Imagine the thrill for a professor of Western history to discover a box of letters dating from 1870-72. As Daniel Tyler cautiously opened the...
Love In an Envelope (Nonfiction)
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Cynthia Green
Buffalo Music
Ages 3 to 10: This picture book was inspired by the real Mary Ann Goodnight, a settler in Palo Duro Canyon, Texas, during the senseless massacres of...
Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning the American West (Nonfiction)
At the turn of the last century, when women could hardly achieve advanced degrees much less become professors, 10 prolific female scholars changed...
Sagebrush and Paintbrush (Children’s Book)
Ages 6-13: Although born into a well-to-do Missouri mining family, Charles Russell (1864-1926) wanted to live the Western dream. At 16, he dropped...
Myth of the Hanging Tree (Nonfiction)
Trials by “Judge Lynch” were euphemisms for mob vengeance from colonial America to the frontier West. This scholarly study analyzes the documented...
Early Texas Schools
Texas education from the Republic to the Depression is a study of social change. In 1850, some settlers’ schools were simply the shade of a tree; by...
Painting the Wild Frontier: The Art and Adventures of George Catlin (Children’s Book)
Young Adult: This biography brings alive the will and vision an artist must possess to succeed. Born in 1796, George Catlin lived during the intense...
Amazing Girls of Arizona (Children’s Book)
Young Adult: The young women described in these 11 short profiles reflect the ethnic diversity, varied lifestyles and resourceful character one...
Black Women in Texas History (Nonfiction)
The social progress of Texan black women now surpasses that of black males and white females. In this unique anthology, regional historians...
Boots ‘n’ Beans (Nonfiction)
From his standard “Chuck Wagon Beans” to “Mad Jack’s Gunpowder Beans Resapee” to “Boston Bombers,” hilarious cowboy cartoonist Boots Reynolds offers...
Edith and the Mysterious Stranger (Young Adult)
Spunky, well-educated Edith is a hardworking nurse who won’t suffer the company of foolish men. She returns home to Idaho to care for her pregnant...
Rabbit and the Well
Ages 6 and older: During a time of drought, Ji-Stu, the ingenious Cherokee trickster Rabbit, decides to dig a well. Wanting no part of hard work, he...