South Texas Tales

Author : Patricia Cisneros Young
Publisher : Tate Publishing
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2007-11
Category : Short stories, American
ISBN : 9781602475489

Get Book

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 : Murphy Givens
Publisher : Jim
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0983256535

Get Book

Great Tales from the History of South Texas by Murphy Givens Pdf

The history of the Old West has deep roots in South Texas where the Wild Horse Desert was a lawless land controlled by no authority. The western region of South Texas, from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, stretching west and south to the Rio Grande, was the birthplace of the big cattle ranches, the cattle barons, rustlers, hide thieves, outlaws, and bad men operating on both sides of the border. Murphy Givens brings the stories of the Old West to life in "Great Tales From the History of South Texas"

Author : Juan Sauvageau-Pro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Legends
ISBN : 0605233691

Get Book

Stories That Must Not Die by Juan Sauvageau-Pro Pdf

Collection of Mexican-American folklore.

Author : Murphy Givens
Publisher : Jim
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0983256535

Get Book

Great Tales from the History of South Texas by Murphy Givens Pdf

The history of the Old West has deep roots in South Texas where the Wild Horse Desert was a lawless land controlled by no authority. The western region of South Texas, from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, stretching west and south to the Rio Grande, was the birthplace of the big cattle ranches, the cattle barons, rustlers, hide thieves, outlaws, and bad men operating on both sides of the border. Murphy Givens brings the stories of the Old West to life in "Great Tales From the History of South Texas"

Author : David Bowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2015-06-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1942956010

Get Book

Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas by David Bowles Pdf

Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jose Melendez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs."

Author : Myra Hargrave McIlvain
Publisher : Sunstone Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781611394931

Get Book

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 : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614237501

Get Book

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 : Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649134851

Get Book

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 : Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher : Dorrance Publishing
Page : 554 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781649134868

Get Book

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 : Docia Schultz Williams,Reneta Byrne
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:30000039910991

Get Book

Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas by Docia Schultz Williams,Reneta Byrne Pdf

The number one tourist destination in Texas may also be one of the most haunted cities in the entire state. Steeped in history and tradition, San Antonio has many locations that are claimed as home for some interesting and intriguing spirits. Docia Williams has spent years tracking down the spirits of San Antonio and has found them in such interesting places as the Alamo, the Institute of Texan Cultures, numerous hotels and restaurants, the city library, the choir loft of a Methodist church, the Midget Mansion, and the haunted Sea Captain's house.

Author : C. F. Eckhardt
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1997-12-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781556221415

Get Book

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 : Tiya Miles
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-12
Category : History
ISBN : 9781469626345

Get Book

Tales from the Haunted South by Tiya Miles Pdf

In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.

Author : Esteban Bravo
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1467576581

Get Book

Incredible Edibles of South Texas by Esteban Bravo Pdf

Author : Fernando A. Flores
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0924047976

Get Book

Death to the Bullshit Artists of South Texas by Fernando A. Flores Pdf

Fiction. Music. DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS is a psychedelic romp through the Rio Grande Valley music scene. This collection of 10 punk rock fairy-tales offers a prismatic view of a subculture so rich that if it knew its own worth, it just might revolt against itself. This is the book you wish you had as a teenager, headphones on, waiting at a bus stop for a ride to the record store.

Author : David Bowles
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467119924

Get Book

Ghosts of the Rio Grande Valley by David Bowles Pdf

Tradition meets tragedy in the chilling local lore of the Rio Grande Valley. Hidden in the dense brush and around oxbow lakes wait sinister secrets, unnerving vestiges of the past and wraiths of those claimed by the winding river. The spirit of a murdered student in Brownsville paces the locker room where she met her end. Tortured souls of patients lost in the Harlingen Insane Asylum refuse to be forgotten. Guests at the LaBorde Hotel in Rio Grande City report visions of the Red Lady, who was spurned by the soldier she loved and driven to suicide. Author David Bowles explores these and more of the most harrowing ghost stories from Fort Brown to Fort Ringgold and all the haunted hotels, chapels and ruins in between.