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The Texas Legacy Project

Author : David A. Todd
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603442006
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Legacy Project written by David A. Todd and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-09-15 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A city dweller’s vacant lot . . . A rancher's back forty . . . A hiker's favorite park . . . When the places that we love are threatened, we can be stirred to action. In Texas, people of all stripes and backgrounds have fought hard to safeguard the places they hold dear. To find and preserve these stories of courage and perseverance, the Conservation History Association of Texas launched the Texas Legacy Project in 1998, traveling thousands of miles to conduct hundreds of interviews with people from all over the state. These remarkable oral histories now reside in an incomparable online and physical archive of video, audio, text, and other materials that record these extraordinary efforts by veteran conservationists and ordinary citizens to preserve the natural legacy of Texas. This book holds stories from more than sixty people who represent a variety of causes, communities, and walks of life—from a West Texas grocer fighting nuclear waste to an Austin lobbyist pressing for green energy. Each speaks from the heart in personal reminiscences and first-hand accounts of battles fought for land and wildlife, for public health, and for a voice in media and politics. These impassioned accounts remind us of the importance of protecting and conserving the natural resources in our own backyards . . . wherever they may be. Records of the archive are available at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin. Five dollars of the cost of this book goes to environmentally friendly materials and processes.

Texas Cattle Barons

Author : Elmer Kelton
Publisher : CF Ranch Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781580081009
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Texas Cattle Barons written by Elmer Kelton and published by CF Ranch Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In Texas Cattle Barons, Their Families, Land and Legacy thirteen families discuss the reality of owning and working some of the largest land holdings in the state of Texas. Most have owned some or all of their land for generations, others bought into their properties over time, all have risen to the challenge of taking the cattle industry into the next millennium." "Learn firsthand from ranchers like Al and Mike Micailef, Jim and James McAllen, and Jon and Jackie Means about the hard work, discipline, and faith required to make a cattle ranch work in this age of big business. Join the owners of the Broseco, Moorhouse, and Williams ranches as they discuss breeding programs, grazing patterns, and the pursuit of the ultimate "beef animal." Listen as the Gibsons and the Ryans reveal their passion for the land and their hope for the future."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Texas Legacy Project

Author : David Todd
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603445110
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Texas Legacy Project written by David Todd and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book holds stories from more than sixty peop --Book Jacket.

Tejano Legacy

Author : Armando C. Alonzo
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826318978
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (189 download)

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Download or read book Tejano Legacy written by Armando C. Alonzo and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A revisionist account of the Tejano experience in south Texas from its Spanish colonial roots to 1900.

All about Texas Boiled Down ... as it Was--as it Is--and as it Will Be!

Author : W. N. Bryant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book All about Texas Boiled Down ... as it Was--as it Is--and as it Will Be! written by W. N. Bryant and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tejano Legacy

Author : Armando C. Alonzo
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 0826328504
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Tejano Legacy written by Armando C. Alonzo and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a pathbreaking study of Tejano ranchers and settlers in the Lower Río Grande Valley from their colonial roots to 1900. The first book to delineate and assess the complexity of Mexican-Anglo interaction in south Texas, it also shows how Tejanos continued to play a leading role in the commercialization of ranching after 1848 and how they maintained a sense of community. Despite shifts in jurisdiction, the tradition of Tejano land holding acted as a stabilizing element and formed an important part of Tejano history and identity. The earliest settlers arrived in the 1730s and established numerous ranchos and six towns along the river. Through a careful study of land and tax records, brands and bills of sale of livestock, wills, population and agricultural censuses, and oral histories, Alonzo shows how Tejanos adapted to change and maintained control of their ranchos through the 1880s, when Anglo encroachment and changing social and economic conditions eroded most of the community's land base.

