Texas is a huge state that features mountains in the west, coastline in the east, and just about everything in between! Readers can learn about the history, culture, people, and wildlife of the Lone Star State with this fact-filled title. Features examine important historical events, introduce native peoples, profile a famous Texan, and invite readers to try out a favorite recipe. Pull on your cowboy boots and get ready for a trip to Texas!
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Declared Texas State Photographer for 1997, the author celebrates his native state with a collection of some 114 pages of color photographs, along with a thoughtful, accompanying essay by John Graves that captures the essence of Texas. UP.
Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may ...
Texas Through Time: Lone Star Geology, Landscapes, and Resources
Influenced by the historical fiction of Sir Walter Scott, by far the best-selling author in the United States before the Civil War, Newell's readers expected as much from their historians as from a novelist. Scott heightened the effect ...
The era of Anglo-American colonization, while brief, had a great impact on the development of Texas and the United States.
Bulletin of Marine Science 77: 155–164. Tunnell, J.W., Jr., and J.W. Tunnell. 2015. Pioneering archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend: The Pape-Tunnell collection. Texas A&M University Press, College Station.
Publication of this book is generously supported by a memorial gift in honor of Mary Frances "Chan" Driscoll, a founding member of the Advisory Council of Texas A&M University Press, by her sons Henry B. Paup '70 and T. Edgar Paup '74.
The Annexation of Texas
James B. Blackburn ... One of his presentations involves the bell curve, that famous statistical image of normal distribution. The middle of the bell curve ... The bell curve is a useful image for conceptualizing our changing climate.