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Captain W W Withenburys 1838 1842 Red River Reminiscences
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Book Synopsis Captain W. W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 "Red River Reminiscences" by : Jacques D. Bagur
Download or read book Captain W. W. Withenbury's 1838-1842 "Red River Reminiscences" written by Jacques D. Bagur and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-03-15 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: W. W. Withenbury was a famous river boat captain during the mid-1800s. In retirement, he wrote a series of letters for the Cincinnati Commercial, under the title "Red River Reminiscences." Jacques Bagur has selected and annotated 39 letters describing three steamboat voyages on the upper Red River from 1838 to 1842. Withenbury was a master of character and incident, and his profiles of persons, including three signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, reflect years of acquaintance. The beauty of his writing ranks this among the best of the reminiscences that were written as the steamboat era was declining. “Bagur is an expert on the Red River in the nineteenth century, and it shows in this work. Informative and entertaining.” —Randolph B. "Mike" Campbell, author of Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State “This will rank as a great assistance to researchers if anyone wants to attack history of the Red River again. Some of his in-depth research was fabulous.”—Skipper Steely, author of Red River Pioneers
Book Synopsis Boggy Slough by : Jonathan K. Gerland
Download or read book Boggy Slough written by Jonathan K. Gerland and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-24 with total page 931 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Boggy Slough Conservation Area is a 19,000-acre unbroken tract of pine and bottomland hardwood forest situated in East Texas’ Trinity and Houston counties. More than twenty miles of the Neches River, one of the last free-flowing rivers in the state, serves as the eastern boundary, and for more than a century the land has been one of the state’s leading game and industrial forest management areas. A unique blend of natural, cultural, and business history, Boggy Slough presents a highly illustrated narrative of the land, people, and evolving purpose, from time of European contact to the present. Gerland traces the many phases of land use in this forest as it transitioned from hunting, gathering, fishing, and subsistence farming to an experimental mix of stock raising and large-scale commercial forestry, eventually becoming important conservation land along the Neches River Corridor. Gerland explores the natural features and adaptive land use practices of the region as well as the environmental history of railroads and logging camps, barbed wire fences and company cattle ranches, and exclusive hunting clubs. The underlying story is the evolution and environmental impact of Southern Pine Lumber Company, founded in 1893 by T. L. L. Temple. Now owned and maintained by the fifth generation of the Temple family, the Boggy Slough lands are the last remnants of what was once a 1.2 million–acre forest empire. Gerland examines the family’s and the lumber company’s struggles to grow and manage a second-, third-, and fourth-generation forest, ultimately achieving sustainability while managing changing environmental concerns and attitudes.
Book Synopsis New Mexico Historical Review by : Lansing Bartlett Bloom
Download or read book New Mexico Historical Review written by Lansing Bartlett Bloom and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fleur de Lys and Calumet by : André Pénicaut
Download or read book Fleur de Lys and Calumet written by André Pénicaut and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1988-07-30 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Andre Penicaut, a carpenter, sailed with Iberville to the French province of Louisiana in 1699 and did not return to France until 1721. The book he began in the province and finished upon his return to France is an eyewitness account of the first years of the French colony, which stretched along the Gulf Coast from Florida to Texas and in the Mississippi Valley from the Balize to the Illinois country. As a ship carpenter, Penicaut was chosen as a member of several important expeditions: he accompanied Le Sueur up the Mississippi River in 1700 to present-day Minnesota, and he went with Juchereau de St. Denis on the first journey from Mobile to the Red River and overland to the Rio Grande, to open trade with the Spaniards in Mexico. Penicaut helped to build the first post in Louisiana, at Old Biloxi, and the second post on the Mobile River. Penicaut was at his best when describing the lives and social customs of the Indians of the region. He saw them in realistic terms, showing no prejudice toward their native habits. Neither were his French colleagues cast in heroic or villainous molds—though their accomplishments must strike modern readers as truly epic. When first published, Fleur de Lys and Calumet was a major stimulus to scholarship in the field. This new edition will be welcomed by a new generation of scholars and readers interested in the colonial history of the Deep South and the Mississippi Valley.
Book Synopsis If White Kids Die by : Dick J. Reavis
Download or read book If White Kids Die written by Dick J. Reavis and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "While he wasn't aware of Carmichael's strategy when he decided to join a 1965 summer voter registration program, Dick J. Reavis felt it instinctively when he told his resistant father the reason he was going. "Dad, if we live in a country where nobody pays attention when Negroes die, then I guess that's the way it has to be. Somebody has to pay the price." The price the white middle-class Texan paid when he spent a summer on the wrong side of the tracks in Demopolis, Alabama, was his innocence.".
