Product Description: Not long after winning their independence from Mexico in 1836, Texans began clamoring for lighthouses. Hundreds of miles of barrier islands, shifting sandbars, and shallow bays made the Texas coast treacherous at a time when few overland routes provided access to the new republic...read more

Product Description: Delivering an education in the elements of architectural style, this book gives attention to one hundred landmark courthouses in Texas. Details about the artisans and their materials and methods are recorded, and stories abound of the spirited competition by towns for the trophy of being designated as the county seat...read more

Product Description: More than 250 on-site photographs illustrate this tour of homes of many of the Lone Star State's most powerful political leaders. From the Governor's Mansion in Austin to the Texas White House near Johnson City, from Sam Houston's "Wigwam" in Huntsville to the Eisenhower birthplace in Denison, almost a score of homes of Texas governors and presidents are open to the public...read more

Product Description: John R. Blocker was a visionary who gifted Texans with a broad photographic canvas, rich in pictorial history as well as landscape pageantry. This collection of black-and-white photos from the 1920s to the 1940s truly captures the essence of Texas...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)