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A Paradise Called Texas

Author : Janice Jordan Shefelman
Publisher : Eakin Press
ISBN 13 : 9781940130651
Total Pages : 136 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book A Paradise Called Texas written by Janice Jordan Shefelman and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebonnet Award Nominee. - Searching for a better life, Mina, Papa, and Mama left their German fatherland aboard the brig Margaretha, bound for Texas. They had been told it was the paradise of North America, but when Mina steps onto the desolate beach at Indian Point on a cold December day in 1845, she wants to go back to Germany and Opa's cozy house in the village of Wehrestedt. But go on they must. In spite of mama's tragic death, Mina and Papa push inland with the Kaufmann family to the Texas hill country. There Mina encounters an Indian chief and his young daughter, Amaya, whose help she needs when Papa falls ill. Based on her ancestors' immigration to Texas, Janice Shefelman tells of a journey into the wilderness that is filled with hardship, tragedy and adventure . . . young readers will glimpse a fascinating view of what life in early Texas was like for German settlers.Texas

A Place Called Texas

Author : Kenneth J. Briden
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781933582368
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (823 download)

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Download or read book A Place Called Texas written by Kenneth J. Briden and published by . This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A PLACE CALLED TEXAS is a historical-fictional novel based on a young German immigrant's odyssey as a stow-away in 1845. He left his German home on his 20th birthday and arrived shortly thereafter in "a place called Texas". Though he really wanted to go to New York, America, he arrived in the harbor of Galveston just a few weeks before Texas was admitted to the United States. This novel details his journey and experiences. An action packed novel where good triumphs over evil. A Place Called Texas is Book 1 in a three-part series entitled IN SEARCH OF FREEDOM.

Texas Place Names

Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320660
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Texas Place Names written by Edward Callary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] linguist . . . takes readers on a tour across the state, using names and language to tell its history.” ―Alcalde Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it; the name was derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life. “[A] quite useful book.” ―Austin American-Statesman

1001 Texas Place Names

Author : Fred Tarpley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 029278693X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book 1001 Texas Place Names written by Fred Tarpley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Notrees to Pine Island, from Scotland to Moscow, from Dickens to Tennyson, from Spur to Lariat, from Buck Naked to Bald Prairie—Texans are unsurpassed for the imaginative names they give their towns and cities. Fred Tarpley has chosen 1001 of the most unusual and interesting of the 75,000 place names that dot the Texas map. The names of Texas communities and places can be traced to a number of basic sources, including people; landscapes; the Bible; literature and mythology; misunderstandings and errors; backward spellings and blends; and anecdotes and events. Each entry in 1001 Texas Place Names gives the official spelling of the name, phonetic pronunciation where necessary, dates of post office operation, and a short narrative about the origin of the name and the history of the place. Each of Texas's 254 counties is represented by at least two entries.

The Handbook of Texas

Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Handbook of Texas written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.

Calling Texas Home

Author : Wells Teague
Publisher : Council Oak Books
ISBN 13 : 9781885171382
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Calling Texas Home written by Wells Teague and published by Council Oak Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This colorful trove of facts, trivia, and historical tidbits on the Lone Star gives the lowdown on the sprawling state and tells the story of its people.

Texas Place Names

Author : Edward Callary
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320644
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book Texas Place Names written by Edward Callary and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Was Gasoline, Texas, named in honor of a gas station? Nope, but the name does honor the town’s original claim to fame: a gasoline-powered cotton gin. Is Paris, Texas, a reference to Paris, France? Yes: Thomas Poteet, who donated land for the town site, thought it would be an improvement over “Pin Hook,” the original name of the Lamar County seat. Ding Dong’s story has a nice ring to it, derived from two store owners named Bell, who lived in Bell County, of course. Tracing the turning points, fascinating characters, and cultural crossroads that shaped Texas history, Texas Place Names provides the colorful stories behind these and more than three thousand other county, city, and community names. Drawing on in-depth research to present the facts behind the folklore, linguist Edward Callary also clarifies pronunciations (it’s NAY-chis for Neches, referring to a Caddoan people whose name was attached to the Neches River during a Spanish expedition). A great resource for road trippers and historians alike, Texas Place Names alphabetically charts centuries of humanity through the enduring words (and, occasionally, the fateful spelling gaffes) left behind by men and women from all walks of life.

