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Author : Ray Franks
Publisher : Ray Franks Pub Ranch
ISBN 13 : 9780943976020
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Amarillo Texas-The First Hundred Years written by Ray Franks and published by Ray Franks Pub Ranch. This book was released on 1986-06-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ray Franks
Publisher : Ray Franks Pub Ranch
ISBN 13 : 9780943976051
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (76 download)
Download or read book Amarillo, Texas Two--The First Hundred Years written by Ray Franks and published by Ray Franks Pub Ranch. This book was released on 1987-10-01 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric W. Miller
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681063166
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (81 download)
Download or read book 100 Things to Do in Amarillo Before You Die written by Eric W. Miller and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Amarillo. Yellow City. Bomb City. Any name you choose, it’s unique. Rooted in Texas lore but full of modern surprises around every turn, Amarillo is much more than an overnight stop on the way somewhere else. With 100 Things to Do in Amarillo Before You Die, get the best insider itineraries and ideas to make the most of your time, whether you spend it eating, exploring, or just taking it all in. Well known are the Big Texan Steak Ranch with its 72-ounce steak challenge and the Cadillac Ranch, perhaps the best-known roadside public art installation in the nation. They anchor either end of Route 66 as it passes through Amarillo but complete your cruise with a visit to Historic Route 66, a one-mile neighborhood in the center of town with galleries, shops, restaurants and clubs. Think about searching for the railroad highlights of Amarillo’s past, or catching the growing number of murals all around town, or visiting the impressive number of museums in the area. Palo Duro Canyon is a magnet for all sorts of outdoor activity, but so are Lake Meredith National Recreation Area and Wildcat Bluff Nature Center. Local author Eric W. Miller’s 100 Things to Do in Amarillo Before You Die definitively answers the question of what to do in Amarillo. It’s more than a bucket list; it’s an open ended ode to his adopted hometown.
Author : John Miller Morris
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443673
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Taming the Land: the Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains written by John Miller Morris and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards--sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In "Taming the Land," he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell--in the images captured and the messages carried--add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago. "Taming the Land" presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.
Author : Ron Smith
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439623392
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Amarillo written by Ron Smith and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009-08-17 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many people are surprised to learn that the city of Amarillo was actually founded twice. Originally settled by J. T. Berry in April 1887 and known as Oneida, the site of the town was located on such low ground that many residents feared it was susceptible to flooding. In 1888, one concerned resident named Henry B. Sanborn began buying land a mile east of the site as a potential place to relocate the town. In 1889, the town's fears came to fruition when heavy rains flooded the original town site, prompting residents to move to Sanborn's new location. The town went on to become one of the world's busiest cattle shipping points in the late 1890s, causing its population to grow significantly. Today Amarillo is the largest city in the Texas Panhandle, and its economy continues to thrive on cattle, along with agriculture, oil, and natural gas.
Author : Lucie Genay
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826364225
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)
Download or read book Under the Cap of Invisibility written by Lucie Genay and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book investigates how Pantex has impacted local identity by molding elements of the past into the guaranty of its future and its concealment.
Author : Christine Wyly
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439624674
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Amarillo's Historic Wolflin District written by Christine Wyly and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-09-06 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In September 1887, J. T. Berry bought 640 acres of school land from the State of Texas. Several years earlier, this raw section of prairie had been home to buffalo herds and the Kiowa and Comanche Nations. Berry could not have known that this land would one day become home to cattle barons, oil and gas pioneers, and a U.S. ambassador. When Charles Oldham Wolflin married Alpha Eunice McVean a decade later and acquired that same section of land, he never dreamed that his son would develop that land from a dairy farm into a premier residential development. Today the Wolflin Historic District is a vibrant, lush neighborhood with tree-lined brick streets and stately houses. It is home to several thousand residents, including descendants of pioneer families, modern-day professionals, and public servants who contribute to the arts, are involved in philanthropy, and are active in community service.
