Another Year Finds Me In Texas

Author : Vicki Adams Tongate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-02-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477308462

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Another Year Finds Me in Texas by Vicki Adams Tongate Pdf

Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt’s family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War made returning home impossible. Stranded in enemy territory for the duration of the war, how would she reconcile her Northern upbringing with the Southern sentiments surrounding her? Lucy Stevens’s diary—one of few women’s diaries from Civil War–era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner—offers a unique perspective on daily life at the fringes of America’s bloodiest conflict. An articulate, educated, and keen observer, Stevens took note of seemingly everything—the weather, illnesses, food shortages, parties, church attendance, chores, schools, childbirth, death, the family’s slaves, and political and military news. As she confided her private thoughts to her journal, she unwittingly revealed how her love for her Texas family and the Confederate soldier boys she came to care for blurred her loyalties, even as she continued to long for her home in Ohio. Showing how the ties of heritage, kinship, friendship, and community transcended the sharpest division in US history, this rare diary and Vicki Adams Tongate’s insightful historical commentary on it provide a trove of information on women’s history, Texas history, and Civil War history.

Author : Vicki Adams Tongate
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-10-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781477324677

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Another Year Finds Me in Texas by Vicki Adams Tongate Pdf

Lucy Pier Stevens, a twenty-one-year-old woman from Ohio, began a visit to her aunt’s family near Bellville, Texas, on Christmas Day, 1859. Little did she know how drastically her life would change on April 4, 1861, when the outbreak of the Civil War made returning home impossible. Stranded in enemy territory for the duration of the war, how would she reconcile her Northern upbringing with the Southern sentiments surrounding her? Lucy Stevens’s diary—one of few women’s diaries from Civil War–era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner—offers a unique perspective on daily life at the fringes of America’s bloodiest conflict. An articulate, educated, and keen observer, Stevens took note of seemingly everything—the weather, illnesses, food shortages, parties, church attendance, chores, schools, childbirth, death, the family’s slaves, and political and military news. As she confided her private thoughts to her journal, she unwittingly revealed how her love for her Texas family and the Confederate soldier boys she came to care for blurred her loyalties, even as she continued to long for her home in Ohio. Showing how the ties of heritage, kinship, friendship, and community transcended the sharpest division in US history, this rare diary and Vicki Adams Tongate’s insightful historical commentary on it provide a trove of information on women’s history, Texas history, and Civil War history.

Author : Admiral William H. McRaven
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-04
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 9781455570232

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Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven Pdf

Based on a Navy SEAL's inspiring graduation speech, this #1 New York Times bestseller of powerful life lessons "should be read by every leader in America" (Wall Street Journal). If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed. On May 17, 2014, Admiral William H. McRaven addressed the graduating class of the University of Texas at Austin on their Commencement day. Taking inspiration from the university's slogan, "What starts here changes the world," he shared the ten principles he learned during Navy Seal training that helped him overcome challenges not only in his training and long Naval career, but also throughout his life; and he explained how anyone can use these basic lessons to change themselves-and the world-for the better. Admiral McRaven's original speech went viral with over 10 million views. Building on the core tenets laid out in his speech, McRaven now recounts tales from his own life and from those of people he encountered during his military service who dealt with hardship and made tough decisions with determination, compassion, honor, and courage. Told with great humility and optimism, this timeless book provides simple wisdom, practical advice, and words of encouragement that will inspire readers to achieve more, even in life's darkest moments. "Powerful." --USA Today "Full of captivating personal anecdotes from inside the national security vault." --Washington Post "Superb, smart, and succinct." --Forbes

Author : Jonathan Evison
Publisher : Algonquin Books
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781616208257

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Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison Pdf

“Jonathan Evison's voice is pure magic. In Lawn Boy, at once a vibrant coming-of-age novel and a sharp social commentary on class, Evison offers a painfully honest portrait of one young man's struggle to overcome the hand he's been dealt in life and reach for his dreams. It's a journey you won't want to miss, with an ending you won't forget.” —Kristin Hannah, author of The Nightingale For Mike Muñoz, a young Chicano living in Washington State, life has been a whole lot of waiting for something to happen. Not too many years out of high school and still doing menial work—and just fired from his latest gig as a lawn boy on a landscaping crew—he knows that he’s got to be the one to shake things up if he’s ever going to change his life. But how? In this funny, angry, touching, and ultimately deeply inspiring novel, bestselling author Jonathan Evison takes the reader into the heart and mind of a young man on a journey to discover himself, a search to find the secret to achieving the American dream of happiness and prosperity. That’s the birthright for all Americans, isn’t it? If so, then what is Mike Muñoz’s problem? Though he tries time and again to get his foot on the first rung of that ladder to success, he can’t seem to get a break. But then things start to change for Mike, and after a raucous, jarring, and challenging trip, he finds he can finally see the future and his place in it. And it’s looking really good. Lawn Boy is an important, entertaining, and completely winning novel about social class distinctions, about overcoming cultural discrimination, and about standing up for oneself.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Cattle
ISBN : STANFORD:36105027751077

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Proceedings of the ... National Convention of Cattle Growers of the United States ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Randy Kennedy
Publisher : Atria Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2019-08-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781501153877

