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The author was for several years a close friend of O Henry (William Sydney Porter). This title describes the horrors of prison life and also tells how he, O Henry, and their friends managed to cope.

Butterflies are found almost the year around in the relatively warm region of far West Texas. This book describes and illustrates the fifty most common butterflies to be found in the region, along with eleven additional specialties unique to the far western part of the state.

The Great Plains of North America stretch from Texas to Alberta. It is on the brink of a water crisis, a silent crisis that threatens the health of people, environments, and economies. This title tells the history of successful and unsuccessful water policies, and of how dedicated people and communities can work together to protect their homes.

The year is 1942, and the US has just entered World War II. Pregnant and alone, nineteen-year-old Hannah Hayward arrives in Karankawa in search of a better life. As her dreams and desires change, Hannah journeys from East Texas to the Big Bend region of far West Texas with her children, transforming houses and lives through her loving labor.

Fleeing Atlanta and an abusive marriage, Imogene McBride is heading west with her precocious, beautiful teenage daughter, Cora, when their car breaks down. While her mother sits out its repair, Cora wanders off to buy ice cream, and disappears without a trace. This novel offers a blend of mystery, psychological thriller, and character study.

Of the canyons that break the eastern edge of the Staked Plains, Palo Duro is by far the most spectacular. This title includes seven essays devoted to geology, archeology, paleontology, vegetation, park development, and the amphitheater, and its road log from Canyon, Texas, through the Palo Duro State Park.

Jim Gober was not simply a witness to early Texas Panhandle, New Mexico and Oklahoma history; he was involved in it up to his neck. Suitable for readers and historians who love the real West, this book presents a narrative of cattle empires, of goodness and harshness, loyalty, family and politics. It defines the wages of life.

Features poems that leave some sweet dirt under your fingernails proof of hard, honest work when the longing of small-town America is not enough. This title eloquently plots our geographically impossible trajectories.

Miriam Vermilya was a retired grade school teacher and a well known painter and writer in Greenville, Ohio, where she lived. This title includes poems that sum up Vermilyas reflections on her life, love, and marriage; the deaths of friends and family members; and, most poignantly, her own aging and death.

A badman is not necessarily a bad man, but he is not a man to mess with. A bad woman might be a criminal too, or she might just be one who didn't conform to accepted notions of womanly conduct in her time and place. This tells the stories about Texas outlaws.

Explores womans place in West Texas and the world from the perspectives of daughter, wife, friend, and mother. This title presents the account of one woman, of all women that female secret of wombs/the ache that folds into the chest/and stays, a wound/nursed into a jewel.

The tradition of storytelling and folklore reaches deeply into the American notion of national identity, and among the more prominent emblems of American culture stands the cowboy. This title collects the vignettes that provide the collector of Texana an accessibility to stories that are often told only at public performances.

When an enraged reader gunned him down in Waco, April Fool's Day 1898, William Cowper Brann had published ""The Iconoclast"", the nation's most controversial magazine, for some forty months. This title synthesizes some of the most memorable Brannisms, from America to Texas Politics to the Universe.

Only a few crumbling structures remain of the once thriving community of families who lived at the Wide Ruins Trading Post. This title presents the stories of Bill and Jean Cousins, their photos and letters, and the history of a corner of the Navajo Indian Reservation in the early twentieth century.

Welcome to the world of Texas ranching, where "come 'n' get it" is the national anthem, the kitchen is the most important room in the house, meals become staff meetings, and the cook is a treasured member of the outfit. After all, hungry cowboys need hearty, hot meals that'll stretch the buttons on their Levi's to keep them going. A Taste of Texas Ranching takes readers to more than thirty ranches in the Lone Star State and introduces them to the cook at each one. Not only do these talented souls share their best recipes (including buttermilk pie and West Texas chili), they offer colorful viewpoints of life on the range and spin a yarn or two. A cookbook, history book, geography book, story book, and a book about western America, A Taste of Texas Ranching serves up a slice of life along with a piece of the pie.

