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Author : Alan Brown
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2012-08-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780811748537
The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa
Author : Mike Cox
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781614238140
Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. Travel to El Paso during the "Big Blow" of 1895, brave the frontier with Elizabeth Russell Baker, and stare down the infamous killer known as Old Three Toe. From frontier stories and ghost towns to famous folks and accounts of everyday life, this collection of West Texas Tales has it all.
Author : Johnny D. Boggs
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780786027835
An American original, the great Johnny D. Boggs weaves a Texas-sized tale of an 1880s badlands--under the grasp of a lawman gone rogue. . . In For Justice In For The Kill Between the Pecos River and Rio Grande a vast, harsh land was ruled by Texas Rangers Captain Hector Savage. Savage's motive wasn't duty, it was money; he's turned this desolate place into a bloodied, terrorized kingdom. Now, a protégé of Savage, Sergeant Dave Chance, has come with a prisoner--a big-talking murderer in his own right--shackled at his side. A decent, honest Ranger, Chance cannot stand idly by while Savage runs roughshod over the territory. Now, to save a traumatized people, he must turn his prisoner loose and give him a gun. Only their combined firepower can penetrate Savage's fortress and kill him. That is, if they don't kill each other first. . . "Johnny Boggs has produced another instant page-turner. . .don't put down the book until you finish it." --Tony Hillerman on Killstraight "Johnny D. Boggs tells a crisply powerful story that rings true more than two centuries after the bloody business was done." --The Charleston (S.C.) Post and Courier on The Despoilers "Boggs is unparalleled in evoking the gritty reality of the Old West." --The Shootist
Author : Gary Lovisi
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781605430775
Author : John R. Erickson
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2005-10-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574412000
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Author : Glenn Dromgoole
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 089112490X
"What I looked for in putting together this collection were stories that stand the test of time, that offer a glimpse into the history and culture of this huge part of the state that we call West Texas, and that can be told in a few pages. Some of the tales are amusing, some are nostalgic, some historical, some dramatic, some personal. I present them here in pretty much chronological order, beginning with several stories from the West Texas frontier, continuing through the first half of the twentieth century, and on to more modern days"--
Author : Andy Bowman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1682831868
How one solar power plant might chart a sustainable path forward for enlisting American capitalism in the fight against climate change.
Author : Sherryl Woods
Publisher : MIRA
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781488075711
In the heart of Texas, love comes knocking when you least expect it… The Cowboy and His Wayward Bride Country singer Laurie Jensen has never forgotten her childhood sweetheart, rancher Harlan Patrick Adams. After all, she admitted she loved him, then left with no explanation when she discovered she was pregnant. Being on the road with a newborn has taken its toll, and she’s given everything for her career. The last thing she wants is to settle down—but will she change her mind when her baby’s father comes calling? Suddenly, Annie’s Father Ever since a tragic car accident ruined his career, ex—rodeo star Slade Sutton put down new roots at the Adams family ranch. His hectic life left little room for family—until his ten-year-old daughter lands on his doorstep with no one else to turn to. Slade knows he’ll need whatever help he can find—even from mysterious rancher Val Harding. Slade has a heart of gold when it comes to his daughter, but he must discover if there’s room in his heart for Val, too. Author of the hit Netflix series Sweet Magnolias
Author : Paul H. Carlson,Bruce A. Glasrud
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806145235
Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary. In four parts—comprehending the place, people, politics and economic life, and society and culture—Carlson and Glasrud and their contributors survey the confluence of life and landscape shaping the West Texas of today. Early chapters define the region. The “giant side of Texas” is a nineteenth-century geographical description of a vast area that includes the Panhandle, Llano Estacado, Permian Basin, and Big Bend–Trans-Pecos country. It is an arid, windblown environment that connects intimately with the history of Texas culture. Carlson and Glasrud take a nonlinear approach to exploring the many cultural influences on West Texas, including the Tejanos, the oil and gas economy, and the major cities. Readers can sample topics in whichever order they please, whether they are interested in learning about ranching, recreation, or turn-of-the-century education. Throughout, familiar western themes arise: the urban growth of El Paso is contrasted with the mid-century decline of small towns and the social shifting that followed. Well-known Texas scholars explore popular perceptions of West Texas as sparsely populated and rife with social contradiction and rugged individualism. West Texas comes into yet clearer view through essays on West Texas women, poets, Native peoples, and musicians. Gathered here is a long overdue consideration of the landscape, culture, and everyday lives of one of America’s most iconic and understudied regions.
Author : Donnie Kingman
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780595281954
Author : Dock Dilworth Parramore
Publisher : Texas Western Press
Page : 93 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1975-01-01
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : 087404054X
Author : Joe Carr,Alan Munde
Publisher : Texas Tech University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0896723658
From the regional bands of the 1930s and 1940s to the impact of Elvis Presley on the musicians and singers of the 1950s, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights takes us inside the heart of West Texas music.
Author : Lora-Marie Bernard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439668832
A journalist searches for the truth behind the traditional folk song, and a free black woman’s role in the Texas Revolution. The legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas holds an indisputable place in Lone Star culture, tethered to a familiar song that has served as a Civil War marching tune, a pop chart staple, and a halftime anthem. Almost two centuries of Texas mythmaking successfully muddled fact with fable in song, and the true story of Emily D. West remains mired in dispute and unrecognizable beneath the tales that grew up around it. The complete truth may never be recovered, but in this book Lora-Marie Bernard seeks an honest account honoring the grit and determination that brought a free black woman from the abolitionist riots of Connecticut to the thick of a bloody Texas revolution. A Lone Star native who grew up immersed in the Yellow Rose legend, Bernard also traces other stories that legend has obscured, including the connection between Emily D. West and plans for a free black colony in Texas. Includes illustrations
Author : Larry McMurtry
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-29
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781631493546
This landmark collection, brimming with his signature wit and incomparable sensibility, is Larry McMurtry’s classic tribute to his home and his people. Before embarking on what would become one of the most prominent writing careers in American literature, spanning decades and indelibly shaping the nation’s perception of the West, Larry McMurtry knew what it meant to come from Texas. Originally published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the Pulitzer Prize–winning author’s homage to the past and present of the Lone Star State, where he grew up a precociously observant hand on his father’s ranch. From literature to rodeos, small-town folk to big city intellectuals, McMurtry explores all the singular elements that define his land and community, revealing the surprising and particular challenges in the “dying . . . rural, pastoral way of life.” “The gold standard for understanding Houston’s brash rootlessness and civic insecurities” (Douglas Brinkley, New York Times Book Review), In a Narrow Grave offers a timeless portrait of the vividly human, complex, full-blooded Texan.
Author : John Graves
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780307773357
In the 1950s, a series of dams was proposed along the Brazos River in north-central Texas. For John Graves, this project meant that if the stream’s regimen was thus changed, the beautiful and sometimes brutal surrounding countryside would also change, as would the lives of the people whose rugged ancestors had eked out an existence there. Graves therefore decided to visit that stretch of the river, which he had known intimately as a youth. Goodbye to a River is his account of that farewell canoe voyage. As he braves rapids and fatigue and the fickle autumn weather, he muses upon old blood feuds of the region and violent skirmishes with native tribes, and retells wild stories of courage and cowardice and deceit that shaped both the river’s people and the land during frontier times and later. Nearly half a century after its initial publication, Goodbye to a River is a true American classic, a vivid narrative about an exciting journey and a powerful tribute to a vanishing way of life and its ever-changing natural environment.