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Author : Jon D. Swartz
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Total Pages : 7 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (135 download)
Download or read book Edward A. Clark Texana Collection written by Jon D. Swartz and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 7 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Zelade
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1461625394
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Hill Country written by Richard Zelade and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1999-02-01 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book features ten tours to Central Texas that capture the essence of its flavor and charm. Included in this guide are historic tidbits, folklore, geography, major attractions, maps, listings of accomodations, a calendar of events, and more.
Author : Cody Memorial Library
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Total Pages : 27 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (167 download)
Download or read book The Edward A. Clark Collection of Texana written by Cody Memorial Library and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 27 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Dublin, Ohio : OCLC Online Computer Library Center
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Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Guide to Special Collections in the OCLC Database written by OCLC. and published by Dublin, Ohio : OCLC Online Computer Library Center. This book was released on 1988 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide begins by describing the OCLC database, including ways in which it is used by librarians and library patrons; countries reached by OCLC; programs intended to enrich the database, e.g. retrospective conversion projects; cataloging formats (books, serials, sound recordings, musical scores, audiovisual media, maps, archives and manuscripts, and machine-readable data files); and vignettes of the database (OCLC coverage of Shakespeare and Bach, the top 100 authors and the top 25 composers in the database, and a brief discussion of special collections). An annotated listing of the special collections of OCLC member libraries that are cataloged in the OCLC database is then presented. This list is arranged alphabetically by state, then alphabetically by institution within each state, and a subject index to these entries (which constitute only a fraction of the database) is provided. Four appendixes include lists of languages in the database, Title II-C "Strengthening Research Library Resources Program" projects, and major microforms projects in member libraries. A brief description of the OCLC online union catalog concludes the guide, and a brief questionnaire inviting reader comments and suggestions is attached. (CGD)
Author : Richard B. McCaslin
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 0876112645
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (761 download)
Download or read book At the Heart of Texas written by Richard B. McCaslin and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History like that of Texas is rare. . . . Is it not discreditable to the people of Texas, that they should leave the collection of material for the history of the State to the great endowed Northern libraries? . . . Let Texas arouse herself for very shame, and begin at once the discharge of her filial duty." So wrote George Pierce Garrison in the first issue of the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, published in July 1897, just months after the establishment of the organization on March 2. The state of Texas was just half a century old; the city of Austin, going back to the days of the Republic, was a little older—a few years past its half-century; and the University of Texas, where Garrison was "the history professor," was not yet fourteen. Earlier attempts to organize historical societies in Texas, traced in the opening chapter, illuminate the factors that came ultimately to be decisive in the success of the Association: the wisdom in linking the organization with the University of Texas, the inclusion of lay historians, and the continued insistence on high academic standards. And, from the beginning, the Association has established a tradition for publishing in the Quarterly, in addition to the Anglo story, the stories of the Indians, the Spanish, and the French. According to author Richard B. McCaslin, "It may be that the Association survived where its predecessors had not because Garrison, who was as much a Progressive historian as any of his contemporaries, understood the value of inclusiveness." The text is organized in chronological chapters by the tenures of the seven directors, George Garrison to Ron Tyler, all of whom were professors in the UT history department. Within the larger framework of the directors, the programs, and the publications, McCaslin gives shape to the unique interaction of forces—university, political, and the academic/lay membership—that has accorded the Association a character and suppleness that continues to ensure its long endurance. The book is profusely illustrated, and sidebars culled from past issues of the Quarterly complement the text. Winner of the Award of Merit from the Philosophical Socierty of Texas
Author : Lee Ash
Publisher : New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1288 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Subject Collections written by Lee Ash and published by New Providence, N.J. : R.R. Bowker. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
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Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)
Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
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Author : Richard Zelade
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 158979608X
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas written by Richard Zelade and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-05-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Formerly a part of the popular Lone Star Guide to the Texas Hill Country, Central Texas now gets its own treatment in this up-to-date guide that includes history, folklore, and geography; detailed listings of lodgings, restaurants, and entertainment; major attractions, including state parks, museums, and historic places; directions, days and hours of operation, addresses, and phone numbers; and maps and calendar of events. Five tours take you from the Balcones Escarpment to "Central Texas Stew," a region of the state largely settled by Czechs and Germans in the early twentieth century.
