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Lost In West Texas
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Author : Jim Wayne Corder
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Lost In West Texas written by Jim Wayne Corder and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with History categories.
"I want to hear about such folks as my father and how he knows how to make cement, not by recipe, but by something in his bones. I want to hear how my grandfather learned to plow a straight furrow and why even older men always called him Mister. I want to know all of the reasons why, those years ago, my mother cried when the tomatoes in her garden twisted and died."
Lost In West Texas
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Author : Efren D. Castro
language : en
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Release Date : 2006-07
Lost In West Texas written by Efren D. Castro and has been published by Outskirts Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-07 with Fiction categories.
In the case of love, never say never. Experience a week in the life of Frankie Chinellas. Frankie is a conflicted Mexican-American professor struggling to find love and stability in his life. He is living in the decade of the 80's at a time of decadence and in the midst of the AIDs epidemic. Frankie had to maneuver between two cultures leaving him confused and sometimes bitter. In his attempts to find love his destructive sexual behavior verges on the edge of tragedy. He believes that by his strength and idealism he can save the world. Now he finds his destiny and fate in the hands of a runaway boat in an endless ocean. Does he or doesn't he find his way through life. His fate is left in the hands of the reader. We can be judge, jury and executioners.
Lone Star Lost
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Author : Patrick Dearen
language : en
Publisher: Texas Small Books
Release Date : 2009
Lone Star Lost written by Patrick Dearen and has been published by Texas Small Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
Patrick Dearen went in search of buried treasures, not gold or silver or jewels, but untapped tales worthy of J. Frank Dobie. And he found for Lone Star Lost ten such stories that spring from the bedrock, shared with the author by native sons and daughters who know that the real treasure is our Texas heritage. These stories grew from the land--the Texas soil that gives birth to history and sprinkles it with legend. From the piney woods on the east to the Chihuahuan Desert on the west, from the subtropical marshes on the south to the mountains on the north, Texas is alive with the kind of wonder that has sent men in quest of their own Cibolas for generations.
From Chapultepec To Castle Gap
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Author : Roy E Peterson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-06-25
From Chapultepec To Castle Gap written by Roy E Peterson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-25 with categories.
One of the biggest treasures thought still to be hidden in America is the shipment of the Mexican treasury just before Emperor Maximilian I of Mexico was executed by a Mexican nationalist firing squad. He sent his wife ahead early to Europe to receive the entire treasure, but neither he, nor the treasure ever made it. Six Missourians hired to assist the Austrian Guards in taking a 15-wagon team train in which the treasure was disguised as flour barrels from Mexico through West Texas to the port of Galveston, killed the wagon masters somewhere between Horsehead Crossing over the Pecos River and Castle Gap, a deep cut "V" between Castle Mountain and King Mountain. Estimates of the value of the treasure continue to escalate over time as the gold, silver, minted coins, metal plate, and jewels achieve greater historical value, not to mention the intrinsic price increases of the gold and silver. This historical fiction is based on fact. The treasure has never been found. The last estimated worth was over $10,000,000. I now estimate the value to be at least $200,000,000, although it could be considered priceless for its historic value. Only one man survived the trip after he and his six friends shot the entire wagon master crew, and then were killed by a marauding Comanche band themselves. He made it to Fort Concho, but was barely alive. As he lay dying, he drew a map of the Castle Gap area with markers of where the treasure was buried and gave it to Doctor Black, an appropriate name for the occasion. Dr. Black got together with a friend several months later and set out to find the buried treasure. They had not counted on the rapidly shifting dirt and sand, or the rapid degeneration of vegetation from the raw powerful gusts of West Texas storms. They never found the treasure. Countless legal and illegal parties blasted holes at night with dynamite on a ranchers property, and then tried to find the treasure by day, have searched over the past 150 years plus, but failed. Emperor Maximilian lost his life, Carlota, his empress went mad. The treasure sits somewhere laughing at the world.
Lost Texas
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Author : Bronson Dorsey
language : en
Publisher: Clayton Wheat Williams Texas L
Release Date : 2018
Lost Texas written by Bronson Dorsey and has been published by Clayton Wheat Williams Texas L this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with Architecture categories.
In Lost, Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, Bronson Dorsey takes us on a tour of old, abandoned buildings in Texas that evoke the mystique of bygone days and shifting population patterns. With a skilled photographer's eye, he captures the character of these buildings, mostly tucked away in the far corners of rural Texas--though, surprisingly, some of his finds are in the midst of thriving communities, even, in one case, the Dallas metroplex. Most of the buildings are abandoned and in a state of decay, though a handful have been repurposed as museums, residences, or other functional structures. Encompassing all regions of the state, from the Piney Woods to the Panhandle, the images in Lost, Texas evoke distinctive memories of the past. They grant a sense of how those who preceded us lived and how the Texas of earlier days became the Texas of today. Some of the historic sites include a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Beeville, a lumberyard built over two generations, a beautiful, mission-style schoolhouse raised in a small farming community, the skeleton of a boomtown gas station near the Yates oilfield, and what remains of the only silver mining operation in Texas. With Dorsey as a guide, readers may explore these hidden and neglected gems and learn the basic facts of their origins and intended uses, as well as the principal reasons for their demise. Along the way and in the background, he quietly makes the case for preserving these buildings that, while no longer central to the ongoing function of their communities, still serve as important emblems of the past.
