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BAYOUS OF HOUSTON

Author : James L. Sipes
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531664923
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book BAYOUS OF HOUSTON written by James L. Sipes and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2012-11-19 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Allen brothers were looking to establish a new city in 1836, they selected a site at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which was the head of navigational waters. They named the city after Gen. Sam Houston, and ever since then, Houston and its bayous have been indelibly linked. With Buffalo Bayou as the lifeblood of the city, Houston thrived as an inland port. Early development occurred along the bayou, and it was widened, deepened, and straightened to accommodate growing commerce in Texas. Buffalo Bayou linked the city of Houston to Galveston Bay, where ships were waiting to share Texas products with the rest of the world. Today, with Houston as the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth largest in the United States, the Port of Houston is one of the busiest ports in the world.

The Bayous of Houston

Author : James L. Sipes
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0738596124
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book The Bayous of Houston written by James L. Sipes and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the Allen brothers were looking to establish a new city in 1836, they selected a site at the confluence of Buffalo Bayou and White Oak Bayou, which was the head of navigational waters. They named the city after Gen. Sam Houston, and ever since then, Houston and its bayous have been indelibly linked. With Buffalo Bayou as the lifeblood of the city, Houston thrived as an inland port. Early development occurred along the bayou, and it was widened, deepened, and straightened to accommodate growing commerce in Texas. Buffalo Bayou linked the city of Houston to Galveston Bay, where ships were waiting to share Texas products with the rest of the world. Today, with Houston as the largest city in the state of Texas and the fourth largest in the United States, the Port of Houston is one of the busiest ports in the world.

A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas

Author : Dan M. Worrall
Publisher : Concertina Press (www.concertinapressbooks.com)
ISBN 13 : 0982599633
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)

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Book Synopsis A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas by : Dan M. Worrall

Download or read book A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas written by Dan M. Worrall and published by Concertina Press (www.concertinapressbooks.com). This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston and Southeast Texas have an ancient, storied prehistory. Using data from hundreds of archeological site reports, a changing coastal landscape modeled through time in 3D, historical information on Native Americans taken from the accounts of the earliest European visitors, and digital GIS mapping to weave it all together, this book recounts the development of the physical landscape of this region and the cultures of its Native American inhabitants from the peak of the last ice age until the Spanish colonial era. Its 504 pages are illustrated with nearly 350 full color maps, charts, drawings and photographs.

Buffalo Bayou

Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Publisher : Createspace Independent Pub
ISBN 13 : 9781468101997
Total Pages : 752 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bayou written by Louis F. Aulbach and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2011-12-23 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book traces the historical development of the City of Houston along its most famous waterway, Buffalo Bayou, from the headwaters near Katy to the I-610 East bridge.

Rails Around Houston

Author : Douglas L. Weiskopf
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738558844
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (588 download)

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Download or read book Rails Around Houston written by Douglas L. Weiskopf and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several railroads were chartered by the Republic of Texas, but the first line built was the Buffalo Bayou, Brazos and Colorado, which began construction near the Port of Houston Turning Basin in 1851. The BBB&C would become the oldest segment of the countryas first transcontinental railroad under sole ownership: the Southern Pacificas Sunset Route, connecting New Orleans and Los Angeles and completed in 1883. By the time oil was discovered near Beaumont in 1901, Houston was such a transportation hub that it became the heart of the petrochemical industry. Houston saw narrow-gauge lines, two interurban lines, light rail, and even a monorail. For many years, the chamber of commerce proudly proclaimed that Houston was the place awhere seventeen railroads meet the sea.a More than 30 beautiful trains with names like Sunset Limited, Sunbeam, Sam Houston Zephyr, Twin Star Rocket, Bluebonnet, Texas Rocket, and Texas Chief would serve three depots.

Houston's Wild Bayous

Author : Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 14 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book Houston's Wild Bayous written by Buffalo Bayou Partnership and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways

Author : Natalie H. Wiest
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344775X
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Book Synopsis Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways by : Natalie H. Wiest

Download or read book Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways written by Natalie H. Wiest and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within about seventy-five miles of downtown Houston, some 1,500 miles of rivers, creeks, lakes, bayous, and bays await discovery. Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways, by longtime paddler Natalie Wiest, is the perfect companion for anyone who wants to experience Houston’s well-watered landscape from the seat of a kayak or canoe. Before introducing readers to the quiet, green world that lies within and around the heart of the city, Wiest gives some pointers on water safety (including swimming and boating); on weather, flood stages, and legal access; and on an often unseen but always present paddling companion—alligators. She also provides a gear checklist for a day trip, a brief guide to boats and paddles, and a “sampler” list of easy places to paddle for true beginners. Presented in nine chapters, each organized around a river system or coastal basin and comprising a “suite” of paddling trips, the excursions described by Wiest offer a general description of the destination, directions (both driving and paddling), and details about the paddling conditions and access sites, which are all publicly owned or managed. Each chapter lists mileages, USGS gauging station numbers, and GIS locations when applicable. Also including ninety color photos and more than thirty detailed maps, Canoeing and Kayaking Houston Waterways offers both novice and experienced paddlers a helpful and enjoyable reference for experiencing nature at water level, in and around Houston. To learn more about The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment, sponsors of this book's series, please click here.

