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In 1940, Abilene, Texas a major army training camp housing 60,000 troops was built, and over the next seventy years, it grew to be home to nearly 120,000 citizens. Population growth carried with it the need for geographic expansion, infrastructure upgrade, and economic diversification, but also unimaginable cultural change.

This is not a typical Civil War letter collection. Augustus V. Ball's circumstances and experiences allowed him to glimpse the war through two sets of eyes, that of a loving husband, and of an increasingly disillusioned physician. The inclusion of Ball's medicinal recipe book is the first of its kind to appear in print completely annotated.

Coach Emory Bellard spent a remarkable 43-year football coaching career at both the high school and college level, where he helped teams win 12 district championships, five regional titles, and three state championships in 21 seasons. Bellard collaborated with veteran sports writer Al Pickett, to tell the remarkable story of his career for the first time.

In 1881, six months after the establishment of Abilene, Texas, seventeen residents met at the local public school building and chartered First Baptist Church of Abilene. These founders instilled a mission-minded focus in the new institution.

From humble cottages to the first Hilton Hotel, and from railway depots to an air force base, this book presents Abilene's contribution to the American story which unfolds through the buildings that compose its cityscapes.

Presents a portrait of Texas during World War II and illustrated how the coming of thousands of strangers in military uniforms forever changed the faces of eight towns and cities across the Lone Star State. This book describes each community, establishing each location's pre-war condition.

Contains twelve articles which depict the basic themes and topics of the black American experience in West Texas. This book includes such topics as slavery, black cattlemen, buffalo soldiers, race relations, urban centers, education, desegregation, and integration.

Comprises a description of a soldier's life in the ranks of the Third Texas Cavalry and the Nineteenth Louisiana Infantry. This title describes author's youthful experiences, including his family life, education, hunting, and other pleasant pastimes, plantation activities and relationships with slaves, as well as social conditions.

Jose Antonio Navarro (1795-1871) played a central role in Texas history. A close associate of and facilitator for Stephen F Austin, he was a signatory of the Texas Declaration of Independence from Mexico, an important figure in the drafting of the Texas Constitution, and a State Senator.

A children's activity book with games, puzzles, and coloring pages for children of all ages. Learning about Texas living and the people that made the frontier unique helps children utilize their creativity, expand their vocabulary, and exercise their brains - all while playing and having fun.

Ann Richards was one of the best-known and beloved governors in Texas history. But she was also a controversial figure, having been elected after admitting to struggling with alcoholism and divorce, and being a Democrat in a Republican state to boot. This title is suitable for fourth graders studying for the Texas history section of the TAKS test.

Chronicles the team's forty-five year history in a collection of more than five hundred quips and quotes from players, coaches, owners, broadcasters, and writers. This work contains quotations that provide a record of the ups and downs of one of the best-known franchises in professional sports.

Don Martin De Leon was the only Tejano empresario to settle a colony in Texas, in the days before statehood. Other empresarios were Anglos who had been drawn to Texas by the lure of land. This book is the fourth title in ""The Stars of Texas"" series, aimed at fourth graders studying for the Texas history section of the TAKS test.

Rattlesnakes are as much a part of West Texas as cattle, oil, and beautiful sunsets. The author, a former chairman of the World's Largest Rattlesnake Roundup held every March in the West Texas town of Sweetwater, shares his collection of stories, encounters, and tips about hunting and handling rattlesnakes.

The Thurber coal district sprang to life in the late 1880s in northern Erath County, Texas, some seventy miles west of Fort Worth. This chronicle of the Thurber district is not only a nostalgic trip back in time, but also a case study of the impact of technological change on one part of modern America.

Although the Texan airfield was originally the Pyote Army Airfield, the serpents encountered during construction earned it the name of ""Rattlesnake Bomber Base."" For those who served on the airfield, what is now a ruin is a monument to a time when men and snakes and bombers came together in the desert to share a chapter of American history.

Veteran sports writer Al Pickett explores how Chuck Moser worked his magic to galvanize Abilene in support of his program and turn an otherwise ordinary group of high school kids into the best football team in Texas history.

First published in 1995 as a collection of four selected speeches by Elmer Kelton, this revised second edition includes three of those pieces plus two new ones.

Red Steagall has compiled the conversations with 21 of his friends into a unique book that captures the flavor of the Western way of life. Their stories about early days in movies, ranching, law enforcement, music, writing, and other endeavors create an oral history of life in the West.

The lonely chimneys of Fort Phantom Hill in Jones County have given many visitors silent testimony to the travails of settlers when the area was on the very western frontier of Texas. In Fort Phantom Hill: The Mysterious Ruins on the Clear Fork of the Brazos River, Bill Wright traces the history of the fort''s founding in the mid-nineteenth century. Along the way, Wright introduces the instrumental people who had vital roles in the fort''s founding, abandonment, and throughout its various incarnations from the 1850s onward..

This is a collection of rare documentary materials, the great majority of them not seen or referenced since their dates of original publication. They provide much that is ""new"" here in terms of the history of the Alamo siege and battle, of the Texas Revolution in general, and of the lives of the people involved, not to mention the events that both preceded and followed that conflict.

The outbreak of war in Europe in the summer of 1914 surprised Americans. This title describes the role Texans played in the war, both overseas in the major battles and campaigns and on the home front producing the materials needed to carry on a modern war.

The Texas Pacific Railroad gave birth to Abilene in 1881. Among several dozen sister communities established along the T&P, the company designated the one at Milepost 407 to be 'the future great city of West Texas'. This book presents a tale of industrious, ambitious people trying to prosper in a place with challenging climate and terrain.

Written by the author who witnessed or participated in a string of important events that shaped America and sculpted the history of the West. It describes the organization of hunts, camp routines, and marketing of the buffalo hides.

Written by a Texas historian, these stories recall a time when a kid could go to the picture show with fifteen cents in his pocket, purchase admission for nine cents, and have money left over for popcorn. He describes presidents and teachers he has known, music and books he has enjoyed, his first garden and the first time he ate in a restaurant.