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  • Raising Arizona's Dams

    Daily Life, Danger, and Discrimination in the Dam Construction Camps of Central Arizona, 1890s-1940s

    This is the engrossing story of the unsung heroes who did the day-to-day work of building Arizona's dams, focusing on the lives of laborers and their families who created temporary construction communities during the building of seven major dams in central Arizona. The book focuses primarily on the 1903-1911 Roosevelt Dam camps and the 1926-1927 Camp Pleasant at Waddell Dam, although other camps ... Leer más

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  • Painting the Town Orange

    The Stories behind Houston's Visionary Art Environments

    de Pete Gershon ...
    Houston's sprawl has come with controversy, but it has created a blank canvas for the public art community. It all started in the Telephone Road Place subdivision, where retired mail carrier Jefferson Davis McKissack built the Orange Show, an extraordinary and eccentric monument to self-reliance, hard work and, yes, the fruit itself. McKissack's installation spawned more of its kind in the Bayou ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Worse Than Death

    The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law

    Series series Crime and Criminal Justice Series
    In 1984, a Moroccan national named Abdelkrim Belachheb walked into Iannis Restaurant, a trendy Dallas nightclub, and gunned down seven people. Six died. Despite the fact that the crimes occurred in a state that prides itself on being tough on criminals, the death penalty was not an option for the Belachheb jury. Even though he had committed six murders, and his guilt was never in question (despite ... Leer más

    $15.99 USD

  • My Remembers

    A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression

    "I grow up a dirt farmer and retired a dirt farmer. Never got rich and didn't want to be. My childhood stomping ground is now concrete, stores and houses. I remember the good times and bad. It was not the money we made but how to stretch that last dime. It was not the wind, rain or snow. It was about the love that flow. It was not the hot sunshine nor the clouds that hung low. It was the grace of ... Leer más

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  • Writing the Story of Texas

    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    The history of the Lone Star state is a narrative dominated by larger-than-life personalities and often-contentious legends, presenting interesting challenges for historians. Perhaps for this reason, Texas has produced a cadre of revered historians who have had a significant impact on the preservation (some would argue creation) of our state’s past. An anthology of biographical essays, Writing the ... Leer más

    $25.99 USD

  • Minorities in Phoenix

    A Profile of Mexican American, Chinese American, and African American Communities, 1860-1992

    Phoenix is the largest city in the Southwest and one of the largest urban centers in the country, yet less has been published about its minority populations than those of other major metropolitan areas. Bradford Luckingham has now written a straightforward narrative history of Mexican Americans, Chinese Americans, and African Americans in Phoenix from the 1860s to the present, tracing their ... Leer más

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  • The Samuel May Williams Home

    The Life and Neighborhood of an Early Galveston Entrepreneur

    Series Libro 7 - Fred Rider Cotten Popular History Series
    Built in the winter of 1839-1840, this house, and the Texas pioneer who inhabited it, are the central focus of this thoroughly researched and well-written study of Galveston's merchant elite—Gail Borden, Michel Menard, Thomas McKinney, and others—a generation of leaders who did much to shape their city and Texas itself. ... Leer más

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  • Austin

    de Don Martin ...
    Series series Postcard History Series
    As the capital of Texas, Austin has a long and colorful history. The first residents were nomadic Native Americans who camped here as long ago as 9000 BC because of the area's beauty, the clear Colorado River, and the wildlife. These are the very same things that attract people to Austin today. Originally called Waterloo, Austin has grown from a tiny town on the edge of the western frontier in ... Leer más

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  • Where Texas Meets the Sea

    Corpus Christi and Its History

    de Alan Lessoff ...
    Series series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas Heritage Series
    A favorite destination of visitors to the Texas coast, Corpus Christi is a midsize city that manages to be both cosmopolitan and provincial, networked and local. It is an indispensable provider of urban services to South Texas, as well as a port of international significance. Its industries and military bases and, increasingly, its coastal research institutes give it a range of connections ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • State of Minds

    Texas Culture and Its Discontents

    de Don Graham ...
    Series series Charles N. Prothro Texana Series
    John Steinbeck once famously wrote that "Texas is a state of mind." For those who know it well, however, the Lone Star State is more than one mind-set, more than a collection of clichés, more than a static stereotype. There are minds in Texas, Don Graham asserts, and some of the most important are the writers and filmmakers whose words and images have helped define the state to the nation, the ... Leer más

    $21.99 USD

  • Dallas's Little Mexico

    de Sol Villasana ...
    Series series Images of America
    Little Mexico was Dallas�s earliest Mexican barrio. �Mexicanos� had lived in Dallas since the mid-19th century. The social displacement created by the Mexican Revolution of 1910, however, caused the emergence of a distinct and vibrant neighborhood on the edge of the city�s downtown. This neighborhood consisted of modest homes, small businesses, churches, and schools, and further immigration from ... Leer más

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  • Pawnee County

    Series series Images of America
    Pawnee County is unique among Oklahoma's counties. It represents a microcosm of the state's culture and heritage. Like Oklahoma, Pawnee County is divided in half by the cross timbers: to the east are woodlands and lakes, and to the west are the short grass country and the Great Plains. The eastern half of the county was a part of old Oklahoma Territory and is filled with lake homes that serve as a ... Leer más

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