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Author : Perry, George Sessions
Publisher : Pelican Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Texas
ISBN : 1455612847
Author : George Sessions Perry
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Texas
ISBN : OCLC:1300646854
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCAL:B3630563
Author : James A. Michener
Publisher : Dial Press
Page : 1474 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804151412
Spanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states. Among his finely drawn cast of characters, emotional and political alliances are made and broken, as the loyalties established over the course of each turbulent age inevitably collapse under the weight of wealth and industry. With Michener as our guide, Texas is a tale of patriotism and statesmanship, growth and development, violence and betrayal—a stunning achievement by a literary master. BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James A. Michener's Hawaii. Praise for Texas “Fascinating.”—Time “A book about oil and water, rangers and outlaws, frontier and settlement, money and power . . . [James A. Michener] manages to make history vivid.”—The Boston Globe “A sweeping panorama . . . [Michener] grapples earnestly with the Texas character in a way that Texas’s own writers often don’t.”—The Washington Post Book World “Vast, sprawling, and eclectic in population and geography, the state has just the sort of larger-than-life history that lends itself to Mr. Michener’s taste for multigenerational epics.”—The New York Times
Author : Michael G. Maness
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 683 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781728377551
When Texas Prison Scams Religion exposes corruption in the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, especially in the abuse of religion. In many ways, this book is a literature review of 1,800-plus works that defends freedom of conscience in prison while exposing the unconstitutionality of the seminary program that “buys faith with favor” from prisoners. The state veritably ordains the prisoner a “Field Minister” that represents the offices of the Governor, TDCJ Director, and wardens throughout the prison. Therein, TDCJ lies about neutrality in a program all about Christian missions and lies again in falsely certifying elementary Bible students as counselors. Why is the director sponsoring psychopaths counseling psychopaths? In fact, TDCJ pays $314 million a year to UTMB for psychiatric care and receives not a single report of the care given, and worse, for UTMB generates no reports itself. The underbelly TDCJ’s executive culture of cover up is exposed. TDCJ has hired the lowest qualified of the applicant pool many times in the last 25 years and regularly destroys statistics on violence. TDCJ Dir. Collier led the prison to model Louisiana Warden Burl Cain, the most scandal-ridden in penal history according to a host of published news stories for 20 years. Therein, Collier led TDCJ to favor the smallest segment of religious society within Evangelical Dominionism. Texas has no business endorsing the truth of any religion over another. We close with a proposal that utilizes the 400,000,000 hours of officer contact over ten years as a definitive influence in contrast to a commissioner that spends less than 10 minutes on each decision. Maness has been lobbying Austin for 15 years to definitively access staff for his “100,000 Mothers’ 1% Certainty Parole Texas Constitutional Amendment,” which would revolutionize prison culture and save Texans millions of the dollars.
Author : Billy Bob Hill
Publisher : Ale Publishing Company
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1881301044
Author : John MacPherson BERRIEN
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 40 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1845
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0018612492
Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2010-12-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781118039809
Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." -H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American
Author : Charles M. Robinson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625110190
Written for both the specialist and the casual reader, Texas and the Mexican War discusses the pivotal role Texas played in the Mexican War, battles fought on Texas soil, and the contributions—for better or sometimes worse—of Texas troops throughout the war. Since the opening of hostilities in 1846, the Mexican War has remained controversial. Author Charles M. Robinson III describes how attitudes of the era were influenced by sectional, political, and social differences, and, in recent times, by comparison to conflicts such as Vietnam. Robinson draws on U.S. and Mexican sources to discuss conditions in both countries that he believes made the war inevitable. Besides examining the political and military differences, he reveals the motivations, egos, pettiness, and quarrels of the various generals and politicians in the United States and Mexico. He also looks at how the common soldier saw the war. The extensive citations include commentaries on the historiography of the war. The book is profusely illustrated with contemporary photographs, sketches, and drawings, many from the author’s own collection. Besides an account of the war itself, sidebars throughout the book titled “Then and Now” serve as a guide for those who want to visit important Mexican War sites in Texas, northern Mexico, and Louisiana.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Art
ISBN : UCBK:C055291058
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 622 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Education
ISBN : HARVARD:32044102880903
Author : Rachel Barenblat
Publisher : Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0836851218
Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of Texas, whose motto is "Friendship."
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCR:31210001243524
Author : Ella Hutchins Sydnor
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1885
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044018916270
Author : Paulette Jiles
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062409225
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture National Book Award Finalist—Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa raiders killed Johanna’s parents and sister; sparing the little girl, they raised her as one of their own. Recently rescued by the U.S. army, the ten-year-old has once again been torn away from the only home she knows. Their 400-mile journey south through unsettled territory and unforgiving terrain proves difficult and at times dangerous. Johanna has forgotten the English language, tries to escape at every opportunity, throws away her shoes, and refuses to act “civilized.” Yet as the miles pass, the two lonely survivors tentatively begin to trust each other, forming a bond that marks the difference between life and death in this treacherous land. Arriving in San Antonio, the reunion is neither happy nor welcome. The captain must hand Johanna over to an aunt and uncle she does not remember—strangers who regard her as an unwanted burden. A respectable man, Captain Kidd is faced with a terrible choice: abandon the girl to her fate or become—in the eyes of the law—a kidnapper himself.