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Author : Homer S. Thrall
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Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Texas written by Homer S. Thrall and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Homer S. Thrall
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Total Pages : 926 pages
Book Rating : 4.M/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Texas, from the Earliest Visits of European Adventurers, to A.D. 1885 written by Homer S. Thrall and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 926 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Robins Air Force Base, Georgia written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410846
Total Pages : 594 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)
Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1852-1863 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet The long awaited final volume in the set Volume IV of this series brings to a close nearly ten years of research & publication of Sam Houston's correspondence. Includes a comprehensive index of all four volumes.
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 : Edward A. Blackburn
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585444987
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book Wanted written by Edward A. Blackburn and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-18 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Along with the settlement of the Texas frontier came rustlers, public drunks, gunfighters, and other outlaws. A jail in which to incarcerate the lawbreakers was thus often the first public building raised in a new town. Later, as government developed, public buildings—notably county courthouses and jails—assumed not only practical but also symbolic importance. The architecture of these buildings in the nineteenth century reflected the power and status with which the community imbued the government; many of the same architects applied the aesthetic standards of the day to both. In later years, the safety and at least limited comfort of the prisoners became concerns and jails were remodeled or abandoned to other uses in favor of modern, more utilitarian structures. In this heavily illustrated guide to the historic county jails of Texas, Ed Blackburn Jr. takes readers to each of the 254 counties in the state, presenting brief histories and of the counties and their structures that housed their criminals. He provides general information about the architecture and location of the buildings and, when possible, describes the present uses of those that have been decommissioned. Interviews with local officials, historians, and newspaper publishers have yielded colorful anecdotes for many of the jails. Revealing photographs of many of the old jails have been gathered from local and archival sources, and Blackburn himself has taken pictures of extant buildings. Together, these words and images not only provide a survey of the way Texans have housed their criminals, but also, with the aid of thumbnail maps of county locations, offer residents and tourists throughout the state a guide to a fascinating aspect of architectural and cultural history.
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Total Pages : 1040 pages
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Download or read book Encyclopedia of Associations written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1040 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Houston
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Total Pages : 584 pages
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Download or read book The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 written by Sam Houston and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Historical Records Survey (Tex.)
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Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Texas written by Historical Records Survey (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410006
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)
Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1839-1845 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume II of Sam Houston?s personal correpondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston. This volume begins March 6, 1846, as Houston leaves Texas to take his place in the U. S. Senate. Included in his letters are comments on national politics and life in Washington, D. C., descriptions of politicians and their wives, and his observations on generals of the Mexican War. New information sheds light on his feelings towards being a candidate for the presidency. Family letters give a picture of life on Texas plantations during the mid-1800s. The letters end August 10, 1848, after problems with Oregon have begun and the Mexican War has ended.
Author : John Holmes Jenkins
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788606
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Recollections of Early Texas written by John Holmes Jenkins and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented.” —Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather’s writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston’s army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships—and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. “Fascinating . . . A commendable job.” —The New York Times “[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword
Author : Mavis Parrott Kelsey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442706
Total Pages : 508 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (427 download)
Download or read book Engraved Prints of Texas written by Mavis Parrott Kelsey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of illustrated black-and-white engravings depicting the history of Texas from 1554 to 1900 presented chronologically and featuring a brief introduction to the historical background of each era.
Author : American Revolution Bicentennial Administration
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Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Bicentennial of the United States of America written by American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410631
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)
Download or read book The Personal Correspondence of Sam Houston: 1848-1852 written by Sam Houston and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet Third in the series of previously unpublished personal letters, beginning in the fall of 1848 when Houston returns to Washington for the Second Session of the Thirtieth Congress after the close of the Mexican War.
Author : Steven R. Strom
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292773528
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Houston Lost and Unbuilt written by Steven R. Strom and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driven by an almost fanatical desire for whatever is new, "modern," and likely to make money, Houston is constantly in the process of remaking itself. Few structures remain from the nineteenth century, and even much of the twentieth-century built environment has fallen before the wrecking ball of "progress." Indeed, the demolition of older buildings in Houston can be compared to the destruction of cityscapes such as Berlin, Warsaw, and Tokyo in World War II. But because this wholesale restructuring of Houston's built environment has happened in peacetime, historically minded people have only recently sounded an alarm over what is being lost and the toll this destruction is taking on Houstonians' sense of place. Houston Lost and Unbuilt presents an extensive catalogue of twentieth-century public and commercial buildings that have been lost forever, as well as an intriguing selection of buildings that never made it off the drawing board. The lost buildings (or lost interiors of buildings) span a wide range, from civic gathering places such as the Houston Municipal Auditorium and the Astrodome to commercial enterprises such as the Foley Brothers, Sears Roebuck, and Sakowitz department stores to "Theatre Row" downtown to neighborhoods such as Fourth Ward/Freedmen's Town. Steven Strom's introductions and photo captions describe each significant building's contribution to the civic life of Houston. The "unbuilt" section of the book includes numerous previously unpublished architectural renderings of proposed projects such as a multi-building city center, monorail, and people mover system, all which reflect Houston's fascination with the future and optimism that technology will solve all of the city's problems.
Author : Natalie H. Wiest
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344775X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways written by Natalie H. Wiest and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within about seventy-five miles of downtown Houston, some 1,500 miles of rivers, creeks, lakes, bayous, and bays await discovery. Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways, by longtime paddler Natalie Wiest, is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to experience Houston’s well-watered landscape from the seat of a kayak or canoe. Before introducing readers to the quiet, green world that lies within and around the heart of the city, Wiest gives some pointers on water safety (including swimming and boating); on weather, flood stages, and legal access; and on an often unseen but always present paddling companion—alligators. She also provides a gear checklist for a day trip, a brief guide to boats and paddles, and a “sampler” list of easy places to paddle for true beginners. Presented in nine chapters, each organized around a river system or coastal basin and comprising a “suite” of paddling trips, the excursions described by Wiest offer a general description of the destination, directions (both driving and paddling), and details about the paddling conditions and access sites, which are all publicly owned or managed. Each chapter lists mileages, USGS gauging station numbers, and GIS locations when applicable. Also including ninety color photos and more than thirty detailed maps, Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways offers both novice and experienced paddlers a helpful and enjoyable reference for experiencing nature at water level, in and around Houston. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Author : James Marten
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813183952
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Texas Divided written by James Marten and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Civil War hardly scratched the Confederate state of Texas. Thousands of Texans died on battlefields hundreds of miles to the east, of course, but the war did not destroy Texas's farms or plantations or her few miles of railroads. Although unchallenged from without, Confederate Texans faced challenges from within—from fellow Texans who opposed their cause. Dissension sprang from a multitude of seeds. It emerged from prewar political and ethnic differences; it surfaced after wartime hardships and potential danger wore down the resistance of less-than-enthusiastic rebels; it flourished, as some reaped huge profits from the bizarre war economy of Texas. Texas Divided is neither the history of the Civil War in Texas, nor of secession or Reconstruction. Rather, it is the history of men dealing with the sometimes fragmented southern society in which they lived—some fighting to change it, others to preserve it—and an examination of the lines that divided Texas and Texans during the sectional conflict of the nineteenth century.
