Author: Lewis F. Fisher

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Balcones Heights is a unique suburban city incorporated in 1948. Its wooded homesites were promoted during the Depression as affordable for families "of moderate means." It was at the crossoads of two new interstae highways and a shopping mall and other businesses flourished to bring much needed revenue. John Wayne cut a cake at a supermarket here celebrating the premiere of his movie "The Alamo." Illustrated. Signed by the author. San Antonio, TX 1999 Maverick Publishing Company 1st Ed., 8 &1/2 x 11, 57 Pgs., PB.

Author: Raúl A. Ramos

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Introducing a new model for the transitional history of the United States, the author places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. From the perspective of San Antonio Tejanos, Anglo-Americans were immigrants and the battle of the Alamo was a war between brothers. Ramos explores the factors that helped shape the ethnicity of the Tejano population after the battle and demonstrates that Bexareños turned to their experience on the frontier to forge a new ethnic identity within dominant American culture. The author is the son of noted San Antonio physician, Raúl Ramos M.D. Illustrated. Chapel Hill, 2008 University of North Carolina 1st Ed., 297 Pgs., 6 x 9, HB.

Author: John H. Rappole

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A comprehemsive look at birds in this area featuring Habitat, Similar Species, Abundance and Distribution, Where to Find, Range, and Season. Contains a color plate section of the species described. College Station, TX, 2000 Texas A&M University Press 1st Ed., 6x 9, 329 Pgs., PB.

Author: Milo Kearney, et al

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With Anthony Knopp, Illustrated by Peter Gawenda. Captures the unique bicultural heritage of our Texas Border. Covers the Elitist Founding of Matamoros, the Controversial Establishment of the Non-Mexican Class, The Traumatic Founding of Brownsville, the Late 19th Century Boom, and the Agricultual and Industrial Booms. Austin, TX 1991 Eakin Press 1st Ed., 6 x 9, 326 Pgs., PB.

Author: J. Gilberto Quezada

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The author is a South San Antonio School District official with a Master's Degree in History from St. Mary's University and is a member of Los Bexarenos Genealogical Society. Manuel B. Bravo, sworn in as democratic county judge of Zapata County on January 1, 1937, held this post for twenty years. In his long career he became known as one of the " Mexican Bosses" of South Texas, participating in many significant events, including the construction of Falcon Dam. Quezada relates development of " Bossism" by analyzing role of influential families & their economic integration into the state and nation. College Sta., TX 1999 1st Ed., 320 Pgs. HB.

Author: James T. DeShields

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Originally published in 1912, the author used material from earlier historians, John Henry Brown, John W, Wilbarger and Henderson King Yoakum, but made extensive use of primary sources such as numerous turn-of-the-century interviews, and correspondence with early Texas Rangers and frontiersmen who were still living. Many of his accounts are not found elsewhere in Texas History publications and had he not recorded them they might have been lost forever. In Spite of his limited view of Texas history as the struggle of the dauntless Anglo pioneer and the savage Indian, DeShields' work remains a valuable and humanistic narrative of conflicts between warring pioneer and Indian factions which were bloody and savage. Austin 1993 Repr. HB, 304 Pgs.