RAISING
LA BELLE
By Mark G. Mitchell
Under the mud below twelve feet of water lay La Belle, the prized ship of famous French explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle. In 1995 the ship was discovered by the Texas Historical Commission. For the next year, archeologists labored to extract the ship and her amazing cargo. The excavation made headlines worldwide. The Belle was the last hope of escape from Fort St. Louis, a Texas settlement in trouble. When the ship sank, the fort’s inhabitants—including pirates, missionaries, and orphans—confronted an unmapped wilderness and hostile Karankawa Indians. Raising La Belle interweaves highlights of one of America’s most exciting archeological finds with the story of Texas’ lost French colony.
$12.95
Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-703-3
7 by 10, 112 pages, photos, index, maps, drawings, and
glossary.
Reading level-5.0
THEY
CALL ME OLD BLUE
or How I Helped Charles Goodnight
Invent the Chuck Wagon by Preston Lewis
Old Blue, Texas’ most revered longhorn, worked for rancher Charles
Goodnight. But Blue has almost been forgotten by history. In 1998 a
mysterious old manuscript was discovered by Spur Award winning author
Preston Lewis. Now Mr. Lewis shares that manuscript, Blue’s
"autobiography," with readers for the first time.
In this story, we learn that a few great specimens like Old Blue built the
cattle empire. As Blue puts it, "The cowboys who rode with me claim
they did all the work. They’re wrong."5
WINNER OF THE R. C .CRANE
AWARD 2002
NEWBERY MEDAL-WINNING AUTHOR Harold Keith has spun a heart-warming story of
eleven-year-old Dan and a wild horse who was abandoned near the corral.
$16.95 Hardback
ISBN 1-57168-216-3
120 pages,5½ x 8½.
illustrations.
Ages 9 to 12
JESSE
CHISHOLM
Trailblazer and Peacemaker
By Sybil O’Rear
Sybil O’Rear reaches back into pioneer Texas for a story of
this Scottish-Cherokee pioneer who helped build peace and understanding between two
cultures.
$14.95 Hardback
ISBN 1-57168-110-8
112 pages, 5½ x 8½. bibliography, glossary, illustrations
Reading level: 4.8
CHARLES
GOODNIGHT
Pioneer Cowman
By Sybil O'Rear
Charles Goodnight blazed new cattle trails, and established the first
ranch in the Texas Panhandle.
$13.95 Hardback
ISBN 0-89015-741-3
80 pages, 5½ x 8½, photos, bibliography.
Reading Level: 6.1
BRAVE
CAVALRY COLONEL
Ranald Slidell MacKenzie
By J’Nell L. Pate
Rising to the rank of general, he presided over the closing
chapters of Indian wars in Texas.
$15.95 Hardback
ISBN 0-89015-901-7
166 pages, 5½ x 8½, photos, index.
Reading Level: 6.4
THE TEXAS
RANGERS
By Mike Cox
A mixture of story telling and history of Texas' elite lawmen.
$16.95 Hardback
ISBN 0-89015-818-5
144 pages, 5½ x 8½, photos, bibliography and glossary.
Reading Level: 6.1
LAFITTE:
TERROR OF THE GULF
By Catherine Troxwell Gonzalez
Jean Lafitte, a swashbuckling French lad, cut a broad
swatch in the early history of Texas and Louisiana.
$6.95 Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-019-5
5½ x 8½.
THE
LONG TRAIL OF THE TEXAS LONGHORNS
By Ruth Whitehead Chorlain
Describes the history of longhorn
cattle in the new world from their arrival from Spain in 1493 to their
eventual home on the range lands of Texas and other parts of the United
States.
$6.95 Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-104-X
5½ x 8½, 48 pages illustrations and photos
GLORY
GIRL
By Stella Gipson Polk
Granny's cabin was located in the fabled Texas Hill
Country. A runaway, Eve invited herself to live with Granny who had a
daily need to wrest a living from this remote Texas farm. She was always
about to send Eve back to the Home, but somehow never got around to it.
$8.95 Paperback
ISBN 1-57168-001-2
5½ x 8½, 144 pages
