Category - History
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Fires, Floods, Explosions, and Bloodshed: A History of Texas Whiskey
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /When Americans settled Texas in the 1830s, they brought their booze with them and found some made by the locals when they got here! Before long, th...
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The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti-Mexican Violence in Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $23.00Original price $23.00 - Original price $23.00Original price $23.00Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Winner of the Caughey Western History PrizeWinner of the Robert G. Athearn AwardWinner of the Lawrence W. Levine AwardWinner of the TCU Texas Boo...
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Prophetic City: Houston on the Cusp of a Changing America
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Sociologist Stephen Klineberg presents fascinating and groundbreaking research that shows how the city of Houston has emerged as a microcosm for ...
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Indian Tribes of Oklahoma: A Guide, Second Edition
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Oklahoma is home to nearly forty American Indian tribes and includes the largest Native population of any state. As a result, many Americans thi...
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Forget the Alamo: The Rise and Fall of an American Myth
HardcoverOriginal price $32.00Original price $32.00 - Original price $32.00Original price $32.00Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A New York Times bestseller!“Lively and absorbing. . ." — The New York Times Book Review"Engrossing." —Wall Street Journal“Entertaining and well-...
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Ride the Devil's Herd: Wyatt Earp's Epic Battle Against the West's Biggest Outlaw Gang
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Winner of the Best Book Award by the Wild West History AssociationA ripsnortin' ramble across the bloodstained Arizona desert with Wyatt Earp and...
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Being Texan: Essays, Recipes, and Advice for the Lone Star Way of Life
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The editors of Texas Monthly explore what it means to be a Texan in this anthology packed with essays, reportage, recipes, and recommendations fr...
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Frommer's Arizona and the Grand Canyon
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95Original price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /Take the guesswork out of vacation planning. Frommer’s hires only seasoned experts, in this case two renowned journalists who live full-time in A...
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Miraflores: San Antonio's Mexican Garden of Memory
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Aureliano Urrutia, a prominent physician in Mexico City, built Miraflores garden after he immigrated to San Antonio, Texas, from Mexico in 1914 d...
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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West's Most Notorious Woman Bandit
PaperbackOriginal price $21.99Original price $21.99 - Original price $21.99Original price $21.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /“[A] true-life adventure saga about the female outlaw who robbed a stagecoach at gunpoint in Arizona in 1899.” —New York Times Book Review Histor...
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West of the Creek: Murder, Mayhem and Vice in Old San Antonio
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /Thirty-five classic stories fill this book about San Antonio’s seamier side, from the days of the Old West when Wyatt Earp and Bat Masterson came...
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John F. Kennedy Sites in Dallas-Fort Worth
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /November 22, 1963, is a date that will forever live in the minds and hearts of those who were witness to or touched by the assassination of Pres. J...
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Enemies in Love: A German POW, a Black Nurse, and an Unlikely Romance
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /A “New & Noteworthy” selection of The New York Times Book Review “Alexis Clark illuminates a whole corner of unknown World War II history.”—W...
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Dine Tah: My Reservation Days 1923?1939
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /The bicultural story of a childhood on the Navajo Reservation. In this engaging memoir, Girdner tells the story of his childhood on the Navajo Rese...
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Oklahoma Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves
HardcoverOriginal price $95.00Original price $95.00 - Original price $95.00Original price $95.00Current price $74.99$74.99 - $74.99Current price $74.99| /From 1936 to 1938, the Works Projects Administration (WPA) commissioned writers to collect the life histories of former slaves. This work was compi...
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Cherokee Bill: Black Cowboy-Indian Outlaw
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Once upon a time in the late nineteenth century, there was an outlaw that captured the imagination of the American public like no other. He can be ...
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The Sawners of Chandler: A Pioneering Power Couple in Pre-Civil Rights Oklahoma
PaperbackOriginal price $22.95Original price $22.95 - Original price $22.95Original price $22.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Juxtaposed against the grim realities of black life at the turn of the twentieth century, the lives of George and Lena Sawner shone like the blazin...
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Platicas: Conversations About and Among Friends and Neighbors in Cuba, New Mexico
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The community of Cuba, New Mexico, its institutions and economy are changing rapidly and radically. Our town is losing its former identity and its ...
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Geronimo's Story of His Life
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /First published in 1906, "Geronimo's Story of His Life" is the true account of the life of Geronimo, in his own words, narrated in the style of his...
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The Black Legend: George Bascom, Cochise, and the Start of the Apache Wars
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95$21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /In 1861, war between the U.S. and the hostile Chiricahua Apaches seemed inevitable. When a young boy was kidnapped, Lieutenant George Bascom confro...
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Three Years Among the Comanches: The Narrative of Nelson Lee, Texas Ranger
PaperbackOriginal price $14.95 - Original price $14.95Original price $14.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In this reprint of a classic Indian Captivity Narrative from the 19th century, Nelson Lee recounts his adventures and his narrow escape from the Co...
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Texas Indian Troubles: The Most Thrilling Events in the History of Texas
PaperbackOriginal price $17.50 - Original price $17.50Original price $17.50$20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /This book gives a graphic portrayal of frontier life in Texas with marauding Comanche and Kiowa Indian tribes. Replete with many stories of Indian ...
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Reservation Restless
HardcoverOriginal price $27.95Original price $27.95 - Original price $27.95Original price $27.95Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /2021 Southwest Books of the Year Winner of the 2020 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Autobiography & MemoirIn the powerful and haunting lands ...
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Navajos Wear Nikes: A Reservation Life
PaperbackOriginal price $24.95Original price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Just before starting second grade, Jim Kristofic moved from Pittsburgh across the country to Ganado, Arizona, when his mother took a job at a hospi...
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