Tainted Breeze
Author | : Richard B. McCaslin |
Publisher | : Lsu Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1997-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807122198 |
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Author | : Richard B. McCaslin |
Publisher | : Lsu Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 1997-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807122198 |
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Publisher | : Texas State Historical Assn |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Gainesville (Tex.) |
ISBN | : 9780876112557 |
In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862. The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862, combines two accounts of the events surrounding the executions along with an introduction by noted Civil War historian Richard B. McCaslin and an afterword by L.D. Clark, a descendent of one of the men hanged.
Author | : Shana Powell |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738507859 |
Cooke County, Texas, located in the north central part of the state, has a richly varied history. Those who first entered the area-Native Americans, gold seekers headed for California, army officials, and settlers-discovered a raw, unspoiled land. Eyewitness accounts speak of "grass that was as high as a man's head," and indeed, the land was rich for farming and ranching. In 1841, W.S. Peters and associates signed their first contract with the Republic of Texas, which provided that within three years they would bring six hundred families into what came to be known as the Peters Colony. In 1848, the state legislature created Cooke County, named for a hero of the Texas War for Independence. Over the next 150 years, the area changed dramatically. The stagecoach arrived in 1858, and conveyed freight, passengers, and mail. The Civil War presented economic and social difficulties that had to be overcome. Two major cattle trails flanked Cooke County, and cowboys roared into Gainesville to visit the saloons, get supplies, gamble, and visit the "soiled doves." The discovery of oil, and the resultant wealth that it brought, forever altered the face of the county.
Author | : Shana Powell |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 136 |
Release | : 2000-10-30 |
Genre | : Photography |
ISBN | : 1439611033 |
Cooke County, Texas, located in the north central part of the state, has a richly varied history. Those who first entered the area-Native Americans, gold seekers headed for California, army officials, and settlers-discovered a raw, unspoiled land. Eyewitness accounts speak of "grass that was as high as a man's head," and indeed, the land was rich for farming and ranching. In 1841, W.S. Peters and associates signed their first contract with the Republic of Texas, which provided that within three years they would bring six hundred families into what came to be known as the Peters Colony. In 1848, the state legislature created Cooke County, named for a hero of the Texas War for Independence. Over the next 150 years, the area changed dramatically. The stagecoach arrived in 1858, and conveyed freight, passengers, and mail. The Civil War presented economic and social difficulties that had to be overcome. Two major cattle trails flanked Cooke County, and cowboys roared into Gainesville to visit the saloons, get supplies, gamble, and visit the "soiled doves." The discovery of oil, and the resultant wealth that it brought, forever altered the face of the county.
Author | : Ron Melugin |
Publisher | : The History Press |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781609490331 |
Local historian Ron Melugin has roamed this frontier Texas cemetery for over a decade, collecting fascinating stories about the "residents" laid to rest there. Spanning the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, these tales of extraordinary people with ordinary causes of death and ordinary people who died in extraordinary ways illustrate the uncertainties of life on the edge of the Confederacy and next door to Oklahoma Indian Territory. From the former slave who died of old age to the chemistry student who accidentally poisoned his own apple, each account provides a fascinating glimpse into the history of Gainesville. A full map and legend is included to guide readers to each of the sites.
Author | : John Henry Brown |
Publisher | : Jazzybee Verlag |
Total Pages | : 812 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 3849674452 |
The book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Author | : Milton Babb |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 97 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1935377167 |
An illustrated history of Hunt County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author | : Rebekkah Smith Aldrich |
Publisher | : American Library Association |
Total Pages | : 166 |
Release | : 2018-01-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0838916953 |
This book will show you how to harness sustainable thinking to move forward with confidence into the unknown.
Author | : James W. Loewen |
Publisher | : The New Press |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2019-09-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1620974932 |
A fully updated and revised edition of the book USA Today called "jim-dandy pop history," by the bestselling, American Book Award–winning author "The most definitive and expansive work on the Lost Cause and the movement to whitewash history." —Mitch Landrieu, former mayor of New Orleans From the author of the national bestseller Lies My Teacher Told Me, a completely updated—and more timely than ever—version of the myth-busting history book that focuses on the inaccuracies, myths, and lies on monuments, statues, national landmarks, and historical sites all across America. In Lies Across America, James W. Loewen continues his mission, begun in the award-winning Lies My Teacher Told Me, of overturning the myths and misinformation that too often pass for American history. This is a one-of-a-kind examination of historic sites all over the country where history is literally written on the landscape, including historical markers, monuments, historic houses, forts, and ships. New changes and updates include: • a town in Louisiana that was the site of a major but now-forgotten enslaved persons' uprising • a totally revised tour of the memory and intentional forgetting of slavery and the Civil War in Richmond, Virginia • the hideout of a gang in Delaware that made money by kidnapping free blacks and selling them into slavery Entertaining and enlightening, Lies Across America also has a serious role to play in contemporary debates about white supremacy and Confederate memorials.