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Author : John Guthrie Ford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780977383337
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (833 download)
Download or read book Port Aransas History Series: A Texas Island written by John Guthrie Ford and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. Guthrie Ford
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531652531
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (525 download)
Download or read book Port Aransas written by J. Guthrie Ford and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2011-02 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port Aransas, known colloquially as Port A, is on Mustang Island, one of the Texas barrier islands. This community grew from the seed of El Mar Rancho, the homestead an Englishman established for his family in 1855--the name Port Aransas was adopted in 1910. The evolution of Port A includes the guiding of sport fishermen to the hard-fighting tarpon fish, bouncing back from five major hurricanes, and the development of tourism that has made the town a nationally sought out destination. Despite all of the changes that have visited Port Aransas, the pace there still conforms to "island time." Indeed, a number of images in this book were selected for how they portray that unique quality of life.
Author : Elda May Roberts
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (174 download)
Download or read book A History of the Roberts Family written by Elda May Roberts and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Barney Farley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603440461
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Fishing Yesterday's Gulf Coast written by Barney Farley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008-06-27 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowned fishing guide Barney Farley worked the Texas coastal waters out of Port Aransas for more than half a century. In these stories and reflections, Farley imparts a lifetime of knowledge about fish_silver trout, sand trout, speckled trout, redfish, ling, catfish, jack, kingfish, you name it_and gives advice about how to fish, where to fish, and when to fish. Perhaps no one could chronicle the changes in sport and commercial fishing along the Central Texas Coast more ably and more passionately than Farley. When he came to Texas in 1910, he reported that he could get in a rowboat and using only a push pole, make his way "to the fishing grounds and catch a hundred pounds or more of trout and redfish" in a few hours. A couple of years later, the shrimp trawlers arrived. As they plied the Gulf in increasing numbers, they depleted the shrimp populations in the bays, and Farley watched the fish move farther and farther offshore, following their ever more elusive food source. From his perspective in the mid1960s, Farley was not satisfied simply to lament the disappearance of onceabundant species. He also strongly voiced his views on the need for conservation. Many of the problems he identified are still with us, and some of the solutions he prescribed have since been adopted. This book is both an appealing reminiscence and a cautionary tale. Anyone who cares about fishing and the health of the Gulf's waters will find an authoritative and completely engaging voice in Barney Farley.
Author : J. Guthrie Ford
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439639884
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Port Aransas written by J. Guthrie Ford and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-02-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Port Aransas, known colloquially as Port A, is on Mustang Island, one of the Texas barrier islands. This community grew from the seed of El Mar Rancho, the homestead an Englishman established for his family in 1855the name Port Aransas was adopted in 1910. The evolution of Port A includes the guiding of sport fishermen to the hard-fighting tarpon fish, bouncing back from five major hurricanes, and the development of tourism that has made the town a nationally sought out destination. Despite all of the changes that have visited Port Aransas, the pace there still conforms to island time. Indeed, a number of images in this book were selected for how they portray that unique quality of life.
