Texas Honor

Texas Honor
Author: Debra White Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 1998
Genre: Ranches
ISBN: 9781577483397

This Corner of Canaan

This Corner of Canaan
Author: Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 1574415034

Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell has spent the better part of the last five decades helping Texans rediscover their history, producing a stream of definitive works on the social, political, and economic structures of the Texas past. Through meticulous research and terrific prose, Campbell's collective work has fundamentally remade how historians understand Texan identity and the state's southern heritage, as well as our understanding of such contentious issues as slavery, westward expansion, and Reconstruction. Campbell's pioneering work in local and county records has defined the model for grassroots research and community studies in the field. More than any other scholar, Campbell has shaped our modern understanding of Texas. In this collection of seventeen original essays, Campbell's colleagues, friends, and students offer a capacious examination of Texas's history--ranging from the Spanish era through the 1960s War on Poverty--to honor Campbell's deep influence on the field. Focusing on themes and methods that Campbell pioneered, the essays debate Texas identity, the creation of nineteenth-century Texas, the legacies of the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the remaking of the Lone Star State during the twentieth century. Featuring some of the most well-known names in the field--as well as rising stars--the volume offers the latest scholarship on major issues in Texas history, and the enduring influence of the most eminent Texas historian of the last half century.

Cowboy Honor

Cowboy Honor
Author: Carolyn Brown
Publisher: Forever
Total Pages: 299
Release: 2018-09-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1538744902

From the New York Times bestselling queen of cowboy romance comes a "charming novel in which friendship, family, love, and trust abound." (Fresh Fiction) Includes a bonus novella by Katie Lane! Patience was never one of her virtues. After her SUV runs off the road in the middle of a Texas blizzard and her cell stops working, Claire Mason is about to snap. Getting back home to Oklahoma with her four-year-old niece is top priority. And lucky for her, help comes in the form of a true Texas cowboy... Levi Jackson has always been a sucker for strays. So he can't help getting involved when he comes across Claire and her little niece shivering in the cold. By offering them a place to stay until her car is fixed, he can make sure the two are taken care of - and get to know the sassy Claire better. What starts as something awkward and temporary starts feeling cozier by the minute. And soon Levi is hoping he can convince Claire she has a permanent place in his heart. Plus, bonus story "O Little Town of Bramble" by Katie Lane! All Ethan Miller wants for Christmas is to celebrate in Bramble, Texas, with family and friends. But when his childhood neighbor comes home for the holiday, Ethan realizes that the girl-next-door could be the girl of his dreams.

A Texan's Honor

A Texan's Honor
Author: Shelley Shepard Gray
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Total Pages: 321
Release: 2012
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1426714637

Texas, 1874. Years ago, Will McMillan had fought in the open, next to his Captain, Clayton Proffitt. Now he's waging another war undercover, pretending to be a member of the notorious Walton Gang.

Unlikely Lover

Unlikely Lover
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: Harlequin / SB Creative
Total Pages: 128
Release: 2019-04-17
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 4596294968

Marianne has always wanted to be a writer, so when her aunt Lillian asked if she’d help her boss, oil baron Ward, write his memoirs, she hurried to Texas. Apparently Ward is about to pass away, and Marianne wants to do her best to help him write his life’s story. But the Ward who ultimately appears before her is anything but ill—in fact, he looks to be a very healthy, not to mention handsome, man. It turns out it was all a ploy by her aunt to get the two of them together. Unfortunately, Marianne realizes it too late—she’s already caught in Ward’s dangerously seductive trap!

Tomàs Rivera

Tomàs Rivera
Author: Tomàs Rivera
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Total Pages: 420
Release: 1995-06-30
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781611923131

Tomàs Rivera quite possibly has been the most influential voice in Chicano literature. Besides his masterpiece, ƒy no se lo tragÑ la tierra / ƒAnd the Earth Did Not Devour Him, included here is the sum total of his published works, in English and Spanish, as well as many that never made print in his lifetime.

The Writings of Ferdinand Lindheimer

The Writings of Ferdinand Lindheimer
Author: John E. Williams
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2020-09-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1623498775

Ferdinand Jacob Lindheimer is known as the “father of Texas botany.” While he was not the first botanist to collect plants for scientific examination in Texas, his collections are credited with helping botanists around the world to understand the nature, extent, and significance of the diversity of plants in the state. In partnership with Asa Gray of Harvard University, Lindheimer spent eight years collecting Texas plants to distribute to a list of paying subscribers—including places like the British Museum, the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, and the Smithsonian Institution. Today, no fewer than 362 plant names are based, at least in part, on Lindheimer collections, and 65 plants have been named in his honor. Lindheimer was a founding settler of New Braunfels, raising his family on the banks of the Comal River while he continued to collect and ship plant specimens. He was “elected” as the first editor of the Neu-Braunfelser Zeitung (still published today as the Herald-Zeitung), and served from 1852 to 1872. He wrote a number of articles for the Zeitung on topics ranging from plants, climate, and agriculture to Texas Indian affairs, optimism, and teaching schoolchildren. In the last year of Lindheimer’s life, one of his students worked with him to collect an assortment of his essays and articles from the Zeitung. In 1879, the collection was published as Aufsätze und Abhandlungen von Ferdinand Lindheimer in Texas (Essays and Articles of Ferdinand Lindheimer in Texas). John E. Williams now offers the first English translation of these essays, which provides valuable insight into the natural and cultural history of Texas.

In Honor

In Honor
Author: Jessi Kirby
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2012-05-08
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1442416998

A devastating loss leads to an unexpected road trip in what Sarah Ockler calls a “beautiful, engaging journey with heart, humor, and just a pinch of Texas sass.” Three days after learning of her brother Finn’s death, Honor receives his last letter from Iraq. Devastated, she interprets his note as a final request and spontaneously sets off to California to fulfill it. At the last minute, she’s joined by Rusty, Finn’s former best friend. Rusty is the last person Honor wants to be with—he’s cocky and obnoxious, just like Honor remembers, and she hasn’t forgiven him for turning his back on Finn when he enlisted. But as they cover the dusty miles together in Finn’s beloved 1967 Chevy Impala, long-held resentments begin to fade, and Honor and Rusty struggle to come to terms with the loss they share. As their memories of Finn merge to create a new portrait, Honor’s eyes are opened to a side of her brother she never knew—a side that shows her the true meaning of love and sacrifice.

Rage Of Passion

Rage Of Passion
Author: Diana Palmer
Publisher: HarperCollins Australia
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488741107

Tender mercy. A vacation at her grandmother's ranch would have been the perfect place for Maggie Turner to escape her ex–husband's threats. Perfect, that is, if it hadn't been for Gabe Coleman. Tall, lithe and lean, he was just as blunt, direct–and undeniably handsome–as he'd been ten years ago. His cold formality gave her the goose bumps. And his icy blue eyes watched her like those of an alley cat–daring her to look beneath his rough exterior. She thought marriage had cured her of any romantic ideas, but then the sweet embraces of a Texas cowboy gave her a new lease on love....