Mark W Busby

Cedar Crossing

The Trans-Cedar lynching is an infamous tale buried deep in the subconscious of rural Texas history—although it made front-page headlines in the Dallas Morning News and even in national newspapers from May through November of 1899. This horrifying event is at the center of a compelling novel by auth...

Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship (Texas Writers Series)

From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter

United States Authors Series: Ralph Ellison (Twayne's United States Authors Series)

Fort Benning Blues

The Southwest: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures

The Southwest has attained a mythical status, yet images of picturesque desert geography sometimes overshadow the remarkable variety of cultural contributions that originated in the region, which includes Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, and Texas. Architectural styles range from adobe constructions to ...

John Graves, Writer

Renowned for Goodbye to a River, his now-classic meditation on the natural and human history of Texas, as well as for his masterful ability as a prose stylist, John Graves has become the dean of Texas letters for a legion of admiring readers and fellow writers. Yet apart from his own largely autobio...

Frontier Experience and the American Dream: Essays on American Literature

The frontier has evoked a set of images, attitudes, and assumptions that have shaped a peculiarly American literary heritage. This volume reconsiders the whole of American literary tradition by focusing on the imaginative impact of the frontier mythology. Exploring the aesthetic implications of fron...

John Graves, Writer

The Southwest

A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America

Ralph Ellison

From Texas to the World and Back: Essays on the Journeys of Katherine Anne Porter

Fort Benning Blues

Preston Jones

Lanford Wilson