Recounts the events of six historic festivals in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of the nineteenth century, describing each event's pageantry, parades, competitions, and participants.

McDonald takes us behind the scenes of Texas history, vividly portraying the personalities and events that have made the Lone Star State survive and succeed in the face of overwhelming adversity.

An inspiring collection of Pat Mora's own glorious poems celebrating a love of words and all the ways we use and interact with them: reading, speaking, writing, and singing.

"Celebrates the diversity of visual art created by women living and working in the western half of Texas, far from urban art communities and large national markets. Samples creative expression and method; explores the influence of the expansiveness and relative isolation of the region upon the selected artists' work"--Provided by publisher.

Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.

Twenty-One Texas Heroes is a book of informational and historical poems about twenty-one Texas heroes in many fields of accomplishment. It spans the history of Texas from the beginning of the Texas Revolution to Statehood and to the 20th Century. It presents a grand tour of our brave founders, our historic U.S. Presidents, our celebrated athletes, our notable musicians, our illustrious war heroes, our philanthropists, and our political representatives. The poems introduce our heroes and the significant parts of their lives and contributions. Children and adults learn history in an enjoyable format that sings the praises and salutes the Texas heroes of the past and present. The reader is empowered by pride in the history of the Lone Star State....

The moufflon, a wild sheep prized for its meat, continues to survive in the remote mountain desert of southern Libya. Only Asouf, a lone bedouin who cherishes the desert and identifies with its creatures, knows exactly where it is to be found. Now he and the moufflon together come under threat from hunters who have already slaughtered the once numerous desert gazelles. The novel combines pertinent ecological issues with a moving portrayal of traditional desert life and of the power of the human spirit to resist.