Product Description: EVERYBODY HAS A STORY… And this book is mainly stories – stories told by the pioneers of the Medicine Mound, Texas community and their descendants. These days Medicine Mound is a virtual ghost town, but there was a time when it was a thriving community, one that “sprang up out of the prairie, thrived, prospered, grew and then wilted and died, a victim of the Industrial Revolution”, explains this book’s author, Bill Neal...read more

Product Description: Almost half a century after the Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas erupted in bloodshed in 1912, two Texas historians attempted to write about the affair. But no one would talk to them. Lewis Nordyke abandoned the idea, and C. L. Sonnichsen, another chronicler of Texas feuds, wrote that it was “too soon to talk about the Boyce-Sneed affair...read more

Product Description: From the 1880s until after World War I, Texas prosecutions for adultery, fornication, rape, seduction, and sodomy were many, but formal penal code seemed much too merciful to suit most southerners, who believed in direct and personal redress of such wrongs...read more

Product Description: FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY.

'Longtime Texas prosecutor and defense attorney mines trial records and other primary sources to analyze murder trials from 1880 through WWI in West Texas and Oklahoma. Addresses not only legal and illegal ploys but also inherent pitfalls for a nascent criminal justice system in a frontier society. Historical photographs'--Provided by publisher.

A gifted chef and writer, the late Bill Neal helped raise southern food to national prominence in the 1980s, and his influence continues across the region today. For this memoir and cookbook, Neal's former wife and business partner presents 150 recipes, most unpublished, from all stages of Neal's career: classic French dishes from La Residence, southern dishes from Crook's Corner, and fast and easy recipes from home.

A study of the breads, sweets, and desserts of Southern United States cuisine features 150 recipes for treats ranging from butter pecan ice cream to Mississippi praline pound cake, accompanied by historical notes, cooking lore, and personal reminiscences (view table of contents)

Product Description: For more than a decade, gardeners have been turning to a beautiful little hardcover book called Gardener's Latin, by Bill Neal. Neal understood that as Latin terms began appearing with increasing frequency on nursery tags and gardening catalogs, gardeners would need help...read more

Includes sixty recipes for side dishes, entrees, muffins, bread, and cakes which use grits, and discusses such issues as whether the word 'grits' is singular or plural, and why only people in the South eat grits (view table of contents)

A series of gardening columns shares the author's observations on gardening literature, plant lore, garden planning, and specific flowers, grasses, shrubs and trees

Shares traditional Southern recipes for soups, gumbos, stews, cornmeal, hominy grits, biscuits, breads, rice, vegetables, fish, shellfish, pork, beef, chicken, game, salads, condiments, and desserts (view table of contents)

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