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Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground-a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Tex

This book contains two volumes of African American folk tales collected by J. Mason Brewer. The stories included in Dog Ghosts are as varied as the Texas landscape, as full of contrasts as Texas weather. Among them are tales that have their roots deeply imbedded in African, Irish, and Welsh mythology, others have parallels in pre-Columbian Mexican tradition, and a few have versions that can be traced back to Chaucer's England. All make delight...

Karankaway Country focuses on the natural history of a strip of coastal prairie lying roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston and once inhabited by the poorly known and much maligned Karankawa Indians. It serves as home base for an exposition of Bedichek's philosophy, providing a convenient local setting for richly tailored essays on wildlife, soil, human skin, and a variety of other topics suggested by a wide-ranging intellect. Bedichek'...

Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award (best nonfiction book) of the Texas Institute of Letters, No Quittin' Sense presents the life story of Rev. C. C. "Charley" White, whose one-man war on poverty and intolerance has inspired thousands of readers since the book was first published in 1969.

The folklore of Texas' Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield when a young man. There he witnessed events in the last outlaw activities of the Black Jack Ketchum gang. He also listened to legends told almost as gossip, and some of the legendary figures were still alive--or said to be alive, usually in hiding. In every village there ...

A reference to Texas's regional vocabulary through the mid-20th century.

Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841-1901) is Texas' own 'Sifter', whose humorous columns appeared in the "Galveston Daily News" in the late 1870s and early 1880s. This title demonstrates why the "New York Journal" pronounced Sweet 'second to no living writer in freshness, originality, sparkling wit, and refined humor'.

A combination of biography and personal history that portrays not only the three friends, but the land they loved as well.

A biography of this prominent Texan.

Early in the year 1854 Frederick Law Olmsted, a young New England journalist, crossed the Louisiana border and set off on horseback into the teeth of the Texas winter. This book recounts his travels along the Old San Antonio Road through East Texas' piney woods, the coastal prairies, and the rich bottomlands around Houston and Galveston.

Theatrical scene design is one of the most beautiful, varied, and lively art forms. This work offers a survey of the evolving context, theory, and practice of scene design from ancient Greek times. It focuses on Greece, Rome, Medieval Europe, the Italian Renaissance, eighteenth-century Europe, Classicism to Romanticism, and Realism and Naturalism.

The dramatic account of Faulk's six years on the blacklist and his lawsuit against AWARE.