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Author: Jack Skiles
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9780896723696
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA lively account of a harsh but beautiful landscape and the characters who have inhabited it. Learn the truth about Judge Roy Bean and a few other heroes and rogues.
Author: C. L. Sonnichsen
Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing
Published: 2019-01-13
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1789123917
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhantly Roy Bean, Jr. (1825-1903), self-styled “Law West of the Pecos,” was an eccentric American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas. According to legend, he held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande on a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert of southwest Texas. Southwestern historian and folklorist, C. L. Sonnichsen, lived near Judge Bean’s house for several years and decided to pen this biography, first published in 1943, owing to his belief that it was “high time for somebody to look into his history and see how a Roy Bean ever came to be at all.” Roy Bean: Law West of the Pecos examines Judge Bean’s legendary, as well as factual background and makes for a fascinating read.
Author: Carl R. Green
Publisher: Enslow Publishers
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780894905919
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book covers the life and colorful escapades of the all-American rascal, self-made judge Roy Bean. Judge Bean, who dabbled in a number of careers during his lifetime, many of them on the shady side of the law, enjoyed a reputation as wide spread e spread in his own time as today. This is a true account of his story for reluctant readers.
Author: Everett Lloyd
Publisher:
Published: 1936
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: the Reverend C. C. White
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2011-05-18
Total Pages: 238
ISBN-13: 0292785593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis story, set in the Piney Woods country of East Texas, spans most of a century, from shortly after the close of the Civil War to the 1960's. It is the story of Charley White, who was born in the middle of those woods—in a decaying windowless log cabin a few years after his mother and father were freed from slavery. His childhood, lived in almost unbelievable poverty, was followed by financial stability achieved in middle age through years of struggle. And then, in order to obey God's will, he abandoned this secure life, and for forty years he waged a one-man war on poverty and intolerance. Winner of the Carr P. Collins Award (best nonfiction book) of the Texas Institute of Letters, No Quittin' Sense presents the story of Rev. C. C. "Charley" White, whose life has inspired thousands of readers since the book was first published in 1969. This edition is a digital facsimile of the 1969 edition.
Author: Larry L. King
Publisher: Viking
Published: 1980
Total Pages: 296
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKKing blends the personal, the political, and the picaresque.
Author: Stephen Harrigan
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 944
ISBN-13: 0292759517
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 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: Charles Leland Sonnichsen
Publisher:
Published: 1958
Total Pages: 234
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the life and adventures of one of the most famous law men in frontier West Texas.
Author: Texas. Travel and Information Division
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 1
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mary S. Black
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2017-03-27
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 1623495083
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEach year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy Bean Visitors’ Center and Botanical Garden, Seminole Canyon State Park, and the Briscoe-Garner Museum in Uvalde, along with ghost towns, ancient rock art, sweeping vistas, and unique flora and fauna, are just a few of the features that make this distinctive section of the Lone Star State an enticing destination. Now, veteran writer, blogger, and educator Mary S. Black serves up the best of this region’s special adventures and secret treasures. From the Frio to Del Rio is chock-full of helpful maps, colorful photography, and tips on where to stay, what to do, and how to get there. In addition there are details for 10 scenic routes, 3 historic forts and 7 state parks and other recreation areas.
