Exploring the edges of Texas
Record details
- ISBN: 1603443061 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9781603443067 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1603441530 (cloth : alk. paper)
- ISBN: 9781603441537 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xviii, 280 p.) : ill.
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electronic resource - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, c2010.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Multi-User. OldControl:muse9781603443067 Multi-User |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [255]-260) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Prairie pathfinder -- Island in the desert -- Walking to El Paso -- Letters from the ghost mountains -- Wild and scenic river -- Border botanist -- The great feather fight -- Bird lady of the Texas coast -- Ivory bills on Buffalo Bayou -- Searching for longleaf pine -- Exploring Bear River -- Red River trading post -- A singular object from Texas -- Death in the red beds -- Panhandle petrified zoo -- From buried city to chill hill -- Epilogue. |
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Walt Davis is an art teacher and museum consultant. He is a past director of the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon (PPHM) and former curator of exhibits at the Dallas Museum of Natural History. Isabel Davis retired as reference librarian at West Texas A&M University. She was previously director of Rockwall County Library and collection development librarian for natural science at Richardson Public Library. She coordinated the 1995 PPHM workshop for museum professionals on compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. The Davises reside in Campbell, Texas.