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Author : Dorothy Aarts
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 22 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Republic of Texas written by Dorothy Aarts and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : T. Lindsay Baker
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806121895
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Texas written by T. Lindsay Baker and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1991-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The indefatigable T. Lindsay Baker has now turned his enormous mental and physical energies to the subject and has brought to view - if not to life -eighty-six Texas ghost towns for the reader's pleasure. Baker lists three criteria for inclusion: tangible remains, public access, and statewide coverage. In each case Baker comments about the town's founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. There are maps and instructions for reaching each site and numerous photographs showing the past and present status of each. The contemporary photos were taken, in most instances, by Baker himself, who proves as adept a photographer as he is researcher and writer....Baker has done his work thoroughly and well, within limits imposed by necessity. He obviously had fun in the process and it shows in his prose."---New Mexico Historical Review
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book East Texas Mill Towns & Ghost Towns written by W. T. Block and published by Epigram Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes Angelina, Chambers, Jefferson, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk and Tyler counties.
Author : W. T. Block
Publisher : Epigram Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book East Texas Mill Towns & Ghost Towns: Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity counties written by W. T. Block and published by Epigram Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second in a 3-part anthology of old East Texas sawmill towns and ghost towns. It includes Hardin, Jasper, Liberty, Montgomery, Sabine, Shelby and Trinity counties.
Author : Lambert Florin
Publisher : Promontory
ISBN 13 : 9780883940662
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of the Southwest written by Lambert Florin and published by Promontory. This book was released on 1992-05-01 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the ghost towns of Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, and Nevada
Author : James Lynn Wheat
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)
Download or read book More Ghost Towns of Texas written by James Lynn Wheat and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Jane Gentry
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603443975
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Birth of a Texas Ghost Town written by Mary Jane Gentry and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edited and with an introduction by T. Lindsay Baker; foreword by Larry Gatlin.
Author : T. Lindsey Baker
Publisher : ACU Press
ISBN 13 : 0891128581
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (911 download)
Download or read book Texas Stories I Like to Tell My Friends written by T. Lindsey Baker and published by ACU Press. This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entertaining collection of colorful stories from Texas history that give readers plenty of reason to laugh, cry, and gain an even greater understanding of the people and moments that have been a part of the Texas story. "It looked like millions of stars were shooting down to the ground," said Julia Palmer Roberts, with "streaks of fire flying in every direction." The 1833 meteor shower struck fear into the hearts of people across America, including Julia's family in Texas, who met the phenomenon on their knees, praying for help during what they were sure was the end of the world. Julia's is just one of the stories that author and historian T. Lindsay Baker relates in Texas Stories I like to Tell My Friends. Baker has been finding and telling stories from Texas history for decades. Even before he published his popular Ghost Towns of Texas books, Baker was writing a regular column for the local newspaper in Thurber, Texas, inviting readers to laugh and cry with stories from years-gone-by. Texas Stories I like to Tell My Friends brings those stories together for readers all over. This volume focuses on stories that originated in the 1800s, bringing out many details about pioneering, slavery, the Civil War, and forgotten moments in time like the forming of a ghost town, a failed railway strike, the tracking of a horse thief, and more. Alternately startling and enlivening but always interesting, Texas Stories provides a valuable reading experience for anyone interested in the stories of people who came before us.
Author : Jim Hinckley
Publisher : Voyageur Press
ISBN 13 : 0760369690
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Route 66 written by Jim Hinckley and published by Voyageur Press. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Route 66 expert Jim Hinckley as he tours more than 60 ghost towns along the Mother Road, rich in stories and history! The quintessential boom-and-bust highway of the American West, Route 66 once hosted a thriving array of boomtowns built around oil mines, railroad stops, cattle ranches, resorts, stagecoach stops, and gold mines. Illustrated with gorgeous sepia-tone and color photography by Kerrick James, this book tours dozens of ghost towns in: Illinois (Braidwood, Braceville, Gardner, Dwight, Bloomington, Funks Grove, Springfield) Missouri (Rolla, Dootlittle, Springfield, Halltown, Paris Springs Junction, Avilla, Carthage, Joplin) Kansas (Galena, Riverton, Baxter Springs) Oklahoma (Narcissa, Afton, Tulsa, Warwick, Bridgeport, Foss, Elk City, Erick, Texola) Texas (Shamrock, McLean, Alanreed, Jericho, Amarillo, Glenrio) New Mexico (San Jon, Tucumari, Montoya, Newkirk, Cuervo, Dilia, Tecolote, Santa Fe, Thoreau, Gallup) Arizona (Lupton, Chambers, Two Guns, Flagstaff, Truxton, Hackberry, Kingman, Goldroad, Oatman) California (Needles, Goffs, Essex, Cadiz, Chambless, Amboy, Ludlow, Newberry Springs, Daggett, Barstow) This edition also includes directions and travel tips for your ghost-town explorations along Route 66, as well as a fold-out map of the Mother Road. Explore the beauty and nostalgia of these abandoned communities along America's favorite highway!
