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Author : Roy Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (131 download)
Download or read book 300 Years in Victoria County written by Roy Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book 300 Years in Victoria County written by Roy Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Roy Grimes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 649 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (68 download)
Download or read book Three Hundred Years in Victoria County written by Roy Grimes and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 649 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782713
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book De León, a Tejano Family History written by Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, 2004 San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2005 La familia de León was one of the foundation stones on which Texas was built. Martín de León and his wife Patricia de la Garza left a comfortable life in Mexico for the hardships and uncertainties of the Texas frontier in 1801. Together, they established family ranches in South Texas and, in 1824, the town of Victoria and the de León colony on the Guadalupe River (along with Stephen F. Austin's colony, the only completely successful colonization effort in Texas). They and their descendents survived and prospered under four governments, as the society in which they lived evolved from autocratic to republican and the economy from which they drew their livelihood changed from one of mercantile control to one characterized by capitalistic investments. Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of three generations of the de León family. She follows Martín and Patricia from their beginnings in Mexico through the establishment of the family ranches in Texas and the founding of the de León colony and the town of Victoria. Then she details how, after Martín's death in 1834, Patricia and her children endured the Texas Revolution, exile in New Orleans and Mexico, expropriation of their lands, and, after returning to Texas, years of legal battles to regain their property. Representative of the experiences of many Tejanos whose stories have yet to be written, the history of the de León family is the story of the Tejano settlers of Texas.
Author : Terry Hammonds
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 1893619028
Total Pages : 105 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Historic Victoria written by Terry Hammonds and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 1999-05-08 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Victoria, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author : Watson Kirkconnell
Publisher : Lindsay [Ont.] : Watchman-Warder Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Victoria County Centennial History written by Watson Kirkconnell and published by Lindsay [Ont.] : Watchman-Warder Press. This book was released on 1921 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Minetta Altgelt Goyne
Publisher : TCU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780912646688
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (466 download)
Download or read book Lone Star and Double Eagle written by Minetta Altgelt Goyne and published by TCU Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[This book] concentrates upon a strongly bonded family during a period of separation that is necessarily preserved in much greater detail than their happier moments spent in one another's company. Being based to a large extent on letters that surely were never intended for the eyes of anyone outside the family and an intimate circle of friends, it also gives a more spontaneous view than most journals offer. These letters, preserved for more than eleven decades, are the record of years during which the Ernst Coreth family began really to enter into the affairs of its new homeland. No wish to magnify the importance of these people, no intent to dramatize their fate motivated the accompanying study, for much of what the Coreths experienced other immigrants experienced also"--Preface.
Author : Jesús F. De la Teja
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443037
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas written by Jesús F. De la Teja and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-18 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independence, and the Texas Republic. Jesús F. de la Teja and ten other scholars examine the lives, careers, and influence of many long-neglected but historically significant Tejano leaders who were active and influential in the formation, political and military leadership, and economic development of Texas. In Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas, lesser-known figures such as Father Refugio de la Garza, Juan Martín Veramendi, José Antonio Saucedo, Raphael Manchola, and Carlos de la Garza join their better-known counterparts—José Antonio Navarro, Juan Seguín, and Plácido Benavides, for example—on the stage of Texas and regional historical consideration. This book also features a foreword by David J. Weber, in which he discusses how Anglocentric views allowed important Tejano figures to fade from public knowledge. Students and scholars of Texas and regional history, those interested in Texana, and readers in Latino/a studies will glean important insights from Tejano Leadership in Mexican and Revolutionary Texas.
Author : Louise O'Connor
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623496756
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Wild Rose written by Louise O'Connor and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During much of his brief and troubled life, Victor Marion Rose was a walking anomaly. The scion of a venerable Texas farming and ranching family, he was widely reported to be unable to distinguish one horse from another. He fought for the Confederacy and endured imprisonment at Ohio’s notorious Camp Chase, yet he later bitterly decried the Civil War as utter folly for the South. His florid poetry often celebrated the feminine mystique and ideal as he considered it, yet he was infamously unfaithful and sometimes abusive in his relationships with women. He built a respected reputation as a journalist and historian, and at the same time, he struggled with alcoholism and bouts of deep depression. Born in 1842 as the third of thirteen children of a wealthy Victoria, Texas, planter, Victor Marion Rose served as publisher and editor of the Victoria Advocate from 1869 to 1873 before moving to Laredo—reportedly due to a scandalous love affair—where he edited the Laredo Times. He also wrote volumes of poetry and published several histories of South Texas and the biography of Gen. Ben McCulloch. Rose ultimately succumbed to pneumonia in February 1893. Louise S. O’Connor, a descendant of Victor Marion Rose, has mined family records and recorded family traditions about “Uncle Vic.” She carefully reviewed Rose’s collected papers, both in her personal possession and in the archives of the Briscoe Center for American History and other repositories. Wild Rose provides an intimate portrait of a complicated individual who, despite his frequently unsuccessful struggles with his demons, nevertheless left an important mark on Texas history and letters.
