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Author : William Seale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Texas Riverman written by William Seale and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rupert N. Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000403769
Total Pages : 555 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)
Download or read book Texas written by Rupert N. Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-31 with total page 555 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its 11th edition, Texas: The Lone Star State offers a balanced, scholarly overview of the second largest state in the United States, spanning from prehistory to the twenty-first century. Organized chronologically, this comprehensive survey introduces undergraduates to the varied history of Texas with an accessible narrative and over 100 illustrations and maps. This new edition broadens the discussion of postwar social and political dynamics within the state, including the development of key industries and changing demographics. Other new features include: New maps reflecting county by county results for the most recent presidential elections Expanded discussions on immigration and border security The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic in Texas and a look to the future Updated bibliographies to reflect the most recent scholarship This textbook is essential reading for students of American history.
Author : Ben McGrath
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0451494008
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book Riverman written by Ben McGrath and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2022-04-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This quietly profound book belongs on the shelf next to Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild.” —The New York Times The riveting true story of Dick Conant, an American folk hero who, over the course of more than twenty years, canoed solo thousands of miles of American rivers—and then disappeared near the Outer Banks of North Carolina. This book “contains everything: adventure, mystery, travelogue, and unforgettable characters” (David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon). For decades, Dick Conant paddled the rivers of America, covering the Mississippi, Yellowstone, Ohio, Hudson, as well as innumerable smaller tributaries. These solo excursions were epic feats of planning, perseverance, and physical courage. At the same time, Conant collected people wherever he went, creating a vast network of friends and acquaintances who would forever remember this brilliant and charming man even after a single meeting. Ben McGrath, a staff writer at The New Yorker, was one of those people. In 2014 he met Conant by chance just north of New York City as Conant paddled down the Hudson, headed for Florida. McGrath wrote a widely read article about their encounter, and when Conant's canoe washed up a few months later, without any sign of his body, McGrath set out to find the people whose lives Conant had touched--to capture a remarkable life lived far outside the staid confines of modern existence. Riverman is a moving portrait of a complex and fascinating man who was as troubled as he was charismatic, who struggled with mental illness and self-doubt, and was ultimately unable to fashion a stable life for himself; who traveled alone and yet thrived on connection and brought countless people together in his wake. It is also a portrait of an America we rarely see: a nation of unconventional characters, small river towns, and long-forgotten waterways.
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789033
Total Pages : 523 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book From Sail to Steam written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The story of the ships, mariners, and ports that formed a vital connection between Texas and the rest of the world . . . [A] ‘first-stop’ reference.” —The Journal of American History Second Place, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas The Gulf Coast has been a principal place of entry into Texas ever since Alonso Alvarez de Pineda explored these shores in 1519. Yet, nearly five hundred years later, the maritime history of Texas remains largely untold. In this book, Richard V. Francaviglia offers a comprehensive overview of Texas’ merchant and military marine history, drawn from his own extensive collection of maritime history materials, as well as from research in libraries and museums around the country. Based on recent discoveries in nautical archaeology, Francaviglia tells the stories of the Spanish flotilla that wrecked off Padre Island in 1554 and of La Salle’s flagship Belle, which sank in 1687. He explores the role of the Texas Navy in the Texas Revolution of 1835–1836 and during the years of the Texas Republic and also describes the Civil War battles at Galveston and Sabine Pass. Finally, he recounts major developments of the nineteenth century, concluding with the disastrous Galveston Hurricane in 1900. More than one hundred illustrations, many never before published, complement the text. “Although there have been many excellent and valuable books published previously on specific topics in Texas’ maritime development (e.g. the Texas Navy, river trade, the Civil War, etc.), we have been waiting a long time for a single volume that ties all those loose threads together into a single, cohesive whole.” —Andrew W. Hall, specialist in Texas marine history and archaeology
Author : Dina Temple-Raston
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780805072778
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (727 download)
Download or read book A Death in Texas written by Dina Temple-Raston and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2003-01-02 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1998, a trio of young white men chained a black man to the bumper of a truck and dragged him down a country road. From the initial investigation and through the trials and their aftermath, "A Death in Texas" follows the turns of events through the eyes of Sheriff Billy Rowles and other townspeople trying to come to grips with the killing. 16 page photo insert.
Author : Lorraine G. Bonney
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 157441318X
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book The Big Thicket Guidebook written by Lorraine G. Bonney and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
Author : Thomas Reid
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411896
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Spartan Band written by Thomas Reid and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation A comprehensive study of the East Texas unit that served as a part of Walker's Texas division in the Trans-Mississippi Department.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book CRM written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : University of Texas Press
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9780292785380
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (853 download)
Download or read book Fifty Years of Good Reading written by University of Texas Press and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 50 year since founding the University of Texas, they have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing.
