Product Description: September 1939, Miss Joan Lambert, a stylish young college teacher from Texas, moves among anxious passengers boarding the Lorraine at Le Havre. Her first trip to France has been interrupted by German aggression and angry clouds of international war Relieved by her good fortune in obtaining passage on one of the last passenger ships to leave France as military mobilization begins, she finds that her eight-day voyage to New York is soon fraught with unsettling dangers...read more

Product Description: Maclura pomifera, commonly known as Osage orange, bois d'arc, or as forty other common names is a fascinating American tree, with hundreds of usages and an intriguing history. First known outside Indians lands in 1804, he tree that had supplied Native Americans with bow wood later became the plant that fenced the prairies...read more

Product Description: Jefferson: Riverport To The Southwest, by Tarpley, Fred

Tells the history and origin of many unusual and imaginative Texas place names