Texas City Tales
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Texas City Tales
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Author : William Slager
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-07-15
Texas City Tales written by William Slager and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-07-15 with Family & Relationships categories.
This book is intended to describe in a humorous and insightful way, youthful life in Texas City, Texas in the 1940's and1950's. It is a nostalgic look at things we did, games we played, and lessons we learned when we were children and teens. It is somewhat autobiographical with little vignette type stories, with associated morals for todays children and parents. This book contains a lot of stories about all the wonderful things that children in those times got to do, which todays children hardly ever do, and illustrates how and what we learned about life, the universe, and everything . We children learned that if we tried just a little bit we could easily do it ourselves, and if we used our imaginations and initiative we could solve just about any problem, and we learned in short, at an early age how to take care of ourselves. Mostly we were told to go out and play with all the other children in our neighborhood of which there were a considerable number. Just about every family had two or three children and they were all about the same age, because all the parents were also all about the same age. Children in my time of growing up did not want their parents to be their pals and hover about them interfering with their life in any way whatsoever. When that happens it deadens the child's initiative, spontaneity, and natural inquisitiveness. The parents place was in the home or at work and not at the children's playground bothering us with dumb questions and introductions to their friends. We really had better things to do when we were young.It was OK if parents got to show us off at a piano recital, or at ballet school recital , or if they invited their friends to watch us in the school play or when we were playing a little league baseball game. Parents were allowed to occasionally sit on the sidelines and cheer and recognize our uniqueness and greatness. Nowadays if a mother shoo's her child outside to play because she is busy, a neighbor who see's this child will think that something is wrong and take the child by hand back to her parents house. Such mothers can and have even been cited for child abuse.Currently in most states, if a teacher even touches a student, gives him a hug when he needs it , or God forbid actually spanks a child , he would be fired on the spot, and angry parents would sue him and the school board as well.Parents who hover about their children are actually smothering their child to death whether they know it or not. Sooner or later a child is going to have to learn how to interact with and deal with the real world on their own. Children are naturally a lot smarter than their parents think they are and can take care of themselves a lot, lot better then most parents can ever imagine, even in predator situations.The sooner a child is allowed to figure it all out for himself , the sooner he will become the successful kind of child that every parent desires and will be proud to say "That is my child !".
The Texas City Disaster 1947
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Author : Hugh W. Stephens
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2010-01-01
The Texas City Disaster 1947 written by Hugh W. Stephens 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 2010-01-01 with History categories.
On April 16, 1947, a small fire broke out among bags of ammonium nitrate fertilizer in the hold of the ship Grandcamp as it lay docked at Texas City, Texas. Despite immediate attempts to extinguish the fire, it rapidly intensified until the Grandcamp exploded in a blast that caused massive loss of life and property. In the ensuing chaos, no one gave much thought to the ship in the next slip, the High Flyer. It exploded sixteen hours later. The story of the Texas City explosions—America’s worst industrial disaster in terms of casualties—has never been fully told until now. In this book, Hugh W. Stephens draws on official reports, newspaper and magazine articles, personal letters, and interviews with several dozen survivors to provide the first full account of the disaster at Texas City. Stephens describes the two explosions and the heroic efforts of Southeast Texans to rescue survivors and cope with extensive property damage. At the same time, he explores why the disaster occurred, showing how a chain of indifference and negligence made a serious industrial accident almost inevitable, while a lack of emergency planning allowed it to escalate into a major catastrophe. This gripping, cautionary tale holds important lessons for a wide reading public.
Texas Tales
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Author : Myra Hargrave McIlvain
language : en
Publisher: Sunstone Press
Release Date : 2017-11-15
Texas Tales written by Myra Hargrave McIlvain and has been published by Sunstone Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-15 with History categories.
These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.
Texas City
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Author : Albert L. Mitchell
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Library Editions
Release Date : 2011-07
Texas City written by Albert L. Mitchell and has been published by Arcadia Library Editions this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07 with History categories.
At 100 years old, Texas City is a relatively young city. It was founded not for its beauty or its climate but for its strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico. It developed into a major port city, and industries sprang up and flourished. From bare acreage, the founders forged a community that would become a hometown to thousands of people. Texas City has seen its highs and lows. The U.S. Air Force experienced its humble beginnings here, for instance. The same port, however, that gave life to the desolate land brought destruction in 1947 in the form of the Texas City explosion. A ship carrying ammonium nitrate blew up, killing almost 600 residents, injuring thousands, and bringing damage to nearly every building in town. Texas City recovered from the explosion and in the following decades, continued to be a place of pride for its citizens. The pages of this book are filled with images dating from the 1950s and 1960s to bring back the feeling of a bygone era in Texas City.
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
Stories Beneath The Stones
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Author : Lawrence O. Greer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-10-18
Stories Beneath The Stones written by Lawrence O. Greer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-18 with Canton (Tex.) categories.
Stories Beneath the Stones tells the history of Canton, Texas by revealing the fascinating lives of those buried in its City Cemetery, 1850 - 2015.
Best Tales Of Texas Ghosts
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Author : Docia Schultz Williams
language : en
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Release Date : 1998
Best Tales Of Texas Ghosts written by Docia Schultz Williams 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 1998 with Fiction categories.
Renowed storyteller Docia WIlliams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books, then she adds a hundred pages of new ghostly tales from Piney Woods of East Texas and from North Centeral Texas,including the Dallas area.
Central Texas Tales
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Author : Mike Cox
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-02
Central Texas Tales written by Mike Cox and has been published by Arcadia Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-02 with History categories.
Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco and New Braunfels in the north and south, this area has drawn settlers from around the globe for over two centuries, leaving their mark and their stories along the way. From a surprising story of nineteenth-century psych ops at Fort Mason and what really happened to Bevo, the UT longhorn, in 1920 to Mrs. Ross's Croghan Cobbler recipe and rumors of a Lone Star visit by old Abe himself, historian Mike Cox regales readers with over fifty stories about the fascinating people, history and places of middle Texas.
True Tales Of The Texas Frontier
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Author : C. Herndon Williams
language : en
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Release Date : 2013-05-07
True Tales 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 2013-05-07 with Photography categories.
For eight centuries, the Texas frontier has seen conquest, exploration, immigration, revolution and innovation, leaving to history a cast of fascinating characters and captivating tales. Its historic period began in 1519 with Spanish exploration, but there was a prehistory long before, nearly fifteen thousand years earlier, with the arrival of people to Texas. Each story pulls a new perspective from this long history by examining nearly all angles--from archaeology to ethnography, astronomy, agriculture and more. These true stories prove to be unexpected, sometimes contrarian and occasionally funny but always fascinating. Join author and historian C. Herndon Williams as he recounts his exploration of nearly a millennium of the Texas frontier.
Tales From The Texas Woods
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Author : Michael Moorcock
language : en
Publisher: M O J O Press
Release Date : 1997
Tales From The Texas Woods written by Michael Moorcock and has been published by M O J O Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Fantasy fiction categories.
Experience the many worlds of the man that the London Times called "a myth-maker" through a uniquely Western Slant.