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Book Synopsis Treasury of Texas Trivia II by : Bill Cannon
Download or read book Treasury of Texas Trivia II written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999-10-18 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Continuing the amusing, interesting, factual, and sometimes ridiculous bits of information in A Treasury of Texas Trivia, this second volume brings you all-new entertaining tidbits-some of them useful historical facts and some just for fun. Among these are: Some of the bizarre ways Texas towns and regions have gained lasting recognition. Supporting actors in the cast of leading characters in the development of Texas. Skeletons in the closet of our great state and some less-than-brag-worthy incidents from the past. Incredible but true stories found only in Texas. Minor reflections of history trivia not taught in school. This is truly a book the whole family can read and enjoy.
Download or read book Texas Trivia written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1998-08-31 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything. Join author Bill Cannon as he reveals facts that depict the colorful bravado unique to the Lone Star State. For instance, no six but seven flags flew over Texas. In 1832 the composer of The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, was the cousel hired by Sam Houston to defend him on assault charges. And someone other than Sam Bass may be buried in his grave. A Treasury of Texas Trivia is complemented by newspaper accounts, photographs, and other documentation of these and other little-known bits of Texas history.
Download or read book Texas Trivia written by Bill Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2018-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas and Texans have been known to boast of having the best or the worst, the most or the least, the largest or the tiniest of just about everything. Texas Trivia: Everything Y'all Need to Know about the Lone Star State reveals the facts that depict the colorful bravado unique to Texas. For instance, not six but seven flags flew over Texas. In 1832 the composer of The Star Spangled Banner, Francis Scott Key, was the counsel hired by Sam Houston to defend him on assault charges. And someone other than Sam Bass may be buried in his grave. The volume is complemented by newspaper accounts, photographs, and other documentation of these and other little-known bits of Texas history.
Book Synopsis Tales From Toadsuck Texas by : Bill Cannon
Download or read book Tales From Toadsuck Texas written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-12-07 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name.
Download or read book Texas written by Bill Cannon and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a myriad of little known, often forgotten, and sometimes unbelievable events, places and people that make up the warp and woof of the Texas mystique. This book consists of intriguing facts taken from age-old legends about the people who developed and settled the state. A section called Truth is Stranger than Fiction will defy imagination. The Texas history buff is sure to enjoy Forgotten Footnotes to Texas History. Have You Ever Wondered? will supply answers to questions about certain Texas legends and folklore. Texas: Land of Legend and Lore presents the Texas of fact and fantasy that so captivates the imaginations of Texans and non-Texans alike.
Book Synopsis Real-life Stories of Supernatural Experiences by : Michael Norman
Download or read book Real-life Stories of Supernatural Experiences written by Michael Norman and published by Atriad Press LLC. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected writings dealing with supernatural encounters or experiences.
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
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.
Download or read book Oddball Texas written by Jerome Pohlen and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2006-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This amusing travel guide to the Lone Star State doesn't waste travelers' time telling them where to find antiques in the Hill Country, take breathtaking hikes through Big Bend, or gaze upon the Alamo. Instead, it guides television fans to a modern replica of the Munsters's mansion, leads the nonsqueamish to the world's only Cockroach Hall of Fame, and points the curious towards a small town filled with hippo statues. Among other things, Texas is home to Goliath-sized roadside attractions, and directions are provided on how to reach the World's Largest Six-Shooter, World's Largest Rattlesnake, and World's Largest Wooden Nickel. The accompanying photographs and maps instruct visitors on how to get to these and other extraordinary spots, including the Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the Celebrity Shoe Musuem, Alley Oop's Fantasyland, and the Birthplace of Fritos. A dose of wacky Texas history is also included with answers to questions such as "Did a UFO really crash into a windmill northwest of Fort Worth in 1897? "and "What does an Abilene Kinko's have to do with the early retirement of Dan Rather?"
Book Synopsis Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories by : Jim Gramon
Download or read book Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories written by Jim Gramon and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-09-01 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch to the Panhandle, from the Big Bend to the Piney Woods; big towns and small (Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Terlingua, Manchaca, Cumby, Sulfur Springs, Commerce).
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 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 From My Mother's Hands by : Susie Kelly Flatau
Download or read book From My Mother's Hands written by Susie Kelly Flatau and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From My Mother's Hands" celebrates the positive roles mothers can play in the lives of daughters. In a collection of poignant memoirs crafted from interviews with thirty-three notable Texas women, Susie Kelly Flatau weaves a tapestry of intimate memories, family photographs and recipes, and profiles of each daughter. The daughters' observations and discoveries about their mothers are filled with a wide range of emotions. Lessons of integrity, love, and hope chronicle the powerful bonds that can exist between a daughter and her mother.\r\n\r\n "Every day is Mother's Day in this wonderful collection of daughters' memories of their mothers their guidance, their endurance, even their recipes. And what remarkable daughters speak here! This is a tribute to two generations".\r\n\r\n Nancy Baker Jones, Ph.D., independent scholar specializing in Texas women's history. Co-author (with Ruthe Winegarten) of the recently released book "Capitol Women" and the video Getting Where We've Got to Be, histories of Texas's female legislators\r\n\r\n "So many books are about what went wrong. This is a book about what went right. There is immense wisdom in these lives, wisdom that mentors us, inspires us, gives us hope for our own future and our children's future. The section on [Creating Your Own Mother's Journal] is both an occasion for reflection and a reminder of what is yet possible".\r\n Chuck Meyer, author of "Twelve Smooth Stones: A Father Writes to His Daughter About Money, Sex, Spirituality and Other Things That Really Matter"\r\n\r\n Susie Kelly Flatau is an author whose fascination with people and places lives within the spirit of herwriting. In "Counter Culture Texas" (in collaboration with photographer Mark Dean) Ms. Flatau's vignettes taken from on-the-spot interviews capture the histories of old-time diners, dance halls, drugstores, and more.\r\n For over twenty-five years this award-winning educator has taught writing and literature to students of all ages in both public schools and the private sector. Susie lives in Austin, Texas, with her husband, Jack, and daughter, Jenni.\r\n
Book Synopsis Treasury of Texas Sayings by : Bill Cannon
Download or read book Treasury of Texas Sayings written by Bill Cannon and published by . This book was released on 2008-07-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cannon's collection of Texas sayings can unlock the mysteries often hidden within mom's and dad's favorite admonitions. This guide not only makes clear the meaning and wisdom, but, also reveals 600 words, phrases, and sayings used by Texans to convey their feelings.
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 A Treasury of Texas Tales by : Webb B. Garrison
Download or read book A Treasury of Texas Tales written by Webb B. Garrison and published by Thomas Nelson. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Back in print!