The World of Spirits and Ancestors in the Art of Western Sub-Saharan Africa illustrates for the first time a collection of African Sculpture at the Museum of Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. The masks and figurative carvings from the late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century are from two sources: Ambassador and Mrs. Julius Walker's gift to ICASALS (International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies), now on permanent loan to the Museum, and the Elliot Howard Collection. Howard, an artist and authority on antiques, chose examples of sculpture for their "variety and aesthetic appeal". His hope was that the pieces he assembled would provide new discoveries for those unacquainted with the art of Africa and an art experience that would "enhance mutual respect among people". Fittingly, then, a context for understanding is the focus of Elizabeth Skidmore Sasser's book. As the title suggests, The World of Spirits and Ancestors introduces carefully chosen examples of masks and figures as social and spiritual communications imbued with the living history and culture of the various peoples of western sub-Saharan Africa. Sasser emphasizes that geography and climate - ranging from semiarid deserts to tropical rain forests - influence not only the art but also the habitations and ceremonial life of the region. More than 180 drawings and illustrations reflect the creative genius that continues to meet environmental challenges and to express the distinctive contributions of the cultures and the people of western sub-Saharan Africa.

A book of poetry structured around one man's quest for healing and salvation. It traces events from Saint Paul's quest for healing, proving a complement to the struggles of the contemporary man.

The American painter Gina Knee (1898-1982) is an important, surprisingly unacclaimed artist, whose career spanned more than five decades and many locations; she worked in the Southwest, the South, California, and New York. Starting in the 1940s she had solo shows on both coasts, and her work found its way into major public and private collections. She knew and exhibited with some of the major artists of her day: Jackson Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Mark Tobey, and her third husband, Alexander Brook. Yet, like many artists - especially women - working on the fringes of mainstream art movements, her achievements have been nearly forgotten in the rush to create art superstars. This book is an in-depth examination of the artist's life and work, from hesitant artistic beginnings to a culmination in highly original paintings reflecting her modernist and abstract vision. It reflects, too, the recent recognition in art history that art is as much a product of culture as it is the elusive, privileged activity of isolated "genius". Knee's efforts to find the delicate balance between marriage and her life's work is a central theme of the book, traced in her letters and in her conversations with friends. Knee's story gives new insight into American art and life at mid-century.

A story of John Carlile's passage into manhood when the twentieth century was young. It is connected to the growth of the town of Walnut Grove and to the good and evil that are always present.

An entrepreneurial and engineering genius, Leroy Hill left his mark on 20th century aviation. But that was just the beginning. As a gifted Berkeley engineering graduate in the late teens, Hill succeeded in reengineering the famous 'Liberty Engine' of World War I to fit into the legendary fighter DH-4, or 'Flying Coffin'.

Looks at the Vietnam war through the eyes of a pilot in detail.

From rock climbing to rodeo, bowling to boomerangs, sumo wrestling to slow-pitch softball, this collection of magazine and newspaper stories by one of America's leading writers of narrative nonfiction probes the passion people of all ages and genders pour into the games and sports they play.

In this witty, wonder-filled novel about broken homes and disconnected lives, with the majestic Brooklyn Bridge as backdrop and the legacies of the Holocaust and the Twin Towers as backstory, Sarah Stein's adventures prove both heartbreaking and heartwarming, an enchantment for readers of all ages.

Flip on the entertainment news, open an issue of a popular magazine, or step into any department store and you ll appreciate the impact of the multibillion-dollar fashion industry on American culture. Yet its origins in the nineteenth-century rag trade of Jewish tailors, cutters, pressers, peddlers, and shopkeepers have yet to be fully explored. In this copiously illustrated volume, twelve scholars from varied backgrounds consider the role of American Jews in creating, developing, and furthering the national garment industry from the Civil War forward. Drawn from an award-winning exhibition of the same title at the Yeshiva University Museum, A Perfect Fit provides a fascinating view of American society, culture, and industrialization. Essays address themes such as the development of the menswear industry; the early film industry and its relationship to American fashion; the relationship of the American industry to Britain and France; the acculturation of Jewish immigrants and its impact on American garment making; advertising history and popular culture; and regional centers of manufacturing. This multivalent group of essays compellingly weaves together important threads of the complex history of the American garment industry."

Twelve essays - arranged chronologically within sub-regions - draw upon innovative theoretical and methodological approaches, including gender/transgender studies, decolonization of Native peoples, and the influence of nation states. Richly grounded in the particular, these essays also contextualize the stories of specific women and locales within larger social, political, and economic trends. Individually and collectively, they reveal the intricate relations that tie together people and place.