This book is the perfect guide to Texas rivers. It gives a description of each river, including different runs on each. It provides information on camping in the area, where to rent a canoe, rapid class categories, phone numbers for flow information and myriad other details that give you the confidence to literally pick a trip from the book and do it! I'm buying my second copy.

Few states have so many varied regions with such distinct local flavors. This book brings to life the past and present. Leon Metz is well qualified to lasso the immensity of Texas and bring it under control. Metz takes the various regions of Texas and gives a sweeping historical account for each. He then concentrates on the towns and historical sites where the exciting adventures happened. Many illustrations and maps.

This is the definitive text on on the Pecos River area petroglyphs and is beautifully illustrated. A treasure.

Rolando Hinojosa and the American Dream studies Hinojosa not just as a "chicano writer," but as a writer whose work takes advantage of both the Mexican American culture and the mainstream culture of the United States. Her thesis is that Hinojosa slowly moves from being absorbed in the mejicano culture to realizing that he--and his characters--must join mainstream America if they are to lead the good life. This book, a Choice Notable Book, does not follow the Chicano party line, and yet Lee does not fail to trace the influence of Mexican American culture on the writer.

This book offers the best places for romance in and around Houston, Austin, San Antonio, Dallas/Fort Worth, Corpus Christi, the Rio Grande Valley and the Mexican border. Only those lodgings with special appeal have been selected, and all have been visited by the author - former Houston Chronicle editor.Table For Two sections profile the most intimate places to eat, where ambiance and service are as important as the food. But this is more than a guide to the best places to stay and eat. Activities that a couple will remember forever are also covered - balloon rides over the desert, romantic strolls under a starry sky, horseback trails into the wilderness. Contact names, telephone numbers and website addresses are given. Maps, index and photos, plus hand-drawn sketches.

A very concise research on the direct development of capital punishment from legal and illegal lynchings to today's practice of executions in the South of the United States with focus on Texas. The authors show that the victims of this system have always been people of mediocre education with little or no financial means at all. In addition to that they show how the system of exclusion works: "The source of this southern concentration of both illegal lynchings and state-sanctioned executions is rooted in a cultural readiness to engage in what we would call a logic of exclusion."

The dominant group of people caught in this system were African-Americans, Mexican-Americans, Asians, Native Americans, and southern European ethnic minorities,as well as poor Whites, thus representing a group of "excluded" people from the rest of society.

The study has been done with accuracy and a lot of background knowledge, giving the reader an insight not only into today's legal system and its history in the United States, but also into social conditions and attitudes observed in the period between 1819 and 1990. A very valuable book for everybody interested in knowing about roots and development of Capital Punishment in Texas and the USA. An extensive bibliography at the end of the book gives the reader a possibility to make further studies on the subject.

This is the only book I can think of that is written from the point of view of a working man. Mr. Lynch worked on drilling rigs from the early days until the eighties. He has a lot of love for his life in the oil field. I loaned my copy of the book to a man who had also worked in the oil field and he was fasinated with its reality. The book taught me a lot about how oil is found. I live in an oil field but did not know much about the nuts and bolts of the drilling process. I have seen industries and ways of life pass away without a word being written about how the work was performed and how the workers related to one another. Large populations of workers have gone away leaving no written word of what they did. This is a book that develops a story of how people in the oil field lived and worked. It is not written from the point of view of bankers, corporation executives or office clerks.

This book had it all. My friend told me about Mr. Sanderson and I decided to buy this book. I must say that Mr. Sanderson is the only author that I know of who can write a tragic, mysterious comedy all in one. The characters were strange, which made them interesting. The plot was also interesting, and would catch the attention of any action oriented guy. The love scenes would attract any women. The book has it all, (gun smuggling crime romance) and it is a shame that this guy is so underrated. He needs more exposure, because I had to hear of this gem from my dim-witted friend.

regards, K. wheeler

Long-time readers may recognize the bulk of this work as a rewritten edition of Comanche Captives (also published as Two Rode Together, under which title it was made into a John Ford film starring James Stewart and Richard Widmark). Unlike the stereotypical western, where the good guys are very good and the bad guys are very bad, the major characters here have elements of both, and the only unforgivable sin is stupidity. Cook's writing is spare and unadorned, and perfect for the subject matter: the book depicts one of the most dismal periods of settler-Indian relations, the forced return of captives, taken mostly by the Comanches, and clearly shows that, far from coming back to joyful reunions with their families, most of the captives had been so assimilated that they no longer had any conception of(or wish for) white society. One of the strongest points made by the book is that even the best intentions can have tragic consequences, and sometimes it is better to leave well enough alone.

This book reminds of a sortlike book written by guide John Kumiski called "Flyfishing Florida salt". Various flyfishing locations from New England to Texas are listed in this book.

Each location has a separate chapter with an interview with the local guide about the fish, the flies and the tactics to use at that particular spot. Each chapter has tables which give you an indication when the best times for fishing for a particular species is and which flies the most effective ones are.

Although the chapters are relatively short they should give the visiting angler a pretty accurate indication of what he can expect at that location and what kind of gear he has to use. All of the flypatterns used by the guides are listed in the book but unfortunately only a few are pictured. There are several black and white photographs in this book as well as a few pages with colorphoto's by the guides. The quality of some of these pictures are not up the standard that I have seen in other books. Well, they are taken by guides so you really can't complain over that.

I guess the intention of this book was to cover the fishinglocations of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts very roughly. It is therefore very suitable to give you a broad idea of what the fishing is in all these places.

For really in-depth local information you will still have to get one of the local guidebooks for your next saltwater flyfishingtrip. Having said all this I must say that it is a very good book with a wealth of information that should be owned by everyone who likes to flyfish in saltwater.