Petra’s Legacy

Author : Jane Clements Monday
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585446148
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Petra’s Legacy written by Jane Clements Monday and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007-08-28 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The matriarch of one of the most important families in Texas history, Petra Vela Kenedy has remained a shadowy presence in the annals of South Texas. In this biography of Petra Vela Kenedy, the authors not only tell her story but also relate the history of South Texas through a woman’s perspective. Utilizing previously unpublished letters, journals, photographs, and other primary materials, the authors reveal the intimate stories of the families who for years dominated governments, land acquisition, commerce, and border politics along the Rio Grande and across the Wild Horse Desert. From Petra’s early life in the landed ranchero society of northern Mexico, through her alliance with Luis Vidal—an officer in the Mexican army to whom she bore eight children—until her move to Brownsville after Vidal’s death, Petra lived in Mexico. When she moved to Texas, having taken Vidal’s name, she represented a link to the landed families of the region. Mifflin Kenedy, a steamboat captain who had first come to Texas during the Mexican War, married into her world, acquiring local respectability and stature when he took Petra as his wife. The story of their life together encompasses war, the taming of a frontier, the blending of cultures, the origin of a ranching empire, and the establishment of a foundation and trust that still endure today, giving millions to Texas through charitable gifts. An attractive woman of business acumen, strong religious convictions, and intense family loyalty, Petra Vela Kenedy’s influence through her husband and her children left a legacy whose exploration is long overdue.

Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs

Author : Tess Chakkalakal
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820345989
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs written by Tess Chakkalakal and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imperium in Imperio (1899) was the first black novel to countenance openly the possibility of organized black violence against Jim Crow segregation. Its author, a Baptist minister and newspaper editor from Texas, Sutton E. Griggs (1872-1933), would go on to publish four more novels; establish his own publishing company, one of the first secular publishing houses owned and operated by an African American in the United States; and help to found the American Baptist Theological Seminary in Tennessee. Alongside W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington, Griggs was a key political and literary voice for black education and political rights and against Jim Crow. Jim Crow, Literature, and the Legacy of Sutton E. Griggs examines the wide scope of Griggs's influence on African American literature and politics at the turn of the twentieth century. Contributors engage Griggs's five novels and his numerous works of nonfiction, as well as his publishing and religious careers. By taking up Griggs's work, these essays open up a new historical perspective on African American literature and the terms that continue to shape American political thought and culture.

The Texas Court Reporter

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Court Reporter written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 1254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum

Author : Michelle M. Haggerty
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623493404
Total Pages : 781 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum written by Michelle M. Haggerty and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 781 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fifteen years, the Texas Master Naturalist program has been hugely successful, training more than 9,600 volunteers who have given almost 2.8 million hours to nature education. This dedicated corps of naturalists provides teaching, outreach, and service in their communities, promoting the appreciation and stewardship of natural resources and natural areas around the state. Hundreds of new volunteers are trained every year, and the Texas Master Naturalist Statewide Curriculum serves as the basis of instruction for trainees who complete a certification course taught under the auspices of more than forty program chapters. The curriculum contains twenty-four units of instruction that range from geology to ornithology to wetland ecology—all written by the state’s top scientists and experts. Available as well to educators, interpreters, and others who may not yet be able to commit to the Texas Master Naturalist program, the curriculum offers an authoritative source of information for anyone seeking to learn more about the natural world in Texas.

The Injustice Never Leaves You

Author : Monica Muñoz Martinez
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674989384
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (749 download)

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Download or read book The Injustice Never Leaves You written by Monica Muñoz Martinez and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award Winner of the María Elena Martínez Prize Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist “A page-turner...Haunting...Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past.” —Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas–Mexico border—including members of the famed Texas Rangers—murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas’s sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. “It’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons...to go mainstream.” —Texas Observer “A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

Texas Country Legacy: The Baby Connection

Author : Cathy Gillen Thacker
Publisher : Harlequin
ISBN 13 : 148807724X
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Texas Country Legacy: The Baby Connection written by Cathy Gillen Thacker and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She didn’t bargain on love The Texas Wildcatter’s Baby by Cathy Gillen Thacker Wildcatter Ginger Rollins and environmental cowboy Rand McCabe are on opposite sides when it comes to the Texas land they both love. But now that Ginger’s pregnant, they have only one option. Rand is all for getting married. Too bad the independent Ginger sees their union as a nonnegotiable deal. How long can he keep his feelings—and their baby—a secret? The Cowboy’s Surprise Baby by Ali Olson Amy McNeal has two reasons to return to Spring Valley, Texas. One is her brother’s wedding. The other is to set things straight with a handsome cowboy. Jack Stuart has never forgiven Amy for walking out on him years ago. Yet while their lives are worlds apart, they still just fit together. Now Jack must show Amy that she belongs in Spring Valley with him. But life can be full of surprises… Previously published as The Texas Wildcatter’s Baby and The Cowboy’s Surprise Baby

