Outer Stars

The Best American Newspaper Narratives, Volume 12

Have Horn, Will Travel

Yo Soy

Fort Worth from World War II to 1960

Compiled by members of the Texas Folklore Society, this collection of pieces that focus on gather...

Whether you're a musician with no previous experience in computer programming, or a computer hobb...

The book provides a background-both historical and biological-for visitors to the Big Thicket. 'O...

Winner, Vassar Miller Prize in PoetryThe poems in James Najarian's debut collection are by turns ...

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2011This debut collection includes love songs and pr...

A lot of different kinds of people have come to Texas since the Spanish first met the Indians wit...

James 'Jim' Davis lived what he considered 'an impossible dream' as he piloted a B-24, as part of...

Donut Dolly is taken from the diary Joann Puffer Kotcher kept while working for the Red Cross for...

Voudou (an older spelling of voodoo)-a pantheistic belief system developed in West Africa and tra...

'The American cowboy is a mythical character who refuses to die,' says author John R. Erickson. O...

A Book-of-the-Month Club, Quality Paperback Book Club, and One Spirit Selection.'The day we met [...

'This volume is,' in Owens's words, 'a sampling of a rich experience in a richer land.' The 135 s...

In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the ...

Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to be (1858 to 1861), the saga of the ...

This anthology collects the winners of the 2019 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Contest...

Winner of the Vassar Miller Prize in Poetry, 2010The poems in Circles Where the Head Should Be ar...

Four diverse Texas poets are presented in the anthology.

An important chapter in the history and folklore of the West is how women on the cattle frontier ...

In the late nineteenth century, Tom Ketchum and his brother Sam formed the Ketchum Gang-with Will...

'Here's to the sunny slopes of long ago,' was the favorite toast of John A. Lomax, co-founder of ...

Focusing on a much-neglected area of film experience in America, Black Cinema Treasures furthers ...

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society is a miscellany of Texas and Southwestern folklore...

When an unwed pregnant woman is pressured to get married by her boyfriend, parents, and the entir...

'Square dancing is friendship set to music,' says author Betty Casey. Just take four couples, old...

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains African-American baptizings; adventures o...

This anthology collects the ten winners of the 2020 Best American Newspaper Narrative Writing Con...

This Texas Folklore Society Publication is divided into two volumes of rich, Texan folklore. The ...

In the fields, in the woods, in the dark water of Ohio, something is happening. Girls disappear, ...

2014 Distinguished Writing Award, Army Historical FoundationOn the professional reading list of G...

In Roseborough, Jane Roberts Wood returns with a keenly observed tale of bighearted people in sma...

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society, which examines how Texans of many races have shaped ...

The state of Texas is fortunate in possessing a rich and varied folklore. When white settlers fro...

A collection of articles from the Texas Folklore Society. The title comes from J. Frank Dobie's c...

This volume collects the best known or most representative or the most classically Texas traditio...

A Publication of the Texas Folklore Society. The topics include Texas place names, Roy Bean, anec...

'Reading Kathy Greenwood's account of growing up on a small ranch in southeastern New Mexico, I k...

In 1941, when the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and the United States found itself in a total war,...

In the early 1870s, Hubert H. Bancroft and his assistants set out to record the memoirs of early ...

Enter the world of computer-aided composition. It is easy with Phil Winsor's Computer Composer's ...

On May 25, 1945, while American and Japanese forces on Okinawa were locked in bitter struggle, th...

This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society contains 'Corridos of the Mexican Border' by Brown...

Some people are still working stock, building chimneys, making syrup, curing warts, and witching ...

In the Texas Reconstruction Era (1865-1877), many returning Confederate veterans organized outlaw...