A Treasury of Texas humor

A Treasury of Texas humor
Author: Bill Cannon
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 201
Release: 2003-09-16
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 0585257256

Author Bill Cannon has been collecting jokes and humorous stories about the antics of fellow Texans for literally years. Once he began this book people started sending him their own special favorites. This delightfully funny book covers every facet of Texas humor from life on the range to church, politics, Texas women, history, and hysterics. And it's a book your kids can read.

Tales From Toadsuck Texas

Tales From Toadsuck Texas
Author: Bill Cannon
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2000-12-07
Genre: Travel
ISBN: 1461712998

Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name.

Texas

Texas
Author: Bill Cannon
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2004
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781556229497

There is a myriad of little known, often forgotten, and sometimes unbelievable events, places and people that make up the warp and woof of the Texas mystique. This book consists of intriguing facts taken from age-old legends about the people who developed and settled the state. A section called Truth is Stranger than Fiction will defy imagination. The Texas history buff is sure to enjoy Forgotten Footnotes to Texas History. Have You Ever Wondered? will supply answers to questions about certain Texas legends and folklore. Texas: Land of Legend and Lore presents the Texas of fact and fantasy that so captivates the imaginations of Texans and non-Texans alike.

Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories

Famous Texas Folklorists and Their Stories
Author: Jim Gramon
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1461720877

Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch to the Panhandle, from the Big Bend to the Piney Woods; big towns and small (Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Terlingua, Manchaca, Cumby, Sulfur Springs, Commerce).

Singin' a Lonesome Song

Singin' a Lonesome Song
Author: Gary Brown
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2001-01-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461625629

Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T

Lawmen of the Old West

Lawmen of the Old West
Author: Del Cain
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2001-01-16
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1556228341

The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.

Texas Boys in Gray

Texas Boys in Gray
Author: Mamie Yeary
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2000
Genre: Soldiers
ISBN: 1556227779

Presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there. Sometimes humorous and sometimes heart breaking, the experiences of the Texas War Veterans.

Tom Dodge Talks About Texas

Tom Dodge Talks About Texas
Author: Tom Dodge
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Total Pages: 265
Release: 2000-04-26
Genre: History
ISBN: 1461662273

Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas. This collection of writings over the past decade includes his most poignant and provocative National Public Radio vignettes as well as longer pieces from newspapers and magazines. Here are the wry, sometimes ironic, observations on all things Texas his listeners are used to. His insights include a unique analysis of junkyards, railroads, bookstores, horned toads, sandy-land farms, and his grandmother's homemade grape jelly.

Lone Star Menagerie

Lone Star Menagerie
Author: Jim Harris
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Total Pages: 264
Release: 2000-03-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0585262683

There's more than one kind of Texas native-we share our magnificent state with numerous other species some with four legs or more and some with no legs at all. Naturalist Jim Harris has studied most of them, and in Lone Star Menagerie he shares some little-known facts, fascinating tales, and amusing personal experiences with these creatures that we live alongside.