Springs of Texas

Springs of Texas
Author: Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2002
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781585441969

This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.

A Tour on the Prairies

A Tour on the Prairies
Author: Washington Irving
Publisher:
Total Pages: 220
Release: 1835
Genre: Indians of North America
ISBN:

In the Fall of 1832 Washington Irving took part in what he called "a month foray beyond the outposts of human habitation, into the wilderness of the Far West." As was his habit, Irving kept a memorandum book, which he later expanded into A Tour on the Prairies, a real-life Western adventure in the third decade of the nineteenth century. His account is fresh and clear. He saw and makes his readers see the frontiersmen, the trappers, the Indians, and the troopers as they actually were in the 1830s.