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The Wrecking of La Salle's Ship Aimable and the Trial of Claude Aigron
By Robert S. Weddle
Barbara Jordan
Edited by Max Sherman
The Dance of Freedom
By Barry Crouch
Desegregating Texas Schools
By Robyn Duff Ladino
Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos
By J. Mason Brewer
The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans
By Barry A. Crouch
Freedom Colonies
By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
No Quittin' Sense
By the Reverend C. C. White and Ada Morehead Holland
Clovis Blade Technology
By Michael B. Collins
Espíritu Santo de Zúñiga
By Tamra Lynn Walter
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains
By Vance T. Holliday
Alexander Watkins Terrell
By Lewis L. Gould
Around the World with LBJ
By Brigadier General James U. Cross, USAF (retired), with Denise Gamino and Gary Rice
Bob Bullock
By Dave McNeely and Jim Henderson
The Bullet Meant for Me
By Jan Reid
Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874
By Lois Wood Burkhalter
John Graves, Writer
Edited by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon
Kindler of Souls
By Rabbi Henry Cohen II
Mavericks
By Gene Fowler
Myself and Strangers
By John Graves
No Quittin' Sense
By the Reverend C. C. White and Ada Morehead Holland
One Ranger
By H. Joaquin Jackson with David Marion Wilkinson
Ralph Yarborough, The People's Senator
By Patrick Cox
The Raven
By Marquis James
Samuel Bell Maxey
By Louise Horton
Three Friends
By William A. Owens
Three Men in Texas
Essays by their Friends in the Texas Observer
Edited by Ronnie Dugger
William Wayne Justice
By Frank Kemerer
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
By Chad Richardson
Border Identifications
By Pablo Vila
Border Radio (revised edition)
By Gene Fowler and Bill Crawford
Colonias and Public Policy in Texas and Mexico
By Peter M. Ward
Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders
By Pablo Vila
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border
By Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber
The Making of the Mexican Border
By Juan Mora-Torres
The River Has Never Divided Us
By Jefferson Morgenthaler
Straddling the Border
By Lisa Magaña
"With His Pistol In His Hand"
By Américo Paredes
Crime in Texas, Rev. Ed.
By Ken Anderson
The Educator's Guide to Texas School Law, Seventh Edition Edition
By Jim Walsh, Frank Kemerer, and Laurie Maniotis
Homesteads Ungovernable
By Mark M. Carroll
Lethal Injection
By Jon Sorensen and Rocky LeAnn Pilgrim
One Ranger
By H. Joaquin Jackson with David Marion Wilkinson
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle
By James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen
William Wayne Justice
By Frank Kemerer
The Women of CourtWatch
By Carole Bell Ford
Big Thicket People
By Thad Sitton and C.E. Hunt
The Cast Iron Forest
By Richard V. Francaviglia
German Seed in Texas Soil
By Terry G. Jordan
Imperial Texas
By D. W. Meinig
The Making of the Mexican Border
By Juan Mora-Torres
1001 Texas Place Names
By Fred Tarpley
Tejano South Texas
Daniel D. Arreola
Texas Graveyards
By Terry Jordan
Texas Log Buildings
By Terry G. Jordan
Understanding NAFTA
By William A. Orme, Jr.
Water in Texas
By Andrew Sansom
Alex Sweet's Texas
By Alexander Edwin Sweet
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
By David Montejano
Austin, Cleared for Takeoff
By Kenneth B. Ragsdale
Brann and the Iconoclast
By Charles Carver
Dallas
By Patricia Evridge Hill
The First Texas News Barons
By Patrick Cox
The French in Texas
Edited by François Lagarde
Galveston
By David G. McComb
Galveston and the 1900 Storm
By Patricia Bellis Bixel and Elizabeth Hayes
Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal
By Gustav Dresel
Harder than Hardscrabble
Edited by Thad Sitton
Homesteads Ungovernable
By Mark M. Carroll
Inherit the Alamo
By Holly Beachley Brear
The Path to a Modern South
By Walter L. Buenger
A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845
By Stanley Siegel
Reconstruction in Texas
By Charles William Ramsdell
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
By Gerald Lynch
6000 Miles of Fence
By Cordia Sloan Duke
Spanish Texas, 1519-1821
By Donald E. Chipman and Harriett Denise Joseph
Spare Time in Texas
By David G. McComb
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
Edited by Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberto M. Hinojosa
Texian Iliad
By Stephen L. Hardin
Texas by Terán
Edited by Jack Jackson
Texas in 1837
Edited by Andrew Forest Muir
Texans in Revolt
By Alwyn Barr
The Trail Drivers of Texas
Compiled and edited by J. Marvin Hunter
They Called Them Greasers
by Arnoldo De León
White Metropolis
By Michael Phillips
Wings over the Mexican Border
By Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Working the Waterfront
By Gilbert Mers
John Graves, Writer
Edited by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon
Land of the Permanent Wave
By Bud Shrake
Lone Star Sleuths
Edited and with an introduction by Bill Cunningham, Steven L. Davis, and Rollo K. Newsom
Splendor in the Short Grass
By Grover Lewis
What Wildness Is This
Edited by Susan Wittig Albert te al.
