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West Texas

Author : Paul H. Carlson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806145234
Total Pages : 393 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)

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Download or read book West Texas written by Paul H. Carlson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-03-04 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary. In four parts—comprehending the place, people, politics and economic life, and society and culture—Carlson and Glasrud and their contributors survey the confluence of life and landscape shaping the West Texas of today. Early chapters define the region. The “giant side of Texas” is a nineteenth-century geographical description of a vast area that includes the Panhandle, Llano Estacado, Permian Basin, and Big Bend–Trans-Pecos country. It is an arid, windblown environment that connects intimately with the history of Texas culture. Carlson and Glasrud take a nonlinear approach to exploring the many cultural influences on West Texas, including the Tejanos, the oil and gas economy, and the major cities. Readers can sample topics in whichever order they please, whether they are interested in learning about ranching, recreation, or turn-of-the-century education. Throughout, familiar western themes arise: the urban growth of El Paso is contrasted with the mid-century decline of small towns and the social shifting that followed. Well-known Texas scholars explore popular perceptions of West Texas as sparsely populated and rife with social contradiction and rugged individualism. West Texas comes into yet clearer view through essays on West Texas women, poets, Native peoples, and musicians. Gathered here is a long overdue consideration of the landscape, culture, and everyday lives of one of America’s most iconic and understudied regions.

Texas Giants

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Texas Giants written by and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Terrestial and space pioneer in communication, computation and control.

Giant Salvinia

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Book Synopsis Giant Salvinia by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs

Download or read book Giant Salvinia written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Natural Resources. Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife, Oceans, and Insular Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Texas

Author : John Hamilton
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1680774506
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (87 download)

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Download or read book Texas written by John Hamilton and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2016-08-15 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Texas, the Lone Star State! Students will explore Big Bend National Park, attend a Dallas Cowboys football game, visit NASA's Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center, and more as they learn about Texas's history, plants and animals, industries, sports, cities, famous people, and more in this fun, fact-filled title. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Abdo & Daughters is an imprint of Abdo Publishing, a division of ABDO.

Texas Giant

Author : Dan Murph
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781571685711
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (857 download)

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Download or read book Texas Giant written by Dan Murph and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Price Daniel was elected to more high offices than anyone in Texas history.

Giant

Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466867973
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Giant written by Don Graham and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2018-04-10 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A larger-than-life narrative of the making of the classic film, marking the rise of America as a superpower, the ascent of Hollywood celebrity, and the flowering of Texas culture as mythology. Featuring James Dean, Rock Hudson, and Elizabeth Taylor, Giant is an epic film of fame and materialism, based around the discovery of oil at Spindletop and the establishment of the King Ranch of south Texas. Isolating his star cast in the wilds of West Texas, director George Stevens brought together a volatile mix of egos, insecurities, sexual proclivities, and talent. Stevens knew he was overwhelmed with Hudson’s promiscuity, Taylor’s high diva-dom, and Dean’s egotistical eccentricity. Yet he coaxed performances out of them that made cinematic history, winning Stevens the Academy Award for Best Director and garnering nine other nominations, including a nomination for Best Actor for James Dean, who died before the film was finished. In this compelling and impeccably researched narrative history of the making of the film, Don Graham chronicles the stories of Stevens, whose trauma in World War II intensified his ambition to make films that would tell the story of America; Edna Ferber, a considerable literary celebrity, who meets her match in the imposing Robert Kleberg, proprietor of the vast King Ranch; and Glenn McCarthy, an American oil tycoon; and Errol Flynn lookalike with a taste for Hollywood. Drawing on archival sources Graham’s Giant is a comprehensive depiction of the film’s production showing readers how reality became fiction and fiction became cinema.

Big Wonderful Thing

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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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.

Secrets of the Sideshows

Author : Joe Nickell
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813123585
Total Pages : 434 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (235 download)

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Download or read book Secrets of the Sideshows written by Joe Nickell and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2005-09-09 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Joe Nickell - once a carnival pitchman, then a magician, private detective, and investigative writer - has pursued sideshow secrets for years and has worked the famous carnival midway at the Canadian National Exhibition. For this book, he interviewed showmen and performers, collected carnival memorabilia, researched published accounts of sideshows and their lore, and even performed some classic sideshow feats, such as eating fire and lying on a bed of nails as a cinderblock was broken on his chest. The result of these varied efforts, Secrets of the Sideshows tells the captivating story of the magic, tricks - real or illusory - and performers of the world's midway shows."--BOOK JACKET.

