| Author | : Leon Hale |
| Publisher | : Winedale Pub |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 1989 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780940672505 |
This book contains many essays about life in Texas, from storytellers in beer joints to preachers at country revivals, and from perils in the big-city traffic to the peace the author finds on a Texas riverbank.
| Author | : Mark Skipworth |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2019 |
| Genre | : Texas |
| ISBN | : 9781999802875 |
A young person's guide to the story of the State of Texas from its birth to the present day
| Author | : C. Herndon Williams |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2010-12-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1614232466 |
The middle Texas coast, known locally as the Coast Bend, is an area filled with fascinating stories. From as early as the days of de Vaca and La Salle, the Coastal Bend has been a site of early exploration, bloody conflicts, legendary shipwrecks and even a buried treasure or two. However, much of the true history has remained unknown, misunderstood and even hidden. For years, local historian C. Herndon Williams has shared his fascinating discoveries of the area's early stories through his weekly column, "Coastal Bend Chronicle." Now he has selected some of his favorites in Texas Gulf Coast Stories. Join Williams as he explores the days of early settlement and European contact, Karankawa and Tonkawa legends and the Coastal Bend's tallest of tall tales.
| Author | : Leon Claire Metz |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 308 |
| Release | : 1993 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9780930208325 |
| Author | : R. D. Kane |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 2012 |
| Genre | : Cooking |
| ISBN | : |
"A chronicle of Texas's emergence as a wine-producing region. Relates the stories of winegrowers, past and present, who have contributed to Texas wine culture"--Provided by publisher.
| Author | : Tex Midkiff |
| Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 128 |
| Release | : 2020 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 146714603X |
The heritage of East Texas partakes in the same degree of unexpected turns and hidden depths as its backroads and bayous. One line of inquiry meanders into another. Start out searching for La Salle's grave and end up chasing Spanish gold in Upshur County. From Sam Houston's Bible to the Longview nightclub that hosted both Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one tale follows another and introduces a cast of characters that includes Candace and Peter Ellis Bean, Old Rip, Jack Lummus and Vernon Wayne Howell. Part the Pine Curtain with Tex Midkiff for a history as heated as the La Grange Chicken Ranch's parlor and irresistible as a batch of Golden sweet potatoes.
| Author | : W. D. Smithers |
| Publisher | : TX A&m-TX St Historical Assoc. |
| Total Pages | : 160 |
| Release | : 2013-02-01 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9781876112615 |
As a young teamster on a pack-mule train, Wilfred Dudley Smithers saw the Rio Grande's Big Bend for the first time in 1916, and it captured his imagination forever. For decades thereafter he returned to Texas' last great frontier-the great bend of the Rio Grande on the Texas-Mexico border-chronicling the region and its people in words and photographs. The years that Smithers chronicled in the Big Bend were sometimes violent ones. Pancho Villa and Chico Cano were among the many "bandits" playing hide-and-seek with the U.S. Cavalry-events Smithers recorded. He was also an eyewitness to liquor-running and smuggling during Prohibition. His principal subjects, however, were the people of the Big Bend: local ranchers, Mexican American and American families, miners, Texas Rangers, and others living simple lives in this harsh and beautiful land.
| Author | : Mike Cox |
| Publisher | : History Press Library Editions |
| Total Pages | : 146 |
| Release | : 2012-10-02 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781540232212 |
| Author | : Texas Monthly |
| Publisher | : Grand Central Pub |
| Total Pages | : 515 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : True Crime |
| ISBN | : 9780446608831 |
A collection of Texas true crime tales proves that the "Lone Star State" does murder bigger than anyone else, focusing on snipers, malevolent cheerleader moms, and satan worshippers, among other Texas nasties. Original.