Author : Mary Jo O'Rear
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623499410
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Barrier to the Bays written by Mary Jo O'Rear and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mary Jo O’Rear rounds out her coastal bend trilogy with a deep and engaging look at the prehistory and history of the Texas barrier islands. In Barrier to the Bays, O’Rear captures the deep time of the islands (Mustang, Padre, and San José), the bays (Aransas, Corpus Christi, Copano, Redfish, and Nueces), and Aransas Pass. From the earliest human settlements to the twentieth century, O’Rear explores the complex interplay between people and economies struggling to survive in a region dominated by indifferent forces of nature. Barrier to the Bays opens with the natural formation and development of the barrier isles and the arrival of Native Americans, Spanish castaways, French explorers, and Catholic missionaries. European settlements on the mainland eventually led to rich commercial development of the area and its bounty as ranching, fishing, and transportation took hold. By the early twentieth century, the people of the Coastal Bend began wrestling with a new drive to create deep-water harbors along the coastline in the face of the ever-present hurricane threat. O’Rear shows that by World War II the region had settled into a kind of “practicality” as tourists and traders took their place among the denizens of the islands and bays. In addition to the stories of familiar historical figures, Barrier to the Bays stresses the importance of technology in the settlement and development of the region. “Nothing could have been achieved among the barriers and bays of the Coastal Bend without the right tools.” O’Rear underscores the importance of properly designed sailing vessels and the centrality of navigation technology as an integral part of the barrier isle story.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Port Aransas, Tex written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Department of Commerce
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (377 download)
Download or read book Comprehensive Plan for Mustang Island/Port Aransas, Texas written by United States. Department of Commerce and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Port Aransas, Texas written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Rivers and Harbors and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice S. Crandall
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469652676
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book These People Have Always Been a Republic written by Maurice S. Crandall and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2019-09-06 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning three hundred years and the colonial regimes of Spain, Mexico, and the United States, Maurice S. Crandall's sweeping history of Native American political rights in what is now New Mexico, Arizona, and Sonora demonstrates how Indigenous communities implemented, subverted, rejected, and indigenized colonial ideologies of democracy, both to accommodate and to oppose colonial power. Focusing on four groups--Pueblos in New Mexico, Hopis in northern Arizona, and Tohono O'odhams and Yaquis in Arizona/Sonora--Crandall reveals the ways Indigenous peoples absorbed and adapted colonially imposed forms of politics to exercise sovereignty based on localized political, economic, and social needs. Using sources that include oral histories and multinational archives, this book allows us to compare Spanish, Mexican, and American conceptions of Indian citizenship, and adds to our understanding of the centuries-long struggle of Indigenous groups to assert their sovereignty in the face of settler colonial rule.
Author : William Allen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571681669
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Aransas written by William Allen and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aransas: The Life of a Texas Coastal County is a wonderfully researched history of an exciting part of Texas. This is the story of a little place that has played a surprisingly large role in the history of Texas. From the early explorers, Cabeza de Vaca and LaSalle, this is where much of the early history of Texas was born. This book is in three parts and is comprehensive in telling the story of the people, the land and how they helped shaped the great state of Texas. This book takes the reader on a journey through time that spans 1,000 years that will give the reader a better appreciation of this part of Texas and the people who lived the stories.
Author : David Courtney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312978
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Author : Don G. Bebout
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Shorelines Changes on Mustang Island and North Padre Island (Aransas Pass to Yarborough Pass) written by Don G. Bebout and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miles Arceneaux
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1622880862
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)
Download or read book Ransom Island written by Miles Arceneaux and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-22 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It’s 1953 and life is good at Shady’s, the Sweetwater brothers’ fish camp, dancehall, and beer joint on Ransom Island. The biggest event in the island’s history is coming up—an integrated dance featuring Duke Ellington. It’s a daring idea for fifties-era Texas, and not everyone is happy about it. But soon interracial dancing becomes the least of the Sweetwaters’ problems. Galveston mobsters track a runaway girl to Shady’s and decide the offbeat island is the perfect place to diversify their illegal rackets . . . And God help anyone who gets in their way. Suddenly, life on sleepy little Ransom Island becomes crowded, complicated—and very, very dangerous.
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ISBN 13 : 9780988278318
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (783 download)
Download or read book The Mercer Logs written by and published by . This book was released on 2012-01-23 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Texas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Corpus Christi written by Writers' Program of the Work Projects Administration in the State of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dan Parker
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738584560
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (845 download)
Download or read book Surfing Corpus Christi and Port Aransas written by Dan Parker and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surf culture in the texas Coastal Bend began in the early 1960s when a few young men set up surfboard rental stands on the beach. By 1970, thousands of people had caught the surfing bug. In the decades that followed, dozens of surf shops and surfboard makers established themselves in Corpus Christi, Port Aransas, and nearby communities, coastal Bend surers won national championships for their wave-riding prowess, beating out: counterparts from the East Coast, California, and Hawaii. By the 21st century, Coastal Bend wave riders had become a force to be reckoned with, playing strong roles in local political movements that influenced public policy. Husband-and-wife team Dan Parker and Michelle Christenson, curators of the Texas Surf Museum, conducted hundreds of interviews and examined thousands of photographs to produce this book. Numerous Coastal Bend surfers assisted in the effort by contributing photographs from their private collections. Parker and Christenson are longtime Port Aransas surfers who work as newspaper jounralists. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographys, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.
