Central Texas Tales

Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614237501

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Central Texas Tales by Mike Cox Pdf

Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco and New Braunfels in the north and south, this area has drawn settlers from around the globe for over two centuries, leaving their mark and their stories along the way. From a surprising story of nineteenth-century psych ops at Fort Mason and what really happened to Bevo, the UT longhorn, in 1920 to Mrs. Ross's Croghan Cobbler recipe and rumors of a Lone Star visit by old Abe himself, historian Mike Cox regales readers with over fifty stories about the fascinating people, history and places of middle Texas.

Author : Willie Kemp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Texas
ISBN : LCCN:79117310

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True Tales of Central Texas by Willie Kemp Pdf

Author : Myra Hargrave McIlvain
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2017-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781632931634

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Texas Tales by Myra Hargrave McIlvain Pdf

These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.

Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614238140

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West Texas Tales by Mike Cox Pdf

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 : Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649134868

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Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 1 by Malcom Lee Johnson Pdf

Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 1: Texas History from 1528-1945 the End of WW 2 By: Malcom Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived, to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.

Author : C. F. Eckhardt
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1997-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781461625414

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Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You by C. F. Eckhardt Pdf

Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds to the flavor of Texas history with tales about such things as the first Texas revolution, the first English speaking person in Texas, and the little known counterrevolution of 1838-1840. Charlie examines the expulsion of the Cherokees from Texas and provides details of some of the more famous Indian fights. Charlie also shows his romantic side with the legend of the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.

Author : Kaye George,Gale Albright
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-07-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781479429790

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Lone Star Lawless: 14 Texas Tales of Crime by Kaye George,Gale Albright Pdf

Everything is bigger in Texas, including the crimes! Join the award-winning Austin Mystery Writers and friends as they explore the dark side of the Lone Star State. These thirteen talented authors penned fourteen tales of cowboys and criminals, girlfriends and grifters, morticians, motel clerks, and even a big, bad wolf! Lone Star Lawless includes stories by the Austin Mystery Writers: Gale Albright, V.P. Chandler, Kaye George, Laura Oles, and Kathy Waller. The friends who contributed are: Alexandra Burt, Janice Hamrick, Scott Montgomery, Mark Pryor, Terry Shames, Larry D. Sweazy, George Wier, and Manning Wolfe.

Author : C. F. Eckhardt
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1997-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781556221415

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Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You by C. F. Eckhardt Pdf

Charlie Eckhardt, a newspaper columnist and owner of the Lone Star Barber Shop in Seguin, Texas, spins his tales as only Charlie can. This book covers such topics as the little-known first Texas revolution and the counterrevolution of 1838-1840; the Linville raid; the legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas; Jim Bowie's famous knife and Sam Colt's equally famous pistol; and many more. From the early days of Texas up to the saving of the oil industry, Charlie tells 'em like he heard 'em and assures that some of the stories are actually true.

Author : Patricia Cisneros Young
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9781602475489

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South Texas Tales by Patricia Cisneros Young Pdf

' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas

Author : Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649134851

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Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 2 by Malcom Lee Johnson Pdf

Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 2 By: Malcolm Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.

Author : Frances Brannen Vick
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781574416183

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Tales of Texas Cooking by Frances Brannen Vick Pdf

According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food is comfort, yet it is also political and contested because we often are what we eat--meaning what is available and familiar and allowed. Texas is fortunate in having a bountiful supply of ethnic groups influencing its foodways, and Texas food is the perfect metaphor for the blending of diverse cultures and native resources. Food is a symbol of our success and our communion, and whenever possible, Texans tend to do food in a big way. This latest publication from the Texas Folklore Society contains stories and more than 120 recipes, from long ago and just yesterday, organized by the 10 vegetation regions of the state. Herein you'll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s Family Cake, memories of beef jerky and sassafras tea from John Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame, Sam Houston's barbecue sauce, and stories and recipes from Roy Bedichek, Bob Compton, J. Frank Dobie, Bob Flynn, Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, Gary Lavergne, James Ward Lee, Jane Monday, Joyce Roach, Ellen Temple, Walter Prescott Webb, and Jane Roberts Wood. There is something for the cook as well as for the Texan with a raft of takeaway menus on their refrigerator.

Author : Bob Alexander
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 481 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574415667

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Bad Company and Burnt Powder by Bob Alexander Pdf

Bad Company and Burnt Powder is a collection of twelve stories of when things turned "Western" in the nineteenth-century Southwest. Each chapter deals with a different character or episode in the Wild West involving various lawmen, Texas Rangers, outlaws, feudists, vigilantes, lawyers, and judges. Covered herein are the stories of Cal Aten, John Hittson, the Millican boys, Gid Taylor and Jim and Tom Murphy, Alf Rushing, Bob Meldrum and Noah Wilkerson, P. C. Baird, Gus Chenowth, Jim Dunaway, John Kinney, Elbert Hanks and Boyd White, and Eddie Aten. Within these pages the reader will meet a nineteen-year-old Texas Ranger figuratively dying to shoot his gun. He does get to shoot at people, but soon realizes what he thought was a bargain exacted a steep price. Another tale is of an old-school cowman who shut down illicit traffic in stolen livestock that had existed for years on the Llano Estacado. He was tough, salty, and had no quarter for cow-thieves or sympathy for any mealy-mouthed politicians. He cleaned house, maybe not too nicely, but unarguably successful he was. Then there is the tale of an accomplished and unbeaten fugitive, well known and identified for murder of a Texas peace officer. But the Texas Rangers couldn't find him. County sheriffs wouldn't hold him. Slipping away from bounty hunters, he hit Owlhoot Trail.

Author : Johnny Hughes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1475942176

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Famous Gamblers, Poker History, and Texas Stories by Johnny Hughes Pdf

You have a great writing style, very credible, and entertaining. Those were dangerous times. Almost all of the guys are gone. A great book!... Doyle Brunson, Poker Hall of Fame, author. Hes as good a writer as he is a player. When it comes to poker tales...Johnny Hughes is your man.... Anthony Holden, London, President of the International Federation of Poker, author ... a captivating raconteur and avid historian...brings them to life with a unique flair and panache...(He) paints word pictures with witty, lush brush strokes reminiscent of Tom Wolfe... Paul Dr. Pauly McGuire, author ..the William Manchester of poker historians...a Hughes narrative is like lighting a lantern into the darkest recess of pokers subculture...provides the very best portrait of these unique real-life characters of anyone on record... Nolan Dalla, Media Director. World Series of Poker, author. ...the true story...of the beginnings of the phenomenon that poker has become... Crandell Addington, Poker Hall of Fame. Reading...is only paralleled by listening to him tell those stories in real time...like putting yourself in the same room as it all unfolded...when the mob ruled Las Vegas...the real stories... Ryan Sayer, OnTilt Radio, C.O.O.,and Host. www.JohnnyHughes.com

Author : Sherri Knight,Sherry Knight
Publisher : Hillcrest Publishing Group
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780979912078

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Tom P's Fiddle by Sherri Knight,Sherry Knight Pdf

From the back cover: An entertaining blend of historical authenticity and the authors descriptive narrative. Through the context of real events, the author sheds light on a media-influenced society bent on imposing moral standards and the impact that can have on a jury verdict and the ultimate outcome of a man's life.

Author : Dale Fry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1992-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0963473301

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Goddess of Mystery and Other Central Texas Stories by Dale Fry Pdf