Texas Woman PDF, Epub Download

Texas Woman Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle version is available to download in english. Read online anytime anywhere directly from your device. Click on the download button below to get a free pdf file of Texas Woman book. This book definitely worth reading, it is an incredibly well-written.

Texas Woman

Joan Johnston

Author : Joan Johnston
Publisher : Dell
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440236849

Get Book

Texas Woman by Joan Johnston Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy, The Texan, and The Loner weaves her seductive magic once again as she journeys back to the lawless frontier of Nineteenth-century Texas to bring us the story of two warring hearts and a seduction that began amid the fires of passion and treachery... Cruz Guerrero wanted Sloan Stewart from the first moment he laid eyes on the headstrong beauty. But Sloan, eldest daughter of a wealthy cotton planter, belonged to another man—until the day she came to him, a woman in trouble on the lawless frontier …and he made her an offer she could not refuse. Now he is ready to claim what is rightfully his—even as a long-ago betrayal threatens to tear her from his arms forever. Sloan swore never to be used by a man again. Only sheer desperation made her strike a bargain with the aristocratic nobleman. Now he has come to collect on the vow they made together, seducing her with tender words, determined to make her want him as he wants her. Caught in the bitter cross fire of a traitorous enemy and an embattled republic, a man bound by honor and a woman wounded by passion must dare to trust in a love that’s strong and wild and true…

Texas Women

Elizabeth Hayes Turner,Stephanie Cole,Rebecca Sharpless

Author : Elizabeth Hayes Turner,Stephanie Cole,Rebecca Sharpless
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780820347202

Get Book

Texas Women by Elizabeth Hayes Turner,Stephanie Cole,Rebecca Sharpless Pdf

"This is a collection of biographies and composite essays of Texas women, contextualized over the course of history to include subjects that reflect the enormous racial, class, and religious diversity of the state. Offering insights into the complex ways that Texas' position on the margins of the United States has shaped a particular kind of gendered experience there, the volume also demonstrates how the larger questions in United States women's history are answered or reconceived in the state. Beginning with Juliana Barr's essay, which asserts that 'women marked the lines of dominion among Spanish and Indian nations in Texas' and explodes the myth of Spanish domination in colonial Texas, the essays examine the ways that women were able to use their borderland status to stretch the boundaries of their own lives. Eric Walther demonstrates that the constant changing of governments in Texas (Spanish, Mexican, Texan, and U.S.) gave slaves the opportunities to resist their oppression because of the differences in the laws of slavery under Spanish or English or American law. Gabriela Gonzalez examines the activism of Jovita Idar on behalf of civil rights for Mexicans and Mexican Americans on both sides of the border. Renee Laegreid argues that female rodeo contestants employed a "unique regional interplay of masculine and feminine behaviors" to shape their identities as cowgirls"--

Texas Woman

Joan Johnston

Author : Joan Johnston
Publisher : Dell
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2003-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780440334651

Get Book

Texas Woman by Joan Johnston Pdf

The New York Times bestselling author of The Cowboy, The Texan, and The Loner weaves her seductive magic once again as she journeys back to the lawless frontier of Nineteenth-century Texas to bring us the story of two warring hearts and a seduction that began amid the fires of passion and treachery... Cruz Guerrero wanted Sloan Stewart from the first moment he laid eyes on the headstrong beauty. But Sloan, eldest daughter of a wealthy cotton planter, belonged to another man—until the day she came to him, a woman in trouble on the lawless frontier …and he made her an offer she could not refuse. Now he is ready to claim what is rightfully his—even as a long-ago betrayal threatens to tear her from his arms forever. Sloan swore never to be used by a man again. Only sheer desperation made her strike a bargain with the aristocratic nobleman. Now he has come to collect on the vow they made together, seducing her with tender words, determined to make her want him as he wants her. Caught in the bitter cross fire of a traitorous enemy and an embattled republic, a man bound by honor and a woman wounded by passion must dare to trust in a love that’s strong and wild and true…

Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker

Sarah R. Jackson

Author : Sarah R. Jackson
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781603446235

