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Coronado's Children

Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789408
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Coronado's Children written by J. Frank Dobie and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is the best work ever written on hidden treasure, and one of the most fascinating books on any subject to come out of Texas.” —Basic Texas Books Written in 1930, Coronado’s Children was one of J. Frank Dobie’s first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that earlier gold seeker, the Spaniard Coronado. “These people,” Dobie writes in his introduction, “no matter what language they speak, are truly Coronado’s inheritors . . . I have called them Coronado’s children. They follow Spanish trails, buffalo trails, cow trails, they dig where there are no trails; but oftener than they dig or prospect they just sit and tell stories of lost mines, of buried bullion by the jack load . . .” This is the tale-spinning Dobie at his best, dealing with subjects as irresistible as ghost stories and haunted houses. “As entrancing a volume as one is likely to pick up in a month of Sundays.” —The New York Times “Dobie has discovered for us a native Arabian Night.” —Chicago Evening Post

Coronado

Author : Robin S. Doak
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 9780756511418
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Coronado written by Robin S. Doak and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2001-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an account of the journey made by Coronado and his search for riches in the new world.

The 50 + Best Books on Texas

Author : A. C. Greene
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 9781574410433
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The 50 + Best Books on Texas written by A. C. Greene and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An annotated listing of over fifty books judged by the author to be the best examples of Texas literature; arranged alphabetically by title.

Can You See Me?

Author : Mikhala Lantz-Simmons
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1524859214
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (248 download)

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Download or read book Can You See Me? written by Mikhala Lantz-Simmons and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using abstract art, Can You See Me? challenges the mind and celebrates diverse ways of seeing. Each spread contains an illustration of an animal made up entirely of equilateral triangles. Read the clue and wait for your child to spot the creature hidden in plain sight. Chances are, they will see the animal before you do!

J. Frank Dobie

Author : Steven L. Davis
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292782357
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book J. Frank Dobie written by Steven L. Davis and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first Texas-based writer to gain national attention, J. Frank Dobie proved that authentic writing springs easily from the native soil of Texas and the Southwest. In best-selling books such as Tales of Old-Time Texas, Coronado's Children, and The Longhorns, Dobie captured the Southwest's folk history, which was quickly disappearing as the United States became ever more urbanized and industrial. Renowned as "Mr. Texas," Dobie paradoxically has almost disappeared from view—a casualty of changing tastes in literature and shifts in social and political attitudes since the 1960s. In this lively biography, Steven L. Davis takes a fresh look at a J. Frank Dobie whose "liberated mind" set him on an intellectual journey that culminated in Dobie becoming a political liberal who fought for labor, free speech, and civil rights well before these causes became acceptable to most Anglo Texans. Tracing the full arc of Dobie's life (1888–1964), Davis shows how Dobie's insistence on "free-range thinking" led him to such radical actions as calling for the complete integration of the University of Texas during the 1940s, as well as taking on governors, senators, and the FBI (which secretly investigated him) as Texas's leading dissenter during the McCarthy era.

The San Saba Treasure

Author : David C. Lewis
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1574417460
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (744 download)

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Download or read book The San Saba Treasure written by David C. Lewis and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2018-12-15 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1868, four treasure hunters from San Marcos, Texas, searched for a lost mine on the San Saba River, near today’s Menard. It was popularized as folklore in J. Frank Dobie’s treasure legend classic Coronado’s Children. One hundred and fifty years later, a descendant of one of those four men set out to discover the history behind the legend. This book recounts that search, from the founding of the ill-fated 1757 mission on the San Saba River up to the last attempt, in 1990, to find the treasure in this particular legend. It describes Jim Bowie, a fake treasure map industry, murder trials, a rattlesnake dancer, fortunes lost, a very long Texas cave, and surprising twists to the story popularized by Dobie. The book will not lead anyone to the legendary ten-thousand pounds of silver, but it will open a treasure trove of Texas history and the unique characters who hunted the fabulous riches.

Sunset

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Sunset written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 1132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tales of Old-Time Texas

Author : James Frank Dobie
Publisher : Booksales
ISBN 13 : 9780785811329
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (113 download)

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Download or read book Tales of Old-Time Texas written by James Frank Dobie and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling of 28 tales about or taking place in Texas.

Explorer Academy

Author : Trudi Strain Trueit
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 1426331592
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book Explorer Academy written by Trudi Strain Trueit and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twelve-year-old Cruz Coronado leaves his home in Hawaii to study and travel with other young people invited to attend the elite Explorer Academy in Washington, D.C., but a family connection to the organization could jeopardize his future.