Author : James M. Smallwood
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440172
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Feud That Wasn’t written by James M. Smallwood and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-05 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called “Taylor-Sutton feud” has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness can be interpreted as a pattern of rebellion by a loose confederation of desperadoes who found common cause in their hatred of the Reconstruction government in Texas. Between the 1850s and 1880, almost 200 men rode at one time or another with Creed Taylor and his family through a forty-five-county area of Texas, stealing and killing almost at will, despite heated and often violent opposition from pro-Union law enforcement officials, often led by William Sutton. From 1871 until his eventual arrest, notorious outlaw John Wesley Hardin served as enforcer for the Taylors. In 1874 in the streets of Comanche, Texas, on his twenty-first birthday, Hardin and two other members of the Taylor ring gunned down Brown County Deputy Charlie Webb. This cold-blooded killing—one among many—marked the beginning of the end for the Taylor ring, and Hardin eventually went to the penitentiary as a result. The Feud That Wasn’t reinforces the interpretation that Reconstruction was actually just a continuation of the Civil War in another guise, a thesis Smallwood has advanced in other books and articles. He chronicles in vivid detail the cattle rustling, horse thieving, killing sprees, and attacks on law officials perpetrated by the loosely knit Taylor ring, drawing a composite picture of a group of anti-Reconstruction hoodlums who at various times banded together for criminal purposes. Western historians and those interested in gunfighters and lawmen will heartily enjoy this colorful and meticulously researched narrative.
Author : Sheryl L. Hutchison
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1452039631
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Mentor Inbound written by Sheryl L. Hutchison and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2009-09-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Rockford Register-Republic newspaper carried the headline in January 1945: “Aboard a Flying Fortress which appeared a flaming torch, spewing gasoline from its load of 15,000 gallons and trailing fire like a comet, a bomber crew which included LtCol Fred J. Ascani, Rockford pilot, continued its run over a Ploesti oil field target and came through safely. . . “ This was only one of 53 WWII missions flown by the talented aviator and reported by American newspapers. Truth be told, Ascani’s contributions to the development of airpower would be covered extensively by the media right up until he retired from the United States Air Force in 1973. History would remember MGen Ascani, not only as the 1951 World Speed Record Holder, but also as a tough and demanding task master, who recognized the dangers of emerging aviation technology. He was a devoted flyer who wanted to experience the thrill of every new engine and airframe designed to free man from the bonds of earth. He would contribute to the “Golden Age of Flight Test,” develop the process by which the fledging USAF would turn experiments into combat system and then go on to direct the XB-70 program, technology later used to build the world’s first reusable space craft: the space shuttle. By the time he retired from the USAF in 1973, he had logged some 6288 hours of flying time in an incredibly unique variety of aircraft. Mentor Inbound is his story as told to and recorded by Sheryl Hutchison.
Author : Harold J. Weiss (Jr.)
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412604
Total Pages : 481 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Yours to Command written by Harold J. Weiss (Jr.) and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain Bill McDonald's (1852-1918) admirers rank him as one of the great captains of Texas Ranger history. His detractors see him as an irresponsible lawman who precipitated violence, hungered for publicity, and related tall tales that cast himself in the hero's role. This title seeks to find the true Bill McDonald and sort fact from myth.
Author : Gerald E. Poyo
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292784902
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Tejano Journey, 1770-1850 written by Gerald E. Poyo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A century before the arrival of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, Spanish settlers from Mexico were putting down roots in Texas. From San Antonio de Bexar and La Bahia (Goliad) northeastward to Los Adaes and later Nacogdoches, they formed communities that evolved their own distinct "Tejano" identity. In Tejano Journey, 1770-1850, Gerald Poyo and other noted borderlands historians track the changes and continuities within Tejano communities during the years in which Texas passed from Spain to Mexico to the Republic of Texas and finally to the United States. The authors show how a complex process of accommodation and resistance—marked at different periods by Tejano insurrections, efforts to work within the political and legal systems, and isolation from the mainstream—characterized these years of changing sovereignty. While interest in Spanish and Mexican borderlands history has grown tremendously in recent years, the story has never been fully told from the Tejano perspective. This book complements and continues the history begun in Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio, which Gerald E. Poyo edited with Gilberto M. Hinojosa.
Download or read book The History and Heritage of Victoria County written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Page
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 678 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)
Download or read book The Victoria History of the Counties of England written by William Page and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146162567X
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Great Murder Trials of the Old West written by Johnny D. Boggs and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2002-11-30 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not every Wild West disagreement was settled with guns on a dusty street. Even on the frontier, accused criminals were entitled to a fair trial. Author Johnny Boggs recreates and analyzes some of the wildest murder trials of these times.
Author : Wesley L. Miller
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Soil Survey of Victoria County, Texas written by Wesley L. Miller and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