Texas

Author : Carmen Boullosa
Publisher : Deep Vellum Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1941920004
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book Texas written by Carmen Boullosa and published by Deep Vellum Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical examination of tension and conflict on the Texas-Mexico border, told from the Mexican perspective, that's especially relevant today.

American Poland-China Record

Author : American Poland-China Record Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1000 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book American Poland-China Record written by American Poland-China Record Association and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 1000 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ferber

Author : Julie Goldsmith Gilbert
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781557833327
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Ferber written by Julie Goldsmith Gilbert and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1999 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Applause Books This enduring biography of the popular writer begins with Ferber's last years in New York City, exploring the setting in which she did all of her great writing. Diaries, copious correspondence, and the cooperation of distinguished living friends have resulted in a rich portrait of a period and a literary circle not yet fully documented, and an insightful engaging analysis of a woman writer highly influential in the shaping of twentieth century America.

A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada

Author : David L. Pearson
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195181557
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to the Tiger Beetles of the United States and Canada written by David L. Pearson and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A color-illustrated field and natural history guide that treats 107 tiger beetle species found in North America above the Mexican border. This work includes biological accounts that emphasize points for identification, behavior, and habitat. Distribution maps show where various species and subspecies can be found.

The Big Rich

Author : Bryan Burrough
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0143116827
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)

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Download or read book The Big Rich written by Bryan Burrough and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Full of schadenfreude and speculation—and solid, timely history too.” —Kirkus Reviews “This is a portrait of capitalism as white-knuckle risk taking, yielding fruitful discoveries for the fathers, but only sterile speculation for the sons—a story that resonates with today's economic upheaval.” —Publishers Weekly “What's not to enjoy about a book full of monstrous egos, unimaginable sums of money, and the punishment of greed and shortsightedness?” —The Economist Phenomenal reviews and sales greeted the hardcover publication of The Big Rich, New York Times bestselling author Bryan Burrough's spellbinding chronicle of Texas oil. Weaving together the multigenerational sagas of the industry's four wealthiest families, Burrough brings to life the men known in their day as the Big Four: Roy Cullen, H. L. Hunt, Clint Murchison, and Sid Richardson, all swaggering Texas oil tycoons who owned sprawling ranches and mingled with presidents and Hollywood stars. Seamlessly charting their collective rise and fall, The Big Rich is a hugely entertaining account that only a writer with Burrough's abilities-and Texas upbringing-could have written.

Haunted Texas

Author : Alan N. Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 0811740803
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (117 download)

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Download or read book Haunted Texas written by Alan N. Brown and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Alamo to UFO sightings, a collection from Texas's rich history and independent spirit.

Giant Under the Hill

Author : Judith Walker Linsley
Publisher : Texas State Historical Assn
ISBN 13 : 9780876112366
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Giant Under the Hill written by Judith Walker Linsley and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Spindletop oil discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.

Standard Poland-China Record

Author : Standard Poland-China Record Association, Maryville, Mo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1300 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Standard Poland-China Record written by Standard Poland-China Record Association, Maryville, Mo and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 1300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Plants of Deep South Texas

Author : Alfred Richardson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 160344680X
Total Pages : 471 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)

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Download or read book Plants of Deep South Texas written by Alfred Richardson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Field Guide to the Woody and Flowering Species Covering the almost three million acres of southernmost Texas known as the Lower Rio Grande Valley, this user-friendly guide is an essential reference for nature enthusiasts, farmers and ranchers, professional botanists, and anyone interested in the plant life of Texas. Alfred Richardson and Ken King offer abundant photographs and short descriptions of more than eight hundred species of ferns, algae, and woody and herbaceous plants--two-thirds of the species that occur in this region. "Plants of Deep South Texas" opens with a brief introduction to the region and an illustrated guide to leaf shapes and flower parts. The book's individual species accounts cover: Leaves Flowers Fruit Blooming period Distribution Habits Common and scientific names In addition, the authors' comments include indispensible information that cannot be seen in a photograph, such as the etymology of the scientific name, the plant's use by caterpillars and its value from the human perspective. The authors also provide a glossary of terms, as well as an appendix of butterfly and moth species mentioned in the text.