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Hidden History of East Texas

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Author : Tex Midkiff
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146714603X
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)

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Download or read book Hidden History of East Texas written by Tex Midkiff and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heritage of East Texas partakes in the same degree of unexpected turns and hidden depths as its backroads and bayous. One line of inquiry meanders into another. Start out searching for La Salle's grave and end up chasing Spanish gold in Upshur County. From Sam Houston's Bible to the Longview nightclub that hosted both Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one tale follows another and introduces a cast of characters that includes Candace and Peter Ellis Bean, Old Rip, Jack Lummus and Vernon Wayne Howell. Part the Pine Curtain with Tex Midkiff for a history as heated as the La Grange Chicken Ranch's parlor and irresistible as a batch of Golden sweet potatoes.

From Texas to the East

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Author : Christopher James Castaneda
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Texas to the East written by Christopher James Castaneda and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immediately after World War II, several Houston-based firms organized to transport natural gas from the giant fields of the Southwest to the large utility companies that distributed energy in the urban-industrial centers along the East coast. This relatively inexpensive and clean-burning fuel quickly made spectacular inroads into markets previously served by coal and petroleum. Texas Eastern was one of the major competitors in the post-war industry. The company's origins were unique. Early in 1947, a group of entrepreneurs led by Herman and George R. Brown, founders of the Brown & Root construction firm, purchased the Big Inch and Little Big Inch pipelines from the U.S. government, which had built them to transport crude oil and petroleum product vital to the war effort. By converting these pipelines to the transportation of natural gas, the founders of Texas Eastern got in on the ground floor of a dynamic industry. With full access to company files, Christopher J. Castaneda and Joseph A. Pratt follow the company from its creation in 1947 to its purchase by Panhandle Eastern Corporation in 1989. During this period, Texas Eastern's strategy focused on expansion of its natural gas system and diversification into other related industries including liquefied natural gas sales, North Sea oil and gas production, and Houston real estate. In the 1970s and 1980s, the company faced a series of challenges from the energy crisis, the deregulation of natural gas, and the hostile takeover movement in the energy industries. By the late 1980s, the process of diversification had come full circle, as the company sold off subsidiaries and refocused on the transmission of natural gas as a part of Panhandle Eastern's vast system.

East of Texas, West of Hell

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Author : Rod Davis
Publisher : NewSouth Books
ISBN 13 : 1588384179
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (883 download)

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Download or read book East of Texas, West of Hell written by Rod Davis and published by NewSouth Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The latest from prose stylist and accomplished novelist Rod Davis exposes the dark underbelly and underground economies of God's country. A desperate call from heiress Elle Meridian shakes ex-Dallas TV anchor Jack Prine from his comfortable life in the Big Easy as he begins his long search for Meridian’s missing teenage daughter. Instead of the girl, Jack discovers the savaged bodies of drug dealers and embarks on a journey of relentless violence and lethal betrayal across the South. As an intricate web of deception, extortion, and murder unwinds, Prine finds himself at odds with neo-Nazis, the cartel, and the Dixie Mafia. Even if Prine can save Meridian’s child, can he justify the blood on his hands? Rod Davis expands the thrilling world of South, America in this Southern noir, rife with chaos, unexpected turns, and fascinating characters.

East Texas in World War II

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Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738584645
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)

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Download or read book East Texas in World War II written by Bill O'Neal and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas made a remarkable contribution to the American war effort during World War II . Almost 830,000 Texans, including 12,000 women, donned uniforms, and more than 23,000 Texas fighting men died for their country. America's most decorated soldier, Lt. Audie Murphy, and most decorated sailor, submarine commander Sam Dealey, both were Texans. Texas A&M, an all-male military college, placed 20,000 men in the armed forces, of which 14,000 were officers--more than any other school in the nation, including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, the supreme commander of Allied Forces in Europe, was born in Denison in northeast Texas. Adm. Chester Nimitz, commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet, was born and raised in Texas. Almost 1.5 million soldiers, sailors, and fliers trained at scores of Texas bases. Texas oil fueled the Allied war effort, while Texas shipyards and defense plants provided a flood of war machines and munitions during the war effort.

Trees of East Texas

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Author : Robert A. Vines
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292780176
Total Pages : 557 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Trees of East Texas written by Robert A. Vines and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 557 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A family-by-family guide to identifying Texas trees includes illustrations and detailed descriptions of the flowers, fruit, leaves, twigs, and range of each tree

An East Texas Family’s Civil War

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Author : John T. Whatley
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 0807171328
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book An East Texas Family’s Civil War written by John T. Whatley and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2019-04-17 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.

Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas

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Author : David M. Bernstein
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439639981
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book Southern Pacific Railroad in Eastern Texas written by David M. Bernstein and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-03-14 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Southern Pacific Railroad and its predecessors served Texas from 1853 to 1996. Stretching from El Paso to the Louisiana border and from the Rio Grande Valley to the Red River, Southern Pacific opened up vast areas of the state to settlement by transporting people, building materials, and livestock. The railroad fueled Texass economy by moving oil, timber, agricultural commodities, coal, automobiles, petrochemicals, cement, steel, consumer goods, and myriad other products. It hauled the marble that built the state capitol in Austin and the materials to build the massive seawall in Galveston. Southern Pacific also played an important role in developing the ports of Beaumont, Galveston, Houston, and Corpus Christi. This book is a photographic record of Southern Pacific in eastern Texas during the 50-year period following World War II to the 1996 merger with the Union Pacific Railroad.

