History : United States - State & Local - Southwest

This book is a history of multiple generations of a Texas family who demonstrate endurance, strength, and faith in God as they experience life's challenges a......

It started as an innocent challenge and through sheer determination and pure tenacity, it developed into one of the greatest and most successful promotions e......

Tucumcari was and is an inescapable beacon for travelers headed West in the Continental United States. Situated in the mighty Canadian River Valley, the town......

During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Despite its century-long heritage of solidly Democratic politics, the stat......

In HISTORIC HOUSTON: HOW TO SEE IT, Lucinda Freeman brings Houston's history to life by coupling entertaining stories that highlight influential personalitie......

Take a journey deep into South Texas, where Lucille Thomas Kruse grows up as a young girl in Falfurrias during the 1920s and 1930s. The Thomas family's fate ......

The Shooting Salvationist chronicles what may be the most famous story you have never heard. In the 1920’s, the Reverend J. Frank Norris railed against......

Historic Houston Streets is a definitive tale about Houston's people, politics and power, courage and sacrifice, heroes and scoundrels, humor and tragedy, my......

McPherson argues that, instead of being a downtrodden group of prisoners, defeated militarily in the 1860s and dependent on the U.S. government for protectio......

In 1923, America paid close attention, via special radio broadcasts, newspaper headlines, and cover stories in popular magazines, as a government party desce......

CHILD OF THE RIVER carries the reader from war torn Vicksburg, Mississippi, to a plantation of Big Black River, a KKK meeting in an unnamed southern city to ......

Howdy! As you’re heading down the lonesome trail, there’s no better pardner than Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader Plunges into Texas. Since 198......

Stanley M. Hordes explores the remarkable story of crypto-Jews and the tenuous preservation of Jewish rituals and traditions in Mexico and New Mexico over th......

The FIRST book written of ghost encounters of American Indians written by an American Indian! These are not second hand accounts, but are personal experience......

A major work on the history and culture of Southwest Indians, The Columbia Guide to American Indians of the Southwest tells a remarkable story of cultural co......

Presented for the first time is a detailed picture of the Spanish settlement landscape of New Mexico during the period from the beginning of colonization in ......

For almost two thousand years, the pottery made by the Indians of America’s Southwest has remained a vital art. Today, more than twenty Pueblos and tri......

Metropolitan Phoenix explores the efforts to build a sustainable desert city in the face of environmental uncertainty, rapid growth, and increasing social di......

This lively travelogue, complete with driving directions, will inspire visitors to the West's old mining camps, railroad towns, and ranching centers to stop ......

In an intriguing account of whistle-blowing, Berkowitz tells how he bypassed his chain-of-command and delivered his findings directly to the Office of the In......