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Author : Professor Roy Andrew Miller,Ray Miller
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0884150054
Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0884152448
Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1987-01-01
Category : Gulf Region (Tex.)
ISBN : 0884152235
Author : Sam Houston
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574410008
Volume II of Sam Houston?s personal correpondence continues the four-volume series of previously unpublished personal letters to and from Sam Houston. This volume begins March 6, 1846, as Houston leaves Texas to take his place in the U. S. Senate. Included in his letters are comments on national politics and life in Washington, D. C., descriptions of politicians and their wives, and his observations on generals of the Mexican War. New information sheds light on his feelings towards being a candidate for the presidency. Family letters give a picture of life on Texas plantations during the mid-1800s. The letters end August 10, 1848, after problems with Oregon have begun and the Mexican War has ended.
Author : Jim W. Corder
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820338033
Merging cultural commentary and intense introspection, Yonder is a remarkable meditation on change, memory, nostalgia, and the modern condition. A contrapuntal mix of contemporary history and the events of the author's personal life, Yonder portrays and ponders a world delivered from the pieties and hierarchies of the past yet incapacitated by the dizzying excess of new connotations and perspectives, choices and possibilities. Yonder is about Corder's struggle for a footing against nostalgia's pull. In a kind of nonlinear, semi random sorting process reflected in the book's structure, Corder turns inward to refocus hazy memories and estimate and shoulder his responsibilities for the turns his life has taken. These events are juxtaposed against the momentous changes of his generation, drawing universal truths from the offhand and obscure, discerning pitch and tone in the white noise.
Author : Dan Worrall
Publisher : Dan Michael Worrall
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12
Category : Buffalo Bayou (Tex.)
ISBN : 9780982599624
Today’s Greater Houston is a vast urban place. In the mid-nineteenth century, however, Houston was a small town – a dot in a vast frontier. Extant written histories of Houston largely confine themselves to the small area within the city limits of the day, leaving nearly forgotten the history of large rural areas that later fell beneath the city’s late twentieth century urban sprawl. One such area is that of upper Buffalo Bayou, extending westward from downtown Houston to Katy. European settlement here began at Piney Point in 1824, over a decade before Houston was founded. Ox wagons full of cotton traveled across a seemingly endless tallgrass prairie from the Brazos River east to Harrisburg (and later to Houston) along the San Felipe Trail, built in 1830. Also here, Texan families fled eastward during the Runaway Scrape of 1836, immigrant German settlers trekked westward to new farms along the north bank of the bayou in the 1840s, and newly freed African American families walked east toward Houston from Brazos plantations after Emancipation. Pioneer settlers operated farms, ranches and sawmills. Near present-day Shepherd Drive, Reconstruction-era cowboys assembled herds of longhorns and headed north along a southeastern branch of the Chisholm Trail. Little physical evidence remains today of this former frontier world.
Author : Hank Moore
Publisher : Morgan James Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781630474690
Two hundred years of Houston history through the prism of business, entrepreneurship, and innovation in this essential and epic overview. The first Houston history book to be written from a business perspective, where the stories behind the city’s many legendary successes are told. Moore presents historical perspectives in several key industries—from real estate to banking to music and sports—in the Bayou City’s dynamic growth. Each topic offers chronicles the economic impact, the business contributions, and the people who have made a mark in the nation’s fourth largest city. Recurring themes include entrepreneurial spirit, business survival, strategies, growth and vision. The names, dates, and events are intertwined with memorable anecdotes applicable to modern business practices. Common themes include giving back generously to the community, stages in the evolution of a business, creativity, and mentoring the next generation of leaders. A unique, informative, and instructive approach to corralling the breadth and scope of Houston’s outstanding history and the people who led the way, Houston Legends is an indispensable entry into one of the modern world’s great cities.
Author : Don Carleton
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 1033 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781953480019
William P. “Will” Hobby Sr. and Oveta Culp Hobby were one of the most influential couples in Texas history. Both were major public figures, with Will serving as governor of Texas and Oveta as the first commander of the Women’s Army Corps and later as the second woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. Together, they built a pioneering media empire centered on the Houston Post and their broadcast properties, and they played a significant role in the transformation of Houston into the fourth largest city in the United States. Don Carleton’s dual biography details their personal and professional relationship—defined by a shared dedication to public service—and the important roles they each played in local, state, and national events throughout the twentieth century. This deeply researched book not only details this historically significant partnership, but also explores the close relationships between the Hobbys and key figures in twentieth-century history, from Texas legends such as LBJ, Sam Rayburn, and Jesse Jones, to national icons, including the Roosevelts, President Eisenhower, and the Rockefellers. Carleton's chronicle reveals the undeniable impact of the Hobbys on journalistic and political history in the United States.
Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0891230467
Ray Miller's Texas parks, blends the fascinating history of Texas with the state park system.
Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Butterworth-Heinemann
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 0884150801
Images of an exciting and livable city: Ray Miller's Houston.
Author : Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1603441093
A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.
Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : History
ISBN : 0884152251
This travel guide is a unique collection of history, characters, and local color guaranteed to entertain and enlighten you. From the big cities to the small towns, you'll enjoy an exotic array of individuals, incidents, and photographs that will keep you turning pages.
Author : Stacy B. Schaefer
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780826356222
Amada Cardenas, a Mexican American woman from the borderlands of South Texas, played a pivotal role in the little-known history of the peyote trade. She and her husband were the first federally licensed peyote dealers. They began harvesting and selling the sacramental plant to followers of the Native American Church (NAC) in the 1930s, and after her husband’s death in the late 1960s Mrs. Cardenas continued to befriend and help generations of NAC members until her death in 2005, just short of her 101st birthday. Author Stacy B. Schaefer, a close friend of Amada, spent thirteen years doing fieldwork with this remarkable woman. Her book weaves together the geography, biology, history, cultures, and religions that created the unique life of Mrs. Cardenas and the people she knew. Schaefer includes their words to help tell the story of how Mexican Americans, Tejanos, gringos, Native Americans, and others were touched and inspired by Amada Cardenas’s embodiment of the core NAC values: faith, hope, love, and charity.
Author : Ray Miller
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0884152340
Author : Jim W. Corder
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780820338040
On May 9, 1846, Second Lieutenant Theodore Lincoln Chadbourne, United States Army, fell in the battle of Resaca de la Palma during the war with Mexico. Dead at twenty-three in a remote desert, his promise outweighing his accomplishments, Chadbourne slid into obscurity. But his lapse was not immediate, nor was it complete; clues to Chadbourne lay scattered about the historical landscape. Hunting Lieutenant Chadbourne is Jim W. Corder's account of his obsessive search for information about this soldier, whose name he first read on a historical marker beside a highway in Texas. A thoughtful meditation on the connectedness of history and the possibilities of recovering and understanding the past, the book reveals as much about Corder's literary and historiographical preoccupations as it does about the life of his subject. Rather than order his material into a linear, chronological narrative, Corder presents it in much the same sequence and form as it came to him. The effect is to dramatize the historical process and allow the very details that Corder collects to reveal Chadbourne to the reader. Who was Chadbourne, and can we ever really know? If Corder has any answers, they lie in his subtext of uncertainty.