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Author : Mark Skipworth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781999802875
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)
Download or read book The Texas Chronicles written by Mark Skipworth and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young person's guide to the story of the State of Texas from its birth to the present day
Author : Leon Hale
Publisher : Winedale Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780940672505
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (725 download)
Download or read book Texas Chronicles written by Leon Hale and published by Winedale Pub. This book was released on 1989 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book contains many essays about life in Texas, from storytellers in beer joints to preachers at country revivals, and from perils in the big-city traffic to the peace the author finds on a Texas riverbank.
Author : Leon Claire Metz
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780930208325
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (83 download)
Download or read book El Paso Chronicles written by Leon Claire Metz and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : C. Herndon Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614232466
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Texas Gulf Coast Stories written by C. Herndon Williams and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12-03 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The middle Texas coast, known locally as the Coast Bend, is an area filled with fascinating stories. From as early as the days of de Vaca and La Salle, the Coastal Bend has been a site of early exploration, bloody conflicts, legendary shipwrecks and even a buried treasure or two. However, much of the true history has remained unknown, misunderstood and even hidden. For years, local historian C. Herndon Williams has shared his fascinating discoveries of the area's early stories through his weekly column, "Coastal Bend Chronicle." Now he has selected some of his favorites in Texas Gulf Coast Stories. Join Williams as he explores the days of early settlement and European contact, Karankawa and Tonkawa legends and the Coastal Bend's tallest of tall tales.
Author : R. D. Kane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book The Wineslinger Chronicles written by R. D. Kane and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A chronicle of Texas's emergence as a wine-producing region. Relates the stories of winegrowers, past and present, who have contributed to Texas wine culture"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Katie Lane
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1455515701
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Trouble in Texas written by Katie Lane and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-12-18 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THERE'S A FOX IN THE HENHOUSE Inheriting the most notorious house of ill repute in Texas can spell trouble for a girl's reputation . . . especially when she's Elizabeth Murphy, Bramble's prim and proper librarian. Yet when she discovers a buck-naked cowboy handcuffed to a four-poster bed, she forgets all about the town gossips. Elizabeth has sworn off men, but the stranger's kisses melt her resolve faster than ice cream on a hot summer day. Waking up in Miss Hattie's Henhouse isn't how Brant Cates reckoned on getting to the bottom of his great-granddaddy's murder. The plan was to solve the centuries-old crime, then get the heck out of Dodge. But after meeting Elizabeth and discovering that the buttoned-up beauty is a sexy siren in disguise, he just can't pull himself away. Now Brant needs Elizabeth to finally put his past to rest, but is she willing to risk her future on Bramble's newest bad boy?
Author : W. D. Smithers
Publisher : TX A&m-TX St Historical Assoc.
ISBN 13 : 9781876112615
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (126 download)
Download or read book Chronicles of the Big Bend written by W. D. Smithers and published by TX A&m-TX St Historical Assoc.. This book was released on 2013-02-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter he returned to Texas' last great frontier-the great bend of the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border-chronicling the region and its people in words and photographs. The years that Smithers chronicled in the Big Bend were sometimes violent ones. Pancho Villa and Chico Cano were among the many "bandits" playing hide-and-seek with the U.S. Cavalry-events Smithers recorded. He was also an eyewitness to liquor-running and smuggling during Prohibition. His principal subjects, however, were the people of the Big Bend: local ranchers, Mexican American and American families, miners, Texas Rangers, and others living simple lives in this harsh and beautiful land.
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1614238146
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book West Texas Tales written by Mike Cox and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2011-06-21 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. Travel to El Paso during the "Big Blow" of 1895, brave the frontier with Elizabeth Russell Baker, and stare down the infamous killer known as Old Three Toe. From frontier stories and ghost towns to famous folks and accounts of everyday life, this collection of West Texas Tales has it all.
Author : Darwin Payne
Publisher : Cherbo Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9781882933044
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Texas Chronicles written by Darwin Payne and published by Cherbo Publishing Group. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gary Cartwright
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292789920
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Turn Out the Lights written by Gary Cartwright and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether the subject is Jack Ruby, Willie Nelson, or his own leukemia-stricken son Mark, when it comes to looking at the world through another person's eyes, nobody does it better than Gary Cartwright. For over twenty-five years, readers of Texas Monthly have relied on Cartwright to tell the stories behind the headlines with pull-no-punches honesty and wry humor. His reporting has told us not just what's happened over three decades in Texas, but, more importantly, what we've become as a result. This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination. He ranges widely in these pieces, from the reasons for his return to Texas after a New Mexican exile to profiles of Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. Along the way, he strolls through San Antonio's historic King William District; attends a Dallas Cowboys old-timers reunion and the Holyfield vs. Foreman fight; visits the front lines of Texas' new range wars; gets inside the heads of murderers, gamblers, and revolutionaries; and debunks Viagra miracles, psychic surgery, and Kennedy conspiracy theories. In Cartwright's words, these pieces all record "the renewal of my Texas-ness, a rediscovery of Texas after returning home."
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451606575
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)
Download or read book Horseman, Pass By written by Larry McMurtry and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lonesome Dove comes the novel that became the basis for the film Hud, starring Paul Newman. In classic Western style Larry McMurtry illustrates the timeless conflict between the modernity and the Old West through the eyes of Texas cattlemen. Horseman, Pass By tells the story of Homer Bannon, an old-time cattleman who epitomizes the frontier values of honesty and decency, and Hud, his unscrupulous stepson. Caught in the middle is the narrator, Homer's young grandson Lonnie, who is as much drawn to his grandfather’s strength of character as he is to Hud's hedonism and materialism. When first published in 1961, Horseman, Pass By caused a sensation in Texas literary circles for its stark, realistic portrayal of the struggles of a changing West in the years following World War II. Never before had a writer managed to encapsulate its environment with such unsentimental realism. Today, memorable characters, powerful themes, and illuminating detail make Horseman, Pass By vintage McMurtry.