In Too Deep

Author : Rachel Kimbro
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520976436
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book In Too Deep written by Rachel Kimbro and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a small Texas neighborhood, an affluent group of mothers has been repeatedly rocked by catastrophic flooding—the 2015 Memorial Day flood, the 2016 Tax Day flood, and sixteen months later, Hurricane Harvey. Yet even after these disrupting events, almost all mothers in this neighborhood still believe there is only one place for them to live: Bayou Oaks. In Too Deep is a sociological exploration of what happens when climate change threatens the carefully curated family life of upper-middle-class mothers. Through in-depth interviews with thirty-six Bayou Oaks mothers whose homes flooded during Hurricane Harvey, Rachel Kimbro reveals why these mothers continued to stay in a place that was becoming more and more unstable. Rather than retreating, the mothers dug in and sustained the community they have chosen and nurtured, trying to keep social, emotional, and economic instability at bay. In Too Deep provides a glimpse into how class and place intersect in an unstable physical environment and underlines the price families pay for securing their futures.

Buffalo Bayou

Author : Buffalo Bayou Partnership
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Buffalo Bayou written by Buffalo Bayou Partnership and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploring the Bayous

Author : John L. Tveten
Publisher : David McKay Company
ISBN 13 : 9780679206019
Total Pages : 100 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Exploring the Bayous written by John L. Tveten and published by David McKay Company. This book was released on 1979 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores life on the bayous, unique waterways found in the southern United States.

Armand Bayou Illustrated A Life On the Bayou

Author : Mark Kramer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737378723
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (787 download)

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Download or read book Armand Bayou Illustrated A Life On the Bayou written by Mark Kramer and published by . This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Armand Bayou Illustrated is a story of a person and a place. A naturalist's chronicle exploring the local ecology and natural history of the Bayou City's most beautifully preserved waterway. It offers a unique perspective into the natural world and its wildlife from someone who has made a life's work of conservation and environmental education. The book is a personal account from childhood through retirement of cumulative knowledge and observations collected over a forty-year period of living, working and playing on the bayou. Mark offers a passionate insight into his personal exploration of the intersection of the inner and outer world. A Life On The Bayou begins with passages which discuss childhood adventures in the surrounding grasslands and waters of his youth, where the curiosity of a naturalist was born. The book details the history, ecology and wildlife of the Armand Bayou Nature Center which is one of the ecological jewels of the American Gulf Coast. Three ecosystems converge within the nature center which are representative of the greater upper Texas coast. Anyone seeking understanding of coastal prairie and bayou ecology will find an easy to read wealth of knowledge.Excerpts from the author's acclaimed blog series are embedded, which include outstanding wildlife photography. Also contained is a User's Guide for visitors who will benefit from a lifetime's experience of when, where and how to enjoy this urban wildness. Spectacular images from award winning wildlife photographer Gary Seloff offer perspectives of wildlife behavior seldom seen by most. Gary's contribution completes the Illustrated component adding rich visuals which compliment the ecological stories told.This book is for anyone seeking to have a deeper understanding of Texas coastal ecology. It's a unique naturalist biographical accounting of beauty, change and intimate connection to place.

Murder & Mayhem in Houston

Author : Mike Vance
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1625850565
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book Murder & Mayhem in Houston written by Mike Vance and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston, we have a problem. The largest city in Texas has a wild west past filled with dodgy criminals and murderous madmen. When the Allen brothers sold Houston’s first lots, the city became a magnet for enterprising tycoons and opportunistic crooks alike. As the young city grew, a scourge of crime and vice accompanied the success of oil and real estate. The Bayou City’s seedy side—flashing Bowie knives, privileged bad boys, hardened prostitutes and unchecked serial killers—established its hold. From a young Clyde Barrow to the Man Who Killed Halloween, Houston’s past is filled with bloody tales, heartbreaking loss and despicable deeds. Authors Mike Vance and John Nova Lomax shine a light on these dark days. Includes photos!

Houston in the 1920s and 1930s

Author : Story Jones Sloane
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780738571492
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (714 download)

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Download or read book Houston in the 1920s and 1930s written by Story Jones Sloane and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston was already a dynamic city when it experienced an exciting period of accelerated growth in the 1920s and 1930s. The Roaring Twenties began with a national ban on alcohol and ended abruptly with the stock market crash of 1929, but the prominent and influential Jesse Jones ensured the city's part in the economic collapse was minimal. Despite the country's financial woes, Houston's downtown was booming. Skyscrapers set new records in height, forever changing the skyline and appearance of the city. The introduction and widespread use of air-conditioning tamed the stifling heat and humidity for which Houston was known. The National Democratic Convention of 1928 showed the rest of the nation what a modern metropolis Houston had become. This entertaining new book illustrates how Houstonians lived, worked, and played during both the good times and the bad in the early 1900s.

