Tell Tale Texas
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Tell Tale Texas
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Author : E.R. Bills
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08
Tell Tale Texas written by E.R. Bills and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08 with History categories.
Uncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past. Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The "Searchers" never did that much searching, the "Giants" were hardly ever big in terms of character, and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star state was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and, for too many Texans, nothing was ever "Awright, Awright, Awright." A Black civil rights champion was assassinated in 1976 and the incident was buried. A Cowtown Catcher in the Rye was published in 1940, and the country club made it disappear. And the war machines of Hitler and Mussolini were perfected with Texas oil during the Spanish Civil War. Author E.R. Bills challenges his proud neighbors, earnestly asking them to take a hard look at their history and it's repercussions, and challenge their own historical amnesia, cultural fragility and fierce denial.
Tell Tale Texas
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Author : E.R. Bills
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2023-08-07
Tell Tale Texas written by E.R. Bills and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-07 with History categories.
Uncover the suppressed testimony of the Lone Star State's uncomfortable past. Tinseltown almost always gets Texas wrong. The "Searchers" never did that much searching, the "Giants" were hardly ever big in terms of character and The Last Picture Show was just the beginning of a disturbing reveal. As acclaimed writer Stephen Harrigan suggests, the Lone Star State was not exactly a Big, Wonderful Thing, and for too many Texans, nothing was ever "Awright, Awright, Awright." A Black civil rights champion was assassinated in 1976, and the incident was buried. A "Cowtown Catcher in the Rye" was published in 1940, and the country club set made it disappear. And the war machines of Hitler and Mussolini were perfected with Texas oil during the Spanish Civil War. Author E.R. Bills challenges his proud neighbors, earnestly asking them to take a hard look at their past and examine their own historical amnesia, cultural fragility and fierce denial.
Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You
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Author : C. F. Eckhardt
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Release Date : 1997-12-30
Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You written by C. F. Eckhardt and has been published by Taylor Trade Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997-12-30 with Fiction categories.
Charlie Eckhardt, a newspaper columnist and owner of the Lone Star Barber Shop in Seguin, Texas, spins his tales as only Charlie can. This book covers such topics as the little-known first Texas revolution and the counterrevolution of 1838-1840; the Linville raid; the legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas; Jim Bowie's famous knife and Sam Colt's equally famous pistol; and many more. From the early days of Texas up to the saving of the oil industry, Charlie tells 'em like he heard 'em and assures that some of the stories are actually true.
Tell Me A Texas Story
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Author : June Rayfield Welch
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1991
Tell Me A Texas Story written by June Rayfield Welch and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with History categories.
I Ll Tell You A Tale
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Author : James Frank. Dobie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
I Ll Tell You A Tale written by James Frank. Dobie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with Southwestern States categories.
I Ll Tell You A Tale
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Author : J. Frank Dobie
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 1981
I Ll Tell You A Tale written by J. Frank Dobie 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 1981 with Social Science categories.
Collects stories that originate from the folklore of the Southwest.
Big Wonderful Thing
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Author : Stephen Harrigan
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2019-10-01
Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan 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 2019-10-01 with History categories.
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Miles And Miles Of Texas
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Author : Carol Dawson
language : en
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Release Date : 2016-09-23
Miles And Miles Of Texas written by Carol Dawson 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 2016-09-23 with History categories.
On the eve of its centennial, Carol Dawson and Roger Allen Polson present almost 100 years of history and never-before-seen photographs that track the development of the Texas Highway Department. An agency originally created “to get the farmer out of the mud,” it has gone on to build the vast network of roads that now connects every corner of the state. When the Texas Highway Department (now called the Texas Department of Transportation or TxDOT) was created in 1917, there were only about 200,000 cars in Texas traveling on fewer than a thousand miles of paved roads. Today, after 100 years of the Texas Highway Department, the state boasts over 80,000 miles of paved, state-maintained roads that accommodate more than 25 million vehicles. Sure to interest history enthusiasts and casual readers alike, decades of progress and turmoil, development and disaster, and politics and corruption come together once more in these pages, which tell the remarkable story of an infrastructure 100 years in the making.
South Texas Tales
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Author : Patricia Cisneros Young
language : en
Publisher: Tate Publishing
Release Date : 2007-11
South Texas Tales written by Patricia Cisneros Young and has been published by Tate Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11 with Short stories, American categories.
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas
Tall Tales From Texas
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Author : Mody Coggin 1896-1970 Boatright
language : en
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
Release Date : 2023-07-18
Tall Tales From Texas written by Mody Coggin 1896-1970 Boatright and has been published by Hassell Street Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-18 with categories.
An entertaining collection of humorous and outrageous stories from the great state of Texas, capturing the unique spirit and culture of this iconic American region. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.