Texas History & Figures

Updated June 9, 2026
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Return to Earth
Aldrin, Buzz
Ebook
Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin's courageous, candid memoir of his return to Earth after the historic moon landing and his personal struggle with fame and depression. "We landed with all the grace of a freight elevator," Buzz Aldrin relates in the opening passages of Return to...
Lost Fort Worth
Nichols, Mike
Ebook
From the humble beginnings of a frontier army camp, Fort Worth transformed into a city as cattle drives, railroads, oil and national defense drove its economy. During the tremendous growth, the landscape and cultural imprint of the city changed drastically, and much of Cowtown was lost to history....
Whiskey river (take my mind) the true story of Texas honky-tonk
Bush, Johnny.
Paper Book
When it comes to Texas honky-tonk, nobody knows the music or the scene better than Johnny Bush. Author of Willie Nelson's classic concert anthem "Whiskey River," and singer of hits such as "You Gave Me a Mountain," "Undo the Right," "Jim, Jack and Rose," and "I'll Be There," Johnny Bush is a...
All over the map : true heroes of Texas music
Corcoran, Michael
Paper Book
Music critic Michael Corcoran profiles 32 pioneering Texas musicians, including Ernest Tubb, Archie Bell and the Drells, Sly Stone, Billy Joe Shaver, Willie Nelson, Selena, Waylon Jennings, and the Butthole Surfers.
The crossing El Paso, the Southwest, and America's forgotten origin story
Parker, Richard (Journalist)
Paper Book
A New Yorker Best Book of the Year * A Southwest Book of the Year "Top Pick" "American history did not begin in the Northeast. It began in the Southwest,' Parker asserts, in this sweeping history." --The New Yorker A revelatory work of...
Beyond the Alamo : forging Mexican ethnicity in San Antonio, 1821-1861
Ramos, Ral︢ A.
Ebook
Introducing a new model for the transnational history of the United States, Raul Ramos places Mexican Americans at the center of the Texas creation story. He focuses on Mexican-Texan, or Tejano, society in a period of political transition beginning with the year of Mexican independence. Ramos...
This time together laughter and reflection
Burnett, Carol.
Paper Book
THIS TIME TOGETHER is 100 percent Carol Burnett – funny, irreverent, and irresistible.   Carol Burnett is one of the most beloved and revered actresses and performers in America.The Carol Burnett Showwas seen each week by millions of adoring fans and won twenty-five Emmys in...
Chainsaws, slackers, and spy kids thirty years of filmmaking in Austin, Texas
Macor, Alison, 1966-
Ebook
Winner, Peter C. Rollins Book Award, Southwest Texas Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2011 During the 1990s, Austin achieved "overnight" success and celebrity as a vital place for independent filmmaking. Directors Richard Linklater and Robert Rodriguez...
Birds of the Texas Panhandle their status, distribution, and history
Seyffert, Kenneth D.
Ebook
The vast, open plains of the Texas Panhandle appear deceptively void of bird life, but subtle regional variations provide rich and varied avifauna. Of the approximately six hundred species of birds sighted in Texas, more than two-thirds have been confirmed on the Texas Panhandle. The wooded...
Big wonderful thing a history of Texas
Harrigan, Stephen, 1948- author.
Paper Book
2020 Philosophical Society of Texas Nonfiction Book Prize 2019 Nonfiction Book Award Finalist, Writers' League of Texas 2021 Citation from the San Antonio Conservation Society "Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi...

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