Specializing in
Hispanic History
and Genealogy
|
|
|  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7021
FORT SAM, The Story of Fort Sam Houston
Author: Eldon Cagle, Jr.
Price: $16.95
Shipping: $3.75
Fort Sam Houston was once the largest post in the United States Army. It has witnessed westward expansion, preparation for world wars and military innovation. It has produced warriors, statesmen and heroes. Today it stands as the home of Army medicine and houses the headquarters of the Fifth United States Army. Illustrated with many black and white photos. San Antonio, Texas 2002 Maverick Publishing Company 1st Ed., 103 PGs., 8&1/2 x 11, PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7077
GONE TO TEXAS, A History of the Lone Star State.
Author: Randolph P. Campbell
Price: $35.00
Shipping: $3.75
The author presents the epic tales of Texas history in a new light, offering revisionist history in the best sense-broadening and deepening the traditional story, without ignoring the heroes of the past. The scope is impressive beginning with the archaeological record of the Native Americans to the rise of the oil industry and ultimately the modernization of Texas. Swift moving accounts are included of the Mexican revolution against Spain, the arrival of the settlers from the United States, the lasting Spanish legacy (from cattle ranching, to place names and civil law), the Anglo-Texan revolution, the decade of the Republic of Texas and annexation by the United States. Offers a fresh understanding of why Texas continues to be seen as a state unlike any other, a place that distills the essence of what it means to be an American. New York, 2003, 1st Ed., Second pr., 500 Pgs., HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6967
JOSE MARIA DE JESUS CARVAJAL, The Life and Times of a Mexican Revolutionary
Author: Joseph E. Chance
Price: $35.00
Shipping: $3.75
The author proposes to resurrect the memory of Carvajal and place him in his rightful position with other persons who molded the shape of the current Texas-Mexico society. Carvajal was an intellectual dreamer who sought social reform in Mexico and struggled against the forces of the conservative Centralists of the Mexican Republic. He led a pioneering effort for political reform in South Texas and Northern Mexico yet is remembered by only a few contemporary historians. Some of his fame comes from his leadership of a series of armed excursions into Northern Mexico from Texas in 1851 and 1852 that came to be known as the Merchant Wars. His career stretched from the Texas Revolution to the French Intervention. San Antonio, 2006 Trinity University Press 1st Ed., 283 Pgs., 6 x 9, HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7087
CISNEROS, 2000
Author: José Cisneros
Price: $75.00
Shipping: $4.25
José Cisneros, artist/author and Felix D. Almaráz, Jr., co-author. Now Out of Print, This book contains sixty of the most famous characters of the borderlands as portrayed by the artist in his inimitable pen and ink style. The author who is in his nineties, with spirit undimmed, has moved to a new subject-the faces of those who came to the Southwest over the centuries. Dr. Almaráz provides historical context crowning his long association with Mier. Cisneros with this excellent collaboration. Borderlands Book Store has been able to secure a limited number of these books to offer our customers. El Paso, 1999, 1st Ed., 164 Pgs., HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6919
TEXAS DEVILS, Rangers and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1846-1861
Author: Michael L. Collins
Price: $26.95
Shipping: $3.75
The Texas Rangers are the stuff of legend but the story of the Rangers along the Mexican Border between Texas Statehood and the onset of the Civil War has been largely overlooked-until now. The book challenges the time-honored image of "good guys in white hats" to reveal the more sobering reality behind the Ranger Myth. Collins shows that instead of bringing peace to the region, The Texas Rangers contributed to the violence and were often brutal to Spanish-speaking inhabitants who referred to them as los diablos Tejanos. Illustrated. Norman, OK 2008 Oklahoma University Press, 6 x 9, 361 Pgs., HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6916
TRACES OF FORGOTTEN PLACES
Author: Don Collins
Price: $19.95
Shipping: $3.75
Austin artist Collins has illustrated over 300 works of art for the Miller Blueprint Company calendars which have become collectors items. He has chosen seventy of these pen and ink drawings of various places in Texas for this book. Fort Worth, 2008 Texas Christian University Press 1st Ed., 11 x 8&1/2, 162 Pgs., PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6918
SALT WARRIORS, Insurgency on the Rio Grande
Author: Paul Cool
Price: $24.95
Shipping: $3.75
A welcome narrative of the EL Paso Salt War of 1877 rightfully titled an insurgency by the author. The local Mexican-Americans held common ownership of the immense salt lakes at the base of the Gudalupe Mountains since the time of the Spanish Empire and they believed the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo confirmed their title. After the Civil War Anglos felt the area was up for grabs and an Austin banker staked a legal claim in 1877 enforced by his son-in-law. The ensuing popular uprising disrupted established governmental authority in El Paso for twelve weeks. This is a fast-paced account that corrects the record of this historical episode. Illustrated. College Station, 2008 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 6 x 9&1/4, 360 Pgs., HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6948
SAN ANTONIO DE BEXAR, A Guide and History
Author: William Corner
Price: $25.00
Shipping: $3.75
Edited by Judson J. (Mickey) Killian. This unique book on San Antonio was first published in 1890 and is frequently referenced in other works along with duplications of the maps contained therein. Covers just about every aspect of life in Early San Antonio and is a good reference on activities in the city. Contains a chronology by months of significant events. Illustrated. San Antonio, 2008 Los Bexareños Genealogical Society, Reprint, 166 Pgs., 8 &1/2 x 11,PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7022
THE SPANISH ACEQUIAS OF SAN ANTONIO
Author: I. Waynne Cox
Price: $21.95
Shipping: $3.75
For more than a century and a half, San Antonio depended for water on a medieval system designed by Spanish engineers using techniques brought to Spain from North Africa by the Moors.The 50-mile network of acequias, or irrigation ditches, originally served both the civilian community and five Spanish missions. It was perhaps the most extensive such network within the present-day United States. One of the acequias, serving lands near Mission Espada, remains in use to this day. In this first book on the remarkable system, longtime archaeologist Waynne Cox , outlines acequia technology and the construction, evolution, and in most cases, the closing by the early twentieth century of San Antonio's Spanish acequias. San Antonio, TX 2004 Maverick Publishing Company 1st Ed., 93 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4.HB.
TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE - PLEASE CHECK BACK OR CONTACT US FOR AVAILABILITY. | |
|
|
|
