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BARBARA JORDAN: American Hero
by Texan, Mary Beth Rogers. Cover photo by Annie Leibovitz. Two B&W photo sections. Condition: Very Good+ gently pre-read Bantam Books hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, third printing. No flaws. Content: I was lucky to have met Ms. Jordan once. By just coming down the halls of the LBJ School in Austin, she gave off the aura of a self-confident woman of accomplishment. The air was electric. Barbara Jordan spoke in the cadences of a black preacher, backed by the moral force of the United States Constitution, and became Texas's first black senator since the Reconstruction era. She served in Congress for two decades before dying of multiple sclerosis at the age of 59 in 1996. "Barbara Jordan was the first African American elected official to become an American hero," Rogers writes. "She broke through previously impenetrable barriers to become an 'inside' political player who was taken very seriously by the white politicians in power." The height of Jordan's power (and fame) came from her interpretation of the Constitution during the 1974 Watergate hearings, a speech that set the stage for President Richard Nixon's resignation. Two years later, Jordan riveted America with her televised keynote speech at the Democratic Party National Convention. Tracing Jordan's upbringing in Houston's Fifth Ward as the daughter of a Baptist minister, Rogers takes us through her battles with sexism and racism (including black Americans' internal color-based caste system). She also peels away the mysteries of her personality, which was described as "stubborn," "cold," and "sarcastic," the result of emotional shields forged by too many social and psychic wars. But those traits also accounted for her determination to deal with her multiple sclerosis with courage and dignity. "Barbara Jordan's story reflects both the America dream and a fundamental human hope for a sense of community." What a President she would have made. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 9.49 + $ 3.29 media shipping.

BORDER HEALING WOMAN: The Story of Jewel Babb
by Pat Ellis Taylor. B&W photos. Condition: UNREAD c. 1991 University of Texas Press Trade Paperback, fourth printing. Tiny edgewear with 1 loss of color spot front cover at front hinge. Interior clean & tight. Content: The story of Jewel Babb, from her early years as a tenderfoot ranch wife to her elder years as a desert healing woman. Widowed after her husband's family lost their wealth and land, she stayed on the little land that she had left - Indian Hot Springs on the Rio grande, south of El Paso in an isolated desert region. She began to take in sick people and healing them with a combination of herbs, spring water and "mind healing." H. L. Hunt was one of her patients. A remarkable woman. [1 copy available]
$ 3.50 + shipping.

THE BOY CAPTIVES: Being a True Story of the Experiences and Hardships of Clinton L. Smith and Jeff D. Smith (SIGNED Copy)
by Clinton L. Smith, but written by J. Marvin Hunter. B&W photos. Condition: The Complete Title: THE BOY CAPTIVES: Being a True Story of the Experiences and Hardships of Clinton L. Smith and Jeff D. Smith Among the Comanche and Apache Indians During the Early Days - The Only Two Brothers Ever Known to Endure the Same Hardships of Captivity and Get Back Alive. Originally published in 1927, this is a NEW 2000 First Edition, 14th printing Trade Paperback. B&W photos. Clint & Jeff photo front cover. SIGNED by Alllen Smith, Jr., grandson of Clinton Smith, who continues to have the book reprinted. Content: Reviewer: "Amazing story of a boy who was captured and lived with the Comanche Indians for five years. He actually became a Comanche and identified as an Indian while he was with them. Fought with them against other tribes and the US army, etc. Told in an absolutely matter of fact manner. Written in 1927 so not "politically correct" but gives an amazing view of frontier life and life with the Indians." While Clint Smith was adrpted by a Comanche Chief, Jeff Smith was sold to Geronimo and lived as an Apache. Fascinating frontier Texas history. Questions welcome [2 copies available]
$ 24.50 + shipping.

CROW IN THE HOUSE, WOLF AT THE DOOR: A Memoir (Signed Copy)
by Frances Nail. Illustrations by Katy Nail. Condition: INSCRIBED by Author on title page. UNREAD 1995 City Desk Press (Austin) hardcover (black with sparkles yet) and DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Beautiful glossy paper. Content: Austin author and painter, Frances Nail, offers her memoir essays of growing up Texan in the Depression - with great humor. Poetry and illustrations by Ms. Nail's daughters, Leslie and Katy. [1 copy available]
$ 21.49 + shipping.

