Morris T Miller

El Llano Estacado, a major new work of Western History, reveals the historical heart of one of the world’s unique regionsthe enormous mesaland of the Southern High Plains in Texas and New Mexico. From the Canadian River in the north to the Edwards Plateau in the south, from the Pecos River in the we...

Lieutenant James William Abert (1820–97) of the United States Army Topographical Engineers received orders in 1845 to explore the Canadian River region of the southern plains—an area covering present-day Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and Oklahoma. Although this land was still in Mexican territory, th...

Riding straight out of the pages of Western history, W. J. L. Sullivan arrives, hat firmly planted on his head, to tell in his own plain way about his time as a sergeant of the Texas Rangers.The years were 1889 to 1901, and there was lawlessness enough on the frontiers of Texas to occupy any able-bo...

This story of the legendary Llano Estacado from 1536 to 1860 informs our understanding of discovery and geography in the Southwest. El Llano Estacado is more than a good read: it is also a native son's meditation on the role of the imagination and myth in how we perceive this unique environment. Fro...

Excerpt from Kant's Doctrine of FreedomKant's problem of freedom. Two conceptions of causality freedom and necessity. Natural world as series of events. Their unity not to be causally explained in relation to understand.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and c...

This book provides an introduction for classroom teachers to the psychological study of the arts including how they can use this knowledge in their classroom. Sections on what psychologists currently know about the biology, cognition, development, and personality of artistic creators are followed by...

A ride along the fading Texas-Oklahoma frontier. Three diaries, written by A.T. Miller and excerpted and annotated by his grandson for this volume, provide a tale of true crime and punishment, set against the scenic backdrops of the Rolling Plains, the Panhandle, and Old Greer empires.