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Following the successful pattern established in his works on Townes Van Zandt and Ray Wylie Hubbard, music journalist Brian Atkinson has interviewed artists such as Kris Kristofferson, Steve Earle, and many others to learn how Mickey Newbury's influence continues to shape the musical and artistic approach of both seasoned and newer performers.

K E Tsiolkovskii was a science popularizer, novelist, technical inventor, and visionary, whose science fiction writings included futuristic drawings of space stations long before they appeared on any engineer's drawing board. This title shows that Tsiolkovskii was more than either a rocket inventor or a propaganda tool.

"Bastrop, Texas: a picturesque community of modest size located at the edge of the Lost Pines Forest Central Texas. Yet, from its vantage point on the banks of the Colorado River, this town boasts 131 sites listed in the National Register of Historic Places, qualifying the community for its label: "Most Historic Small Town in Texas." In Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas, local historians and researchers Robbie Moore Sanders and Sandra Chipley Kellogg have collected the stories behind nearly a hundred of the city's most historic dwellings, most built between 1835 and 1950. Copiously illustrated and engaging, the book begins with a quick historical overview of the community that incorporates period photographs, historic floorplans and maps, and engaging stories about the people who built and lived in the homes. In addition, the authors have provided beautiful, full-color photographs of the buildings as they exist today. From the simple dwelling of a community activist to the ornate Victorian mansions of the wealthy, Sanders and Kellogg trace the narrative of this culturally rich community through the remarkably varied lives of its people and the houses they built. Readers with an interest in local history and culture and historic preservation as well as visitors to this popular tourist locale-recognized as a "Distinctive Destination" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation-will thoroughly enjoy Historic Homes of Bastrop, Texas"--

One of the largest higher education networks in the United States, the Texas A&M University System educates more than 150,000 students annually. In Breaking Away: How the Texas A&M University System Changed the Game, Tim Gregg chronicles the last ten years of the Texas A&M System.

Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito relates the little-known life and career of a leader of the Aravaipa band of Apaches during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

From the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have changed over the past fifty years as the workforce became more diverse and fields once closed to women began to open.

Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas' Trinity and Houston counties. A blend of natural, cultural, and business history, this book presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present.

A user-friendly, illustrated follow-up to Lynne and Jim Weber's highly successful Native Host Plants for Texas Butterflies, this book describes over 100 native, larval host plants for moths in Texas. More than 150 moth species are illustrated in the book, both larval and adult phases, with one to two species for each of the larval host plants.

This collection by Teresa Palomo Acosta - poet, historian, author, and activist - spans three decades of her writing, from 1988 through 2018. The collection is divided into poems, essays, a children's story, and plays. Each work addresses cultural, historical, political, and gender realities that she experienced from her childhood to the present.

Many of Texas' leading writers have had their hearts captured by a river, and they have created sparkling accounts of the waterways they love. Now, editors Steven Davis and Sam Pfiester have assembled the best of those works into a revelatory collection of diverse literary voices.

Austin artist David Everett was born and raised in Texas, and his work reflects an organic and wholly original Lone Star State ethos. His stunning vision and exquisite craftsmanship evoke nature's essential grace and harmony in beautiful sculptures, bas-relief carvings, woodcuts, and drawings.

Often characterized by distinctive chipped-stone technology, the Calf Creek cultural horizon made its first appearance in the central and southern plains of North America some six thousand years ago. Jon Lohse, Marjorie Duncan, and Don Wyckoff have collected in this volume much of what is currently known about the Calf Creek cultural horizon.

Based on interviews with 200 justices of the peace from all parts of Texas, Texas People's Court takes readers on a tour of what it means to be a Texas justice of the peace: an experience that is by turns hilarious, sobering, heart-wrenching, and, from one end to the other, fascinating.

Describes the sheep industry's place in the history of Colorado and the American West. Tales of cowboys and cattlemen dominate western history - and even more so in popular culture. But in the competition for grazing lands, the sheep industry was as integral to the history of the American West as any trail drive.

Mary Jo O'Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. From the earliest human settlements to the twentieth century, O'Rear explores the complex interplay between people and economies struggling to survive in a region dominated by indifferent forces of nature.

Focuses specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/RIo Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing together architects, historians, anthropologists, sociologists, educators, political scientists, geographers, and creative writers, this book explores the historical and cultural background of the region.

Offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labour, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture.

Examines William Howard Taft's presidency against the backdrop of early twentieth century politics, placing particular emphasis on Taft's theory of presidential leadership. The book's focus on Taft's leadership adds new dimension to our understandings of the Progressive era and presidential leadership in general.

The Lazy S Ranch, one of the last major ranches to be established in Texas, came into being at a time when most of the other great ranches were disappearing. Founded in 1898, the Lazy S grew to comprise nearly 250,000 acres. Here, David Murrah covers the entire, fascinating history in The Rise and Fall of the Lazy S Ranch.

Based on extensive oral history interviews and archival research, Texas Jazz Singer recalls both the glamour and the challenges of life on the road and onstage during the golden age of swing and beyond.

When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South Texas. In Henry C. 'Hank' Smith and the Cross B Ranch, historian M. Scott Sosebee tells the story of one pioneer settler's small but significant ranch in West Texas.

The Republican Union League of America played a major role in the Southern Reconstruction that followed the American Civil War. A secret organization introduced into Texas in 1867 to mobilize newly enfranchised black voters, it was the first political body that attempted to secure power by forming a biracial coalition.

Covering 825,000 acres in the Coastal Plain and Brush Country of South Texas, King Ranch, established in 1853, looms large in Texas and American history. This book presents a beautiful, informative account of the ranch, its human and animal inhabitants, and its place in the artistic heritage of the region.

Billy Joe Shaver wrote ten of the eleven songs included on Waylon Jennings's landmark album Honky Tonk Heroes and played a dominant role in the origins and development of the Outlaw Country movement of the 1970s. This book seeks to give Shaver the recognition his prolific output deserves.

Presents a collection of essays and poems by the late Heather Catto Kohout. Her essays and poems are thoughtful, profound, and generous, shifting constantly between the specific and the universal and carrying throughout a message of stewardship.

Chronicles how a small Texas town, whose economy was based on fishing, shrimping, and tourism, became a major regional centre for the visual arts. Generously illustrated with images of boats, bays, birds, and other hallmarks of the community, this book is a visual and narrative treat for art lovers, conservationists, and historians alike.

From Ojinaga, Mexico, to Alpine, Texas, and most points in between, writer Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and photographer Bill Wright have gathered, through hours of interviews, a trove of anecdotes, images, and personal recollections that explore what makes music - and musicians - in the Big Bend slightly different from anything found elsewhere.