Born on the Bayou

Author : Blaine Lourd
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476773874
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Born on the Bayou written by Blaine Lourd and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the tradition of the modern classics The Tender Bar and The Liars’ Club, Blaine Lourd writes a powerful Gothic memoir set in the bayous and oil towns of 1970s Louisiana. In this rags-to-riches memoir of finding your way and becoming a man, Blaine Lourd renders his childhood in rural Louisiana with his larger-than-life father, Harvey “Puffer” Lourd, Jr., a charismatic salesman during the exploding 1980s awl bidness. From cleaning a duck to drinking a beer, Puffer guides Blaine through the twists and turns of growing up, ultimately pointing him to a poignant truth: sometimes those you love the most can inflict the most pain. Set against a lush landscape of magnolia trees and majestic old homes, haunted swamps and swimming holes filled with wildlife, Lourd gets to the heart of being a Southerner with rawness and grace, beautifully detailing what it means to have a place so ingrained in your being. Just as the timeless memoirs All Over but the Shoutin’ and The Liar’s Club evoke the muggy air of a Southern summer and barrels of steaming crawfish, so does Blaine’s contemporary exploration of what it means to find yourself among the bayous and back roads. Charting his journey from his rural home to working the star-studded streets of Los Angeles as a financial advisor to the rich and famous, Blaine’s story is about the complicated path to success and identity. With witty grace and candid prose, he pays homage to family bonds, unwavering loyalty, and deep roots that cannot be severed, no matter how hard you try.

Houston: 1860-1900

Author : Ann Dunphy Becker
Publisher : Arcadia Library Editions
ISBN 13 : 9781531643850
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book Houston: 1860-1900 written by Ann Dunphy Becker and published by Arcadia Library Editions. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an area that was little more than a thick forest lining Buffalo Bayou, Houston was founded in 1836 by the Allen brothers and named after the Republic of Texas's beloved general Sam Houston. By 1860, there were 5,000 residents in Houston, wooden sidewalks, a few shell-paved roads, and five railroads. Out of the mud and mayhem of Houston's humble frontier beginnings arose men like Thomas W. House, Alexander P. Root, Edward Hopkins Cushing, Thomas Bagby, and William S. Swilley. The sleepy little bayou that wound from Main Street and emptied into Galveston Bay would soon become one of the largest ports in the south. By 1900, the founders' grandchildren were ready to strike out on their own and would play their part in building a great Texas city, a railroad nexus for the Gulf Coast, and an international port of call.

Prophetic City

Author : Stephen L. Klineberg
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501177931
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Prophetic City written by Stephen L. Klineberg and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston, Texas, long thought of as a traditionally blue-collar black/white southern city, has transformed into one of the most ethnically and culturally diverse metro areas in the nation, surpassing even New York by some measures. With a diversifying economy and large numbers of both highly-skilled technical jobs in engineering and medicine and low-skilled minimum-wage jobs in construction, restaurant work, and personal services, Houston has become a magnet for the new divergent streams of immigration that are transforming America in the 21st century. And thanks to an annual systematic survey conducted over the past thirty-eight years, the ongoing changes in attitudes, beliefs, and life experiences have been measured and studied, creating a compelling data-driven map of the challenges and opportunities that are facing Houston and the rest of the country. In Prophetic City, we'll meet some of the new Americans, including a family who moved to Houston from Mexico in the early 1980s and is still trying to find work that pays more than poverty wages. There's a young man born to highly-educated Indian parents in an affluent Houston suburb who grows up to become a doctor in the world's largest medical complex, as well as a white man who struggles with being prematurely pushed out of the workforce when his company downsizes. This timely and groundbreaking book tracks the progress of an American city like never before. Houston is at the center of the rapid changes that have redefined the nature of American society itself in the new century. Houston is where, for better or worse, we can see the American future emerging.

Body on the Bayou

Author : Ellen Byron
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
ISBN 13 : 1629537896
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (295 download)

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Download or read book Body on the Bayou written by Ellen Byron and published by Crooked Lane Books. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Best Humorous Mystery Lefty Award and shortlisted for the Agatha Best Contemporary Novel Award, Body on the Bayou finds Maggie Crozat once again using her artist's eye to spot clues and help. The Crozats feared that past murders at Crozat Plantation B&B might spell the death of their beloved estate, but they've managed to survive the scandal. Now there's a trés bigger story in Pelican, Louisiana: the upcoming nuptials between Maggie Crozat's nemesis, Police Chief Rufus Durand, and her co-worker, Vanessa Fleer. When everyone else refuses the job of being Vanessa's Maid of Honor, Maggie reluctantly takes up the title and finds herself tasked with a long list of duties—the most important of which is entertaining Vanessa's cousin, Ginger Fleer-Starke. But just days before the wedding, Ginger's lifeless body is found on the bayou and the Pelican PD, as well as the Crozats, have another murder mystery on their hands. There's a gumbo-potful of suspects, including an ex-Marine with PTSD, an annoying local newspaper reporter, and Vanessa's own sparkplug of a mother. But when it looks like the investigation is zeroing in on Vanessa as the prime suspect, Maggie reluctantly adds keeping the bride-to-be out of jail to her list of Maid of Honor responsibilities in Body on the Bayou, Ellen Byron's funny and engaging follow up to her critically acclaimed novel Plantation Shudders.