Get Book

Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker by Sarah R. Jackson Pdf

Karle Wilson Baker was the best-known Texas poet of the early twentieth century. Yet, while many of her male contemporaries remain well known to Texas literature, she is not. Her energy and significant role in shaping the literature of Texas equaled those of Walter Prescott Webb or J. Frank Dobie, with whom she ranked as the first Fellows of the Texas Institute of Letters.?Her modern lifestyle as an independent, "new" woman and her active career as a writer, teacher, and lecturer placed her among the avant-garde of women in the nation, although she lived in the small town of Nacogdoches. She was a multi-talented writer with a wide range of interests, yet she championed Texas and the history and natural beauty of East Texas above all else.?Sarah R. Jackson?s thoroughly researched biography of Karle Wilson Baker introduces her to a new generation. Baker?s life also opens a window onto the literary times in which she lived and particularly the path of a woman making her way in the largely male-dominated world of nationally acclaimed writers.?Beyond the literary insights this book offers, Jackson spotlights developments in East Texas such as the discovery of oil and the founding of what would become Stephen F. Austin State University in Baker?s hometown. Extensive work in a number of regional and state archives and interviews with many who remembered Baker allow Jackson to offer an account that is not only thorough but also lively and entertaining.

Texas Woman Widowed Twice and Becoming an Eagle

Danva York Meister

Author : Danva York Meister
Publisher : WestBow Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-06
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781449748449

Get Book

Texas Woman Widowed Twice and Becoming an Eagle by Danva York Meister Pdf

Uniquely inspired, and written as a memoir with practical application elements, Widowed Twice shows how joy will come “in the morning.” It offers a burst of refreshing hope and excitement., explaining that your life is not over and that God still has a plan for you. It features practical ideas and information that can enhance your life. This book is not about doom and gloom but reveals that you have a choice to be sad or glad. It is a story of a woman twice widowed who became like an eagle, soaring above her circumstances and overcoming them. This book is about stepping out into God's purpose for you and then letting go of the past, whether it was good or bad, looking forward to your future. It will motivate you to listen to God's still, small voice and let the next season in your life unfold.

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman

Juliana Barr

Author : Juliana Barr
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 080786773X

Get Book

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr Pdf

Revising the standard narrative of European-Indian relations in America, Juliana Barr reconstructs a world in which Indians were the dominant power and Europeans were the ones forced to accommodate, resist, and persevere. She demonstrates that between the 1690s and 1780s, Indian peoples including Caddos, Apaches, Payayas, Karankawas, Wichitas, and Comanches formed relationships with Spaniards in Texas that refuted European claims of imperial control. Barr argues that Indians not only retained control over their territories but also imposed control over Spaniards. Instead of being defined in racial terms, as was often the case with European constructions of power, diplomatic relations between the Indians and Spaniards in the region were dictated by Indian expressions of power, grounded in gendered terms of kinship. By examining six realms of encounter--first contact, settlement and intermarriage, mission life, warfare, diplomacy, and captivity--Barr shows that native categories of gender provided the political structure of Indian-Spanish relations by defining people's identity, status, and obligations vis-a-vis others. Because native systems of kin-based social and political order predominated, argues Barr, Indian concepts of gender cut across European perceptions of racial difference.

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails

Sara R. Massey

Author : Sara R. Massey
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1585445436

Get Book

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails by Sara R. Massey Pdf

Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.

A Love Letter to Texas Women

Sarah Bird

Author : Sarah Bird
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 81 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781477309490

Get Book

A Love Letter to Texas Women by Sarah Bird Pdf

What is it that distinguishes Texas women—the famous Yellow Rose and her descendants? Is it that combination of graciousness and grit that we revere in First Ladies Laura Bush and Lady Bird Johnson? The rapier-sharp wit that Ann Richards and Molly Ivins used to skewer the good ole boy establishment? The moral righteousness with which Barbara Jordan defended the US constitution? An unnatural fondness for Dr Pepper and queso? In her inimitable style, Sarah Bird pays tribute to the Texas Woman in all her glory and all her contradictions. She humorously recalls her own early bewildered attempts to understand Lone Star gals, from the big-haired, perfectly made-up ladies at the Hyde Park Beauty Salon to her intellectual, quinoa-eating roommates at Seneca House Co-op for Graduate Women. After decades of observing Texas women, Bird knows the species as few others do. A Love Letter to Texas Women is a must-have guide for newcomers to the state and the ideal gift to tell any Yellow Rose how special she is.