There Ain't No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales

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Author : Bill Brett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book There Ain't No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales written by Bill Brett and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Olympus, Texas

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Author : Stacey Swann
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 1984897403
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (848 download)

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Download or read book Olympus, Texas written by Stacey Swann and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-05-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut" (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga, rich in drama and psychological complexity. After all, at some point, don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?

Land of Bears and Honey

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Author : Joe C. Truett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292788525
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Land of Bears and Honey written by Joe C. Truett and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This award-winning “gem” of a conservation classic tells the story of the land, wildlife, and ecology of East Texas (Quarterly Review of Biology). Winner of the Ottis Lock Endowment Award from the East Texas Historical Association; the Texas Literary Festival Award for Nonfiction from the Southwestern Booksellers Association & Dallas Times Herald; and the Annual Publication Award, Texas Chapter of the Wildlife Society As hickory groves and fox squirrels began to vanish from the East Texas landscape in the second half of the twentieth century, two biologists who specialized in wildlife and endangered species began work on Land of Bears and Honey. Their purpose was not only to eulogize what was lost, but to encourage us to save what we still can. The result is an “elegant chronicle of the natural history of a once-rich area [that] will appeal strongly to birders, ecologists, to anyone who enjoys the outdoors” (Publishers Weekly). “This deceptively slender volume is three things: a how-to-book, an aesthetic feast and a moral tale.” —Dallas Morning News “To compare the style and content of this little book to that of the late Aldo Leopold is indeed high praise, yet the reviewer finds this comparison valid.” —Quarterly Review of Biology “In Land of Bears and Honey, East Texans have their own regional Walden, written with keen historical perspectives, literary style, and deep respect for the land.” —East Texas Historical Journal “This graceful blend of history, narrative and dialogue paints a noble portrait of one more disappearing chunk of Americana.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

Antebellum Jefferson, Texas

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Author : Jacques D. Bagur
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574412655
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book Antebellum Jefferson, Texas written by Jacques D. Bagur and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wild Flowers of the Big Thicket, East Texas, and Western Louisiana

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Author : Geyata Ajilvsgi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Wild Flowers of the Big Thicket, East Texas, and Western Louisiana written by Geyata Ajilvsgi and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A total of 475 wild flowers from the area of Texas' Big Thicket are described and spectacularly pictured in true-to-life, full-color photographs in this field guide to one of the United States' most diverse, complex, and biologically lavish wild-flower regions"--Inside flap.

A Saint from Texas

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Author : Edmund White
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1635572568
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (355 download)

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Download or read book A Saint from Texas written by Edmund White and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Edmund White, a bold and sweeping new novel that traces the extraordinary fates of twin sisters, one destined for Parisian nobility and the other for Catholic sainthood. Yvette and Yvonne Crawford are twin sisters, born on a humble patch of East Texas prairie but bound for far more dramatic and tragic fates. Just as an untold fortune of oil lies beneath their daddy's land, both girls harbor their own secrets and dreams-ones that will carry them far from Texas and from each other. As the decades unfold, Yvonne will ascend the highest ranks of Parisian society as Yvette gives herself to a lifetime of worship and service in the streets of Jericó, Colombia. And yet, even as they remake themselves in their radically different lives, the twins find that the bonds of family and the past are unbreakable. Spanning the 1950s to the recent past, Edmund White's marvelous novel serves up an immensely pleasurable epic of two Texas women as their lives traverse varied worlds: the swaggering opulence of the Dallas nouveau riche, the airless pretension of the Paris gratin, and the strict piety of a Colombian convent. For nearly half a century, Edmund White's work has revitalized American literature, blithely breaking down boundaries of class and sexuality, and A Saint From Texas is one of his most joyous, gorgeously written, and piercing works to date.

Home Truths

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Author : Gerald Duff
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780875654355
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Home Truths written by Gerald Duff and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Novelist Gerald Duff grew up both in Polk County, in Deep East Texas, and in Nederland, near the Gulf Coast, two drastically different areas in terms of social and economic status, and the way they interact. These communities shaped the way Duff thought and lived, causing him to build up certain false personae to fit in with the crowd. These changes and more are described within the pages of Duff's new memoir, Home Truths: A Deep East Texas Memory. From dealing with intrusive family members to judgmental classmates to marital bliss and misery, Duff's memoir describes situations familiar to anyone who has ever lived in a small town. Experiences unfamiliar to the youths of today include growing up during World War II and the descriptions of propaganda tactics, hunting for your own meals, and dealing with the social mores of the 1950s and 1960s. Other occurrences however, such as working a summer job and the awkwardness of first dates, speak to people of every generation, young and old. Early in life Duff learned to tell lies as a survival mechanism against his meddling family and occasionally cruel classmates. He describes the ordeal of hiding both his domestic situation and his talent for the written word. Duff's talents for lies and half-truths helped him not only to discover a hidden talent within himself, but also a future career.

Whistle in the Piney Woods

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Author : Robert S. Maxwell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410617
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book Whistle in the Piney Woods written by Robert S. Maxwell and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Story of the founding of the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad, its symbiotic relationship with forests and the lumber industry and its role in the development of East Texas.

The Best of East Texas II

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Author : Bob Bowman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 83 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (738 download)

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Download or read book The Best of East Texas II written by Bob Bowman and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 83 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

War in East Texas

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Author : Bill O'Neal
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781574417289
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book War in East Texas written by Bill O'Neal and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2006 by the Best of East Texas Publishers, Lufkin, Texas.