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Author : M.E.M. DAVIS
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book THE STORY OF TEXAS UNDER SIX FLAGS written by M.E.M. DAVIS and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Davis McCown
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997421330
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (213 download)
Download or read book Six Flags Over Texas written by Davis McCown and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pictorial history of the first fifty years of the Six Flags over Texas Amusement park. This work traces the history of the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, located in Arlington, Texas for over fifty years. Coverage begins with a discussion of the theme parks built around the country after the opening of Disneyland in 1955. The story proceeds to Six Flags' initial planning and construction in the late 1950s and continues through its fiftieth anniversary season in 2011.Presented are hundreds of facts and over 230 images. The images include concept art for the park; original postcards; tourist photographs; public relations photographs; souvenir documents; and original photographs by the author.The book provides background regarding the individuals that designed and built the park. It covers each of the major attractions added each season. Typical information includes the manufacturer of each attraction, with the ride's capacity, speed or height.The author is an attorney in Tarrant County that worked as a ride operator in the park for four years. He has consulted newspaper articles, books, and old park souvenirs and artifacts to collect the information included.
Author : Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 186 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Under Six Flags written by Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Under Six Flags written by Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief sketch of the story of Texas. It is a record of bold conceptions and bolder deeds, the history of the rise and progress of a great state.
Author : Mem Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781021283047
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book The Story of Texas Under Six Flags written by Mem Davis and published by . This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Leigh Clemons
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292752075
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Branding Texas written by Leigh Clemons and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male and bursting with self-confidence is no accident, asserts Leigh Clemons. In this thoughtful study of what makes a "Texan," she reveals how Texan identity grew out of the history—and, even more, the myth—of the heroic deeds performed by Anglo men during the Texas Revolution and the years of the Republic and how this identity is constructed and maintained by theatre and other representational practices. Clemons looks at a wide range of venues in which "Texanness" is performed, including historic sites such as the Alamo, the battlefield at Goliad, and the San Jacinto Monument; museums such as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum; seasonal outdoor dramas such as Texas! at Palo Duro Canyon; films such as John Wayne's The Alamo and the IMAX's Alamo: The Price of Freedom; plays and TV shows such as the Tuna trilogy, Dallas, and King of the Hill; and the Cavalcade of Texas performance at the 1936 Texas Centennial. She persuasively demonstrates that these performances have created a Texan identity that has become a brand, a commodity that can be sold to the public and even manipulated for political purposes.
Author : M. E. M. Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (732 download)
Download or read book Under Six Flags written by M. E. M. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781603443692
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Texas flags written by and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Author : Sid Balman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1684630150
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Seventh Flag written by Sid Balman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-10-08 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The US and Europe have unraveled since World War II and radicalism has metastasized into every community, tearing away the decency, optimism, and security that shaped those robust democracies for more than eight decades. No place is immune, including the small West Texas town of Dell City, where four generations of an iconic American family and a Syrian Muslim family carve a farming empire out of the unforgiving high desert. These families’ partnership is as unlikely as the idea of a United States, and their powerful friendship can be traced back to a bloody knife fight in a Juarez cantina just after World War II. The bond forged that night between Jack Laws, an Irish American who staked his claim in West Texas after the war, and Ali Zarkan, whose great-grandfather sailed from the Middle East to Texas in the mid-1800s as part of President Franklin Pierce’s attempt to create the US Army Camel Corps, shapes each generation of the families as they come of age and adapt to shifting paradigms of gender, commerce, patriotism, loyalty, religion, and sexuality. From the beaches of the Western Pacific to the battlefields of the Middle East and from the lawless streets of Juarez to the darkest corners of the Internet, the two families fight real and perceived enemies—journeying, as they do, through the football fields of Texas and West Point, the hippie playgrounds of Asia, the music halls of Austin, the terrorist cells of Europe and the political backrooms where fortunes are gained or lost over the rights to Western water. Underlying their experiences is the basic question of what constitutes identity and citizenship in America, or in Texas, a land over which six flags have flown. The seventh flag, ultimately, is not one of a state or a nation, but of a mosaic of cultures, religions, and people from every corner of the world—all struggling to define what it means to be unified under an ambiguous banner.