Women in Civil War Texas

Deborah M. Liles,Angela Boswell

Author : Deborah M. Liles,Angela Boswell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2016-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574416510

Get Book

Women in Civil War Texas by Deborah M. Liles,Angela Boswell Pdf

Women in Civil War Texas is the first book dedicated to the unique experiences of Texas women during the Civil War. It fills the literary void in Texas women’s history during this time, connects Texas women’s lives to southern women’s history, and shares the diversity of experiences of women in Texas during the Civil War. An introductory essay situates the anthology within both Civil War and Texas women’s history. Contributors explore Texas women and their vocal support for secession and in support of a war, coping with their husbands’ wartime absences, the importance of letter-writing as a means of connecting families, and how pro-Union sentiment caused serious difficulties for women. They also analyze the effects of ethnicity, focusing on African American, German, and Tejana women’s experiences. Finally, two essays examine the problem of refugee women in east Texas and the dangers facing western frontier women. These essays develop the historical understanding of what it meant to be a Texas woman during the Civil War and also contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the war and its effects.

That Woman

Nikki Van Hightower

Author : Nikki Van Hightower
Publisher : Women in Texas History Series
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1623498805

Get Book

That Woman by Nikki Van Hightower Pdf

When Nikki R. Van Hightower stepped into the position of Women's Advocate for the City of Houston in 1976, she quickly discovered that she had very little real power. And when the all-male city council cut her salary to $1 a year after she spoke at a women's rights rally, she gained full appreciation for just what she was up against. Nonetheless, before the job was abolished altogether two years later, Van Hightower went on to help orchestrate the enormously successful 1977 US National Women's Conference in Houston as part of the 1975 International Woman's Year, to help found the Houston Area Women's Center and establish its rape crisis and shelter programs, and to host a radio show where she publicly discussed issues of gender, race, and human rights. This eye-opening memoir offers a window into the world of Texas history and politics in the 1970s, where sexual harassment was not considered discrimination, where women's shelters did not exist, where no women were elected to city government, where women in the parks department were prohibited from working outdoors, and where women paid to use airport toilets while men did not. That world that may seem distant and slightly unreal today, so all the more reason to read Van Hightower's journey as a feminist. Her story will remind us that while much has been achieved in gender relations and women's rights, there is much that remains to be done.

An Unreasonable Woman

Diane Wilson

Author : Diane Wilson
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781603580410

Get Book

An Unreasonable Woman by Diane Wilson Pdf

When Diane Wilson, fourth-generation shrimp-boat captain and mother of five, learns that she lives in the most polluted county in the United States, she decides to fight back. She launches a campaign against a multibillion-dollar corporation that has been covering up spills, silencing workers, flouting the EPA, and dumping lethal ethylene dichloride and vinyl chloride into the bays along her beloved Texas Gulf Coast. In an epic tale of bravery, Wilson takes her fight to the courts, to the gates of the chemical plant, and to the halls of power in Austin. Along the way she meets with scorn, bribery, character assassination, and death threats. Finally Wilson realizes that she must break the law to win justice: She resorts to nonviolent disobedience, direct action, and hunger strikes. Wilson's vivid South Texas dialogue resides somewhere between Alice Walker and William Faulkner, and her dazzling prose brings to mind the magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, replete with dreams and prophecies.

The Texan

Joan Johnston

Author : Joan Johnston
Publisher : Dell
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2009-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307570741

Get Book

The Texan by Joan Johnston Pdf

In this breathtaking novel, New York Times bestselling author Joan Johnston weaves a beguiling tale of two feuding families—the Blackthornes and the Creeds—and of two extraordinary people: loner Owen Blackthorne and beautiful, headstrong Bayleigh Creed, irresistibly drawn to each other despite the desperate odds against their love. Owen Blackthorne is a lone wolf, a man who doesn’t need anyone. Then Bayleigh Creed appears on his doorstep, demanding his help in locating her missing brother. Together they head into the desolate West Texas wilderness, a Blackthorne and a Creed, mortal enemies obliged to join forces to survive. Neither counts on the unwanted attraction that draws them together, or the bitter truths that will force them apart—until the ruthless wilderness compels them to make life-and-death choices between family and duty and love.

