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Book Synopsis Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You by : C. F. Eckhardt
Download or read book Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You written by C. F. Eckhardt and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Eckhardt, a newspaper columnist and owner of the Lone Star Barber Shop in Seguin, Texas, spins his tales as only Charlie can. This book covers such topics as the little-known first Texas revolution and the counterrevolution of 1838-1840; the Linville raid; the legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas; Jim Bowie's famous knife and Sam Colt's equally famous pistol; and many more. From the early days of Texas up to the saving of the oil industry, Charlie tells 'em like he heard 'em and assures that some of the stories are actually true.
Book Synopsis Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You by : C. F. Eckhardt
Download or read book Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You written by C. F. Eckhardt and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds to the flavor of Texas history with tales about such things as the first Texas revolution, the first English speaking person in Texas, and the little known counterrevolution of 1838-1840. Charlie examines the expulsion of the Cherokees from Texas and provides details of some of the more famous Indian fights. Charlie also shows his romantic side with the legend of the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.
Book Synopsis Lies My Teacher Told Me by : James W. Loewen
Download or read book Lies My Teacher Told Me written by James W. Loewen and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Criticizes the way history is presented in current textbooks, and suggests a more accurate approach to teaching American history.
Book Synopsis Teaching What Really Happened by : James W. Loewen
Download or read book Teaching What Really Happened written by James W. Loewen and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2018-09-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Should be in the hands of every history teacher in the country.”— Howard Zinn James Loewen has revised Teaching What Really Happened, the bestselling, go-to resource for social studies and history teachers wishing to break away from standard textbook retellings of the past. In addition to updating the scholarship and anecdotes throughout, the second edition features a timely new chapter entitled "Truth" that addresses how traditional and social media can distort current events and the historical record. Helping students understand what really happened in the past will empower them to use history as a tool to argue for better policies in the present. Our society needs engaged citizens now more than ever, and this book offers teachers concrete ideas for getting students excited about history while also teaching them to read critically. It will specifically help teachers and students tackle important content areas, including Eurocentrism, the American Indian experience, and slavery. Book Features: An up-to-date assessment of the potential and pitfalls of U.S. and world history education. Information to help teachers expect, and get, good performance from students of all racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Strategies for incorporating project-oriented self-learning, having students conduct online historical research, and teaching historiography. Ideas from teachers across the country who are empowering students by teaching what really happened. Specific chapters dedicated to five content topics usually taught poorly in today’s schools.
Book Synopsis Last of the Old-Time Cowboys by : Patrick Dearen
Download or read book Last of the Old-Time Cowboys written by Patrick Dearen and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From true cowhands who stood tall in the saddle as the prototypes of the American myth, historian Patrick Dearen has collected priceless, spellbinding stories of a simpler era when a man's word was his bond and a cowhand rode hard and lived harder. Within the pages of this book these genuine legends who rode through a golden moment in American history live on.
Book Synopsis Best Tales of Texas Ghosts by : Docia Schultz Williams
Download or read book Best Tales of Texas Ghosts written by Docia Schultz Williams and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1998 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Renowed storyteller Docia WIlliams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books, then she adds a hundred pages of new ghostly tales from Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Centeral Texas,including the Dallas area.
Book Synopsis Lawmen of the Old West by : Del Cain
Download or read book Lawmen of the Old West written by Del Cain and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2001-01-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.
Book Synopsis Singin' a Lonesome Song by : Gary Brown
Download or read book Singin' a Lonesome Song written by Gary Brown and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001-01-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
Download or read book Texas Boys in Gray written by Mamie Yeary and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there. Sometimes humorous and sometimes heart breaking, the experiences of the Texas War Veterans.
Book Synopsis Spindletop unwound by : Roger L. Shaffer
Download or read book Spindletop unwound written by Roger L. Shaffer and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.
