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Author | : David G. McComb |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Texas |
ISBN | : 9780195092479 |
The long and complex history of Texas, brimming with facts, anecdotes, tall tales, and trivia as well as fascinating photographs and illustrations from the past and present. Prominent Texans also profiled.
Author | : Texas State Historical Association |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 55 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Texas |
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Author | : Mary Dodson Wade |
Publisher | : Heinemann-Raintree Library |
Total Pages | : 56 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781432911515 |
Who were the European explorers and settlers of Texas and why did they come to Texas? How did Mexico's independence from Spain affect the development of Texas? What events led to the creation of the Republic of Texas and Texas's annexation to the United States? Find these answers along with all kinds of fascinating, historical facts that tell the story of the state of Texas. In this book, you'll find information about the first American settlers in Texas and what drove them to declare their independence from Mexico. You will learn about Texas's role in the Mexican War and the Civil War. And, you'll learn how cowboys and oil wells came to shape the economy and image of the Lone Star state.
Author | : John Rosenfield |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Texas |
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Author | : Marvin ed Gorley |
Publisher | : HPN Books |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1893619710 |
An illustrated history of Paris and Lamar County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Author | : Bob Eckstein |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2018-09-01 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 149303667X |
A thoroughly entertaining exploration, this book travels back in time to shed light on the snowman's enigmatic past -- from the present day, in which the snowman reigns as the King of Kitsch, to the Dark Ages, with the creation of the very first snowman. Eckstein's curiosity began playfully enough, but soon snowballed into a (mostly) earnest quest of chasing Frosty around the world, into museums and libraries, and seeking out the advice of leading historians and scholars. The result is a riveting history that reaches back through centuries and across cultures -- sweeping from fifteenth-century Italian snowballs to eighteenth-century Russian ice sculptures to the regrettable "white-trash years" (1975-2000). The snowman is not just part of our childhood memories, but is an integral part of our world culture, appearing -- much like a frozen Forrest Gump -- alongside dignitaries and celebrities during momentous events. Again and again, the snowman pops up in rare prints, paintings, early movies, advertising and, over the past century, in every art form imaginable. And the jolly snowman -- ostensibly as pure as the driven snow -- also harbors a dark past full of political intrigue, sex, and violence. With over two hundred illustrations, The Illustrated History of the Snowman is a truly original winter classic -- smart, surprisingly enlightening, and quite simply the coolest book ever.
Author | : Richard A. Holland |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2006-11-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292714297 |
Provides personality profiles, historical essays, and first-person reminiscences of the history of the University of Texas. Topics include recurring attacks on the school by politicians and regents, the institution's history of segregation and struggles to become a diverse university, the sixties' protest movements, and the Tower sniper shooting.
Author | : Nancy N. Wiley |
Publisher | : Taylor Pub |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780878334650 |
Traces the state fair's hundred-year history and describes rides, exhibits, and featured events of past fairs
Author | : Stephen Harrigan |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 944 |
Release | : 2019-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0292759517 |
The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Author | : Joe E. Young |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Texas |
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