Parking Lot Birding

Jennifer L. Bristol

Author : Jennifer L. Bristol
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-21
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781623498528

Get Book

Parking Lot Birding by Jennifer L. Bristol Pdf

Texas boasts greater bird diversity than almost any state, with more than six hundred species living in or passing through during spring and fall migrations. Jennifer L. Bristol’s Parking Lot Birding speaks to people who would love to observe a wide variety of birds in easy access locations that don’t require arduous hikes or a degree in ornithology. As she explains, “I have personally trudged down hundreds of miles of trails in Texas, loaded down with gear, searching for birds, only to return to the parking lot to find what I was looking for.” Drawing on her experience as a former park ranger and lifelong nature enthusiast, Bristol explores ninety birding locations that are open to the public and accessible regardless of ability or mobility. Divided by geography, with each of the nine sections centered on a large urban area or defined ecoregion, Parking Lot Birding: A Fun Guide to Discovering Birds in Texas will take readers to birds in locales from the busy heart of Dallas to the remote Muleshoe Wildlife Refuge in the plains north of Lubbock. Each birding stop includes the name and address of a specific birding location, number of species that have been recorded, and types of birding amenities offered. Locational accounts end with a “Feather Fact” that provides interesting and relevant details about selected birds in a particular region. You never know what you might see when on the beaten path, especially in a state as big and ecologically diverse as Texas. So grab your binoculars and let’s go birding!

Women in Texas History

Angela Boswell

Author : Angela Boswell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623497071

Get Book

Women in Texas History by Angela Boswell Pdf

Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women’s history. By emphasizing the differences between race and ethnicity, Angela Boswell uses three broad themes to tie together the narrative of women in Texas history. First, the physical and geographic challenges of Texas as a place significantly affected women’s lives, from the struggles of isolated frontier farming to the opportunities and problems of increased urbanization. Second, the changing landscape of legal and political power continued to shape women’s lives and opportunities, from the ballot box to the courthouse and beyond. Finally, Boswell demonstrates the powerful influence of social and cultural forces on the identity, agency, and everyday life of women in Texas. In challenging male-dominated legal and political systems, Texan women shaped (and were shaped by) class, religion, community organizations, literary and artistic endeavors, and more. Women in Texas History is the first book to narrate the entire span of Texas women’s history and marks a major achievement in telling the full story of the Lone Star State. Historians and general readers alike will find this book an informative and enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of Texas or the history of women.

True Women

Janice Woods Windle

Author : Janice Woods Windle
Publisher : Ivy Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1994-11-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780804113083

Get Book

True Women by Janice Woods Windle Pdf

Alive and pulsating with the events of our history, TRUE WOMEN tells the story of two dynastic family lines in Texas, the Kings and the Woodses. Euphemia Texas Ashby King could ride and shoot like any man, and she was there when Sam Houston's rag-tag army routed Santa Anna at San Jacinto . . . . Though she risked her plantation running the Yankee cotton blockade during the Civil War, Georgia Virginia Lawshe Woods still had to defend her family from a corrupt Yankee officer . . . . Bettie Moss King survived wolves, storms, and the Ku Klux Klan to steer her family through the turbulent birth of modern times. Inspired by the author's own Texas roots, here is an unforgettable saga of the grit, determination, and courage of TRUE WOMEN. ""Heartfelt . . . The hardships and adventures faced by [this] family are so movingly described that I was in tears." -- The New York Times Book Review

Texas Woman

Texas Woman by Joan Johnston Pdf

Texas Women by Elizabeth Hayes Turner,Stephanie Cole,Rebecca Sharpless Pdf

Texas Woman by Joan Johnston Pdf

Texas Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker by Sarah R. Jackson Pdf

Texas Woman Widowed Twice and Becoming an Eagle by Danva York Meister Pdf

Peace Came in the Form of a Woman by Juliana Barr Pdf

Texas Women on the Cattle Trails by Sara R. Massey Pdf

A Love Letter to Texas Women by Sarah Bird Pdf

Women in Civil War Texas by Deborah M. Liles,Angela Boswell Pdf

That Woman by Nikki Van Hightower Pdf

An Unreasonable Woman by Diane Wilson Pdf

The Texan by Joan Johnston Pdf

Parking Lot Birding by Jennifer L. Bristol Pdf

Women in Texas History by Angela Boswell Pdf

True Women by Janice Woods Windle Pdf

Recent Posts