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Author : Van Craddock
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 1893619621
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Historic Gregg County written by Van Craddock and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2006 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Gregg County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author : Historical Records Survey (Tex.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Texas written by Historical Records Survey (Tex.) and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Betty Dooley-Awbrey
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589792432
Total Pages : 593 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
Download or read book Why Stop? written by Betty Dooley-Awbrey and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 593 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide to more than 2,500 Texas roadside markers features historical events; famous and infamous Texans; origins of towns, churches, and organizations; battles, skirmishes, and gunfights; and settlers, pioneers, Indians, and outlaws. This fifth edition includes more than 100 new historical roadside markers with the actual inscriptions. With this book, travelers relive the tragedies and triumphs of Lone Star history.
Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320660
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Texas Place Names written by Edward Callary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] linguist . . . takes readers on a tour across the state, using names and language to tell its history.” ―Alcalde Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it; the name was derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life. “[A] quite useful book.” ―Austin American-Statesman
Author : Van Craddock
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738579207
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (792 download)
Download or read book Longview written by Van Craddock and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situated in the East Texas Piney Woods, Longview was established in 1870 when O. H. Methvin deeded land to the Southern Pacific to build a railroad station. The village became the county seat of Gregg County in 1873 and quickly prospered as a rail, cotton, and manufacturing center. The discovery of the East Texas Oil Field in 1930-1931 revealed that Longview sat in the middle of the world's largest pool of petroleum. The boom had begun! Today Longview is home to almost 80,000 residents. The city that bills itself as "Real East Texas" is a manufacturing, medical, and educational center and home to such events as the Great Texas Balloon Race and AlleyFest arts festival.
Author : Douglas Hale
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806132891
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (328 download)
Download or read book The Third Texas Cavalry in the Civil War written by Douglas Hale and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Third Texas Cavalry Regiment, recruited from twenty-six counties of northeastern Texas, was one of the most famous Confederate units from the Lone Star State. Douglas Hale narrates troop movements and battle actions, sensitively portraying the sufferings and private thoughts of individual cavalrymen and their commanders as they marched back and forth across the Southern landscape.
Author : Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Texas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Inventory of the County Archives of Texas written by Historical Records Survey (U.S.). Texas and published by . This book was released on 1940 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ellis Arthur Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1208 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book The New Encyclopedia of Texas, Revised written by Ellis Arthur Davis and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 1208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Forge Books
ISBN 13 : 1429941162
Total Pages : 517 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Time of the Rangers written by Mike Cox and published by Forge Books. This book was released on 2009-08-18 with total page 517 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second installment of a no-holds-barred look at the history of the famed Texas Rangers from western author Mike Cox Following up on his magnificent history of the 19th century Texas Rangers, Mike Cox now takes us from 1900 through the present. From horseback to helicopters, from the frontier cattle days through the crime-ridden boom-or-bust oil field era, from Prohibition to World War II espionage to the violent ethnic turbulence of the ‘50s and ‘60s--which sometimes led to demands that the Texas Rangers be disbanded. Cox takes readers through the modern history of the famed Texas lawmen. Cox's position as a spokesperson for the Texas department of Public Safety allowed him to comb the archives and conduct extensive personal interviews to give us this remarkable account of how a tough group of horse-borne lawmen--too prone to hand out roadside justice, critics complained--to one of the world's premier investigative agencies, respected and admired worldwide. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Author : Ken Hudnall
Publisher : Omega Press
ISBN 13 : 9780962608797
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Spirits of the Border V written by Ken Hudnall and published by Omega Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the fifth volume of the Spirits of the Border Series covering all hauntings and unsolved mysteries in the State of Texas.
Author : Frank White Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Texas and Texans written by Frank White Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. l and 3 are books; vols. 2, 4, 5 are microfiche.
Author : Robert C. Cotner
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292763700
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book James Stephen Hogg written by Robert C. Cotner and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No other governor has become so completely identified with Texas and its citizens as Jim Hogg, the first native Texan to hold the state's highest office. His fame was not, however, easily earned. Orphaned at twelve, he worked as farmhand, typesetter, and country editor to finance his study of law, an endeavor that eventually led him into public life. Even before his admission to the bar in 1875 he served as justice of the peace in Wood County. Later, in two terms as district attorney (1881–1885), he proved himself a fearless prosecutor. His growing reputation, with his magnetic personality, brought him the attorney generalship in 1887, and in that office he fulfilled his campaign promises to enforce all laws. During Hogg's tenure, suits brought by his department resulted in the restoration of more than a million acres of state lands held by the railroads. In 1890 Hogg was elected governor. Early the next year he began urging his reform program, the keystone of which was establishment of the Railroad Commission. He also brought about the passage of laws preventing the watering of railroad securities, the indiscriminate issuance of municipal securities, and the establishment of landholding companies. Land ownership by aliens was likewise restricted. Throughout Hogg's public life, from iustice of the peace to governor, he was motivated by his concern for the welfare of the people. Invariably his criterion for evaluation of an issue was the effect of a decision upon the common welfare. In this democratic progressivism he was the Texas version of Thomas Jefferson or Theodore Roosevelt. Molded by his varied experiences, Jim Hogg was a man of many professions—printer, lawyer, politician, statesman, oil magnate. In these relationships he was still a warmly human person, a loving son, brother, husband, father, friend. His ambition to provide abundantly for his family was expansive enough to include all Texans; so his love for "the people" was reiterated in his public benefactions, through which Texans are even today still sharing his wealth. Jim Hogg's varied public life and his heart-warming personal life are dramatically presented in this absorbing biography. In it, the far-sweeping panorama of Texas development in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries is shown in relation to his dreams and achievements.
Author : Texas (Republic).
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Department Reports written by Texas (Republic). and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1608 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Department Reports written by and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 1608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey of Texas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Report of Progress written by Geological Survey of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Geological Survey of Texas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book Report of Progress: First report of progress written by Geological Survey of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1064 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Official Congressional Directory written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 1064 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
