Tamers Of The Texas Frontier
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Tamers Of The Texas Frontier
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Author : C. Herndon Williams
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2023-02-06
Tamers Of The Texas Frontier written by C. Herndon Williams and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-06 with History categories.
In the 1820s, Texas was a wilderness. Settlers thought it was uninhabited although rich with wild game. But many Native American tribes lived in Texas and were at war with the Spanish in Mexico. Mexico ignored Texas and did not try to inhabit this wilderness. Finally, in the late 1820s and early 1830s Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring in three hundred Anglo settlers and Texas began to be civilized. But to start there was only one town, no roads, no bridges, no planted fields. Texas was starting from ground zero but started fast. They tamed the wilderness and fought the Indians. They got their independence from Mexico and became a Republic, soon a U S state. They established a stable government similar to the one in the US and developed the infrastructure for business and international commerce. In less than eighty years Texas had tamed the wild frontier and became a modern state in the United States. C. Herndon Williams has found forty-two stories that chart this progress.
The Gentle Tamers
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Author : Dee Alexander Brown
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 1981-01-01
The Gentle Tamers written by Dee Alexander Brown and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1981-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Presents portraits of the outstanding women who helped settle the Western frontier
Twenty Seven Years On The Texas Frontier
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Author : William Banta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893
Twenty Seven Years On The Texas Frontier written by William Banta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1893 with Frontier and pioneer life categories.
The Lonesome Plains
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Author : Louis Fairchild
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2002
The Lonesome Plains written by Louis Fairchild and has been published by Texas A&M University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with History categories.
Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including the empty expanses of West Texas. Most settlers lived in isolation broken only by occasional community gatherings such as funerals and religious revivals. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief. Hungering for neighborliness, people came together in times of misfortune--sickness, accident, and death--and at annual religious services. In fascinating detail, Fairchild describes the practices that grew up around these two focal points of social life. He recounts the building of coffins and preparation of a body for burial, the conflicting emotions of the pain of death and the hope of heaven, the funeral rite itself, the lost and lonely graves. And he tells the story of yearly outdoor revivals: the choice of the meeting site and construction of the arbor or other shelter, the provision of food, the music and emotionally-charged services, and tangential courting and mischief. Loneliness is most recognized as a feature of life in the time of the early West Texas cattle industry, a period of sprawling cattle ranches and legendary cattle drives, roughly from 1867 to 1885. But Fairchild shows that it also characterized the lives of settlers who lived in West Texas from the beginning of permanent settlement of the Texas Panhandle (around 1876) through the population shift that occured around the turn of the century, as farmers and their families supplanted ranchers and their cattle. Fairchild draws on primary materials of the early residents to give voice to the settlers themselves and skillfully weaves a moving picture of life in the open spaces of West Texas during the frontier-rural period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
The Texas Panhandle Frontier
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Author : Frederick W. Rathjen
language : en
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Release Date : 1998
The Texas Panhandle Frontier written by Frederick W. Rathjen and has been published by Texas Tech University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with History categories.
The Texas Panhandle-its eastern edge descending sharply from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa Blanca, and Yellow House-is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. Long considered a crossroads of ancient civilizations, the twenty-six northernmost Texas counties lie on the southern reaches of the Great Plains, w...
A Texas Frontier
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Author : Ty Cashion
language : en
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Release Date : 1996-01-01
A Texas Frontier written by Ty Cashion and has been published by University of Oklahoma Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-01-01 with History categories.
diversification to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life. The process turned a largely southern people into westerners. Others helped shape the history of the Clear Fork country as well. Notable among them were Anglo men and women - some of them earnest settlers, others unscrupulous opportunists - who followed the first pioneers; Indians of various tribes who claimed the land as their own or who were forcibly settled there by the white government; and.
The Quirt And The Spur
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Author : Edgar Rye
language : en
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Release Date : 2000
The Quirt And The Spur written by Edgar Rye and has been published by Texas Tech University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
Stories of frontier and pioneer life in Texas.
Twenty Seven Years On The Texas Frontier
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Author : William Banta
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1933
Twenty Seven Years On The Texas Frontier written by William Banta and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1933 with Comanche Indians categories.
Soldiers Sutlers And Settlers
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Author : Robert Wooster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1987
Soldiers Sutlers And Settlers written by Robert Wooster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
Texas' frontiers in the 1840s were buffeted by disputes with Mexico and attacks by Indian tribes who refused to give up their lifestyles to make way for new settlers. To ensure some measure of peace in the far reaches of Texas, the U.S. Army established a series of military forts in the state. These outposts varied in size and amenities, but the typical installation was staffed with officers, enlisted men, medical personnel, and civilian laundresses. Many soldiers brought their families to the frontier stations. While faced with the hardships of post life, wives and children helped create a more congenial environment for everyone. Book jacket.
The Quirt And Spur Vanishing Shadows Of The Texas Frontier
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Author : Rye Edgar
language : en
Publisher: Hardpress Publishing
Release Date : 2013-12
The Quirt And Spur Vanishing Shadows Of The Texas Frontier written by Rye Edgar and has been published by Hardpress Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-12 with categories.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.