The lowest stretch of the Rio Grande hosts a unique subtropical avian community, including many species not present in the United States outside of South Texas. Originally a mosaic of forest, woodland, thorn scrub, savannah, and wetlands, this land that often saw floods, droughts, heat, and occasional freezes, supported a versatile bird community. ......
Benjamin Murmelstein and the Fate of Viennese Jewry, Volume I: Vienna
In 1973, Leonard and Edith Ehrlich chose to undertake a daunting task that would ultimately become their greatest work: conducting over thirty years of meticulous research to investigate and document Vienna's Jewish community and its leadership during the Holocaust. Inescapably, this path led them to the controversial figure of Benjamin ......
Anyone who has ever driven into Huntsville, Texas, from the west on US Highway 190 has glimpsed the now-famous "Cowboy Boot House": a fully functional 700-square-foot, two-bedroom home that features a spiral staircase up to the top of the "boot," offering a panoramic view of the community. It's hard to forget, as is its builder, Dan Phillips. ......
New research and the discovery of multiple archaeological sites predating the established age of Clovis (13,000 years ago) provide evidence that the Americas were first colonized at least one thousand to two thousand years before Clovis. These revelations indicate to researchers that the peopling of the Americas was perhaps a more complex process ......
Investigation of a Stratified Workshop at the Gault Site, Texas
Some 13,000 years ago, humans were drawn repeatedly to a small valley in what is now Central Texas, near the banks of Buttermilk Creek. These early hunter-gatherers camped, collected stone, and shaped it into a variety of tools they needed to hunt game, process food, and subsist in the Texas wilderness. Their toolkit included bifaces, blades, and ......
During the war in Vietnam, thousands of young men served as conscientious objector medics. They had been certified by their local draft boards as noncombatants, but many would know intense combat nonetheless. Without weapons training, they ran through the infantry lines, answering the desperate call, "Medic!" Many displayed exemplary heroism even ......
Setting out to write an "entertaining collection of tales" about his childhood home in Fannin County, Texas, journalist Mackie Morris has created what one reviewer calls "a nostalgic memoir" in which "Morris has cleared out a field all to himself." Morris connects historical figures such as Davy Crockett, James Fannin, Sam Rayburn, and James ......
Cowboy spurs are a pure form of American folk art. Like the cowboy himself, the way spurs developed was molded by their use and the environment of the range, along with a generous dose of individualism and pride. Cowboy Spurs and Their Makers tells for the first time the fascinating story of this western art and the artisans who professional ......
When sixteen-year-old Ignatius "Egg" Girard is told he'll be spending the next three months on his estranged grandfather's failing farm in Hale Creek, Kentucky, getting the place ready to sell, he foresees chores, isolation, and the erosion of everything he'd planned for his summer vacation. At first, Egg is resolved simply to endure: the ......