The Wind
By Dorothy Scarborough
Battle on the Bay
By Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
The Last Battle of the Civil War
By Jeffrey Wm Hunt
Sabine Pass
By Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine
Edited and annotated by Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
Texian Iliad
By Stephen L. Hardin
Wings over the Mexican Border
By Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Country Music, USA
By Bill C. Malone
Down in Houston
By Roger Wood and James Fraher
The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock
By Jan Reid
Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State
By Dave Oliphant
¡Puro Conjunto!
Edited by Juan Tejeda and Avelardo Valdez
Telling Stories, Writing Songs
By Kathleen Hudson
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero
By Américo Paredes
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
By Manuel H. Peña
Texas Zydeco
By Roger Wood and James Fraher
"We're the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill"
By Jean A. Boyd
"With His Pistol In His Hand"
By Américo Paredes
Women in Texas Music
By Kathleen Hudson
Historic Native Peoples of Texas
By William C. Foster
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
By Martín Salinas
The Jumanos
By Nancy Parrott Hickerson
The Karankawa Indians of Texas
By Robert A. Ricklis
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains
By Vance T. Holliday
The Behavior of Texas Birds
By Kent Rylander
The Cast Iron Forest
By Richard V. Francaviglia
Exploring the Big Bend Country
By Peter Koch and June Cooper Price
Karánkaway Country
By Roy Bedichek
Land of Bears and Honey
By Joe C. Truett and Daniel W. Lay
The Mammals of Texas
By David J. Schmidly
Messages from the Wild
By Frederick R. Gehlbach
Naturally . . . South Texas
By Roland H. Wauer
The Story of Big Bend National Park
By John Jameson
Venomous Snakes of Texas
By Andrew H. Price
Water in Texas
By Andrew Sansom
What Wildness Is This
Edited by Susan Wittig Albert et al.
Alexander Watkins Terrell
By Lewis L. Gould
Barbara Jordan
Edited by Max Sherman
Bob Bullock
By Dave McNeely and Jim Henderson
Dallas
By Patricia Evridge Hill
Deception and Abuse at the Fed
By Robert D. Auerbach
The Illusion of Inclusion
By Rodolfo Rosales
Life After Welfare
By Laura Lein and Deanna T. Schexnayder; with Karen Douglas and Daniel Schroeder
Petroleum Politics and the Texas Railroad Commission
By David F. Prindle
A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845
By Stanley Siegel
Políticas
By Sonia R. García, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon A. Navarro, and Patricia A. Jaramillo
Profiles in Power
Edited by Kenneth E. Hendrickson, Jr., Michael L. Collins, and Patrick Cox
Ralph Yarborough, The People's Senator
By Patrick Cox
The Rope, The Chair, and the Needle
By James W. Marquart, Sheldon Ekland-Olson, and Jonathan R. Sorensen
Straddling the Border
By Lisa Magaña
A White House Diary
By Lady Bird Johnson
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
By David Montejano
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
By Chad Richardson
Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes
By Tatcho Mindiola, Jr., Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Nestor Rodriguez
Desegregating Texas Schools
By Robyn Duff Ladino
Freedom Colonies
By Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
German Seed in Texas Soil
By Terry G. Jordan
A Hanging in Nacogdoches
By Gary B. Borders
Homesteads Ungovernable
By Mark M. Carroll
The Illusion of Inclusion
By Rodolfo Rosales
A Law for the Lion
By Beatriz de la Garza
Long Dark Road
By Ricardo C. Ainslie
No Quittin' Sense
By the Reverend C. C. White and Ada Morehead Holland
Remembering the Alamo
By Richard R. Flores
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
By David Montejano
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
By Chad Richardson
Black-Brown Relations and Stereotypes
By Tatcho Mindiola, Jr., Yolanda Flores Niemann, and Nestor Rodriguez
Felix Longoria's Wake
By Patrick Carroll
Hispanic Methodists, Presbyterians, and Baptists in Texas
By Paul Barton
Las Tejanas
By Teresa Palomo Acosta and Ruthe Winegarten
A Law for the Lion
By Beatriz de la Garza
The Master Showmen of King Ranch
By Betty Bailey Colley and Jane Clements Monday, with Beto Maldonado
Políticas
By Sonia R. García, Valerie Martinez-Ebers, Irasema Coronado, Sharon A. Navarro, and Patricia A. Jaramillo
Remembering the Alamo
By Richard R. Flores
The River Has Never Divided Us
By Jefferson Morgenthaler
Straddling the Border
By Lisa Magaña
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
Edited by Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberto M. Hinojosa
Tejano South Texas
Daniel D. Arreola
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
By Manuel H. Peña
Voices from the Wild Horse Desert
By Jane Clements Monday and Betty Bailey Colley