goat ranches in Texas.
“This...
Dr. Arthur Spohn
Surgeon, Inventor, and Texas Medical Pioneer
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2018
In this first comprehensive biography of Dr. Arthur Edward Spohn, authors Jane Clements Monday, Frances Brannen Vick, and Charles W. Monday Jr., MD, illuminate the remarkable nineteenth-century story of a trailblazing physician who helped to modernize the practice of medicine in Texas.
Arthur...
Trammel's Trace
The First Road to Texas from the North
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Trammel’s Trace tells the story of a borderlands smuggler and an important passageway into early Texas.
Trammel’s Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected...
Missionary Bishop
Jean-Marie Odin in Galveston and New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2013
In 1822 a young French missionary priest arrived in America, where he would devote the rest of his life to the mission field on behalf of the Catholic Church. Jean-Marie Odin served first in Missouri and Arkansas, then in 1840 moved to Texas, becoming the first Bishop of Galveston in 1847. He held...
Cold War Crossings
International Travel and Exchange across the Soviet Bloc, 1940s-1960s
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Approaching the early decades of the “Iron Curtain” with new questions and perspectives, this important book examines the political and cultural implications of the communists’ international initiatives. Building on recent scholarship and working from new archival sources, the seven contributors...
The Toyah Phase of Central Texas
Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered...
Woody Plants of the Big Bend and Trans-Pecos
A Field Guide to Common Browse for Wildlife
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Winner, 2018 Carroll Abbott Memorial Award, sponsored by the Native Plant Society of Texas
The Trans-Pecos region of Texas is home to a variety of big game species, including desert mule deer, pronghorn, desert bighorn sheep, white-tailed deer, elk, feral hog, and javelina; several species...