Texas Wills and Estates: Cases and Materials

Author : Gerry W. Beyer
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1496964268
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (969 download)

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Download or read book Texas Wills and Estates: Cases and Materials written by Gerry W. Beyer and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is designed for law school courses covering intestate succession and wills. The cases, problems, and questions are drawn extensively from Texas materials and attempt to provide the student with a comprehensive understanding of how property transmission at death is handled in Texas.

Enduring Legacy

Author : William Henry Kellar
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623491401
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Enduring Legacy written by William Henry Kellar and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-16 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the heart of Houston stands the Texas Medical Center. This dense complex of educational, clinical, and hospital facilities offers state-of-the-art patient care, basic science, and applied research in more than fifty medicine-related institutions. Three medical schools, four schools of nursing, and schools of dentistry, public health, and pharmacology occupy the thousand-acre campus. But none of this would exist if not for the generosity and vision of Monroe Dunaway Anderson, who, in 1936, established the foundation that bears his name. The M. D. Anderson Foundation ultimately became the driving force behind creating and shaping this leading-edge medical complex into what it is today. Enduring Legacy: The M. D. Anderson Foundation and the Texas Medical Center provides a unique perspective on the indispensable role the foundation played in the creation of the Texas Medical Center. It also offers a case study of how public and private institutions worked together to create this veritable city of health that has since become the largest medical complex in human history. Historian William Henry Kellar caps off a decade of research on institutions and characters associated with the Texas Medical Center. He draws on oral histories, extensive archival work, and a growing secondary literature to provide an absorbing account of this leading institution of modern medicine and the philanthropy that made it possible.

The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter

Author : James T. F. Tanner
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780929398228
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Legacy of Katherine Anne Porter written by James T. F. Tanner and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1990 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this study of Porter’s work, Tanner focuses on Porter’s denial of her Texas heritage, her apparent urge to distance herself from Texas and all things Texan. He analyzes Porter’s settings and characters, emphasizing and clarifying the influence of her Texas upbringing on her creative art, exploring the conflict between the Texas Porter and the urbane-sophisticate Porter. Born in Indian Creek, Texas, in 1890, Katherine Anne Porter was always a Texas writer, even though she roamed widely, and seemed to represent, for many readers, a more Southern and genteel facet of Texas culture than they were prepared to accept. Tanner deals with Porter as a Texas story-teller, who, her wanderings over the earth notwithstanding, was a Texas writer first and last.

Texas Reports

Author : Texas. Supreme Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 776 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas Reports written by Texas. Supreme Court and published by . This book was released on 1891 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The History of Texas

Author : Robert A. Calvert
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119581435
Total Pages : 565 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book The History of Texas written by Robert A. Calvert and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 565 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic text The History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook looks at how people of diverse politics, identity, class, ethnicity, and race shaped the state’s past and continue to influence its present. Recent knowledge on the political, social, and cultural history of Texas provides insights on the celebrated figures, unsung heroes, and ordinary people of the state’s past. The sixth edition of this classic text has been revised and updated to reflect the latest scholarship in all fields of Texas history, among them New Indian History and cultural and gender studies. The text offers fresh perspectives on Texas history, including discussions of the Progressive Era, the Great Depression, the Second World War and post-war modernization, and the state’s transition during the 1960s and into the 1980s. Revised chapters provide wide-ranging coverage of Texas in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including recent statewide and national elections and political debates. This textbook: Connects events in post-World War II Texas to the larger U.S. historical narrative Offers substantial coverage of events occurring from 1900 to 2018 Uses a chronological approach to divide chapters into easily identifiable eras Includes engaging illustrations, maps, and tables, an appendix, and inclusive lists of recommended readings Features online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more Effectively organized to better meet the needs of instructors, The History of Texas is the ideal resource for undergraduate and graduate courses in Texas history at colleges and universities across both the state and the nation.