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The Golden Frontier
The Recollections of Herman Francis Reinhart, 1851-1869
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a man who was part of a part of every gold discovery that stirred the West, from the summer of 1851 when he traveled the Oregon trail to California, until a January day in 1869 when he climbed aboard an eastbound train at Evanston, Wyoming.
The Art of Faulkner's Novels
University of Texas Press
How Faulkner’s work can be viewed as an extraordinary attempt to transform the panorama of human social experience into thematic material.
Taming the Nueces Strip
The Story of McNelly's Rangers
By George Durham and Clyde Wantland
University of Texas Press
How a Ranger company overcame a group of border bandits.
Mexican Art and the Academy of San Carlos, 1785-1915
By Jean Charlot; Introduction by Elizabeth Wilder Weismann
University of Texas Press
An aesthetic history of a Mexican art school.
Metternich's Diplomacy at its Zenith, 1820-1823
Austria and the Congresses of Troppau, Laibach, and Verona
University of Texas Press
What Metternich wanted at the peak of his career, why he wanted it, and the methods by which he achieved his goals are questions brilliantly answered in this survey and analysis of the Austrian chancellor's diplomacy during the period when he was the pree
Mary Austin Holley
A Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of a notable Texas woman.
José Clemente Orozco
An Autobiography
University of Texas Press
The autobiography of one of Mexico's greatest artists.
Image of Australia
Edited by Joseph Jones
University of Texas Press
A collection of literature and commentary on Australian culture in the mid-twentieth century.
Captain Medwin
Friend of Byron and Shelley
University of Texas Press
Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin—literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings.
After San Jacinto
The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841
University of Texas Press
An account of Texas-Mexican relations after the Texas revolution.
A Non-Existent Man
An Autobiography
By T. V. Smith
University of Texas Press
The biography of T. V. Smith: a distinguished philosopher, teacher, politician, lecturer, and editor, who left an imprint on the twentieth century seldom equaled by a university professor.
Symmetry and Sense
The Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney
University of Texas Press
The author examines Sidney as poet and critic, concentrating his study on rhetorical technique and poetic rhythm and form.
Indian Tales of North America
An Anthology for the Adult Reader
Edited by Tristram Potter Coffin
University of Texas Press
Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.
Yesterday in Mexico
A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936
University of Texas Press
The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.
Toward a Reasonable Society
By C. E. Ayres
University of Texas Press
A defense of industrial culture., drawing upon numerous areas of knowledge—ethics, sociology, economics, anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, biology, music, the graphic arts, mathematics, the physical sciences—to show the uniformities and the u
The United States and Inter-American Security, 1889–1960
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive case study examines every aspect of security cooperation in the Western Hemisphere in the mid-twentieth century.
Image of Britain 2
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
University of Texas Press
Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.
Image of Britain 1
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
University of Texas Press
Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.
Home on the Double Bayou
Memories of an East Texas Ranch
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.
6000 Miles of Fence
By Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz
University of Texas Press
This book of reminiscences of old XIT Ranch cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run.
The Virgin's Children
Life in an Aztec Village Today
University of Texas Press
An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume
Polk and the Presidency
University of Texas Press
How and why James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, responded to the challenges of his times and thereby increased the authority and importance of the Presidential role for future incumbents.
Thomas J. Wise
Centenary Studies
Edited by William B. Todd
University of Texas Press
Essays on a major literary forger.
Personality Development in Children
Edited by Ira Iscoe and Harold W. Stevenson
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1960, this book presents penetrating observations by six authorities on the personality development of children for the enlightenment of parents, teachers, and others who have a vital interest in children.
Hamlin Garland
A Biography
University of Texas Press
A literary biography tracing Hamlin Garland's shift in mid-career from the harsh verisimilitude of Prairie Folks and Prairie Songs to a romanticizing of the Far West, and from ardent espousal of the principles of “veritism” to violent denunciations of nat
Will Clayton
A Short Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of a man who left his mark on world commerce through the development of a large cotton marketing firm, and who made an equally important impress on international economics and politics through special and vital service in the State Department during three crucial years of world history.
Frontier Ways
Sketches of Life in the Old West
University of Texas Press
A lively description of life in the frontier American West.
The State University
Addresses Delivered at a Conference Held in the Seventy-fifth Year of the University of Texas
Edited by Logan Wilson
University of Texas Press
Discussions of the major issues that the University of Texas faced at its 75th anniversary in 1958.
The Spanish Element in Texas Water Law
University of Texas Press
A history of how Spanish law influenced the development of Texas water law.
The Muse in Mexico
A Mid-Century Miscellany
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
University of Texas Press
A collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.
The Individuality of Portugal
A Study in Historical-Political Geography
University of Texas Press
The factors that caused Portugal to become a separate nation when other regions of the Iberian peninsula became part of Spain.
The Cradle of Erewhon
Samuel Butler in New Zealand
By Joseph Jones
University of Texas Press
An examination and interpretation of the ways in which Samuel Butler's few crucial years in New Zealand affected his life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited.
Rich’s Farewell to Military Profession, 1581
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill; By Barnaby Rich
University of Texas Press
The present edition affords an opportunity to read Rich's tales in the form in which Elizabethans knew them.
James Stephen Hogg
A Biography
University of Texas Press
A biography of the first native Texan to serve as the state's governor.
Milton and This Pendant World
University of Texas Press
Believing that Milton has a vital message for the modern world, Whiting has abandoned the usual pattern for examining a poet—study of versification, meter, and other poetic devices—in favor of an exposition of the spiritual and moral meaning of Milton’s
With His Pistol in His Hand
A Border Ballad and Its Hero
University of Texas Press
The true story behind a border ballad, the creation of the ballad, and the ballad's evolution over time.
New Letters to the Tatler and Spectator
Edited by Richmond P. Bond
University of Texas Press
Ninety-six letters to the Tatler and the Spectator, representing what was probably the largest extant body of unpublished material relating directly to the two journals, appeared for the first time in print in this book.
The Viennese Revolution of 1848
By R. John Rath
University of Texas Press
An evaluation of the revolution from the point of view of the political ideologies of 1848.
Platero and I
By Juan Ramón Jiménez; Translated by Eloïse Roach
University of Texas Press
This lyric portrait of life in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mythology and Values
An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths
University of Texas Press
A study of a society’s cultural values through the lens of its mythology.
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