FEAR ON TRIAL (Blacklisting in the McCarthy Era)
by John Henry Faulk. Introduction by Studs Terkel. Editorial assistance by Don Gardner. Condition: 1976 Tempo Books paperback revised & updated edition of a 1960's work. Pale spine crease with binder's glue wrinkles down spine, rubbing bottom front hinge, and small edgewear. Interior clean but page edge tanning. Content: The true story of Texas great John Henry Faulk and his legal battle with Senator Joseph McCarthy of the House Unamerican Activities Committee. Reviewer: "Faulk was a radio and TV personality when in the mid 1950s he decided to stand up to McCarthy and his ilk. This memoir of his legal struggle tells how he was blacklisted by AWARE, Inc. and could not work in his chosen profession. Mr. Faulk, with the help of such prominent broadcasters as Edward R. Murrow, Charles Collingwood and Mark Goodsen, hired famed cousel Louis Nizer to file a lasuit against the blacklisters. His victory sounded the death knell for those who would try to rule through fear, intimidation and innuendo. "Fear on Trial" is a must read for all those who value freedom of thought and expression, for if it were not for Faulk, Howard Stern and others would not operate in freedom today. His writing style is the same as his broadcasting tyle was, simple, folksy and to the point." Edward R. Murrow and Joseph Welsh started the downhill slide of McCarthy and Faulk finished him off. [1 copy available]
$ 4.89 + shipping.

FROM ANGELS TO HELLCATS: Legendary Texas Women 1836 to 1880
by Don Blevins. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2001 Mountain Press Trade Paperback, no edition given. Content: This book contains eight tales of adventure, crime, courage, and mystery from the early days of the Texas frontir. These historical portraits, presented in laid-back western style, tell the true stories behind an octet of Lond Star legends - some well known, others more obscure. Subjects: Susanna Dickinson: Alamo Survivor; Francisca Alvaez: Angel of Goliad; Emily Morgan: The Yellow Rose of Texas; Lottie Deno: She "Dealt" with the Best of Them; Pamelia Mann: As Mean As They Come; Sally Scull: Woe To Those Who Crossed Her; Sarah Hornsby: Prophet or Dreamer; and Diamond Bessie; The Mystery Lingers. Questions welcome. [3 copies available]
$ 6.89 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

GOLDEN HERITAGE AND SILVER TONGUE OF TEMPLE LEA HOUSTON
by Bernice Tune. B&W era photos illustrate. Condition: UNREAD 1981 Eakin Press (then in Burnet) hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. The maroon boards show tiny rubbing spots (upper back board only) and the DJ has tiny edgewear. Content: Temple Houston was the youngest son of Sam Houston and Margaret Lea Houston and was one of the most complicated personalities in Texas history. Members of Senator Houston's family contend that magazine articles and a motion picture based on his eccentrif life have grossly distorted his memory. Author Tune researched the Senator's life and with the blessings of the family, has created a sympathetic picture of a son trying to get out of his father's shadow. Also included are 12 of the Senator's most noted speeches, euolgies, and articles. [For the baby boomers: remember the TV series based on hs life?] The back DJ panel shows the Houston family crest with an explanation of the crest elements. [1 copy available]
$ 25.50 + shipping.

HILL COUNTRY TEACHER: Oral Histories from the One-Room Schoo and Beyond (Twayne's Oral History Series)
by Diane Manning. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Gently pre-read 1990 Twayne Publishers hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. DJ has serious edgewear top spine. Interoir clean & tight. Content: This book charts growth and change in the work and lives of public school teachers in the rural Texas Hill Country. Oral histories spanning 50 years chronicle the roles of 8 teachers who began their teaching careers as teenagers in one-room schoolhouses under severe social estrictions. They grew up with the profession, becoming pioneers in combining marriage and teaching, in special education, and in school integration. [1 copy available]
$ 14.50 + shipping.

HONDO MY FATHER (Hondo Crouch)
by Becky Crouch Patterson. B&W photos and drawings. Condition: UNREAD, but not perfect, 1995 Historical Publications (Austin) Trade Paperbck, third printing. Small edgewear with rubbings along hinges, and a pale vertical crease back cover at hinge. Interior eprfect - clean & tight. Content: Ever been to Luckenbach, Texas? Well, if you read this book, you'll feel as if you grew up there. And if you haven't been, put it on your travel agenda. It's a delight and different - even from other tiny Texas towns. Hondo Crouch was the owner of Luckenbach, mayor, and sheriff. He tried to buy Dallas and Houston, but settled on something a bit smaller. He was a philosopher, a poet, and a music man. He staged the all-female chili cook-offs and the Great World's Fairs. He was also a comedian. Hondo is a part of Texas folklore and his daughter tells his story in that vein - warts and all. [1 copy available]
$ 10.50 + shipping.

