Women's stories often get lost because so much of women's history resides in private places such as diaries, family scrapbooks, family letters, or papers stored in boxes in family attics. Women often are hard to find, and once found, can be hard to track over time as they change their names when they get married. And sometimes they marry more than once, which increases the challenge. ...

Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press

The book follows General Sam Houston as he takes command of the Texas Volunteers to lead them to victory six weeks after the fall of the Alamo.

Manufacturer: Republic of Texas
Written By: Stephen L. Moore

In honoring the heroic legend of the Texas Revolution, generations of scholars and Texans themselves have cleansed the revolution of its messier--and perhaps more truly revolutionary--dimensions. Focusing on the preexisting causes of the conflict of 1835-36 and the military execution of the war, they have neglected the political turbulence, regional disharmonies, conflicts of interest, social ...

Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
Written By: Paul, D. Lack

Manufacturer: Eakin Press
Written By: Alan K. Sumrall

"For 60 years, The Trail Drivers of Texas has been considered the most monumental single source on the old-time Texas trail drives north to Kansas and beyond....Because of its vast volume of raw material, expressed in the words of those who lived the life and rode the long miles, students of cattle industry history regard it with high respect, even ...

Manufacturer: University of Texas Press

Like many pioneer western cattlemen, Ed C. Lasater was confident, optimistic, and an aggressive user of bank credit. This history of the South Texas rancher and dairyman paints a vivid picture of frontier agriculture in an era that featured some of the region and the nation's most progressive and most trying times. Lasater, born near Goliad in 1860, purchased extensive landholdings in South Texas ...

Manufacturer: Texas A&M University Press
Written By: Dale Lasater

The principle that all people make history continues to drive the Fourth Edition of our well-loved text, one that continues to consider the different cultures within the state as well as the unique heritage shared by all Texans. Unlike other surveys of the Lone Star State, "The History of Texas" goes beyond accounts of well-known figures to consider the lives of ordinary Texans, as seen in the ...

Manufacturer: Harlan Davidson
Written By: Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De Leon, Gregg Cantrell

A saga of the brave Mexican-Texans during the Civil War, this edition contains a list of four thousand Confederate and Union Hispanics from Texas.

Manufacturer: State House Press
Written By: Jerry D. Thompson

This illustrated guide explains the architectural and historical significance in a variety of extant sites in both Fort Worth, Texas, and the smaller towns surrounding it and is meant to be used as a guide for a walking and/or driving tour of the area.

Manufacturer: Texas Christian University Press

This volume celebrates the can-do, risk-taking, creative pioneers of Texas Instruments from its inception in the 1930s as a tiny geophysical exploration company working out of the back of a truck in the oilfields of the Southwest, to its status in the world today as one of the world's leading electronics companies. From the determination of its founders - Eugene McDermott, Erik Jonsson, Cecil ...

Manufacturer: Southern Methodist University Press
Written By: Caleb Pirtle III