United States - State & Local - Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
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Wildcat: The Untold Story of Pearl Hart, the Wild West’s Most Notorious Woman Bandit
$21.99 Read more“[A] true-life adventure saga about the female outlaw who robbed a stagecoach at gunpoint in Arizona in 1899.” —New York Times Book Review
History was made when Pearl Hart, disguised as a man, held- Author: Boessenecker, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 133544940X
- Language: English
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Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror
$19.95 Add to cartFrom 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carnival atmospheres with thousands in attendance, including… [more below]
- Author: Bills, E. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: August 24 2015
- ISBN10: 1681790173
- Language: English
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Ribbons of Green: The Rio Grande and the Making of Modern Albuquerque
$24.95 Add to cart- Series: New Century Gardens and Landscapes of the American Southwest
- Author: Fleck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 02 2026
- ISBN10: 0826369685
- Language: English
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Devils River: Treacherous Twin to the Pecos, 1535-1900
$22.95 Add to cartIn his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas and the com
- Author: Dearen, Patrick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 23 2011
- ISBN10: 0875654231
- Language: English
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How the Canyon Became Grand: A Short History
$27.00 Add to cartDismissed by the first Spanish explorers as a wasteland, the Grand Canyon lay virtually unnoticed for three centuries until nineteenth- century America rediscovered it and seized it as a national embl… [more below]
- Author: Pyne, Stephen J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140280561
- Language: English
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The Grand Canyon: Native People and Early Visitors
$23.99 Add to cartUnlike appreciating America’s other natural wonders such as waterfalls, glaciers, mountains, or prairies, one must struggle to absorb, assimilate, and comprehend the Grand Canyon’s tremendous scale. C… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Shields Jr, Kenneth D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 09 2000
- ISBN10: 0738500313
- Language: English
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San Antonio and Its Missions: Three Centuries of History, Memory, and Heritage
$42.50 Add to cartCharacterizing San Antonio’s five Spanish colonial-era missions as “sites of memory,” author and historian Joel Daniel Kitchens explores how and why Spain built the missions, what happened to the mis
- Series: Vistas, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-San Antonio
- Author: Kitchens, Joel Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: February 02 2026
- ISBN10: 1648433405
- Language: English
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The Myth of Red Texas: Cowboys, Populism, and Class War in the Radical South
$19.95 Add to cartA timely call for Texas-and the South–to reclaim its radical history, drawing lessons for today’s struggle from the populists and socialists of yesteryear.
In blood-red states such as Texas, politics
- Author: Griscom, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 238
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 1682196453
- Language: English
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Enchantment and Exploitation: The Life and Hard Times of a New Mexico Mountain Range
$24.95 Add to cartFirst published in 1985, William deBuys’s Enchantment and Exploitation has become a New Mexico classic. It offers a complete account of the relationship between society and environment in the Sangre d
- Author: Debuys, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0826353428
- Language: English
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The Sons of Gunshooter: A Navajo Resistance Story
$21.95 Add to cartAn inspiring new take on a history we thought we knew
In 1919, the brother of one of the West’s most famous Indian traders was shot to death in a remote corner of the Navajo Nation. Part history, pa- Author: Denetclaw, Dorothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: March 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0816556164
- Language: English
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Visiting the Grand Canyon: Views of Early Tourism
$24.99 Read moreThe Colorado River began carving a course to create the Grand Canyon some four to six million years ago, but organized tourism to the natural wonder is fairly young, geologically speaking. Getting to … [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Stampoulos, Linda L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 21 2004
- ISBN10: 0738528803
- Language: English
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Cricket in the Web: The 1949 Unsolved Murder that Unraveled Politics in New Mexico
$21.95 Add to cartOvida “Cricket” Coogler was last seen alive entering a mysterious car driven by an unknown man in downtown Las Cruces, New Mexico, around 3:00 on the morning of March 31, 1949. Seventeen days later, h
- Author: Moore, Paula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 215
- Publish Date: March 16 2009
- ISBN10: 0826343422
- Language: English
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Grand Canyon National Park
$24.99 Add to cartArizona is proud to have one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World–the Grand Canyon. With the arrival of the Santa Fe and Union Pacific Railroad in the early 20th century, the development of the … [more below]
- Series: Postcard History
- Author: Ratz, Thomas Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0738578568
- Language: English
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Blood Ties: How a Texas Prison Gang Became a Mexican Cartel Proxy
$24.95 Add to cartIn the late 1980s and 1990s, street gang members from the impoverished Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Texas, united in the Texas prison system to create the Barrio Aztecas gang. They quickly rose to power
- Author: Kolb, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: December 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0875657885
- Language: English
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A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians
$32.95 Add to cartThis book identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.
- Series: Gulf Publishing Field Guides
- Author: Turner, Ellen Sue
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: June 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0891230513
- Language: English
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On the Watchtower: A History of Fire Lookouts
$24.95 Add to cartApproximately five hundred fire lookouts remain active throughout the United States. The majority of these lookouts are located west of the Mississippi River, but East Coast states continue to staff f
- Author: Boyle, Dixie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 198
- Publish Date: November 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1632937743
- Language: English
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A Race to the Bottom of Crazy: Dispatches from Arizona
$20.00 Add to cartBestselling author Richard Grant delves into the heart of Arizona, exploring its complex political issues, climate change challenges, and immigration dynamics to reveal the intricate forces shaping it… [more below]
- Author: Grant, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1668011034
- Language: English
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Lost Treasures of Houston
$42.00 Add to cart- Author: Dylan Powell, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 01 2025
- ISBN10: 168106605X
- Language: English
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The Storm of the Century: Tragedy, Heroism, Survival, and the Epic True Story of America’s Deadliest Natural Disaster: The Great Gulf Hurricane of 190
$18.99 Add to cartIn this gripping narrative history, Al Roker from NBC’s Today and the Weather Channel vividly examines the deadliest natural disaster in American history–a haunting and inspiring tale of tragedy, her
- Author: Roker, Al
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 0062364669
- Language: English
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The Conservative Frontier: Texas and the Origins of the New Right
$34.95 Add to cartHow West Texas business and culture molded the rise of conservatism in the United States.
Much of what we understand as modern American political conservatism was born in West Texas, where today it pr
- Author: Roche, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1477332642
- Language: English
