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Where has Mr Barrington gone? This title allows you to follow Hannah, Nick, and Jackie back in time to the Texas Revolution as they search for clues leading to the missing Texas history teacher. It takes children on a historic adventure as the Battle of San Jacinto unfolds before their eyes.

Meet six-year-old Pedrito, who lives on a South Texas farm with his mother, father, and sister. The year is 1941, and except for a trip to the city of San Antonio, Pedrito's life is the farm and the school he attends. This title tells his story that presents a window on the lives and culture of a Mexican family living and working in South Texas.

Its 1923. The US Bureau of Indian Affairs and its educational arm, the Indian Service, are under fire for a Christianize and civilize policy that seeks to draw Native American children from their ancestral cultures. The Indian Service seeks to still a Congressional uproar by giving the principals job to Quill Thompson, a critic of the policy.

Filled with anecdotes, folklore, and oral history that help define one of New Mexicos most fascinating pockets of enchantment. This work presents stories on life in the countryside, education, folk healing, witchcraft, superstitions, religion, politics, folk sayings, and riddles.

As the residents of McAllen, Texas, sleep soundly, a small number of agents of the US Border Patrol wait on the banks of the Rio Grande. This book describes the daily risks they face and the insights they hold as a result of their experience with the hard realities of immigration policy, the war on drugs, and the threat of terrorist infiltration.

Jane Gilmore Rushing grew up in Pyron, a Texas town no longer in existence, and from childhood she knew that she would be a writer. In seven novels produced between 1963 and 1984, she built her stories around cotton farms and early ranches. This title explores Rushings life and discusses her novels and memoir.

Mohammed (Ed) Aryain saw Syrians who had been to America returning home with gold watches and money to purchase land, and he vowed to do the same. Ed began a 120-mile walk to Beirut to board a steamship. This book tells of his emotional first view of the Statue of the Liberty and of his traumatic passage through Ellis Island.

New findings show that the death toll from the Cambodian genocide was approximately 2.2 million about a half million higher than commonly believed. Despite regular denials from the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge, the author demonstrates not only that they were aware of the mass killings, but that they personally managed and directed them.

Frankie suspects that a serial killer may be on the loose, a man who is so good at assuming new identities that he almost resembles the shape-changers of Native American myth. When Frankie is asked to join a expedition into the Mojave desert, she jumps at the chance to get away from the mayhem, but trouble follows her, with near-fatal results.

Clothing is the most personal expression of a culture. Objects of dress and adornment reveal so much about the individuals who wore them and the cultures and times in which they lived. This guide lists information on more than 2,600 American collections. Each listing includes the location and contact information.

During the late 1800s and the first half of the 1900s, Harvey Houses were a familiar sight to train travelers in the American West. There were one hundred Harvey Houses and about a hundred thousand Harvey Girls over the years. This book includes a section on the real Harvey Girls history.

A beady-eyed varmint crawls through the floor of a lonely old man's cabin. A boy spends the night in a haunted house. A girl foolishly taunts a giant owl-woman. A young mans prom date has a spooky secret. This title features ten creepy tales. Suitable for young readers, it also includes eerie illustrations.

Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, this title includes photographs that provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great empty middle between our coasts.

To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Only with the creation of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890 was the area finally claimed by a government entity. This title presents the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his fathers job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. This memoir paints a portrait of a middle-class family's traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s.

Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for nearly twelve thousand years. This title surveys the Lubbock Lake Landmark's long geologic past, placing emphasis on human activity in the region and showing how early peoples adapted to shifting environmental conditions and changing animal resources.

Along the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie two square miles of relict ecosystem named the Ottine Wetlands. This title presents an examination of the invertebrates - insects, crustaceans, molluscs, and others - that depend directly or indirectly on the abundant moisture of the wetlands.

The vast, disparate region called West Texas is both sparsely populated and scarcely recognized. Yet it has given voice to a surprising number of women writers. This title includes short stories and essays that place emphasis on individual triumphs and failures, which remind West Texans of their heritage.

Isaac Webb, a young Texas ranger, struggles for decency amid the violence of the Texas Revolution and the early days of the Republic. Still in his teens when he joins the legendary ranger captain Noah Smithwick, Isaac discovers in himself extraordinary mettle in battle and a fierce yearning for young war widow Catherine Druin.

In eighteenth-century England, some wealthy people built ruins on their estates, hired hermits to inhabit them, and took guests to view the pictures que results. While no one hires ornamental hermits anymore, society as a whole supports people like Thoreau or Edward Abbey who step aside to comment on ordinary life as critics or would-be prophets.

It is through brief moments in our lives that the spiritual most often communicates itself. Fleeting as they are, these small encounters with the familiar wild instruct us in dealing with change and loss. This title features essays, each of which represents one moment.

Using the turbulent lower Rio Grande valley of the 1870s as the backdrop, this historical novel deals with romance, violence, and the struggle for civilization on the frontier. It tells the story of three legendary figures: Texas Rangers John Rip Ford and Lee H McNelly and the bandit mayor of Matamoros, Juan Cortina.

Newspaperman Don Hampton Biggers witnessed the last years of the West Texas frontier and grew intrigued with the buffalo hunters, the early cattlemen, and the stories they told. Suitable for collectors of Texana, this book combines two of Biggers' works, ""History That Will Never Be Repeated"" (1901) and ""Pictures of the Past"" (1902).

From the late 1830's to the mid - 1870's, nearly half a million ordinary folk left farms and families, friends, and all that was familiar and turned their faces west to Oregon to California. This title covers timelines, maps, photographs, and historical illustrations that enable readers to trace Trail migration chronologically and geographically.

Reared in isolation by her father on the Western prairie, Mary Dove has been taught to fear only one thing. One sparkling October day it happens. The inevitable stranger rides in off the plains, and Mary Dove does what she had always promised her father she would she shoots. Yet compassion overcomes Mary's fear.

Includes the stories that focus on the passing of the rural Southwest Texas way of life and its stamp on those who leave there. This title features the stories that explore exotic Machu Picchu, Lake Titicaca, and a dig site in Peru and make a voyage of discovery down the Amazon River.

Horned lizards, or horny toads, as they are popularly known throughout the West, have long had a particular mystique in American folklore. Suitable for general audience, this book discusses the various aspects of the lizards biology as well as the horned lizards place in the culture of the West.

Lets you explore the Big Bend Ranch State Park and the Chinati Mountains State Natural Area. This title shows the desert sanctuaries of the vast Big Bend and also lets you pay tribute to their best-kept secret, the twin canyons of the Chinati Mountains, San Antonio and Los Pelos.

Texas Poet Laureate Walt McDonald has published more than eighteen volumes of award-winning poetry. This title includes essays that analyze McDonalds writings about war and the veterans return to civilian life, the regional grounding of his far-reaching verities, and the writer himself.

As the Harlem movement focused on experiences of black Americans who sought relief from racism and endeavored to build communities, this title offers voice to the many-sided black experience in remote El Paso.