This book is 215 pages in length. It is a comprehensive history of the Quanah, Acme & Pacific Railway. The author has done a more than wonderful job of presenting the information in a fascinating way. I stayed awake too late on quite a few nights reading this book. The Q. A. & P. was a very small railroad but makes up for its size with loads of history and it's all in this book. My interest in this railroad is due to the fact that it later became part of the St. Louis - San Francisco (Frisco) Railway. If you are a railroad history buff you will love this book. My highest rating!

I love the fact that this is updated through 2003! I am planning a trip down there for this January and can use this to find my way around the airport, highways, and downtown! Comprehensive maps all in a nice spiral bound book! This is something I can and will use for years to come. Very nice!

I read this book with a great deal of interest. A good buy for anyone wanting to find out more about Texas literature. LUTHER BUTLE

For as long as almost anyone alive can remember, Ray Miller was the Edward R. Morrow of newscasters on the gulf coast of Texas.

With that nose for the news and being able to tell a story quickly and interestingly, in Ray Miller's Galveston, he tells the stories of pirates, wealthy families fighting to be Number 1, illegal gambling casinos and bawdy houses running full steam, all being stirred up every now and then by a furious hurricane (The 1900 Storm being one of the world's worse disasters of nature).

You'll meet legendary band leader Phil Harris, who married his wife Alice Faye there; rough and tough Chief of Police Willie Burns; and the famous Maceo, Moody, Kempner, Sealy and the "Johnny Come Lately" Mitchell families.

It's a serious chronicaling of a town who for years boasted that the lady atop the Texas Heroes' Monument in the middle of its main street was really there to point the way for Island visitors looking for the Red Light District, an! d that the other bronze sculptures surrounding her were merely there to keep the Texas Rangers from knowing the monument's REAL purpose.

Red Wings Over The Yalu: China, The Soviet Union, And The Air War In Korea by military historian Xiaoming Zhang (Texas A&M International University) is an informed and informative survey and analysis of the military history and international politics of the Korean War. Focusing in particular on the Chinese point of view, Red Wings Over The Yalu is extensively detailed in its presentation and enhanced with black-and-white photographs of Chinese military aircraft and the men who flew them. An invaluable contribution to Korean War military history reference shelves and reading lists, Red Wings Over The Yalu is a seminal and highly recommended addition to any personal or academic Military History reference collection.

I found the contents of this book to be well researched and true. having grown up in the area I knew a lot of people mentioned. I would read more of this Authors writings.

Sometimes it's tough to be a Texan. It takes a love of unpredictability to make a person strong enough to experience all that our good state has to offer. And it takes a certain native talent to write about the emotions and thrills that make up the everyday life of Texas.

James Hoggard is a true Texan.

A professor of English at Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas, Hoggard knows the excitement that Texas has to offer, and he conveys these thoughts and sentiments through the stories and observations in his book, "Riding The Wind & Other Tales."

Upon reading the title story of this collection, "Riding The Wind" (a narrative of the April 10, 1979, tornado that ravaged Wichita Falls), I found myself remembering all of the events of that fateful day. Hoggard's imagery and word choice make it seem like only yesterday that the tornado changed my life forever, and I found tears in my eyes as I read for the first time about the young mother who lost her children from underneath her in the tub. I've never heard that story, and I thought I'd heard them all.

Other stories in "Riding The Wind & Other Tales" are not as sad. Hoggard offers tender reminiscences of his Texas childhood and shares adult memories and meditations on life. He writes stories of what he knows best -- family and friends. Some of the tales are poignant, some are witty, some will make you chuckle out loud. This is short literature at its finest.

This is a wonderful book!! I live in Dallas, Texas and I go to Wilshire Baptist. Mr. McIver was a very good friend of mine before he died. Reading his book makes me think he's still here! I think that anyone interested in the youth revival movement should read this book. It's a wonderful book written by a wonderful man!!

Memoirs may often cure insomnia, but not this hefty chunk of history. Travel back in time with John Salmon "Rip" Ford. Saddle the horses and hitch up your britches, you'll be heading out to the Texas of a newly independent republic. Ride from the Red to the Rio Grande and beyond with the doctor, lawyer, surveyor, journalist, trailblazer, legislator, and celebrated soldier of numerous wars.

Ford takes the reader from the earliest days of the republic to statehood, secession, and on into reconstruction. Meet the intrepid Texas Ranger Jack Hays. Ride from Matamoros to Mexico City with the "Los Diablos Tejanos." Trailblaze a trade route from San Antonio to El Paso with the Ford-Neighbors expedition.

Brilliantly edited by Stephen B. Oates, this personal narrative of a time, place, and adventure, all larger than life itself, is a must read for all who are interested in Texas and its history.

A rousting story of Texas in 1836, when a young Anglo-Texan and a Texas-Mexican boy set out to avenge the murder ot their families by Mexican renegades from Santa Anna's army. Calvin McCastor, bent on revenge, leaves a trail of death across South Texas as he hunts down the vicious man who slew his parents and took his little brother prisoner.
Through the pages of Texas history, the hunt takes us into the heart of the period when neighbor fought neighbor, bands of wild horses roamed south Texas, Karankawa Indians ruled the coastlands, and the seeds or racial prejudice were sown at the outset of the new Republic of Texas.