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Author: Jim Wayne Corder
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Published: 1988
Total Pages: 136
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Author: Jim Wayne Corder
Publisher: University of Arkansas Press
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13: 9780913785065
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBut of all the markers of Corder's Soul-questing, the most poignant is his last: his description of his grandmother's quilt-making, whose intricate (yet homemade) patterns express the true American folk-mandala, symbolic of psychic wholeness."--Jacket.
Author: Efren D. Castro
Publisher: Outskirts Press
Published: 2006-07
Total Pages: 100
ISBN-13: 9781598005622
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn the case of love, never say never. Experience a week in the life of Frankie Chinellas. Frankie is a conflicted Mexican-American professor struggling to find love and stability in his life. He is living in the decade of the 80's at a time of decadence and in the midst of the AIDs epidemic. Frankie had to maneuver between two cultures leaving him confused and sometimes bitter. In his attempts to find love his destructive sexual behavior verges on the edge of tragedy. He believes that by his strength and idealism he can save the world. Now he finds his destiny and fate in the hands of a runaway boat in an endless ocean. Does he or doesn't he find his way through life. His fate is left in the hands of the reader. We can be judge, jury and executioners.
Author: Bronson Dorsey
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2018-04-24
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 1623496179
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Lost, Texas: Photographs of Forgotten Buildings, Bronson Dorsey takes us on a tour of old, abandoned buildings in Texas that evoke the mystique of bygone days and shifting population patterns. With a skilled photographer’s eye, he captures the character of these buildings, mostly tucked away in the far corners of rural Texas—though, surprisingly, some of his finds are in the midst of thriving communities, even, in one case, the Dallas metroplex. Most of the buildings are abandoned and in a state of decay, though a handful have been repurposed as museums, residences, or other functional structures. Encompassing all regions of the state, from the Piney Woods to the Panhandle, the images in Lost, Texas evoke distinctive memories of the past. They grant a sense of how those who preceded us lived and how the Texas of earlier days became the Texas of today. Some of the historic sites include a Coca-Cola bottling plant in Beeville, a lumberyard built over two generations, a beautiful, mission-style schoolhouse raised in a small farming community, the skeleton of a boomtown gas station near the Yates oilfield, and what remains of the only silver mining operation in Texas. With Dorsey as a guide, readers may explore these hidden and neglected gems and learn the basic facts of their origins and intended uses, as well as the principal reasons for their demise. Along the way and in the background, he quietly makes the case for preserving these buildings that, while no longer central to the ongoing function of their communities, still serve as important emblems of the past.
Author: James Frank Dobie
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Published: 1964
Total Pages: 306
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Author: Lisa Wingate
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2020-04-07
Total Pages: 417
ISBN-13: 1984819895
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a dramatic historical novel of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives. “An absorbing historical . . . enthralling.”—Library Journal Bestselling author Lisa Wingate brings to life startling stories from actual “Lost Friends” advertisements that appeared in Southern newspapers after the Civil War, as newly freed slaves desperately searched for loved ones who had been sold away. Louisiana, 1875: In the tumultuous era of Reconstruction, three young women set off as unwilling companions on a perilous quest: Hannie, a freed slave; Lavinia, the pampered heir to a now destitute plantation; and Juneau Jane, Lavinia’s Creole half sister. Each carries private wounds and powerful secrets as they head for Texas, following roads rife with vigilantes and soldiers still fighting a war lost a decade before. For Lavinia and Juneau Jane, the journey is one of stolen inheritance and financial desperation, but for Hannie, torn from her mother and siblings before slavery’s end, the pilgrimage west reignites an agonizing question: Could her long-lost family still be out there? Beyond the swamps lie the limitless frontiers of Texas and, improbably, hope. Louisiana, 1987: For first-year teacher Benedetta Silva, a subsidized job at a poor rural school seems like the ticket to canceling her hefty student debt—until she lands in a tiny, out-of-step Mississippi River town. Augustine, Louisiana, is suspicious of new ideas and new people, and Benny can scarcely comprehend the lives of her poverty-stricken students. But amid the gnarled live oaks and run-down plantation homes lie the century-old history of three young women, a long-ago journey, and a hidden book that could change everything.
Author: Chrysta Castañeda
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2020-04-27
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1734082216
DOWNLOAD EBOOKT. Boone Pickens, legendary Texas oilman and infamous corporate raider from the 1980s, climbed the steps of the Reeves County courthouse in Pecos, Texas in early November 2016. He entered the solitary courtroom and settled into the witness stand for two days of testimony in what would be the final trial of his life. Pickens, who was 88 by then, had made and lost billions over his long career, but he’d come to Pecos seeking justice from several other oil companies. He claimed they cut him out of what became the biggest oil play he’d ever invested in—in an oil-rich section of far West Texas that was primed for an unprecedented boom. After years of dealing with the media, shareholders and politicians, Pickens would need to win over a dozen West Texas jurors in one last battle. To lead his legal fight, he chose an unlikely advocate—Chrysta Castañeda, a Dallas solo practitioner who had only recently returned to the practice of law after a hiatus borne of disillusionment with big firms. Pickens was a hardline Republican, while Castañeda had run for public office as a Democrat. But they shared an unwavering determination to win and formed a friendship that spanned their differences in age, politics, and gender. In a town where frontier justice was once meted out by Judge Roy Bean—“The Law West of the Pecos”—Pickens would gird for one final courtroom showdown. Sitting through trial every day, he was determined to prevail, even at the cost of his health. The Last Trial of T. Boone Pickens is a high-stakes courtroom drama told through the eyes of Castañeda. It’s the story of an American business legend still fighting in the twilight of his long career, and the lawyer determined to help him make one final stand for justice.
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Published: 1959-01-01
Total Pages: 544
ISBN-13: 9780803297029
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Author: John Miller Morris
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2009-03-06
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1603440372
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards—sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In Taming the Land, he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell—in the images captured and the messages carried—add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago. Taming the Land presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.
Author: W. C. Jameson
Publisher: august house
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9780874831788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCollects legends of buried treasure in Texas, including the gold of Haystack Mountain, a missing Incan hoard, and the Deer Island shipwrecks