Book Synopsis The Accidental City by : Lawrence N. Powell
Download or read book The Accidental City written by Lawrence N. Powell and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-13 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the history of the city from its being contended over as swampland through Louisiana's statehood in 1812, discussing its motley identities as a French village, African market town, Spanish fortress, and trade center.
Book Synopsis Antebellum Jefferson, Texas by : Jacques D. Bagur
Download or read book Antebellum Jefferson, Texas written by Jacques D. Bagur and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Book Synopsis A History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes by : Jacques D. Bagur
Download or read book A History of Navigation on Cypress Bayou and the Lakes written by Jacques D. Bagur and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Fact Sheet Bagur examines water transportation & the natural & socioeconomic factors that affected it in Northwest Louisiana, East Texas, & the Red River.
Book Synopsis A Southern Community in Crisis by : Randolph B. Campbell
Download or read book A Southern Community in Crisis written by Randolph B. Campbell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historians have published countless studies of the American Civil War from 1861 to 1865 and the era of Reconstruction that followed those four years of brutally destructive conflict. Most of these works focus on events and developments at the national or state level, explaining and analyzing the causes of disunion, the course of the war, and the bitter disputes that arose during restoration of the Union. Much less attention has been given to studying how ordinary people experienced the years from 1861 to 1876. What did secession, civil war, emancipation, victory for the United States, and Reconstruction mean at the local level in Texas? Exactly how much change—economic, social, and political—did the era bring to the focus of the study, Harrison County: a cotton-growing, planter-dominated community with the largest slave population of any county in the state? Providing an answer to that question is the basic purpose of A Southern Community in Crisis: Harrison County, Texas, 1850–1880. First published by the Texas State Historical Association in 1983, the book is now available in paperback, with a foreword by Andrew J. Torget, one of the Lone Star State’s top young historians.
Download or read book The Coffin Family written by Louis Coffin and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tristram Coffin was born in 1605 at Brixton, Devonshire, England, the son of Peter and Joanna Thember Coffin. He married Dionis Stevens, daughter Robert Stevens of Brixton. They had nine children, 1631-1652. The family immigrated to America in 1642 and settled first at Haverhill. They moved to Newbury in 1648, then to Salisbury in 1654, and to Nantucket, Massachusetts, in 1680. Descendants lived in Massachusetts, New York, and elsewhere.
Download or read book The Coffin Family written by Allen Coffin and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-01 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ The Coffin Family: The Life Of Tristram Coffyn, Of Nantucket, Mass., Founder Of The Family Line In America; Together With Reminiscences And Anecdotes Of Some Of His Numerous Descendants, And Some Historical Information Concerning The Ancient Families Named Coffyn Allen Coffin Hussey & Robinson, 1881 Reference; Genealogy; Reference / Genealogy
Book Synopsis Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana by :
Download or read book Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana written by and published by . This book was released on 1890 with total page 818 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Pathfinder for Norwegian Emigrants by : Johan Reinert Reiersen
Download or read book Pathfinder for Norwegian Emigrants written by Johan Reinert Reiersen and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Translation by Frank G. Nelson of Reiersen's advice to Norwegian emigrants, originally published in 1844 in Norway.
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Book Synopsis The Ashes of Waco by : Dick J. Reavis
Download or read book The Ashes of Waco written by Dick J. Reavis and published by Syracuse University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story the daily press didn't give us. It may be the definitive book about what happened at Mt. Carmel, near Waco, Texas, examined from both sides—the Bureau of Alcohol and Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) and the FBI on one hand, and David Koresh and his followers on the other. Dick J. Reavis contends that the government had little reason to investigate Koresh and even less to raid the compound at Mt. Carmel. The government lied to the public about most of what happened—about who fired the first shots, about drug allegations, about child abuse. The FBI was duplicitous and negligent in gassing Mt. Carmel-and that alone could have started the fire that killed seventy-six people. Drawing on interviews with survivors of Koresh's movement (which dates back to 1935), as well as from esoteric religious tracts and audiotapes, and previously undisclosed government documents, Reavis uncovers the real story of the burning at Waco, including the trial that followed. The author quotes from Koresh himself to create an extraordinary portrait of a movement, an assault, and an avoidable tragedy.
Book Synopsis Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820-1902 by :
Download or read book Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at New Orleans, 1820-1902 written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco by : Louis Christian Mullgardt
Download or read book The Panama-Pacific Exposition at San Francisco written by Louis Christian Mullgardt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