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Total Pages : 638 pages
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Download or read book Directory of Special Libraries and Information Centers written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert M. Utley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195127420
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Justice written by Robert M. Utley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the annals of law enforcement few groups or agencies have become as encrusted with legend as the Texas Rangers. The always-readable historian Robert Utley has done a thorough job of chipping away these encrustations and revealing the Ranger's rather rag-and-bone, catch-as-catch-can beginning in a time when the Texas frontier was very far from being stable or safe. A fine book."--Larry McMurtry, author of Lonesome Dove From The Lone Ranger to Lonesome Dove, the Texas Rangers have been celebrated in fact and fiction for their daring exploits in bringing justice to the Old West. In Lone Star Justice, best-selling author Robert M. Utley captures the first hundred years of Ranger history, in a narrative packed with adventures worthy of Zane Grey or Larry McMurtry. The Rangers began in the 1820s as loose groups of citizen soldiers, banding together to chase Indians and Mexicans on the raw Texas frontier. Utley shows how, under the leadership of men like Jack Hays and Ben McCulloch, these fiercely independent fighters were transformed into a well-trained, cohesive team. Armed with a revolutionary new weapon, Samuel Colt's repeating revolver, they became a deadly fighting force, whether battling Comanches on the plains or storming the city of Monterey in the Mexican-American War. As the Rangers evolved from part-time warriors to full-time lawmen by 1874, they learned to face new dangers, including homicidal feuds, labor strikes, and vigilantes turned mobs. They battled train robbers, cattle thieves and other outlaws--it was Rangers, for example, who captured John Wesley Hardin, the most feared gunman in the West. Based on exhaustive research in Texas archives, this is the most authoritative history of the Texas Rangers in over half a century. It will stand alongside other classics of Western history by Robert M. Utley--a vivid portrait of the Old West and of the legendary men who kept the law on the lawless frontier. "A rip-snortin', six-guns-blazin' saga of good guys and bad guys who were sometimes one and the same. By taking on the Texas Rangers, Utley, an accomplished and well-regarded historian of the American West, risks treading on ground that is both hallowed and thoroughly documented. He skirts those issues by turning in a balanced history.... An accessible survey of some interesting--and bloody--times."--Kirkus Reviews
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Total Pages : 1216 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Subject Collections written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Light Townsend Cummins
Publisher : Greenwood
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Guide to the History of Texas written by Light Townsend Cummins and published by Greenwood. This book was released on 1988-01-13 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Organized in two major sections, this definitive reference work provides historical essays by leading scholars in the field and surveys of the principal archival holdings in Texas, with special emphasis on those significant to the history of the state. The essays, covering the most important chronological periods and including some special topics, offer up-to-date summaries of the major works and most significant interpretations in the historical literature, focusing on the political, economic, social, cultural, and intellectual concerns of the past. The second section provides an overview of the major archives within the state, which will enable the researcher to locate primary sources. Each article is written by a historian or an archivist with special knowledge of the archives and includes an introduction to the collection, location of the archive, hours of operation, and a wealth of other useful information. There are also brief discussions of topics that might be developed for further study, from the resources of the particular archive.
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Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book National Union Catalog written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Author : Michael Vinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166231
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Bluffing Texas Style written by Michael Vinson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-26 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, “like a bestseller.” In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century—the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as “Austin Squatty,” playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he’d fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he’d cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.
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Total Pages : 300 pages
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Download or read book Texas Libraries written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Directory and statistics" (called -1954 "Directory of Texas libraries") issued as Apr. number, 1954-58 (Apr. 1954 as Special ed.).
Author : Linda Scarbrough
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Road, River, & Ol' Boy Politics written by Linda Scarbrough and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Memory of Mary Dell Moore, Given by Claire Jones. (2007).
