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Item #7061
NATURALLY SOUTH TEXAS
Author: Roland H. Wauer
Price: $24.95
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Drawings by Mimi Hoppe Wolfe. A unique format describing a typical year in the natural life of South Texas. The author uses selected enrties from his weekly column in the Victoria Advocate neswpaper. The "Golden Crescent" of South Texas comprises a confluence of ecological zones that make it a wonderful place for birding and for observing the changing face of nature. Austin, TX 2001 1st Ed., 240 Pgs.,6 x 9 PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6993
HERALDS OF SPRING, In Texas
Author: Roland H. Wauer
Price: $20.00
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Illustrated with pen and ink drawings by Ralph Scott. The author walks us through Texas, from the Rio Grande to the Panhandle, explaining how nature tells us that spring has arrived. Harbingers of spring explored include birds, trees, mammals and even the night sky. Anyone who loves outdoor Texas will relish this delightful celebration of spring in each unique region of the state. College Station, TX, 1999 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 257 Pgs., 6&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7056
RAINY DAYS AND STARRY NIGHT, Growing Up in the South Texas Brush Country
Author: Lois Zook Wauson
Price: $16.95
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The author remembers the hard times of depression and drought for a large family on a small South Texas Farm. Brush Country natives will quickly relate to her moving descriptions of sweeping the family's sunbaked, grassless lawn, of six-man football on Friday nights, and dance hall rituals on Satutday nights, among many more interesting events. San Antonio, Tx, 2003 Maverick Publishing Company 1st Ed., 5&1/2 x 8 &1/2, PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6986
Castro's Colony, Empresario Development in Texas, 1842-1865
Author: Bobby D. Weaver
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IN 1842 French banker Henri Castro secured a colonization grant and recruited more than two thousand Europeans-from France, Germany, Belgium, Holland , Hungary, and England- to emigrate to Texas and populate his colony. The author describes the empresrio system under which this community, now known as Castroville, was formed and considers the life of its founder. He also examines the pioneers' struggles with frontier life- including drought, disease and Indian attacks. College Station, 2005 2nd Printing, 158 Pgs., 6 x 9. PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6990
SAN ANTONIO COLLEGE, In The Beginning..1925-1956
Author: Jerome F. Weynand
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Dr. Weynand, former president of San Antonio College, has written a small gem of a book on the founding of one of San Antonio's premier educational institutions. SAC has been the major gateway for many students to pass through on their way to completing their higher education and establishing successful careers. Covers Beginnings,The University Junior College, San Antonio Junior College,The Failed Election of 1941, Creation of the Junior College District, San Antonio College Moves "Uptown," Old Doctrine " Separate but Equal..." is Overcome, and President Wayland P. Moody Succeeds Loftin. Illustrated Annivsersary edition. Boerne, 2002 Adrome House 1st Ed., 227 Pgs., 5&1/2 x 8&1/2, PB | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7075
LIFE IN LAREDO, A Documentary History From the Laredo Archives
Author: Robert D. Wood, S.M.
Price: $27.95
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Based on documents from the Laredo archives, this work shows the evolution and development of daily life in a town under the flags of Spain, Mexico, and the United States. Isolated on the northern frontier of New Spain and often forgotten by authorities far away, Laredoans became as "grand" as the river that flowed by their town and left an enduring legacy in a world of challenges and changes. The author present the first 100 years of history and culture up to the mid-19th century illuminating with primary source materials the trials and travials of citizens. Illus., Denton, TX, 2004 Universitry of North Texas Press 1st Ed., 6&1/4 x 9&1/4, HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6956
THE TEXAS KICKAPOO, Keepers of Tradition
Author: Bill Wright, et al
Price: $45.00
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With E. John Gesick, Jr. The latest in author Wright's photographic study on American Indian Tribes in Texas. Historian John Gesick contributes an historical essay that tells the story of the tribe's migration from the woodlands of the northeast to the deserts of Texas and Northern Coahuila. The authors followed the Kickapoo during the summer they worked as migrant workers and to their sacred homeland of Nacimiento, Coahuila where they still live in traditional wickiups and practice the religion of their forefathers. Illustrated. El Paso, 1996 Texas Western Press 1st Ed., 196 Pgs., 9 & 1/2 x 12, HB | |
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