JOHN: The Man Who Would be President (John Connally)
by Frederick Birmingham. B&W photos. Condition: 1979 Curtis Publishing Co. large softcover, no edition given. Interior is clean & tight but the cover does have rubbings along the front hinge and small edgewear. Content: This is Volume 1, Presidential Candidate Series for the 1980 election. John Connally was running for President at that time. Covers his roots, his early political career (UT, governor, Secretary of the Navy), his days as a rancher, his wife Nellie, his campaign, and his main issues. Nice coverage of a Texas icon who, after he was found not guilty on the milk fund scanadal, declared himself the only legally clean politician in America. He was joking. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 8.50 + shipping.

NINE YEARS IN THE SADDLE (SIGNED COPY)
by James V. Lee. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: Signed by Author inside front cover. NEW 2000 Salado Trade Paperback, fourth printing. Content: Reviewer: This book "is a story about the life and times of Dud Lee, how he survived during the depression, bootlegging and hunting mountain lions in Chiricahua Mountains in Southeast New Mexico, and his time punching cows. It's the author's way of telling a story of a man he'd longed to know, and did so after their airport meeting when his father was eighty-one years old. A truly enjoyable read -- a story that will make you laugh and at the same time tug at your heart strings. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 5.59 + shipping.

R. G. LETOURNEAU: MOVER OF MEN AND MOUNTAINS
by R. G. LeTourneau. Condition: UNREAD 1967 Moody paperback edition, 35th printing (c. 1980). Pale diagonal crease top front cover corner with tiny edge wear. Content: Despite early failures, R. G. LeTourneau rose to eminence in the competitive world of manufacturing and construction. Although his competitors thought him insane, history has proved that his inventive genius was decades ahead of its time. His combination of enterprise and Christian commitment led to his sponsoring many works involving missions and education, including LeTourneau College, a Christian liberal arts and technical school in Longview, Texas. Through a lifetime of business ventures, this engineering genius put faith into action and reaped big rewards. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 4.10 + shipping.

THE ROY BEDICHEK FAMILY LETTERS
Selected by Jane Gracy Bedichek. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW (still shrink-wrapped) 1998 University of North Texas hardcover & DJ (mylar jacket added on request), first edition. Content: Among other things, Tthis book is about art -- the art of letter writing. Entertaining and informative on several levels, the missives between Bedichek family members reach far beyond their roots in Texas. Though Austin businessman Roy Bedichek heads them all in the grand art of epistolary intercourse, each family member contributes a sophisticated, warm voice that relates their interests in the world and community events of the early 20th century. In letters to Lillian, his intended, Roy Bedichek recalls the roughness and isolation of frontier life, and how his mother would cry each morning when his father left for work. Notes to his children as they progressed through college and their careers are full of wisdom and encouragement. As carriers of history, love, literature, the human story, respect for nature, and family togetherness, the Bedichek letters are timeless. Questions welcome. [2 copies available]
$ 9.49 + shipping.

THE STORY OF ROY BEAN: Law West of the Pecos
by C. L. Sonnichsen. B&W photos. Condition: UNREAD 1972 Fawcett Gold Medal paperback, first printing. Pale, short diagonal "crimp" bottom front cover corner tip. Interior clean & tight but beginning to tan. Exceptional condition for it's age. Advertises the Paul Newman up-coming movie. Content: Everyone knows the story of Judge Roy Bean of the Big Bend country of Texas - so I won't bore you with details. I'm not a Roy Bean scholar so it's up to you to decide if it's accurate history. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 15.50 + shipping.

THE TEXANS
by James Conaway. B&W photo section. Condition: Good +, 1976 Knopf hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition. Simply a used, older book that is very readable. Content: This book covers the millionaires, mavericks, politicos & lawyers, corporation men, invisible heirs, and the rising stars of the Texas establishment up to 1976. An interesting look at Texas and Texans when we were booming. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 2.49 + $ 3.09 media shipping.

