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Battle on the Bay
The Civil War Struggle
for Galveston
By Edward T. Cotham, Jr.
The Civil War history of Galveston is one
of the last untold stories from America's
bloodiest war, despite the fact that
Galveston was a focal point of hostilities
throughout the conflict. Drawing upon
years of archival and on-site research, as
well as rare historical photographs,
drawings, and maps,the author
chronicles the Civil War years in
Galveston in this compelling narrative
history. His story encompasses all the
military engagements that took place in
the city and on Galveston Bay, including
the dramatic Battle of Galveston, in
which Confederate forces retook the city
on New Year's Day,1863.
13 b&w photos, 3 maps
$16.95 paperback, $37.50 hardcover
From Sail to Steam
Four Centuries of Texas
Maritime History, 1500-1900
By Richard V. Francaviglia
Here, the author offers a comprehensive
overview of Texas' merchant and military
marine history, drawn from his own ex-
tensive collection of maritime history
materials, as well as from research in li-
braries and museums around the coun-
try. More than one hundred illustrations,
many never before published, comple-
ment the text.
66 b&w illus., 32 line drawings, 22 maps
$34.95 hardcover
Portraits from the Desert
Bill Wright's Big Bend
By Bill Wright
The Big Bend is one of the last places left
in America that's a long way from any-
where. In this book,Wright combines
deeply observed photographs with a
beautifully written text to offer an inti-
mate portrait of the people and the land
of the Big Bend. Covering an almost-
fifty-year span, his words and images
capture both the timeless quality of the
region and the changes that have fol-
lowed in the wake of increasing tourism
and human settlement.
16 color and 68 duotone photos
$24.95 paperback, $40.00 hardcoverThe Jazz of the Southwest
An Oral History of
Western Swing
By Jean A. Boyd
Boyd explores the origins and develop-
ment of western swing as a vibrant
current in the mainstream of jazz.She
focuses particularly on the performers
who made the music, drawing on per-
sonal interviews with some fifty living
western swing musicians. From this
first-hand testimony, Boyd recreates
the world of western swing.Although
the performers typically came from the
same rural roots that nurtured country
music, their words make it clear that
they considered themselves jazz musi-
cians whose performance approach
and repertory were no different from
those of mainstream jazz.This impor-
tant aspect of the western swing story
has never been told before.
24 b&w photos
$17.95 paperback, $37.50 hardcover
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Poisonous Snakes
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By Andrew H. Price
The new edition of this standard guide
has been restructured to follow the
changes in first-aid and medical ap-
proaches to snakebite and to give
these life-saving subjects expanded,
"state-of-the-art" coverage. Other sec-
tions of the book deal with snakebite
statistics, snakebite prevention at
home and in the field,and the identifi-
cation of venomous species. Detailed
coverage is given to the fifteen kinds of
poisonous snakes native to Texas with
each snake description accompanied
by a county-by-county distribution
map and a beautiful full-color photo-
graph.
15 color photos, 15 color maps,
12 line drawings
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