Pioneers in God's Hills
Author | : Gillespie County Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Germans in Gillespie County (Tex.) |
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Author | : Gillespie County Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Germans in Gillespie County (Tex.) |
ISBN | : |
Author | : The Gillespie County Historical Society Staff |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Fredericksburg (Tex.) |
ISBN | : 9781571684639 |
"Stories and biographies of the brave men and courageous women who sought homes and peace in the fertile valleys among the hills of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County"--Jacket.
Author | : Higginson Book Company |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2000-08-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780740418815 |
Author | : Gillespie County Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2012-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780740470172 |
Author | : Gillespie County Historical Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2004-01-01 |
Genre | : Fredericksburg (Tex.) |
ISBN | : 9781571685193 |
"Stories and biographies of the brave men and courageous women who sought homes and peace in the fertile valleys among the hills of Fredericksburg and Gillespie County"--Jacket.
Author | : Kenneth Hafertepe |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 378 |
Release | : 2015-03-30 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1623492734 |
This richly illustrated book tracks the evolution of Fredericksburg architecture and guides readers through the streets of this once-westernmost German settlement in America, pointing out the log, fachwerk, and stone buildings that housed the town’s full-time residents, its weekenders, and the businesses of the nineteenth century. Abundant with details uncovered by Hafertepe in his research, including corrections to construction dates based on newly tapped records, this guide features those buildings visible to visitors from the public streets and sidewalks. The author lists which buildings are open for tours and which ones have been converted to public use such as museums, stores, or restaurants. The buildings of Fredericksburg reflect memories of classic German construction and technique with a gradual transition to American styles, including a few remarkable decades that were neither purely German nor American distinctively but saw the creation of a regional style. This book allows readers to walk down the streets of Fredericksburg and see the layers of Texas history on display: everything from a pioneer log cabin to an art deco courthouse.
Author | : Kenneth Hafertepe |
Publisher | : Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | : 530 |
Release | : 2016-06-21 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 162349382X |
Winner, 2019 San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation Book Award, sponsored by the San Antonio Conservation Society Foundation German immigrants of the nineteenth century left a distinctive mark on the lifestyles and vernacular architecture of Texas. In this first comprehensive survey of the art and artifacts of German Texans, Kenneth Hafertepe explores how their material culture was influenced by their European roots, how it was adapted to everyday life in Texas, and how it changed over time—at different rates in different communities. The Material Culture of German Texans is about the struggle to become American while maintaining a distinctive cultural identity drawn from German heritage. Including materials from rural, small town, and urban settings, this masterful study covers pioneer generations in East Texas and the Hill Country, but also follows the story into the Victorian era and the early twentieth century. Houses and their furnishings, churches and cemeteries, breweries and businesses, and paintings and engravings fill the pages of this thorough, informative, and richly illustrated volume. Recent decades have seen a sharp increase of the study of vernacular architecture (which can range from traditional building to ethnic expressions to landscape ensembles) and an intensified study of American furniture and other decorative arts. Incorporating these vernacular and decorative arts methods and building on the works of cultural geographers, curators, and historians, The Material Culture of German Texans offers a definitive contribution that will inform visitors to the region as well as those who study its history and culture.
Author | : Nicholas Keefauver Roland |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2021-02-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1477321756 |
In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time.
Author | : Becky Crouch Patterson |
Publisher | : Trinity University Press |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1595341269 |
Braiding strands of earthen insight with uproarious storytelling, Texas Hill Country legendary author Becky Patterson recreates the history of the Steiler Hill Ranch in twenty-four anecdotal chapters interspersed with original artwork. The result is a mixture of memoir and montage, treasure chest and tableau vivant of a world that’s beautiful, brash, and wonderfully heartbreaking. Patterson -- the daughter of Texas folk hero and self-proclaimed mayor of Luckenbach, Hondo Crouch -- has big shoes to fill and she does so successfully in this colorful collection of Hill Country and Texas ranch vignettes. Foreman and general cowboy guru Raymond Kuhlmann tells stories of the Goat King and German drinking songs, the buzzard traps and Mexican corridos that filled the nighttime pastures. First-person accounts and vivid historical narratives evoke the ranch’s past, overlaid with Patterson’s breathless personal histories of afternoons spent rescuing a doe in a nightgown, or saving a porcupine from a pack of dogs. This is a book that will connect you to whatever patch of earth you hold dear. It is poignant reminder of the landscapes we’ve forgotten to keep close, of the land that does not belong to us but simply is who we are. The Ranch That Was Us is an affectionate reminder to go outside and touch the earth that is you.
Author | : Chester William Geue |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Genealogy |
ISBN | : 0806309814 |
In this volume, using the best research techniques of the historian--that of going to the source documents--Chester W. and Ethel H. Geue set out to better understand the German movement to Texas.