TEXANS BEHIND THE NEWS: Texas Journalists of the 20th Century
by Dede Welson Casad. B&W photos illustrate. Condition: NEW 2000 Eakin Press hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: Biographies of Texas journalists in the national spotlight: Dan Rather, Walter Cronkite, Linda Ellerbee, the amazing Liz Carpenter, Sarah McClendon, Jim Lehrer, Bob Schieffer, Bill Moyers, and the great Molly Ivins. Sam Donaldson is included in this book but that's sort of like cheating. Donaldson was born in Texas and went to school here, but he's always lived in New Mexico. But we'll take him. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 5.50 + shipping.

TEXAS: A YEAR WITH THE BOYS
by William Hoffman. Cover art by Greg Battes. Condition: Gently pre-read 1983 Taylor Publishing hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), no edition given. DJ does show edgewear. Interior clean but has obviously been read at least once. Content: Hoffman (a New Yorker) originally came to Texas to write about Texas oilman Jack Grimm's search for the Titanic - but ended up in the "Twilight Zone of Texas Millionaire society." Stories on Stanley Marsh III who plants Cadillacs in the West Texas soil at an angle matching that of the Pyramids (you really should see this!); Bunker Hunt; David Hannah, Jr. (who thinks God is willing him to build a space ship to compete with NASA); L. G. Mosley, et al. It's a strange bunch of characters and each story is true. I don't think our new crop of millionaires is anywhere close to being as interesting as the last generation. Oh - Hoffman enjoyed his stay in Texas, he moved to Abilene - oh my! (The only thing a Texan is afraid of? A Yankee with a U-Haul.) Questions welcome [1 copy available]
$ 5.50 + $ 3.29 media shipping.

TEXAS BIG RICH: Exploits, Eccentricities, and Fabulous Fortunes Won and Lost
by Sandy Sheehy. B&W Photo Section. Condition: UNREAD 1990 William Morrow hardcover & DJ (in mylar jacket), first edition, first printing. Content: This is a collection of biographical sketches of wealthy Texans. Both men nd women, mostly WASP, are represented; some names will be familiar to general audiences (H. Ross Perot, T. Boone Pickens, the Bass brothers, Mary Kay Ash, and the Hunts), but most of the subjects will be known only to other Texans - but that's ok with us. Questions welcome. [1 copy available]
$ 8.50 + $ 3.29 media shipping.

A YOUNG GIRL'S UNTOLD WAR STORY
by Helena Boyle. Condition: UNREAD Dorrance Publishing Trade Paperback, first printing. HOWEVER, something was "stuck" to the bottom back cover (I'm working on that) and has left a strange pale medium discoloration. No idea what but it does not bleed through to the inside cover or to the pages. Interior clean & tight. Content: Boyle spins a gripping tale that will appeal to all lovers of history and biography. The story is the true-life account of Boyle’s incredible experiences during World War II. Growing up as one of six children in a poor household in Riga, Latvia, life was difficult. At a young age, Helena was compelled to work in order to support herself. Aware of the encroaching presence of World War II, she became fearful. Some of her most horrifying fears were realized when her grandfather was shot by the Germans during the invasion of Latvia, and the family had to retrieve his body from a shallow grave. While working as a farmhand at barely the age of sixteen, she was kidnapped by invading German soldiers and spent many months at their mercy. Much of the time she was unaware of what was happening to her, because the Germans rendered her unconscious with poisonous gases. She did not spend the duration of the war years marching with that regiment, however. Boyle’s quest for survival led her through many different places, and her difficult journey did not stop with the end of the war. Ms. Boyle now lives in Fort Worth. [1 copy available]
$ 5.49 + shipping.

WE CAN FLY: Stories of Katherine Stinson and Other Gutsy Texas Women
by Mary Beth Rogers, Sherry A. Smith, & Janelle D. Scott. B&W photos and drawings by Charles Shaw. Condition: UNREAD 1983 Ellen C. Temple Publisher softcover, stated first edition, but there was a hardcover edition, so . . Content: Stories of Texas women who have made a difference: Katherine Stinson, Babe Didrikson Zaharias (golf great), Sofie Herzog, Margo Jones, Clara Driscoll, Jovita Idar, Leonor Villegas de Magnon, Bette Graham (Liquid Paper inventor and mother of Monkee Mike Nesmith), Jane McCallum, Christia Adair (Civil Rights advocate), Cornelia Adair, Molly Goodnight (the essence of the Texas pioneer woman), Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPS), and Space Women (NASA ladies). Texana runneth over. Questions welcome [1 copy available]
$ 21.50 + $ 3.39 media shipping.