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Author : James Cozine Publisher : University of North Texas Press Page : 313 pages File Size : 42,7 Mb Release : 2004 Category : History ISBN : 9781574411751
The Big Thicket of East Texas, which at one time covered over two million acres, served as a barrier to civilizations throughout most of historic times. This text is a classic account of the region's history and a play-by-play narrative of the prolonged fight for the Big Thicket Preserve.
When a bill creating the Big Thicket National Preserve was signed into law, it climaxed more than half a century of environmental debate, planning and destruction. The preserve opened new vistas for recreation. In this revised and updated version, Gunter not only describes the history and rich diversity of the region saved from the bulldozers of real estate developers and lumber companies, but also the dimensions of the new Big Thicket Preserve. He makes it possible to plan a trip there by including descriptions of each stream corridor unit, maps and canoeing conditions, hiking trails, and camping facilities. He lists representative flora and fauna. The book provides a background—both historical and biological—which will make clear just what the visitor to the Big Thicket is seeing; why it has mattered, and why it will continue to matter.
Author : Lorraine G. Bonney Publisher : University of North Texas Press Page : 865 pages File Size : 41,9 Mb Release : 2011 Category : History ISBN : 9781574413182
The Big Thicket Guidebook by Lorraine G. Bonney Pdf
Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
Big Thicket Legacy by Campbell Loughmiller,Lynn Loughmiller Pdf
In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
Reflections on the Neches by Geraldine Ellis Watson Pdf
Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Tales from the Big Thicket by Francis Edward Abernethy Pdf
Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation Publisher : Unknown Page : 236 pages File Size : 43,8 Mb Release : 1972 Category : Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.) ISBN : LOC:00185436196
Big Thicket National Park, Tex by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation Pdf
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation Publisher : Unknown Page : 414 pages File Size : 54,9 Mb Release : 1973 Category : Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.) ISBN : LOC:00185436494
Proposed Big Thicket National Reserve, Tex by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on National Parks and Recreation Pdf
United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation Publisher : Unknown Page : 218 pages File Size : 45,8 Mb Release : 1971 Category : Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.) ISBN : LOC:00139382511
Impressions of the Big Thicket by Michael Frary,William A. Owens Pdf
Before the establishment of the Big Thicket Nature Preserve, the Big Thicket of Texas became a symbol of nature's last stand against encroaching civilization. Here, in a mingling of ecological zones, come together plants, animals, and birds—many of them rare—the flora and fauna of north and south, east and west. Northern maples and beeches stand not too great a distance from cypresses and Southern magnolias. American hollies grow large and orchids bloom among Northern ferns. Mesquite and tumbleweed, plants of the Western desert, survive where the annual rainfall averages sixty inches. On a major flyway, the Big Thicket is a stopping place for many birds in passage as well as home to a wide variety. Beavers build their dams there, and an occasional coyote yips in the night. Because of its great beauty and rich natural resources, use of the Big Thicket was the object of a forty-year struggle involving financiers, politicians, conservationists, and countless Thicket lovers. Each group viewed the Thicket from a different perspective and foresaw its future in different terms. This book records the impressions of two Thicket lovers. Michael Frary's paintings and drawings of woods and water, of birds in flight and strange plants growing close to the moist earth are pictures of a place, a time, a mood caught today—and not the same if left until tomorrow. The qualities of gentleness and violence are constant, but often hidden—there to be brought out by human need or human greed. William Owens writes of the people who have lived their lives in the Big Thicket, who have stirred its stillness with whoop and holler across the waters, who have taken in its stillness and explosive beauty until they themselves are made up of gentleness and violence. Together the impressions show what the Big Thicket was and is. What it will be—that is the chief concern of the book.
