age ~74
from Memphis, TN
In New Lands, New Men, the third volume in his award-winning Exploration Trilogy, one of America’s leading historians tells the dramatic story of three centuries of exploration that witnessed Europeans exploring the Pacific and Northwest, Americans setting out across their own immense continent, and...
Author
William Goetzmann
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
552
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
0876111487
EAN Code
9780876111482
ISBN #
3
First published in 1959, this book tells the story of the U.S. Army's role in exploring the trans-Mississippi West, particularly the role of the Topographical Engineers. An interdisciplinary book, it addresses the military's role in the founding of archaeology and ethnology in this country and inclu...
Author
William Goetzmann
Binding
Paperback
Pages
518
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
087611110X
EAN Code
9780876111109
ISBN #
2
When first published in 1935, On the Border with Mackenzie, or Winning West Texas from the Comanches, by Capt. Robert G. Carter, quickly became known as the most complete account of the Indian Wars on the Texas frontier during the 1870s. And even today it still stands as one of the most exhaustive h...
Author
Robert G. Carter
Binding
Paperback
Pages
600
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
0876112467
EAN Code
9780876112465
ISBN #
1
In 1946 historian William Ransom Hogan, then a professor at the University of Oklahoma, published The Texas Republic: A Social and Economic History. The book became an instant classic of Texas historical literature. In an era when scholarly writing on Texas history still gave disproportionate emphas...
Author
William Ransom Hogan
Binding
Paperback
Pages
360
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
0876112203
EAN Code
9780876112205
ISBN #
9
Through its majestic form and monumental style, the Texas State Capitol (erected 1882-1888) reflects the pride of Texas citizens in the culture and government of their state. Now, as we celebrate the restoration of the century-old structure and the completion of a stately new underground wing, a tea...
Author
Fred H. Moore, Ella Mae Moore
Binding
Paperback
Pages
172
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
0876111509
EAN Code
9780876111505
ISBN #
8
Two of the TSHA's most enduring titles examine how the land has been perceived and drawn by mapmakers. The beautiful revised Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900, by James C. Martin and Robert Sidney Martin, features more than sixty-five maps, seventeen in full color. Contours of Discovery, by...
Author
James Martin, Robert S. Martin
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
184
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
087611169X
EAN Code
9780876111697
ISBN #
7
A wide-angle portrait of Texas in the 1880s is typically a difficult picture to capture. But a unique government document of more than three hundred pages does it as well as our imagination will allow by providing the statistics and data to make it possible. In 1887, a state bureaucrat - Lafayette L...
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
440
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
0876111835
EAN Code
9780876111833
ISBN #
6
This engaging study of women in early Texas fills an important gap in the history of the state. First published by John Jenkins in 1975 and long out of print, Women in Early Texas is now available again with a new scholarly introduction by award-winning Texas historian Debbie Cottrell. The volume co...
Binding
Paperback
Pages
348
Publisher
Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN #
0876111428
EAN Code
9780876111420
ISBN #
5