Author : Rupert Norval Richardson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Texas written by Rupert Norval Richardson and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one/two-semester, freshman/junior-level courses in Texas History. Written in narrative style, this comprehensive, general survey of Texas history from early times to the present offers a balanced, scholarly presentation of all eras and topics.
Download or read book The Alcalde written by and published by . This book was released on 1966-06 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Author : Ron J. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149590
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend written by Ron J. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in the American story. The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master, Lieutenant Colonel Travis, against the Mexican army in the early hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched the battle’s last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar and questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the revolutionary capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident candor. With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched through plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court documents. Their decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe’s biography, alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the younger brother of the famous escaped slave and abolitionist narrator William Wells Brown, as well as the grandson of legendary trailblazer Daniel Boone. This book traces Joe’s story from his birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery—which, in a grotesque irony, resumed after he took part in the Texans’ battle for independence—to his eventual escape and disappearance into the shadows of history. Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend recovers a true American character from obscurity and expands our view of events central to the emergence of Texas.
Author : William Seale
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806124360
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (243 download)
Download or read book Sam Houston's Wife written by William Seale and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although Sam Houston has been the subject 6f several biographies and· many historical articles, little attention has been paid to his third wife, whose enormous influence on the Liberator of Texas has never before been examined closely. In this first biography of Margaret Lea Houston, a remarkable woman is finally awakened from the historical sleep which has enveloped her for over a century. Alabama-born Margaret Lea was just a schoolgirl when she first saw Sam Houston arrive at New Orleans after the Battle of San Jacinto to have his wounds tended. "She later described having a premonition that she would some day meet Sam Houston," says· William Seale. "But she told that story many years later, after she had become his wife." For marry Sam Houston she did–in the face of strong opposition of family and friends and of Houston's friends and advisers. Twenty-six years younger than her husband, this protected child of a Baptist minister set out to change the life of the frontier hero. Aware that alcoholism and the sorrows of personal misfortune weighed upon him, she battled the former and sought to alleviate the latter. Her abiding faith in him, coupled with his unceasing devotion to her and to their children, is a central theme of this book. The author explores the personality of Margaret, the idealist whose absorption in religion often led her to melancholia, the reader of romances who was never able to come to terms with the Texas wilderness, the wife who strummed her guitar and wrote love poems during her husband's absences on affairs of state. This account of Sam Houston's wife, which presents details of the general's life not hitherto explored, is in addition a colorful picture of the time in which she lived. It is a realistic appraisal of Sam and Margaret Houston, to which the author has brought a fresh and sympathetic understanding. In writing the richly human story, he has made extensive use of unpublished manuscripts and original documents in private hands and public archives.
Author : Geraldine Ellis Watson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574411608
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)
Download or read book Reflections on the Neches written by Geraldine Ellis Watson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Author : Mary Hope St. Clair
Publisher : Westview Publishing Co., Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9780976494027
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (94 download)
Download or read book How to Steal a Billion written by Mary Hope St. Clair and published by Westview Publishing Co., Inc.. This book was released on 2005 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since before Texas was Texas, the league of land originally owned by Pelham Humphries has been surrounded in mystery, money, intrique and death. Inextricably linked to some of the most prominent corporate and private names on today's political scene, the tangled web of lies, half-truths and legal manuevering may have forever set a seal on the truth. Even so, the true heirs of Pelham Humphries continue their fight in small town law offices across the Southeast, trying to determine who owns Spindletop Oil Field?
Author : Ellen Walker Rienstra
Publisher : HPN Books
ISBN 13 : 1893619281
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (936 download)
Download or read book Historic Beaumont written by Ellen Walker Rienstra and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author : Charles Kruvand
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 162349673X
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Riverwoods written by Charles Kruvand and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-05 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this stunning photographic tribute to one of Texas’ most intriguing and perhaps least understood rivers, Riverwoods: Exploring the Wild Neches takes readers on a unique adventure along, and sometimes into, the wild and murky waters of the Neches River. The Neches flows through the heart of East Texas, past primordial bottomland forests, timber and oil industries, and elusive denizens—humans, alligators, bobcats, and herons. Although the river and its watershed have inspired authors, artists, and photographers, it can also seem impenetrable, intimidating, or just plain unsightly to outsiders. Spending many days canoeing the river and nights camping on the banks, Charles Kruvand was drawn to the complicated allure of the Neches river and woods. Once common across the southeastern United States, the Neches bottomland forests exemplify an ecosystem that has almost passed out of existence. Thad Sitton, an East Texas native and noted historian, opens the book with an introduction to the historical, cultural, and ecological significance of the Neches River. He takes readers through time from early Native American inhabitants to Spanish and Anglo settlers to present-day East Texans. He also describes the environmental battles fought over preserving parts of the river woodlands surrounding the waterway and wildlife that have depended on the river for sustenance. Through beautiful photographs and stirring recollections of his trip along the river, Charles Kruvand weaves a rare portrait of one of the last wild rivers in Texas.
