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Author : John Stribling Moursund
Publisher : Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
ISBN 13 : 9780890152195
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (521 download)
Download or read book Blanco County History written by John Stribling Moursund and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1979 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Speer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Blanco County History 1853-1885 written by John W. Speer and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Blanco County News
Publisher : Curtis Media
ISBN 13 : 9780881071023
Total Pages : 832 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Heritage of Blanco County, Texas written by Blanco County News and published by Curtis Media. This book was released on 1987-01-01 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John W. Speer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book History of Blanco County written by John W. Speer and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bessie Travis Brigham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (271 download)
Download or read book The history of education in Blanco County ... written by Bessie Travis Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stribling Moursund
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Blanco County Families for 100 Years written by John Stribling Moursund and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wes Ferguson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495105
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Blanco River written by Wes Ferguson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-22 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For eighty-seven miles, the swift and shallow Blanco River winds through the Texas Hill Country. Its water is clear and green, darkened by frequent pools. Wes Ferguson and Jacob Botter have paddled, walked, and waded the Blanco. They have explored its history, people, wildlife, and the natural beauty that surprises everyone who experiences this river. Described as “the defining element in some of the Hill Country’s most beautiful scenery,” the Blanco flows both above and below ground, part of a network of rivers and aquifers that sustains the region’s wildlife and millions of humans alike. However, overpumping and prolonged drought have combined to weaken the Blanco’s flow and sustenance, and in 2000—for the first time in recorded history—the river’s most significant feeder spring, Jacob’s Well, briefly ceased to flow. It stopped again in 2008. Then, in the spring of 2015, a devastating flood killed twelve people and toppled the huge cypress trees along its banks, altering not just the look of the river, but the communities that had come to depend on its serene presence. River travelers Ferguson and Botter tell the remarkable story of this changeable river, confronting challenges and dangers as well as rare opportunities to see parts of the river few have seen. The authors also photographed and recorded the human response to the destruction of a beloved natural resource that has become yet another episode in the story of water in Texas. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.
Author : Pamela A. LeBlanc
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623498856
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book My Stories, All True written by Pamela A. LeBlanc and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-25 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. David Bamberger has been profiled in the New York Times and the New Yorker, interviewed on NPR, and featured in a National Geographic video. He and his Texas Hill Country ranch have been the subject of many articles and two books published by Texas A&M University Press. In My Stories, All True, Bamberger, now in his nineties, tells the story of his life as an entrepreneur and conservationist in his own way. He recounts to journalist and friend Pamela LeBlanc how he made a living as a vacuum cleaner salesman, struck it rich as a partner in a wildly successful chain of fried chicken restaurants, and bought, then brought back to life, the “sorriest piece of land” in Blanco County, Texas—the rural oasis he calls Selah, Bamberger Ranch Preserve. For more than a year, Bamberger and LeBlanc roamed the preserve—five thousand acres nursed back to environmental health with money earned from the sale of Church’s Chicken—as Bamberger reminisced about losing his father in a steel factory accident; gathering mushrooms to sell to neighbors when he was a kid; making a living as a door-to-door salesman; running a multimillion-dollar restaurant business; rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sam Walton, Jane Goodall, and Lady Bird Johnson; and, finally, turning to his land for the work that has earned national acclaim. With a storyteller’s flair and insightful commentary from LeBlanc, Bamberger shares the tales of a remarkable life—as a resourceful country boy, a savvy entrepreneur, and a consummate conservationist whose vision has set the standard for the restoration of nature on private lands worldwide.
Author : United States. Federal Civil Works Administration
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 3 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (865 download)
Download or read book History of Rio Blanco County written by United States. Federal Civil Works Administration and published by . This book was released on 1933 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Curtis Chubb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780967187600
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (876 download)
Download or read book Biography of the Old Blanco County Courthouse written by Curtis Chubb and published by . This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Inhabitants of Blanco County, Texas, as Listed in the Census of 1860, Schedule 4, Productions of Agriculture written by and published by . This book was released on 1988* with total page 20 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 : Glen E. Lich
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The German Texans written by Glen E. Lich and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German culture in Texas.
Author : Ben Rehder
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312940942
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Guilt Trip written by Ben Rehder and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-10-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game warden John Marlin hopes that Burnett, a likeable kid, isn't found dead in his burned down house. But Marlin doesn't have the same warm fuzzy feelings about rancher Vance Scofield, who is missing after his SUV is found in the river. Scofield, a skirt-chasing SOB, is a "high fencer," a rancher who pens trophy bucks behind deer-proof fences which lazy hunters can bag for a fee. To Marlin it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Worse, a range war of sorts has erupted with the low-fence ranchers, and things are turning downright ugly. Of course Marlin still doesn't know about the X-rated pictures a blackmailer took of the state senator in cahoots with the high fencers...the scheme being hatched by two bumbling poachers...or the stolen red Corvette which may be the key to everything. What has caught his attention is the sheriff's department's pretty new deputy...
Author : Mavis P. Kelsey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1585445495
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (854 download)
Download or read book The Courthouses of Texas written by Mavis P. Kelsey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A county courthouse stands not only as the center of government, but also as the center of civic pride. Some with stately towers and arched doors or windows, some with high brick chimneys and mansard roofs, some in modern concrete and glass, the 254 courthouses of Texas provide an invitation to public life, a testament to the ideal of justice, and an introduction to period architecture. It is no wonder, then, that many tourists each year visit these edifices. This new edition of a classic, indispensable, full-color guide—a true collector’s item for Texas history fans—will help travelers choose which courthouses they want to add to their trips and view them knowledgeably. For each county a color photograph pictures the courthouse and an account sketches the sequence of the seats of government, the location and style of the current building, and tidbits of fascinating lore about county and county seat names and history. Courthouses and the “squares” around many of them offer a bonanza for history buffs, antique collectors, genealogists, architecture enthusiasts, and photographers. Many of them house or are near local history museums, and many display historical markers that introduce the area to visitors. Especially in many smaller county seats, the courthouse square offers a genre scene of a special moment in Texas’ life. Included in this updated edition are the latest views of some of Texas’ most historic and architecturally significant courthouses, including those restored under the Texas Historical Commission’s Historic Courthouse Preservation Program. For all those who plan their travels to see courthouses, and all those who in their travels for other reasons enjoy detours into the heritage and pride of a people, this beautiful and informative book opens the way.
Author : Ben Rehder
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781466414549
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (145 download)
Download or read book Buck Fever written by Ben Rehder and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2011-10-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Game Warden John Marlin investigates the death of a man dressed in a deer costume who is shot just outside the home of the county's most important resident: a white-tailed deer named Buck. Martin's Press.
Author : Thad Sitton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292706421
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Freedom Colonies written by Thad Sitton and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2005-03-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed land that had been deemed too poor for farming and turned them into successful family farms. In these self-sufficient rural communities, often known as "freedom colonies," African Americans created a refuge from the discrimination and violence that routinely limited the opportunities of blacks in the Jim Crow South. Freedom Colonies is the first book to tell the story of these independent African American settlements. Thad Sitton and James Conrad focus on communities in Texas, where blacks achieved a higher percentage of land ownership than in any other state of the Deep South. The authors draw on a vast reservoir of ex-slave narratives, oral histories, written memoirs, and public records to describe how the freedom colonies formed and to recreate the lifeways of African Americans who made their living by farming or in skilled trades such as milling and blacksmithing. They also uncover the forces that led to the decline of the communities from the 1930s onward, including economic hard times and the greed of whites who found legal and illegal means of taking black-owned land. And they visit some of the remaining communities to discover how their independent way of life endures into the twenty-first century.
