Lone Star Books: 16 books
Texas Trivia
Everything Y'all Need to Know about the Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything. Texas Trivia: Everything Y'all Need to Know about the Lone Star State reveals the facts that depict the colorful bravado unique to Texas. For instance,...
A Priest, A Prostitute, and Some Other Early Texans
The Lives Of Fourteen Lone Star State Pioneers
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
This unique collection of short biographies of the Lone Star State’s most colorful characters includes headliners Father Miguel Muldoon, the Irish-Spanish Catholic priest and diplomat who helped convert Protestants in order to settle Austin, and six-foot-two prostitute and hotelkeeper Sarah Bowman,...
Amazing Texas Girls
True Stories from Lone Star History
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Girls on the Western Frontier were expected to care for younger children, cook and clean, wash clothes, milk cows, tend gardens, and round up wandering herds in a harsh and unfamiliar landscape. Their stories, often taken from their first-hand accounts of trips on Western trails and journals kept...
This is Texas, Y'All!
The Lone Star State from A to Z
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
A charming gift for proud Texans of all ages. Take a rollicking ride through Texas culture and history with this quirky gift book that informs as well as pokes fun at all things Texana. Among the subjects covered: frito pies, “Midland Minnie” (the oldest human skeleton found in the western hemisphere),...
Texas Bigger and Brighter
50 Iconic Lone Star People, Places, and Things
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
From blue bells to armadillos and the San Antonio River Walk to Cadillac Ranch, here's the inside story about the very things that give the state its character. Did you know that Texas has more bird species than any other state? That Texas is the largest producer of oil and gas in the United States...
Texas Towns
From Abner to Zipperlandville
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
To see Weeping Mary you've got to head to Texas. The grand state even boasts a Little Hope.
Texas Towns is a smart volume full of peculiar places. Author Don Blevins is generous in his detailing of the counties, routes, and landmarks that distinguish the hundreds of villages with quirky names...
Haunted Texas
Famous Phantoms, Sinister Sites, and Lingering Legends
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Texas history buffs and travelers have an eerie need for this book, which offers an unusual twist to seeing the “sights” in the Lone Star state. Organized by region—Gulf Coast, Rio Grande Valley, South Texas, Central Texas, North Texas, and West Texas—this book is the complete guide for both...
Tales with a Texas Twist
Original Stories And Enduring Folklore From The Lone Star State
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2018
With this compilation of Texas--and Texanized--favorite myths and legends, award-winning tale teller Donna Ingham applies her own unmistakable voice to traverse her home state through such stories as:
"The Coming of the Bluebonnet"--an oft-collected Commanche myth about love and sacrifice...
Pigskin Rapture
Four Days in the Life of Texas Football
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2016
Pigskin Rapture team captures the sights, sounds, and smells of a state smitten with football, from K-D’s Barbecue in Midland, to the rarefied air of Cowboys owner Jerry Jones’s private box in AT & T Stadium. Here, too, are the more subtle and occasionally unseen manifestations of Texas football...
Texas Bad Girls
Hussies, Harlots, and Horse Thieves
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and moving — such are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls. Husband killers, run-of-the-mill murderers, whorehouse madams, prostitutes, gamblers, bank robbers, floozies — each contributes immeasurably to a rowdy, ribald history that dates from the state's earliest settlers to yesterday's biggest news story.
Thornton's Luck
How America Almost Lost the Mexican-American War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In April 1846, tensions between the U.S. and Mexico along the disputed border were high. About half of the U.S. Army, then tiny, was camped outside of Matamoros, Mexico, and rumors were flying that the much larger and better outfitted Mexican army was about to undertake efforts to remove the troops...
by Patrick Dearen
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In the late 1880s, the Pecos River region of Texas and southern New Mexico was known as “the cowboy’s paradise.” And the cowboys who worked in and around the river were known as “the most expert cowboys in the world.” A Cowboy of the Pecos vividly revealstells the story of the Pecos cowboy...
by Bill Groneman
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Contains over one hundred descriptions of the Battle of the Alamo by people who were witnesses or who claimed to have witnessed the event. These accounts are the basis for all of the histories, traditions, myths, and legends of this famous battle. Many are conflicting, some are highly suspect as to authenticity, but all are intriguing.
Texas Myths and Legends
The True Stories behind History’s Mysteries
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
Texas Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Texas’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Texas history. The more than a dozen...
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