Author : Erin O. Wallace
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614239118
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Haunted New Braunfels written by Erin O. Wallace and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-04-09 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Visitors claim to hear the clinking of tinsmith tools and the ring of an unattended antique cash register at all hours at Kickin' K, which formerly housed Henne's Hardware and tinsmith shop. In Landa Park, passersby have reported hearing phantom footsteps follow behind them in the evening. Strange and spooky stories like these abound in New Braunfels. From the city's rough-and-tumble beginnings to its vibrant present, haunted tales can be found all over town. Author Erin O. Wallace delves into the ghost stories and histories of New Braunfels and tries to find the source of the paranormal phenomena.
Author : Art Martinez de vara
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999212820
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (128 download)
Download or read book Bexar - the History and Records of a South Texas Ghost Town written by Art Martinez de vara and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE TOWN OF BEXAR (near present-day Somerset, Texas), developed on the Kinney Ranch in South Bexar County beginning in the 1860s. The town was called "La Colorada" by its many Mexican miners who settled there.St. Patrick's Church was established on the ranch and served as the Catholic mission to Atascosa and Frio Counties. With the arrival of the Artesian Belt Railroad, the town of Bexar declined as its population moved two miles east to Somerset. Many of the early families of Atascosa and South Bexar Counties are contained among this book's nearly 10,000 entries, including the Ruiz, Herrera, Navarro, Cotulla, Lytle, Casias, Kinney, Hayden, Barker and Vara. This volume contains the complete records of St. Patrick's Church, plus a modern cemetery survey of its cemetery, an 1876 mission census of Atascosa County and a detailed history of the community.
Author : John Nathan Cravens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 62 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)
Download or read book A History of Three Ghost Towns of East Texas Near the Cherokee and the ... written by John Nathan Cravens and published by . This book was released on 19?? with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joe Tom Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781681790978
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (99 download)
Download or read book Historic Towns of Texas - written by Joe Tom Davis and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-27 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in a series of books about historic towns of Texas. It covers two capitals of the Republic, the first major seaport, an important steamboat terminal, an outlaw haven, a significant crossroads settlement, and the ghost of intended Houston. Only one of them survives as a major city today, but they were all important in their glory days.
Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501178806
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Rising written by William C. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-05-09 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All Americans, not just Texans, remember the Alamo. But the siege and brief battle at that abandoned church in February and March 1836 were just one chapter in a much larger story -- larger even than the seven months of armed struggle that surrounded it. Indeed, three separate revolutionary traditions stretching back nearly a century came together in Texas in the 1830s in one of the great struggles of American history and the last great revolution of the hemisphere. Anglos steeped in 1776 fervor and the American revolution came seeking land, Hispanic and native Americans joined the explosion of republican uprisings in Mexico and Latin America, and the native tejanos seized on a chance for independence. As William C. Davis brilliantly depicts in Lone Star Rising, the result was an epic clash filled not just with heroism but also with ignominy, greed, and petty and grand politics. In Lone Star Rising, Davis deftly combines the latest scholarship on the military battles of the revolution, including research in seldom used Mexican archives, with an absorbing examination of the politics on all sides. His stirring narrative features a rich cast of characters that includes such familiar names as Stephen Austin, Sam Houston, and Antonio Santa Anna, along with tejano leader Juan Seguín and behind-the-scenes players like Andrew Jackson. From the earliest adventures of freebooters, who stirred up trouble for Spain, Mexico, and the United States, to the crucial showdown at the San Jacinto River between Houston and Santa Anna there were massacres, misunderstandings, miscalculations, and many heroic men. The rules of war are rarely stable and they were in danger of complete disintegration at times in Texas. The Mexican army often massacred its Anglo prisoners, and the Anglos retaliated when they had the chance after the battle of San Jacinto. The rules of politics, however, proved remarkably stable: The American soldiers were democrats who had a hard time sustaining campaigns if they didn't agree to them, and their leaders were as given to maneuvering and infighting as they were to the larger struggle. Yet in the end Lone Star Rising is not a myth-destroying history as much as an enlarging one, the full story behind the slogans of the Alamo and of Texas lore, a human drama in which the forces of independence, republicanism, and economics were made manifest in an unforgettable group of men and women.
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Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1681622319
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Sons of the Republic of Texas written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001-12-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sons of the Republic of Texas tells the story of the Republic of Texas beginning with its birth on April 21, 1836. Includes a brief history of the Sons of the Republic of Texas from 1893 to the present. The text is complemented by over 100 pages of family and ancestral biographies of members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas past and present. Indexed
Author : Natalie Bauman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781517080129
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Ghost Towns of Texoma Volume 2 - HAGERMAN written by Natalie Bauman and published by . This book was released on 2015-08-26 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has the history of the town of Hagerman, and the subsequent Hagerman Wildlife Refuge from the late 1800s to the present. Contents: 1. Town of Hagerman - Memories of Texoma's Atlantis Page 4-142. Hagerman's People Page 15-363. Hagerman's Schools Page 37-504. Hagerman In The News Page 51-895. Farewell to the Town of Hagerman Page 90-1086. Hagerman Wildlife Refuge Page 109-1277. Hagerman Cemetery Pages 128-134Droughts and Floods of Hagerman