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Presidio by Randy Kennedy Pdf

“Fluent, mordant, authentic, propulsive…wonderfully lit from within” (Lee Child, The New York Times Book Review), this critically acclaimed, stunningly mature literary debut is the darkly comic story of a car thief on the run in the gritty and arid landscape of the 1970s Texas panhandle. In this “stellar debut,” (Publishers Weekly) car thief Troy Falconer returns home after years of wandering to reunite with his younger brother, Harlan. The two set out in search of Harlan’s wife, Bettie, who’s left him cold and run away with the little money he had. When stealing a station wagon for their journey, Troy and Harlan find they’ve accidentally kidnapped a Mennonite girl, Martha Zacharias, sleeping in the back of the car. But Martha turns out to be a stubborn survivor who refuses to be sent home, so together, these unlikely road companions haphazardly attempt to escape across the Mexican border, pursued by the police and Martha’s vengeful father. But this is only one layer of Troy’s story. Through interjecting entries from his journal that span decades of an unraveling life, we learn that Troy has become so estranged from society that he’s shunned the very idea of personal property. Instead of claiming possessions, he works motels, stealing the suitcases and cars of men roughly his size, living with their things until those things feel too much like his own, at which point he finds another motel and vanishes again into another man’s identity. Richly nuanced and complex, “like a nesting doll, [Presidio] continually uncovers stories within stories” (Ian Stansel, author of The Last Cowboys of San Geronimo). With a page-turning plot, prose as gritty and austere as the novel’s Texas panhandle setting, and a determined yet doomed cast of characters ranging from con artists to religious outcasts, this “rich and rare book” (Annie Proulx, author of Barkskins) packs a kick like a shot of whiskey. Perfect for fans of Cormac McCarthy, Denis Johnson, and Larry McMurtry, who said that Kennedy “captures the funny yet tragic relentlessness of survival in an unforgiving place. Let’s hope he keeps his novelistic cool and brings us much, much more.”

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 898 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Grain
ISBN : HARVARD:32044095336269

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American Miller by Anonim Pdf

Author : Char Miller
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781595340870

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Fifty Years of the Texas Observer by Char Miller Pdf

For the past five decades the Texas Observer has been an essential voice in Texas culture and politics, championing honest government, civil rights, labor, and the environment, while providing a platform for many of the state’s most passionate and progressive voices. Included are ninety-one selections from Roy Bedichek, Lou Dubose, Ronnie Dugger, Dagoberto Gilb, Jim Hightower, Molly Ivins, Larry McMurtry, Maury Maverick Jr., Willie Morris, Debbie Nathan, and others. To mark the Observer’s fiftieth anniversary, Char Miller has selected a cross section of the best work to appear in its pages. Not only does the collection pay homage to an important alternative voice in Texas journalism, it also serves as a progressive chronicle of a half-century of life in the Lone Star State—a state that has spawned three presidents in the last forty years. If Texas is, as some say, a crucible for national politics, then Fifty Years of the Texas Observer can be read as a casebook for issues that concern citizens in all fifty states. Molly Ivins's foreword gives historical background for the Observer and sets the stage for the book.

Author : Anita Higman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Blind dates
ISBN : 037378760X

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Love Finds You in Humble, Texas by Anita Higman Pdf

Trudie and Mason are set up on a blind date by Trudie's sister, Lane, and they hit it off immediately. But then Lane decides she wants Mason for herself, and Trudie has never been able to successfully compete against her glamorous sister...

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Periodicals
ISBN : UIUC:30112002729132

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The Saturday Evening Post by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1903
Category : Coal trade
ISBN : IOWA:31858045826629

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The Retail Coalman by Anonim Pdf

Author : Steven Jent
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1999-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781461708537

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Browser's Book of Texas History by Steven Jent Pdf

If you love history and want to amaze your family and colleagues with your prodigious knowledge of Lone Star lore, this book is just what you need. A Browser's Book of Texas History is a day-by-day collection of more than 500 incident-some famous, some obscure-that have made Texas the most remarkable state in the Union. Even if you're a dedicated historian or an old-time Texan, you're likely to find something surprising, amusing, thought provoking, or just plain odd. With this book you can start every day of the year with a concise entry from the chronicles of this unique state, which just seems to naturally breed colorful people and bigger-than-life events.

Author : Haily Meyers,Kevin Meyers
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781423640806

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All Aboard! California by Haily Meyers,Kevin Meyers Pdf

Every area of the world can be mapped out for adventure, and brilliant babies love the sophistication of traveling by train.

Author : Steve Ramirez
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781493051465

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Casting Forward by Steve Ramirez Pdf

In Casting Forward, naturalist, educator, and writer Steve Ramirez takes the reader on a yearlong journey fly fishing all of the major rivers of the Texas Hill Country. This is a story of the resilience of nature and the best of human nature. It is the story of a living, breathing place where the footprints of dinosaurs, conquistadors, and Comanches have mingled just beneath the clear spring-fed waters. This book is an impassioned plea for the survival of this landscape and its biodiversity, and for a new ethic in how we treat fish, nature, and each other.

Author : Perfection Learning Corporation
Publisher : Turtleback
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1663608199

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Last Lecture by Perfection Learning Corporation Pdf