Red State (Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture)
by Wayne J. Thorburn
In November 1960, the Democratic party dominated Texas. The newly elected vice president, Lyndon Johnson, was a Texan. Democrats held all thirty statewide elective positions. The state legislature had 181 Democrats and no Republicans or anyone else. Then fast forward fifty years to November 2010. Texas has not voted for a Democratic president since 1976. Every statewide elective office is held by Republicans. Representing Texas in Washington is a congressional delegation of twenty-five Republica...
Deep Ellum (John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas)
by Dr Alan B Govenar and Jay F Brakefield
Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, retains its character as an alternative to the city's staid image with loft apartments, art galleries, nightclubs, and tattoo shops. It first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved, during the early decades of the twentieth century, into a place where the black and white worlds of Dallas converged. This book strips away layers of myth to illuminate the cultural milieu that spawned such seminal...
Annual Message of Mayor of the City of Houston and Annual Reports of City Officers, 1905; 1906
The Texas Right (Elma Dill Russell Spencer Series in the West and Southwest)
In The Texas Right: The Radical Roots of Lone Star Conservatism, some of our most accomplished and readable historians push the origins of present-day Texas conservatism back to the decade preceding the twentieth century. They illuminate the initial factors that began moving Texas to the far right, even before the arrival of the New Deal. By demonstrating that Texas politics foreshadowed the partisan realignment of the erstwhile Solid South, the studies in this book challenge the traditional na...
Clayton Wheat Williams - West Texas oilman, rancher, civic leader, veteran of the Great War, and avocational historian - was a risk taker, who both reflected and molded the history of his region. His life spanned a dynamic period in Texas history when automobiles replaced horse-drawn wagons, electricity replaced steam power in the oilfields, and barren and virtually worthless ranch land became valuable for the oil and gas under its surface. The setting for Williams's story, like that of his fat...
Early Settlers of the Panhandle Plains
by Norman Wayne Brown and Sarah Bellian
Clifton and Morenci Mining District
by Robert a Chilicky and Gerald D Hunt
Texas Sesquicentennial Wagon Train
by Dominick J Cirincione and J'Nell L. Pate
In the aftermath of the Civil War, New Mexico Territory endured painful years of hardship and ongoing strife. During this turbulent period, a U.S. military officer stationed in the territory assembled an album of photographs, a series of still shots taken by one or more anonymous photographers. Now, some 150 years later, Hardship, Greed, and Sorrow reproduces the anonymous officer's ""souvenir album"" in its totality. Offering an important glimpse of the American Southwest in the mid-1860s, th...