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Author : August Santleben
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Texas Pioneer written by August Santleben and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historia y biograf̕a de un pionero texano y sus acontecimientos en la frontera de Texas y M̌xico. Texto en ingľs.
Author : Natalie Ornish
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444238
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Jewish Texans written by Natalie Ornish and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With more than 400 photographs, extensive interviews with the descendants of pioneer Jewish Texan families, and reproductions of rare historical documents, Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans quickly became a classic following its original release in 1989. This new Texas A&M University Press edition presents Ornish’s meticulous research and her fascinating historical vignettes for a new generation of readers and historians. She chronicles Jewish buccaneers with Jean Lafitte at Galveston; she tells of Jewish patriots who fought at the Alamo and at virtually every major engagement in the war for Texan independence; she traces the careers of immigrants with names like Marcus, Sanger, and Gordon, who arrived on the Texas frontier with little more than the packs on their backs and went on to build great mercantile empires. Cattle barons, wildcatters, diplomats, physicians, financiers, artists, and humanitarians are among the other notable Jewish pioneers and pathfinders described in this carefully researched and exhaustively documented book. Filling a substantial void in Texana and Texas history, the Texas A&M University Press edition of Natalie Ornish’s Pioneer Jewish Texans brings back into circulation this treasure trove of information on a rich and often overlooked vein of the multifaceted story of the Lone Star State.
Author : Ottilie Fuchs Goeth
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of a Texas Pioneer Grandmother (Was Grossmutter Erzaehlt), 1805-1915 written by Ottilie Fuchs Goeth and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ottilie Fuchs Goeth was an alert seventy-nine years old when she completed her memoirs in the German language for her family. Born the year of the Texas revolution, 1836, she migrated with her family in 1845, eventually settling in the Cypress Mill community near the Pedernales River west of Austin. Daughter of the pastor of a parish church in Germany, Mrs. Goeth was nurtured in family life, literature and music and her writings reflect a keen observation of life in Texas from the beginning of statehood to past the turn of the century. The original German was published in 1915.
Author : Chuck Parsons
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603444963
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book John B. Armstrong, Texas Ranger and Pioneer Ranchman written by Chuck Parsons and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Elmer Kelton notes in his afterword to this book, "Chuck Parsons' biography is a long-delayed and much-justified tribute to Armstrong's service to Texas." Parsons fills in the missing details of a Ranger and rancher's life, correcting some common misconceptions and adding to the record of a legendary group of lawmen and pioneers.
Author : Charles L. Olmsted
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 149176614X
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (917 download)
Download or read book The Good, the Bad, the Butlers: written by Charles L. Olmsted and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite his challenges as a deaf-mute, Burnell Butler was one of those who dreamed of a better life in Texas. Lured by all the twenty-eighth state offered, Butler, his wife, twelve children, and seven slaves gambled big in 1852, migrating from Mississippi in covered wagons to the unknown prairies of Texas. It was there that the Butlers would begin a new chapter, fueled by their rugged, hard-working spirit. Charles Olmsted, a former award-winning sports writer, relies on extensive research and anecdotes to chronologically capture the fascinating history of the Butler family. Beginning with a cattle drive during the Civil War, Olmsted details how Burnells son, William G. Butler joined in helping build the foundation for the multi-billion dollar beef industry, rode the Chisholm Trail with his family from the 1860s to the 1880s as part of the transformation to cattle cars on railroads, and often settled disputes with gunfights. Included are excerpts from letters, newspapers, and books as well as details from land purchases, proclamations, and real-life accounts. The Good, the Bad, the Butlers shares the true story of a pioneer family as they built a new life in Karnes County, Texas, and attempted to survive all the challenges of living in a dangerous and dusty land.
Author : Philip Robert Caudill
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603440899
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Moss Bluff Rebel written by Philip Robert Caudill and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So wrote Texas pioneer cattle drover William Berry Duncan in his March 1862 diary entry, the day he joined the Confederate Army. Despite his misgivings, Duncan left his prosperous business to lead neighbors and fellow volunteers as commanding officer of cavalry Company F of Spaight’s Eleventh Battalion that later became the 21st Texas Infantry in America’s Civil War. Philip Caudill’s rich account, drawn from Duncan’s previously untapped diaries and letters written by candlelight on the Gulf Coast cattle trail to New Orleans, in Confederate Army camps, and on his southeast Texas farm after the war, reveals the personable Duncan as a man of steadfast integrity and extraordinary leadership. After the war, he returned to his home in Liberty County and battled for survival on the chaotic Reconstruction-era Texas frontier. Supplemented by archival records and complementary accounts, Moss Bluff Rebel paints a picture of everyday life for the Anglo-Texans who settled the Mexican land grants in the early nineteenth century and subsequently became citizens of the proudly independent Texas Republic. The carefully crafted narrative goes on to reveal the wartime emotions of a reluctant Confederate officer and his postwar struggles to reinvent the lifestyle he knew before the war, a way of life he sensed was lost forever. Moss Bluff Rebel will appeal to history lovers of all ages attracted to the drama of the Civil War period and the men and women who shaped the Texas frontier.
Author : Sallie Reynolds Matthews
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890961230
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (612 download)
Download or read book Interwoven written by Sallie Reynolds Matthews and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Records one woman's response to pioneer life in Texas at the turn of the century.
