DescriptionReputed to have killed his first man at the age of 12, William Bonney went on to gun his way into Western legend as Billy the Kid. When he was finally shot himself at the age of 21, the Kid was famous throughout the country as the boy who, so he boasted, had killed a man for every year of his life. This is the story of William Bonney as told by the lawman who ended his notorious career. While explaining the public sympathy that the citizens of the Southwest often accorded youths like Bonney, Garrett challenges the glorified legends of the Kid, offering instead the more genuine story of a young, reckless cowhand who became a hired gun. Combining the best elements of eyewitness history with the dramatic flair of a great western novel, this is the clearest account we have of the meteoric career of a man some thought of as a murdering fiend, and others as the Robin Hood of the Southwest.
DescriptionMeg Mabry has spent her life with her back turned to her legendary family legacy. In the 1890s her great-grandmother Hannah Bass composed starkly revealing diaries of her life on the southwestern frontier, first as a Harvey Girl at the glamorous Montezuma…
DescriptionThe sorority sisters of Alamo House at the University of Texas may be at comic odds with each other, but at least they have one thing in common: they all hate the fraternity rats across the street, the Sigma Upsilon Kappas, aka the SUKs. But amid the coll…
DescriptionIn Mexifornia, author Victor Davis Hanson ponders what has changed in California over the last quarter-century. His concern is how the state, the Southwest, and indeed the entire nation have been altered by America's hemorrhaging borders and how our disordered immigration policies are perhaps most harmful to the Mexican immigrants who come seeking a better life. While Mexifornia is a look at the ambition and vigor of people who have made California strong, it is also an indictment of the policies that got California into its present mess and that could also affect Americans who inhabit "Mexizona, " "Mexichusetts, " and other states of becoming.