Author : M. E. Davis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Story of Texas Under Six Flags written by M. E. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mitchel Whitington
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 146166196X
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Ghosts of North Texas written by Mitchel Whitington and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tuck this book under your arm, jump in your car, and get ready to discover the ghosts of North Texas! These aren't tall tales-these are stories about places you can visit on your own ghost-hunting excursion!
Author : Harry Applegate
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1439656134
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)
Download or read book Six Flags Great Adventure written by Harry Applegate and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-02 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six Flags Great Adventure has been the premier destination for family fun in the Northeast for over 40 years. Created by Hollywood scion Warner LeRoy, the park's mission from the very start was to be the biggest and best theme park with record-breaking thrills, spectacular shows, and unique experiences that could only be found at Great Adventure. As a part of the Six Flags family of theme parks, Great Adventure combines the world's largest safari park outside of Africa, a world-class theme park, and one of the biggest and best water parks in the United States to create an experience like no other.
Author : Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781697431575
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Under Six Flags written by Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-06 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brief sketch of the story of Texas. It is a record of bold conceptions and bolder deeds, the history of the rise and progress of a great state.
Author : François Lagarde
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029270528X
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The French in Texas written by François Lagarde and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents original articles that explore the French presence and influence on Texas history, arts, education, religion, and business from the arrival of La Salle in 1685 to 2002.
Author : Karen Bush Gibson
Publisher : Chicago Review Press
ISBN 13 : 1613749929
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Texas History for Kids written by Karen Bush Gibson and published by Chicago Review Press. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The larger-than-life story of the Lone Star State Encapsulating the 500-year saga of the one-of-a-kind state of Texas, this interactive book takes readers from the founding of the Spanish Missions and the victory at San Jacinto to the Great Storm that destroyed Galveston and the establishment of NASA's Mission Control in Houston while covering everything in between. Texas History for Kids includes 21 informative and fun activities to help readers better understand the state's culture, politics, and geography. Kids will recreate one of the six national flags that have flown over the state, make castings of local wildlife tracks, design a ranch's branding iron, celebrate Juneteenth by reciting General Order Number 3, build a miniature Battle of Flowers float, and more. This valuable resource also includes a timeline of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and web resources for further study.
Author : Victoria W. Wolcott
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812207599
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)
Download or read book Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters written by Victoria W. Wolcott and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the twentieth century, African Americans challenged segregation at amusement parks, swimming pools, and skating rinks not only in pursuit of pleasure but as part of a wider struggle for racial equality. Well before the Montgomery bus boycott, mothers led their children into segregated amusement parks, teenagers congregated at forbidden swimming pools, and church groups picnicked at white-only parks. But too often white mobs attacked those who dared to transgress racial norms. In Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters, Victoria W. Wolcott tells the story of this battle for access to leisure space in cities all over the United States. Contradicting the nostalgic image of urban leisure venues as democratic spaces, Wolcott reveals that racial segregation was crucial to their appeal. Parks, pools, and playgrounds offered city dwellers room to exercise, relax, and escape urban cares. These gathering spots also gave young people the opportunity to mingle, flirt, and dance. As cities grew more diverse, these social forms of fun prompted white insistence on racially exclusive recreation. Wolcott shows how black activists and ordinary people fought such infringements on their right to access public leisure. In the face of violence and intimidation, they swam at white-only beaches, boycotted discriminatory roller rinks, and picketed Jim Crow amusement parks. When African Americans demanded inclusive public recreational facilities, white consumers abandoned those places. Many parks closed or privatized within a decade of desegregation. Wolcott's book tracks the decline of the urban amusement park and the simultaneous rise of the suburban theme park, reframing these shifts within the civil rights context. Filled with detailed accounts and powerful insights, Race, Riots, and Roller Coasters brings to light overlooked aspects of conflicts over public accommodations. This eloquent history demonstrates the significance of leisure in American race relations.
