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Author : John Nathan Cravens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
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Author : John Nathan Cravens
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (792 download)
Download or read book A History of Three Ghost Towns of East Texas Near the Cherokee and the Angelina County Line: Shook's Bluff, Cheeseland, Kilraven written by John Nathan Cravens and published by . This book was released on 1970* with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jonathan K. Gerland
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623499968
Total Pages : 931 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Boggy Slough written by Jonathan K. Gerland and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas’ Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state’s leading game and industrial forest management areas. A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs. The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million–acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family’s and the lumber company’s struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.
Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292799888
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Nameless Towns written by Thad Sitton and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive history of the sawmill towns of East Texas in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company “cut out” its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation’s third-largest lumber producer and created a colorful way of life that lingers in the memories of the remaining former residents and their children and grandchildren. Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the sawmill communities. They describe the companies that ran the mills and the different kinds of jobs involved in logging and milling. They depict the usually rough-hewn towns, with their central mill, unpainted houses, company store, and schools, churches, and community centers. And they characterize the lives of the people, from the hard, awesomely dangerous mill work to the dances, picnics, and other recreations that offered welcome diversions. Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission “After completing the book, I truly understood life in the sawmill communities, intellectually and emotionally. It was very satisfying. Conrad and Sitton write in such a manner to make one feel the hard life, smell the sawdust, and share the danger of the mills. The book is compelling and stimulating.” —Robert L. Schaadt, Director-Archivist, Sam Houston Regional Library and Research Center
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book East Texas Mill Towns & Ghost Towns: Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity counties written by W. T. Block and published by Epigram Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a 3-part anthology of old East Texas sawmill towns and ghost towns. It includes Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity counties.
Author : Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Family Fare written by Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. Reynolds Historical Genealogy Department and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book East Texas Mill Towns & Ghost Towns written by W. T. Block and published by Epigram Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Angelina, Chambers, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk and Tyler counties.
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Subject Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Wesley Morris
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806114200
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Oklahoma written by John Wesley Morris and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists 130 ghost towns in alphabetical order and includes descriptions of each.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 648 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 648 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Library of Congress
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 942 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalog written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 942 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with 1953, entries for Motion pictures and filmstrips, Music and phonorecords form separate parts of the Library of Congress catalogue. Entries for Maps and atlases were issued separately 1953-1955.
Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292777264
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Nameless Towns written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, T. H. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest lumber producer and created a colorful way of life that lingers in the memories of the remaining former residents and their children and grandchildren. Drawing on oral history, company records, and other archival sources, Sitton and Conrad recreate the lifeways of the sawmill communities. They describe the companies that ran the mills and the different kinds of jobs involved in logging and milling. They depict the usually rough-hewn towns, with their central mill, unpainted houses, company store, and schools, churches, and community centers. And they characterize the lives of the people, from the hard, awesomely dangerous mill work to the dances, picnics, and other recreations that offered welcome diversions.
Author : Larry Hodge
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461661692
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Backroads of Texas written by Larry Hodge and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition takes you off the major highways to discover the sights, scenes, history, and places that make the Lone Star State unique.
Author : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806137247
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (372 download)
Download or read book More Ghost Towns of Texas written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to Ghost Towns of Texas provides readers with histories, maps, and detailed directions to the most interesting ghost towns in Texas not already covered in the first volume. Reprint.
Author : Library of Congress
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Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Library of Congress Catalogs written by Library of Congress and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585441969
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Springs of Texas written by Gunnar M. Brune and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Author : Dale Baum
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807134961
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Counterfeit Justice written by Dale Baum and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For many of the forty years of her life as a slave, Azeline Hearne cohabitated with her wealthy, unmarried master, Samuel R. Hearne. She bore him four children, only one of whom survived past early childhood. When Sam died shortly after the Civil War ended, he publicly acknowledged his relationship with Azeline and bequeathed his entire estate to their twenty-year-old mulatto son, with the provision that he take care of his mother. When their son died early in 1868, Azeline inherited one of the most profitable cotton plantations in Texas and became one of the wealthiest ex-slaves in the former Confederacy. In Counterfeit Justice, Dale Baum traces Azeline's remarkable story, detailing her ongoing legal battles to claim and maintain her legacy. As Baum shows, Azeline's inheritance quickly made her a target for predatory whites determined to strip her of her land. A familiar figure at the Robertson County District Court from the late 1860s to the early 1880s, Azeline faced numerous lawsuits -- including one filed against her by her own lawyer. Samuel Hearne's family took steps to dispossess her, and other unscrupulous white men challenged the title to her plantation, using claims based on old Spanish land grants. Azeline's prolonged and courageous defense of her rightful title brought her a certain notoriety: the first freedwoman to be a party to three separate civil lawsuits appealed all the way to the Texas Supreme Court and the first former slave in Robertson County indicted on criminal charges of perjury. Although repeatedly blocked and frustrated by the convolutions of the legal system, she evolved from a bewildered defendant to a determined plaintiff who, in one extraordinary lawsuit, came tantalizingly close to achieving revenge against those who defrauded her for over a decade. Due to gaps in the available historical record and the unreliability of secondary accounts based on local Reconstruction folklore, many of the details of Azeline's story are lost to history. But Baum grounds his speculation about her life in recent scholarship on the Reconstruction era, and he puts his findings in context in the history of Robertson County. Although history has not credited Azeline Hearne with influencing the course of the law, the story of her uniquely difficult position after the Civil War gives an unprecedented view of the era and of one solitary woman's attempt to negotiate its social and legal complexities in her struggle to find justice. Baum's meticulously researched narrative will be of keen interest to legal scholars and to all those interested in the plight of freed slaves during this era.
