Impressions Of The Big Thicket
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Impressions Of The Big Thicket
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Author : William Owens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
Impressions Of The Big Thicket written by William Owens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973 with categories.
Impressions Of The Big Thicket
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Author : Michael Frary
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2014-11-11
Impressions Of The Big Thicket written by Michael Frary and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-11 with Nature categories.
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.
Big Thicket People
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Author : Larry Jene Fisher
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2009-09-15
Big Thicket People written by Larry Jene Fisher and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-09-15 with Photography categories.
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional photographer Larry Jene Fisher spent a decade between the 1930s and 1940s photographing Big Thicket people living and working in the old ways. His photographs, the only known collection on this subject, constitute an irreplaceable record of lifeways that first took root in the southeastern woodlands of the colonial United States and eventually spread all across the Southern frontier. Big Thicket People presents Fisher's photographs in suites that document a wide slice of Big Thicket life-people, dogs, camps, deer hunts, farming, syrup mills, rooter hogs and stock raising, railroad tie making, barrel stave making, chimney building, peckerwood sawmills, logging, turpentining, town life, church services and picnics, funerals and golden weddings, and dances and other amusements. Accompanying each suite of images is a cultural essay by Thad Sitton, who also introduces the book with a historical overview of life in the Big Thicket. C. E. Hunt provides an informative biography of Larry Jene Fisher.
Big Thicket Legacy
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Author : Campbell Loughmiller
language : en
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Release Date : 2002
Big Thicket Legacy written by Campbell Loughmiller and has been published by University of North Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Big Thicket (Tex.) categories.
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.
Big Thicket National Park
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Big Thicket National Park written by United States. Congress. Senate. Interior and Insular Affairs Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with categories.
Big Thicket National Park
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
Big Thicket National Park written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs. Subcommittee on Parks and Recreation and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1974 with Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.) categories.
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Interior And Insular Affairs
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Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date :
Hearings Reports And Prints Of The Senate Committee On Interior And Insular Affairs written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Legislative hearings categories.
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series
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Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
language : en
Publisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Release Date : 1975
Catalog Of Copyright Entries Third Series written by Library of Congress. Copyright Office and has been published by Copyright Office, Library of Congress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1975 with Copyright categories.
The Alcalde
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973-11
The Alcalde written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1973-11 with categories.
As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."
Texas Wildflowers Impressions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: Farcountry Press
Release Date : 2017-04-18
Texas Wildflowers Impressions written by and has been published by Farcountry Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with Travel categories.
Travel to the Lone Star State for a wildflower tour with native Texan photographers Rob Greebon and Richard Reynolds. From cacti blossoms at Big Bend National Park in West Texas, to the famous fields of bluebonnets in the Hill Country, to the carnivorous pitcher plants found in the Big Thicket National Preserve in East Texas, you'll enjoy spectacular Texas wildflowers in 93 gorgeous color photographs. Included are the state's vegetational zones with tips on when and where to find blooms, and how to photograph your own beautiful wildflower landscapes.