Author : Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292772157
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Ella Elgar Bird Dumont written by Ella Elgar Bird Dumont and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer—a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities—Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband to Comanche Indian country in King County, where they lived in a tepee while participating in the final slaughter of the buffalo. Living off the land until the frontier was opened for ranching, Ella and Tom Bird typified the Old West ideals of self-sufficiency and generosity, with a hesitancy to complain about the hard life in the late 1800s. Yet, in one important way, Ella Dumont was unsuited for life on the frontier. Endowed with an instinctive desire and ability to carve and sculpt, she was largely prevented from pursuing her talents by the responsibilities of marriage and frontier life and later, widowhood with two small children. Even though her second marriage, to Auguste Dumont, made life more comfortable, the realities of her existence still prevented the fulfillment of her artistic longings. Ella Bird Dumont’s memoir is rich with details of the frontier era in Texas, when Indian depredations were still a danger for isolated settlers, where animals ranged close enough to provide dinner and a new pair of gloves, and where sheer existence depended on skill, luck, and the kindness of strangers. The vividness and poignancy of her life, coupled with the wealth of historical material in the editor’s exhaustive notes, make this Texas pioneer’s autobiography a very special book.
Author : Jane Clements Monday
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349690X
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Dr. Arthur Spohn written by Jane Clements Monday and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-12 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first comprehensive biography of Dr. Arthur Edward Spohn, authors Jane Clements Monday, Frances Brannen Vick, and Charles W. Monday Jr., MD, illuminate the remarkable nineteenth-century story of a trailblazing physician who helped to modernize the practice of medicine in Texas. Arthur Spohn was unusually innovative for the time and exceptionally dedicated to improving medical care. Among his many surgical innovations was the development of a specialized tourniquet for “bloodless operations” that was later adopted as a field instrument by militaries throughout the world. To this day, he holds the world record for the removal of the largest tumor—328 pounds—from a patient who fully recovered. Recognizing the need for modern medical care in South Texas, Spohn, with the help of Alice King, raised funds to open the first hospital in Corpus Christi. Today, his name and institutional legacy live on in the region through the Christus Spohn Health System, the largest hospital system in South Texas. This biography of a medical pioneer recreates for readers the medical, regional, and family worlds in which Spohn moved, making it an important contribution not only to the history of South Texas but also to the history of modern medicine.
Author : Betsy Chutchian
Publisher : C&t Publishing / Kansas City Star Quilts
ISBN 13 : 9781935362173
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (621 download)
Download or read book Gone to Texas written by Betsy Chutchian and published by C&t Publishing / Kansas City Star Quilts. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Betsy Chutchian as she embarks on a journey to recreate 12 of her greatgreat grandmother's quilts inspired by her writing. And read as she shares the journal entries that capture the essence of pioneer life, often characterized by harsh realities, softened by the beauty, pleasure and friendship found in quiltmaking.
Author : Dan Fields
Publisher : Happy Valley Pub.
ISBN 13 : 9780978962807
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (628 download)
Download or read book The Day They Killed the Cows written by Dan Fields and published by Happy Valley Pub.. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Clovis Heimsath
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Pioneer Texas Buildings written by Clovis Heimsath and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Otis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Philip of Texas written by James Otis and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Juan Manuel Casas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974504858
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (48 download)
Download or read book Federico Villalba's Texas written by Juan Manuel Casas and published by . This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : United States. Civil Aeronautics Board
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1396 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Economic Decisions of the Civil Aeronautics Board written by United States. Civil Aeronautics Board and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 1396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806166800
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880 written by Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2020-03-05 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The historical record of the Rio Grande valley through much of the nineteenth century reveals well-documented violence fueled by racial hatred, national rivalries, lack of governmental authority, competition for resources, and an international border that offered refuge to lawless men. Less noted is the region’s other everyday reality, one based on coexistence and cooperation among Mexicans, Anglo-Americans, and the Native Americans, African Americans, and Europeans who also inhabited the borderlands. War and Peace on the Rio Grande Frontier, 1830–1880 is a history of these parallel worlds focusing on a border that gave rise not only to violent conflict but also cooperation and economic and social advancement. Meeting here are the Anglo-Americans who came to the border region to trade, spread Christianity, and settle; Mexicans seeking opportunity in el norte; Native Americans who raided American and Mexican settlements alike for plunder and captives; and Europeans who crisscrossed the borderlands seeking new futures in a fluid frontier space. Historian Miguel Ángel González-Quiroga draws on national archives, letters, consular records, periodicals, and a host of other sources to give voice to borderlanders’ perspectives as he weaves their many, varied stories into one sweeping narrative. The tale he tells is one of economic connections and territorial disputes, of refugees and bounty hunters, speculation and stakeholding, smuggling and theft and other activities in which economic considerations often carried more weight than racial prejudice. Spanning the Anglo settlement of Texas in the 1830s, the Texas Revolution, the Republic of Texas , the US-Mexican War, various Indian wars, the US Civil War, the French intervention into Mexico, and the final subjugation of borderlands Indians by the combined forces of the US and Mexican armies, this is a magisterial work that forever alters, complicates, and enriches borderlands history. Published in association with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 908 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Publication written by and published by . This book was released on 1974 with total page 908 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
