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by Texas Bob

Texas History

Five Years in Texas - Thomas North
Texas Almanac 2014-2015 - by Elizabeth C. Alvarez and Robert Plocheck
Texian Iliad :A Military History of the Texas Revolution, 1835-1836 - by Stephen L. Hardin
Sam Houston - by James L. Haley
Three Roads to the Alamo :The Lives and Fortunes of David Crockett, James Bowie, and William Barret Travis - By William C. Davis
A Time to Stand - By Walter Lord
The Alamo: An Illustrated History - by George Nelson

Texas Football

Thursday Night Lights - The Story of Black High School Football in Texas - Micheal Hurd
Texas Football Stadium Guide 2016/17 and Hall of Fame - Robert McSpadden
Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches - by Ty Cashion
Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream - by H.G. Bissinger

Texas Social History

Goodbye to a River: A Narritive - John Graves
John Graves and the Making of Goodbye to a River: Selected Letters, 1957 - 1960 - Edited by David S. Hamrick
Travels with Grandpaw - David Davis
Used to Want to be a Cowboy - by John Bird
Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine - by Jo E. Exley
The Cottonseed Kid Childhood Memories of a Texas Life - by Harriett Dublin
Washed in the Blood - by Sheldon Williams
ROUGHNECK: Stories from Sundown Texas - by Doug R. Pricer & Neil H. Wright, III
Pigskin Pulpit: A Social History of Texas High School Football Coaches - by Ty Cashion
Friday Night Lights : A Town, a Team, and a Dream - by H.G. Bissinger

Texas Fiction

Spirit of Gonzales - by Betsy Wagner
Sixth and Congress - by Don Rankin
Molly Anderson: The Saga of a Pioneer Woman - by Etta Pruit Martin
Track of the Cat - by Nevada Barr