This is one of my favorite books! Not only does it have usable historic recipes from the pioneer women of Texas but helpful household hints, like how to make shampoo, cold creme, lip salve, rose water... There's also home remedies like arrow wounds, cure for lunacy, rheumatism, birthmarks, ague, dropsy...all sort of interesting little tidbits. This make a delightful book to read and to use. I highly recommend it.

I bought "Friday Night Lights", a good book on Odessa Permian football. It only temporarily whetted my appetite."Mojo" is the real deal on Odessa Permian, a top ranked Texas team for years. It has the stats, the players, the pictures, the beginning, the middle and the end. It's the ultimate HS football fan's book. My copy from Amazon even came signed by the author. Read "Friday Night Lights", to get you started. Then get "Mojo" for the real deal.

In 1928, Margaret Mitchell began writing a passionate story about a woman who dare to stand up to the old traditions and ways, a woman who is wild and carefree, a woman who changed through the war. It is a tale of unrequited love, of a man who desires this woman with all his heart but who can never obtain her. He is Rhett Butler and she is Scarlett O'Hara and this is Gone with the Wind. Read it and you'll see why Margaret Mitchell is regarded as the best writer of all time and why Gone with the Wind is the best selling novel with more than 40 million copies and made into a 8 Academy Award winning movie, Gone with the Wind is truly amazing.

I have used the information in this book both professionally and personally. It is a must for people in Texas working with senior citizens. I particularly appreciated the on-line update of the new Texas laws related to Advanced Directives.

When it comes to Western history, and narrative history, this is the absolute best book I have ever read. If you like your cavalry and Indian stories in the best "John Ford/John Wayne" tradition, with the advantage of intensive and even-handed research, you simply have to buy this book. It reads like a novel, captures all the pathos of the era, and plays fair with both sides. In Hamilton's west, there are no good guys, and no bugles and guidons glory; there is only survival, and the understanding that, in the end, might does really make right, and the strongest do indeed survive. A fantastic read, and with the footnotes and bibliography, a must for the general reader and the specialist too. AND, the best treatment of the Warren Wagon Train Raid, one of the most important events in the history of the Southern Plains, ever done. FOUR STARS!

I purchased this book to support the work done by the Assistance League of the Bay Area, but I soon realized it was a culinary treasure. Not one of the contributors would have shared any recipe that might diminish their current local reputations, so the result is a collection of perfectly delicious dishes.
Each time I have needed something special for a party, such as our recent family Christmas brunch, I have found several recipes in this collection. The directions are clearly written and the end product is fantastic! It is now my favorite cookbook for "foods to impress" with the bounty of our Galveston Bay area taste!

The style of writing is similar to Marquez's `One hundred years of Solitude' and Rushdie's `Midnight's Children'. A wonderful read for the lovers of magic realism. This is a story of the fight between the good and evil in a remote village. The son of the devil is a crocodile man, his seductress is the ghost of a beautiful dead, the witch doctor Bulu-Bulu can become a cigar smoking monkey, the wooden christ comes down from his cross to converse with the priest...many fantastic treats

While this is not a book for everyone, those interested in either maps or popular iconography will find few if any its equal. It will appeal primarily to three groups of readers. The first is persons interested in maps and cartography, especially the role of the map in present day popular culture. The second group consists of Texans and others interested in Texana. The third are persons interested in the visual arts. (I belong to the first two of these.)

Richard Francaviglia is an associate professor of history and the director of the Center for Greater Southwestern Studies and the History of Cartography at the University of Texas at Arlington. He is a talented writer, skilled at presenting abstract subjects so that they are accessible to both his intellectual colleagues and to the intelligence lay reader. This book is evidence of that skill.

As a northerner transplanted to Texas, Francaviglia has been struck by the overwhelming presence of the outline map of the state of Texas in advertising, company logos, road signs, and other manifestations. As he notes in his introduction, "if Texas were a tribe located in an exotic part of the world, anthropologists probably would have seriously studied their peculiar use of the map by now. But as of this writing, no one else has described the phenomenon in this book."

This is not an understatement. If the reader doubts it when opening the book, he/she will not doubt it by the end. Francaviglia traces the rise of the use of the outline map in the 20th century and its supplanting of the Lone Star as the most common Texas icon. He catalogues the use of the outline map in ways which span the gamut from the mundane to the bizarre. He does not, however, treat this as a source of humor (though many things are very funny), but rather as something deeply revealing about Texas regional culture and character.

The book is well illustrated with 27 color plates and over 100 black and white photos and drawings. It is a tribute to Dr. Francaviglia's interests in the topic that he obtained financing from the Summerlee Foundation of Dallas to enable the inclusion of the color plates which would not normally be possible in a book of this price and specialized interest.

If you have an academic interest in any of the topics I have addressed, this book is a must. If you are a Texan, this book is a hoot. If you are both, read and enjoy. You are guaranteed to both learn and laugh out loud.

I usually don't care for books with sheikhs in them. This book was different. I really felt for Eden as she tried to reconcile that the father of her son was a ruler of a kingdom. Her life as she knew it was changed for ever. I liked that Ben finally understood at the end that Eden needed time to make the decision to join him. Once the pressure was off Eden was able to decide that the best thing for her and Sawyer was to join Ben and leave Texas.

i saw a copy of this book years ago, if you know where I can get a copy e-mail me at rajones8@yahoo.com. thanx