Books in the Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest series

In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth's celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city's identity and align itself with a progressive future.

Focuses on the mammalian fauna of Texas. The book includes a reprinting of Vernon Bailey's 1905 ""The Biological Survey of Texas"" with new annotations and updates. In the rest of the book, the authors discuss changes in landscapes, land use, and the status of Texas mammals in the last hundred years.

In his pursuit of Texas terroir, the sense of place manifest in Texas wine country's sun-baked soils, variable climate, and human intervention, Russell Kane has travelled the state tasting wine, interviewing the major players in Texas wine culture, and reflecting on the state's extraordinary history and enterprising peoples. Here is the total immersion experience.

Lofty dreams and harsh realities clash on the Texas frontier

From an early age, Chef Adan Medrano understood the power of cooking to enthrall, to grant artistic agency, and to solidify identity as well as succor and hospitality. In this second cookbook, he documents and explains native ingredients, traditional techniques, and innovations in casero (home-style) Mexican American cooking in Texas.

Explores the campus architecture of the Texas Tech University System, which was inspired by the sixteenth-century Plateresque Spanish Renaissance architectural style. This book details the parallels between the buildings of Texas Tech and those of their forebears, while exploring the remarkable stories behind the construction itself.

Patterson grew up during a time of American social unrest, protest, and upheaval, and he recounts memorable instances of segregation and integration in West Texas. Patterson spent his whole adult life as a grassroots activist. During his long career he truly was an equal-opportunity hero for all of Lubbock's citizens.

Until now, there has not been a single, full-colour guide to some of the most recognizable genera of the southwestern United States. Intended for the layperson, Agaves, Yuccas, and Their Kin covers all currently recognized taxa of these seven genera, in alphabetical order, ranging from Texas to the Pacific.

Presents the tales of sorcerers, fiendish witches, La Llorona, the vanishing hitchhiker, ghostly apparitions, and balls of fire that demonstrate how the magical world of witchcraft and the supernatural connects Spain to Latin America and Latin America to North America.

Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for nearly twelve thousand years. This title surveys the Lubbock Lake Landmark's long geologic past, placing emphasis on human activity in the region and showing how early peoples adapted to shifting environmental conditions and changing animal resources.

Horned lizards, or horny toads, as they are popularly known throughout the West, have long had a particular mystique in American folklore. Suitable for general audience, this book discusses the various aspects of the lizards biology as well as the horned lizards place in the culture of the West.

Along the San Marcos River, in and surrounding Palmetto State Park in south central Texas, lie more than five square kilometers of relict ecosystem known as the Ottine Wetlands. This title catalogues more than 500 species, ranging from mosses and liverworts to flowering plants.

Plant life in Big Bend National Park is incredibly diverse. This guide features many species that are characteristic of the Chihuahuan Desert environment. It describes 109 species found in the US only in Trans-Pecos Texas; 62 of these occur only in the Big Bend portion of the Trans-Pecos, and 24 of them only within Big Bend National Park.

The javelina, or collared peccary, is the only peccary species native to the United States and is as much a part of the Southwestern landscape as the roadrunner, armadillo, and horned lizard. With illustrations of this misunderstood animal, this book offers the natural and cultural history of the javelina.

Of the 132 species and varieties of cacti in Texas, about 104 of them occur in the fifteen counties of the Trans-Pecos region. This title includes descriptions of those many genera, species, and varieties of cacti, with sixty-four maps showing the distribution of each species in the region.

The author traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. This book showcases thirty-four of those quilts.

Delectably steeped in tradition, a living culinary heritage