Lost In The Texas Desert
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Author : Tom White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Lost In The Texas Desert written by Tom White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Juvenile Fiction categories.
While two young people from Odessa, Texas, Craig, 16 and his sister Emily, 14, vacation and explore the Monahans sandhills in West Texas they find themselves captured and held by Indians.
Lost In The Fifties
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Author : Joyce Gibson Roach
language : en
Publisher: Crosswinds Books
Release Date : 2004
Lost In The Fifties written by Joyce Gibson Roach and has been published by Crosswinds Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Lost Trails
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Author : Louis L'Amour
language : en
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Release Date : 2010-04-19
Lost Trails written by Louis L'Amour and has been published by Pinnacle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-19 with Fiction categories.
They are the stuff of legend, thundering out of the harsh landscapes and stunning vistas of the American West, vividly lodged in our collective imaginations. From Buffalo Bill to Billy the Kid, from Cochise to Jesse James, these names and so many others screamed across newspaper and dime store magazine headlines while the Wild West was won. Lost Trails features inventive, hard-riding, action-packed stories by America's best Western writers. Louis L'Amour, Elmer Kelton, William W. Johnstone, Loren Estleman, Johnny Boggs, Don Coldsmith, and many more, share tales of the legends born out of the wild frontier. So sit a spell and listen to a good ol' yarn about Mark Twain's meeting with Buffalo Bill, a man who shoed horses for Jesse James, or a little known nugget about Cochise by the legendary Louis L'Amour. . .and for a time, you can find yourself riding those Lost Trails with the real people that make the legends of the West come alive today.
The Spider Rock Treasure
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Author : Steve Wilson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
The Spider Rock Treasure written by Steve Wilson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with History categories.
Hidden in the unforgiving earth of West Texas were clues: archaic clues etched upon buried rocks, stacked as artifacts upon other clues, or carved into rock walls. These centuries-old clues, placed to lead Spaniards back to their cache, eventually formed an intricate web that has lured treasure seekers and captured them in its mystery. But the question still remains: Has the Spider Rock treasure ever been found? Steve Wilson first began his research on the treasure in 1960. The story he unraveled is an incredible tale riddled with murder, mystery, and adventure. Wilson left no stone unturned in his quest for clues, weaving his story from numerous interviews with eyewitnesses, early newspaper accounts, letters, documents, extended reconnaissance of the actual sites, and finally the cryptic stone maps that had gradually been unearthed by the original seekers. The story involves several towns and counties in West Texas; including Rotan, Aspermont, Haskell, Fisher County, Stonewall County and one of the area's most prolific landmarks, the Double Mountains. On dogged treasure hunter was Dave Arnold, who appeared in 1902 with an intriguing sheepskin map. After months of searching, he unearthed the stone map called the Spider Rock, with its tantalizing spider web-like design, Roman and Arabic numerals, and cryptic symbols. Nearby he found silver epaulets, a Spanish sword, silver crucifix and copper plates bearing strange tracery. In 1905 he moved his search to a wilderness sixty miles southeast, and once again unearthed a beautifully carved stone map imprisoned in the roots of a huge oak. Still later, moving sixty miles west-northwest, he uncovered yet another stone map, bearing the same concentric circles and symbols that appeared on the first tow. Dave Arnold's bizarre quest unfolded over a decade, until he disappeared without a trace in 1914. The search was renewed a decade later by one of the original seekers. Then, in the 1930's, more clues were found, including crude smelter pits, small silver crosses and statuettes and nuggets of gold. The first two stone maps and many of the artifacts found near them were long believed destroyed in a 1909 fire at the Terrell Drug Store in Haskell, Texas. But the Terrell family had kept a secret for almost seventy years: that many of those ancient items survived. With them were map tracings, letters, and documents describing an extensive search. The third stone map turned up in Waco, where it had been used as a doorstop for more than half a century. The Spaniards buried something fantastic in the West Texas hinterlands, where they were mining precious metals. They marked those sites by an ingenious method of carving coded symbols, directions, degrees, and distances into stone. To this day, the stone maps remain undeciphered, the ancient puzzle unsolved, and the treasure unfound-so far as we know.
Jim W Corder On Living And Dying In West Texas
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Author : Jim Wayne Corder
language : en
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Jim W Corder On Living And Dying In West Texas written by Jim Wayne Corder and has been published by University of Arkansas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Literary Criticism categories.
But of all the markers of Corder's Soul-questing, the most poignant is his last: his description of his grandmother's quilt-making, whose intricate (yet homemade) patterns express the true American folk-mandala, symbolic of psychic wholeness."--Jacket.