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"Texas is not a place, it is a commotion " exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and "get-ahead" spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these thought-provoking essays, Howard R. Lamar looks specifically at the "crossings" that have characterized Texas history to see what effect these migrations to and through Texas have had on Texas, the Southwest, and links between Texas and California.

Originally presented in 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin as the first George W. Littlefield Lectures in American History, these essays...

Prayer has undergirded the achievements, sacrifices, and faithfulness of the Reformed tradition since its beginning. And the ways in which Reformed Christians pray have been as varied throughout the centuries as the many denominations that are included in the Reformed tradition.

Howard Rice and Lamar Williamson have gathered more than 200 prayers from the Reformed tradition, organizing the prayers chronologically by century. They provide historical information and biographies of each author to enhance readers' understanding of each prayer within its own context.

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This edition includes these new features: a foreword by acclaimed Western historian...

When "The World Rushed In" was first published in 1981, the "Washington Post" predicted, It seems unlikely that anyone will write a more comprehensive book about the Gold Rush. Twenty years later, no one has emerged to contradict that judgment, and the book has gained recognition as a classic. As the "San Francisco Examiner" noted, It is not often that a work of history can be said to supplant every book on the same subject that has gone before it.

Through the diary and letters of William Swain--augmented by interpolations from more than five hundred other gold seekers and by letters...