Author : Marian Clark
Publisher : Council Oak Books
ISBN 13 : 9781571781284
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (812 download)
Download or read book The Route 66 Cookbook written by Marian Clark and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the only culinary guide to what Steinbeck dubbed "The Mother Road." It includes over 250 delicious, time-tested recipes from places like the U Drop Inn, the Covered Wagon Trading Post, the Pig Hip, and the Bungalow Inn. It is also a nostalgic recreation of the Route 66 of the past, with stories from the waitresses and cooks who poured the coffee and baked the pie. This is a gem of Americana, and a treasury of comforting dishes from a time when the flavors along the road changed as dramatically as the landscape and accents as you sped across the heartland
Author : Paul Howard Carlson
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725874
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (258 download)
Download or read book Amarillo written by Paul Howard Carlson and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive history of the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Panhandle-plains Historical Review written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Evetts Haley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 518 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Panhandle-Plains Historical Review written by James Evetts Haley and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 518 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James McGill
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1546218491
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (462 download)
Download or read book The First One Hundred Years of Upson County Negro History written by James McGill and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2017-12-21 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Upson County, Georgia, has produced great Negro leaders whom God has given gifts to make a difference in the first one hundred years of history. As I researched the history of Upson County, Georgia, my soul got excited about what God did through willing vessels. My goal in this book is to encourage future generations to become available vessels to be used by God as difference makers in a changing world and to show how Negroes in Upson County thrived in the early 1800s and 1900s by investing their time, talents, and money to make the county great. Unfortunately, there are very scarce recordings of history of early Negro settlers in Upson County, and few vital statistics are available. However, as the result of painstaking effort and research as this work progressed, it is believed that this volume is as accurate as humanly possible.
Author : Henry C. Dethloff
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492890
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Engineering Agriculture at Texas A&M written by Henry C. Dethloff and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-02-18 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The abundance of agricultural production enjoyed in the United States is the result of a federal-state partnership that relies on land grant universities to respond to the needs of society through research, invention, problem-solving, outreach, and applied science and engineering. The Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at Texas A&M University, established in 1915, has been an important part of that effort. Over the hundred years of its existence, it has successfully tackled the challenges of mechanization, electrification, irrigation, harvest, transport, and more to the benefit of agriculture in Texas, the United States, and the world. In this book, historian Henry Dethloff and current department chair Stephen Searcy explore the history of the department—its people, its activity, its growth—and project the department’s future for its second century, when its primary task will be to sustainably help meet the needs of a predicted 9.6 billion Earth residents and to recognize that societal food concerns are focused more and more on sustainable production and human health.
Author : Glenn Shirley
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806170778
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Belle Starr and Her Times written by Glenn Shirley and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who was Belle Starr? What was she that so many myths surround her? Born in Carthage, Missouri, in 1848, the daughter of a well-to-do hotel owner, she died forty-one years later, gunned down near her cabin in the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. After her death she was called “a bandit queen,” “a female Jesse James,” “the Petticoat Terror of the Plains.” Fantastic legends proliferated about her. In this book Glenn Shirley sifts through those myths and unearths the facts. In a highly readable and informative style Shirley presents a complex and intriguing portrait. Belle Starr loved horses, music, the outdoors-and outlaws. Familiar with some of the worst bad men of her day, she was, however, convicted of no crime worse than horse thievery. Shirley also describes the historical context in which Belles Starr lived. After knowing the violence of the Civil War as a child in the Ozarks, She moves to Dallas in the 1860s and married a former Confederate guerilla who specialized in armed robbery. After he was killed, she found a home among renegade Cherokees in the Indian Territory, on her second husband’s allotment. She traveled as far west as Los Angeles to escape the law and as far north as Detroit to go to jail. She married three times and had two children, whom she idolized and tormented. Ironically she was shot when she had decided to go straight, probably murdered by a neighbor who feared that she would turn him in to the police. This book will find a wide readership among western-history and outlaw buffs, folklorists, sociologists, and regional historians. Shirley’s summary of the literature about Belle Starr is as interesting as the true story of Belle herself, who has become the West’s best-known woman outlaw.
Author : Leo J. Klosterman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book 100 Years of Science and Technology in Texas written by Leo J. Klosterman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science and technology have played an important role in shaping twentieth century Texas. During the one hundred years between 1886 and 1986 there occurred growth and change of revolutionary magnitude.
Author : Sara R. Massey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585444434
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (444 download)
Download or read book Black Cowboys Of Texas written by Sara R. Massey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.
Author : James Frank Veninga
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410525
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Humanities and the Civic Imagination written by James Frank Veninga and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For those who believe that the humanities in America are in trouble, suffering from over-specialization and never-ending intramural conflicts, this collection of addresses and essays provides much needed hope. Since the early 1970s, state humanities councils, working under a Congressional mandate, have developed important models of how the study of history, literature, and culture can be infused into the public life of the nation. Often countering trends that have dominated the humanities on campus, state councils, drawing upon the energies and resources of volunteer boards, professional staff, and public-minded scholars, have demonstrated through thousands of public programs--documentary films, conferences, readings and discussions, public issues forums, interpretive exhibits, oral histories, lectures, discussions, and workshops--that the humanities retain the capacity to help foster a communal vision that can revitalize the public life of the nation.