Death on Ocean Boulevard

Author : Caitlin Rother
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 0806540907
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Death on Ocean Boulevard written by Caitlin Rother and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[This] is one of the great crime mysteries of modern times. It took an author of Caitlin Rother’s caliber to bring it into sharp focus. A riveting read.” —Gregg Olsen, #1 New York Times bestselling author “I got a girl, hung herself in the guest house.” The call came on the morning of July 13, 2011, from the historic Spreckels Mansion, a lavish beachfront property in Coronado, California, owned by pharmaceutical tycoon and multimillionaire Jonah Shacknai. When authorities arrived, they found the naked body of Jonah’s girlfriend, Rebecca Zahau, gagged, her ankles tied and her wrists bound behind her. Jonah’s brother, Adam, claimed to have found Rebecca hanging by a rope from the second-floor balcony. On a bedroom door in black paint were the cryptic words: SHE SAVED HIM CAN YOU SAVE HER. Was this scrawled message a suicide note or a killer’s taunt? Rebecca’s death came two days after Jonah’s six-year-old son, Max, took a devastating fall while in Rebecca’s care. Authorities deemed Rebecca’s death a suicide resulting from her guilt. But who would stage either a suicide ora murder in such a bizarre, elaborate way? Award-winning investigative journalist Caitlin Rother weaves stunning new details into a personal yet objective examination of the sensational case. She explores its many layers—including the civil suit in which a jury found Adam Shacknai responsible for Rebecca’s death, and the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department bombshell decision to reconfirm its original findings. As compelling as it is troubling, this controversial real-life mystery is a classic American tragedy that evokes the same haunting fascination as the JonBenet Ramsey and O.J. Simpson cases. “Rother’s meticulous journalism shines through in this authoritative account of the Rebecca Zahau death incident. If you think you know this case, think again. And read this book.” —Katherine Ramsland, professor of forensic psychology and author of The Psychology of Death Investigations

Big Bend Country

Author : Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780890968116
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Big Bend Country written by Kenneth Baxter Ragsdale and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having first visited the Big Bend in 1928, Kenneth B. Ragsdale has been digging around in and writing about the region for decades. In Big Bend Country: Land of the Unexpected, he takes a nostalgic retrospective journey through the times and places of this increasingly popular corner of West Texas to say goodbye to those who made the history, created the myths, and lived the legends.?Building his stories around themes of compassion, conflict, and compromise, he profiles both famous and relatively unknown figures. He tells stories of curanderas (healers), charity workers, a woman who practiced medicine without a license, and another who started a private lending library in her store to encourage rural, poor children to read. In contrast to these stories, he chronicles blood feuds, shootouts, and the violence bred in wild, relatively lawless spaces.?Ragsdale?s stories cover a half-century, roughtly 1900 to 1955, from wagon trains to the filming of an epic movie, a time in which the face of the Big Bend changed: the quicksilver mines closed, a national park was established, isolation and cattle gave way to vacation ranchettes and tourists. ?Big Bend Country is a well-done and useful work and should be welcomed by all lovers of that wonderful country.? ?Dallas Morning News ?If you?ve never been to Big Bend, Ken Ragsdale?s new book will make you want to go there.??Austin American-Statesman.

Francisco Vasquez de Coronado

Author : Steve Roberts
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1477701699
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book Francisco Vasquez de Coronado written by Steve Roberts and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born to a noble family, Coronado still had to make his own fortune. Going on a quest, he crisscrossed the southwestern United States in search of the "seven cities of gold." Although he never found the cities, he was the first European to see the Grand Canyon and a multitude of other natural wonders. Readers will journey along in his adventures and struggles, enjoying the text from cover to cover.

Wings

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 556 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wings written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The League of Wives

Author : Heath Hardage Lee
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 125016110X
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book The League of Wives written by Heath Hardage Lee and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "With astonishing verve, The League of Wives persisted to speak truth to power to bring their POW/MIA husbands home from Vietnam. And with astonishing verve, Heath Hardage Lee has chronicled their little-known story — a profile of courage that spotlights 1960s-era military wives who forge secret codes with bravery, chutzpah and style. Honestly, I couldn’t put it down." — Beth Macy, author of Dopesick and Factory Man "Exhilarating and inspiring." — Elaine Showalter, Washington Post The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington—and Hanoi—to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam. On February 12, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of Families, would never have called themselves “feminists,” but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands’ freedom—and to account for missing military men—by relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on everyone’s must-read list.

Big-Hearted Charlie Runs the Mile

Author : Krista Keating-Joseph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780997252354
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (523 download)

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Download or read book Big-Hearted Charlie Runs the Mile written by Krista Keating-Joseph and published by . This book was released on 2017-04-12 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big-Hearted Charlie Runs The Mile is based on a true story about a little boy who joins a track team and works hard to overcome his small size as he runs against boys who are much bigger. At first, he never wins a race. But Charlie doesn't give up, and his hard work pays off. He becomes a champion on the track and later a true hero in real life as a U.S. Navy SEAL.

Cities of Gold

Author : Douglas Preston
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826320865
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Cities of Gold written by Douglas Preston and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A modern horseback journey across 1,000 miles of desert and wilderness following the trail of the first European explorer in the American Southwest.

The Texas Book

Author : Richard A. Holland
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292714297
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Texas Book written by Richard A. Holland and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2006-11-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides personality profiles, historical essays, and first-person reminiscences of the history of the University of Texas. Topics include recurring attacks on the school by politicians and regents, the institution's history of segregation and struggles to become a diverse university, the sixties' protest movements, and the Tower sniper shooting.