Book Synopsis Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros by : D. H. Figueredo
Download or read book Revolvers and Pistolas, Vaqueros and Caballeros written by D. H. Figueredo and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This riveting exposé reveals how a distorted belief in Anglo superiority necessitated the rewriting of American western history, replacing heroic images of Mexican and Spanish cowboys with negative stereotypes. Early Anglo settlers in the Old West crafted negative images of Latinos in part to help justify the takeover of land occupied by Mexicans and Spaniards at the time. Unfortunately, these depictions were perpetuated throughout the 20th century in art, popular culture, and media ... eventually reshaping the narrative of the American West to the exclusion of the non-Anglo people. This book contrasts dominant lore with historical reality to provide a broad overview of the history and contributions of Latinos in the Old West. Author D. H. Figueredo sets out to debunk the myths and falsehoods of the American West by chronicling the cultural perceptions that led to such historical inaccuracies. Through spellbinding accounts, chapters address such topics as the legends behind the caballeros, Mexican culture in the Old West, and the search for cities of gold in the Southwest. Arranged chronologically and thematically, the book examines how popular culture diminished the role of the Mexican vaqueros and illustrates how the image of the Anglo cowboy became the iconic symbol of the Old West.
Book Synopsis When Darkness Falls by : Docia Shultz Williams
Download or read book When Darkness Falls written by Docia Shultz Williams and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once again, well-known ghost story writer Docia Williams brings us an all-new book about recent ghost sightings and mysterious happenings in the Alamo City. A chilling book for those wanting a guide to places where spirits are known to rendezvous or for those who just like a good ghost story.
Book Synopsis Tom Dodge Talks About Texas by : Tom Dodge
Download or read book Tom Dodge Talks About Texas written by Tom Dodge and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2000-04-26 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas. This collection of writings over the past decade includes his most poignant and provocative National Public Radio vignettes as well as longer pieces from newspapers and magazines. Here are the wry, sometimes ironic, observations on all things Texas his listeners are used to. His insights include a unique analysis of junkyards, railroads, bookstores, horned toads, sandy-land farms, and his grandmother's homemade grape jelly.
Download or read book Lone Star Menagerie written by Jim Harris and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-03-17 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There's more than one kind of Texas native-we share our magnificent state with numerous other species some with four legs or more and some with no legs at all. Naturalist Jim Harris has studied most of them, and in Lone Star Menagerie he shares some little-known facts, fascinating tales, and amusing personal experiences with these creatures that we live alongside.
Book Synopsis Texas Rangers in the Mexican-American War by : William Nelson Fox
Download or read book Texas Rangers in the Mexican-American War written by William Nelson Fox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2023-05-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the Texas Rangers, the Mexican-American War was an opportunity for vengeance. When the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846, the Texas Rangers were eager to settle scores with their familiar foe and quickly became the eyes and ears of the US army. Commanded by established legends like Samuel H. Walker, Benjamin McCulloch, and John "Jack" Coffee Hays, Texas Rangers led the American charge at Monterrey and saved General Taylor's army at Buena Vista. However, their depredations on Mexican citizenry were often excessive, and their behavior, along with other volunteers, sparked Mexican resistance. However crucial they were to US victory, it is also indisputable that they earned a reputation for brutality even in a vicious war.. Author William Nelson Fox follows these larger than life figures into stories of heroism and villainy at the heart of the Mexican-American War.
Book Synopsis Twin Cities Uncovered by : The Arthurs
Download or read book Twin Cities Uncovered written by The Arthurs and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1996-01-31 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twin Cities Uncovered takes you from restored barns to fragrant apple orchards to the "Mighty Mississippi Bicycle Adventure" that runs from Minneapolis to cities far across America. Ride the antique, hand-carved carousel at the Minnesota State Fair, or stroll the "Mississippi Mile" along the cobblestone Main Street to a row of quaint shops, charming restaurants, and coffee houses on the water's edge. Recall the romance of Longfellow's "Hiawatha" by the showers of Minnehaha Falls, or step back in time and share the lifestyle of immigrant settlers at a living museum.
Book Synopsis Ghosts In The Graveyard by : Olyve Abbott
Download or read book Ghosts In The Graveyard written by Olyve Abbott and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001-08-24 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Legends of abandoned old graveyards and some not so abandoned abound-the crying dog in the cemetary well, the wandering ghost of Long Tom March, who carries a deck of cards and won't rest until he finds a winning poker hand. Next to a graveyard where an arm is buried, the old piano in the fogotten church plays. These and other tales along with some more recent real-life experiences will intrigue you, skeptic or not. Read the tales with an open mind. They are for pleasure, a bit of paranormal, a little seriousness, and hopefully a laugh or two. If you are a nonbeliever in the supernatural, you may change your skepticism is etched in stone. Then again the author learned that nothing is etched in stone forever. This humorous book also includes some unusual coffins, tombstones, and epitaphs as well as some early Texas burial traditions.