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493523
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Leaving Cheyenne written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-03-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “If Chaucer were a Texan writing today . . . this is how he would have written and this is how he would have felt.”— New York Times In Leaving Cheyenne (1963), which anticipates Lonesome Dove more than any other early novel, the stark realities of the American West play out in a mesmerizing love triangle. Stubborn rancher Gideon Fry, resilient Molly Taylor, and awkward ranch hand Johnny McCloud struggle with love and jealousy as the years pass.
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1631493760
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (314 download)
Download or read book Thalia: A Texas Trilogy written by Larry McMurtry and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of Entertainment Weekly’s "Most Beautiful Books of the Year" The renaissance of Larry McMurtry, “an alchemist who converts the basest materials to gold” (New York Times Book Review), continues with the publication of Thalia. Larry McMurtry burst onto the American literary scene with a force that would forever redefine how we perceive the American West. His first three novels— Horseman, Pass By (1961),* Leaving Cheyenne (1963), and The Last Picture Show (1966)— all set in the north Texas town of Thalia after World War II, are collected here for the first time. In this trilogy, McMurtry writes tragically of men and women trying to carve out an existence on the plains, where the forces of modernity challenge small- town American life. From a cattleranch rivalry that confirms McMurtry’s “full- blooded Western genius” (Publishers Weekly) to a love triangle involving a cowboy, his rancher boss and wife, and finally to the hardscrabble citizens of an oil- patch town trying to keep their only movie house alive, McMurtry captures the stark realities of the West like no one else. With a new introduction, Thalia emerges as an American classic that celebrates one of our greatest literary masters. *Just named in 2017 by Publishers Weekly the #1 Western novel worthy of rediscovery.
Author : Lewis Sorley
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780896725331
Total Pages : 994 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (253 download)
Download or read book Vietnam Chronicles written by Lewis Sorley and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 994 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the four years General Creighton W. Abrams was commander in Vietnam, he and his staff made more than 455 tape recordings of briefings and meetings. In 1994, with government approval, Lewis Sorley began transcribing and analyzing the tapes. Sorley’s laborious, time-consuming effort has produced a picture of the senior U.S. commander in Vietnam and his associates working to prosecute a complex and challenging military campaign in an equally complex and difficult political context.The concept of the nature of the war and the way it was conducted changed during Abrams’s command. The progressive buildup of U.S. forces was reversed, and Abrams became responsible for turning the war back to the South Vietnamese.The edited transcriptions in this volume clearly reflect those changes in policy and strategy. They include briefings called the Weekly Intelligence Estimate Updates as well as meetings with such visitors as the secretary of defense, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and other high-ranking officials. In Vietnam Chronicles we see, for the first time, the difficult task that Creighton Abrams accomplished with tact and skill.
Author : Chuck Lanehart
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152803
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Marvels of the Texas Plains: Historic Chronicles from the Courthouse to the Caprock written by Chuck Lanehart and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Assemble a composite portrait of the Texas plains through these historic tales. Many thousands of years ago, Clovis Man hunted huge mammoths here. More recently, Waylon Jennings drew his musical inspiration here. In the intervening time, the Texas prairie has been the backdrop for the wildest of Wild West shootouts, landmark legal battles and epic achievements in sports, music and medicine. Familiar icons like Roy Orbison and Dan Blocker, as well as forgotten characters like Charlie "Squirrel-Eye" Emory and John "the Catfish Kid" Gough all helped shape the colorful history of the Texas Plains. Who shot the sheriff? Who was the earliest American? Who invented the slam dunk? Author Chuck Lanehart answers these questions and many more in a wide-ranging collection of stories.
Author : R.J. Guyer
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 161423891X
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (142 download)
Download or read book Douglas County Chronicles written by R.J. Guyer and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2013-03-19 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Douglas County, Oregon, stretches west from Crater Lake and the forested peaks of the Cascades until it reaches the shores of the Pacific in a tumult of rolling sand dunes. In this account, author R.J. Guyer recalls the frontier spirit and creative industry that shaped this land of one hundred valleys. Enjoy stories of Lookingglass's two-horse parking meter and Boswell Springs' cure-all mineral waters. Celebrate Reedsport's Olympic gold medalist and Oakland's one-time claim as turkey capital of the world. Remember the devastation of the Roseburg blast and the triumph of the Drain Black Sox's win in the National Baseball Conference World Series. From the establishment of the county to the preservation of historic landmarks, Guyer shares the rich heritage of Douglas County's communities.
Author : Clay Coppedge
Publisher : American Chronicles
ISBN 13 : 9781596299801
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (998 download)
Download or read book Hill Country Chronicles written by Clay Coppedge and published by American Chronicles. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas Hill Country is a rugged and hilly area of central Texas known for its food, architecture and unique melting pot of Spanish and European settlers. The area's rich history is filled with quirky and fascinating tales about this landscape and the animals and people who have called it home. Clay Coppedge has been gathering Texas stories for over thirty years. This collection of his favorite columns includes his best Texas-sized stories on Hill Country history. From the legend of Llano's Enchanted Rock and the true story of Jim Bowie's famous knife to one rancher's attempt at bringing reindeer to the hottest area of the country and an oilman's search for Bigfoot, Hill Country Chronicles has them all and more.