Texas Towns

Author : Don Blevins
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461732859
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)

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Download or read book Texas Towns written by Don Blevins and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2003-09-02 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To see Weeping Mary you've got to head to Texas. The grand state even boasts a Little Hope. Texas Towns is a smart volume full of peculiar places. Author Don Blevins is generous in his detailing of the counties, routes, and landmarks that distinguish the hundreds of villages with quirky names scattered throughout the Lone Star State. History is told-the dates these curious settlements began, early inhabitants, previous names of the villages, and how each town's name came to be. Travel through the alphabet of Texas. Learn the history of teh unique town in which you live. Or get educated about a place like Blowout Community, just another little pieced of Texas.

Why Visit America

Author : Matthew Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1526618389
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (266 download)

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Download or read book Why Visit America written by Matthew Baker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The citizens of Plainfield, Texas, have had it with the broke-down United States. So they vote to secede, rename themselves America in memory of their former country, and happily set themselves up to receive tourists from their closest neighbor: America. Couldn't happen? Well, it might, and so it goes in the thirteen stories in Matthew Baker's brilliantly illuminating, incisive, and heartbreaking collection Why Visit America."--Provided by publisher.

God Save Texas

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525435905
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (254 download)

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Download or read book God Save Texas written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-03-05 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.

A Place Called Harmony

Author : Jodi Thomas
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781322790206
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book A Place Called Harmony written by Jodi Thomas and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Kings of Big Spring

Author : Bryan Mealer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1250058910
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Kings of Big Spring written by Bryan Mealer and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Texas blood is bond and oil is king.

The Texanist

Author : David Courtney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477312978
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)

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Download or read book The Texanist written by David Courtney and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

Famous Trees of Texas

Author : Gretchen Riley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492386
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Famous Trees of Texas written by Gretchen Riley and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-21 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous Trees of Texas was first published in 1970 by the Texas Forest Service (now Texas A&M Forest Service), an organization created in 1915 and charged with protecting and sustaining the forests, trees, and other related natural resources of Texas. For the 100-year anniversary of TFS, the agency presents a new edition of this classic book, telling the stories of 101 trees throughout the state. Some are old friends, featured in the first edition and still alive (27 of the original 81 trees described in the first edition have died); some are newly designated, discovered as people began to recognize their age and value. All of them remain “living links” to the state’s storied past.

Promise, Texas

Author : Debbie Macomber
Publisher : MIRA
ISBN 13 : 1488086184
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Promise, Texas written by Debbie Macomber and published by MIRA. This book was released on 2017-10-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Let #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber take you back again into the HEART OF TEXAS, in this classic western romance for your keeper shelf! In Promise, Texas, people know what really matters—family, friends, community. And they know that love gives meaning to every day of their lives…. Some of the people in Promise are from old ranching families—like the Westons and Pattersons—folks who arrived in the Hill Country more than a century ago. And then there are newcomers like Annie Applegate, who opens a bookstore in town. Some might say Annie does things backward. She marries a widowed veterinarian for the sake of his kids…and discovers that marriage can lead to love. In Promise, everyone’s life is a story! The people here, like people everywhere, experience tragedies as well as triumphs, sorrow as well as joy. This town, like towns everywhere, has its share of secrets. But whether times are good or bad, you’re never alone in a place like Promise. And as Annie Applegate knows, that makes all the difference. Originally published in 1999

How Come It's Called That?

Author : Virginia Madison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book How Come It's Called That? written by Virginia Madison and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lone Star America

Author : Mark Davis
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781621572251
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (722 download)

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Download or read book Lone Star America written by Mark Davis and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout America and around the world, the United States has been known as a beacon of hope and opportunity, the land of the free and the home of the brave. Sadly, from the crumbling urban ghetto of Detroit to the cash-strapped shores of California to the rust belt of the Midwest, America is not living up to that promise. Except in Texas. While unemployment soars elsewhere, Texans are hard at work. While small businesses across the country are going under, Texas entrepreneurs are thriving. While large companies are being squeezed by taxes, regulations and unions, more and more corporations are moving to Texas to grow and expand. While people of faith are ridiculed and marginalized in most cities on both coasts, in Texas churches and synagogues are bursting at the seams. How did Texas embrace what the rest of America seems to have forgotten? In Lonestar America, popular talk radio show host Mark Davis presents a powerful case for economic prosperity, individual freedom, strong families, and even stronger pride of place – alive and kicking in Texas, and easily exportable to the rest of America. Davis shows how Texas has done it, how some “honorary Texans” in other states (governors and even local communities) have adopted some of the same policies and approaches, and how states across the country can reclaim the promise of the American dream.