The Texas Longhorn

Donald Emmet Worcester

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
• This brief and entertaining history of the Texas Longhorn details the development of the first distinct American breed of beef cattle. The Spanish her... Lees meer

America's Frontier Culture

Ray A Billington

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 3
• In this little classic, first published in 1977, Ray A. Billington outlines the threecenturylong process of westering that forged the American charact... Lees meer

Red Hole in Time

Muriel Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
• Escalante Canyon is a red-walled hole in a geologic uplift (the Uncompahgre Plateau) in western Colorado. Pioneers surging west fell into this canyon ... Lees meer

Massacre on the Lordsburg Road

Marc Simmons

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 15
• In the spring of 1883 Apache raiders massacred Judge McComas and his wife Juniata and kidnapped their six-year-old son Charley as the family traveled ... Lees meer

The Texas Left

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 35
• The Texas Left. Some would say the phrase is an oxymoron. For most of the twentieth century, the popular perception of Texas politics has been that of... Lees meer

Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 34
• Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independence... Lees meer

Murder and Intrigue on the Mexican Border

John A Adams

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 43
• In early 1914, Clemente Vergara discovered several of his horses missing and reported the theft to local authorities. The Webb County sheriff arranged... Lees meer

Civil War Recollections of James Lemuel Clark

James Lemuel Clark

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
• A surprising number of Texans disagreed with their state's decision to secede from the Union in 1860. Most of them immigrants from Northern or Border ... Lees meer

The Plains Indians

Paul H Carlson

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 19
• For the Plains Indians, the period from 1750 to 1890, often referred to as the traditional period, was an evolutionary time. Horses and firearms, trad... Lees meer

Capitan Chiquito

John Paul Hartman

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
• Drawn from personal recollections, historical records, and biographical research, Capitan Chiquito: A Personal History of an Apache Chief, 1821-1919 r... Lees meer

Colonial Natchitoches

Helen Sophie Burton, F Todd Smith

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 29
• Strategically located at the western edge of the Atlantic World, the French post of Natchitoches thrived during the eighteenth century as a trade hub ... Lees meer

Comanche Society

Gerald Betty

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
• Once called the Lords of the Plains, the Comanches were long portrayed as loose bands of marauding raiders who capitalized on the Spanish introduction... Lees meer

"Red Tom" Hickey

Peter Buckingham

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 48
• This is the fascinating biography of a bright young working man, Tom Hickey, who came to the United States from Ireland in 1892, became a machinist, a... Lees meer

General Alonso de Leon's Expeditions into Texas, 1686-1690

Lola Orellano Norris

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 41
• In the late seventeenth century, General Alonso de León led five military expeditions from northern New Spain into what is now Texas in search of Fren... Lees meer

Preserving German Texan Identity

Walter L. Buenger, Walter D. Kamphoefner

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 45
• Born in Millheim, Texas, to a family of German immigrants who moved to Texas in the wake of the 1848 revolution, William Andreas Trenckmann was a teac... Lees meer

Chiricahua Apache Women and Children

Henrietta H Stockel

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 21
• White Painted Woman appears in ancient myths of the Chiricahua Apaches as the virgin mother of the people and the origin of women's ceremonies. Such C... Lees meer

Comanches and Germans on the Texas Frontier

Daniel J Gelo, Christopher J Wickham

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 42
• In 1851, an article appeared in a German journal, Geographisches Jahrbuch (Geographic Yearbook), that sought to establish definitive connections, usin... Lees meer

The Woolly West

Andrew Gulliford

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 44
• Winner, 2019 National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum Western Heritage Award for the Best Nonfiction Book Winner, 2019 Colorado Book Awards History... Lees meer

The Civil War on the Rio Grande, 1846-1876

Christopher L. Miller

• Hardcover | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest | nr. 46
• Runner-up, 2019 Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Book Award, sponsored by the Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association (TOMFRA) Lo... Lees meer