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Author: Evelyn Kimbrough Kraeer
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 34
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Author: Evelyn Kimbrough Kraeer
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 34
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: J. S. Friday
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 0595298966
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In the mid 1730's the Frydig's/Fridig's left Switzerland ... Two families arrived in South Carolina in 1735 ... This book will document the early settlers in South Carolina and follow [the Friday name] to Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, Texas, Oklahoma and California."--Introduction.
Author: Diane B. Surtees
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Published: 1984*
Total Pages: 6
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Published: 2006
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Published: 2006
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mrs. Charles A. Boynton
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Published: 2012
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Thomas C. Bicknell
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2018-08-15
Total Pages: 689
ISBN-13: 157441741X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBen Thompson was a remarkable man, and few Texans can claim to have crowded more excitement, danger, drama, and tragedy into their lives than he did. He was an Indian fighter, Texas Ranger, Confederate cavalryman, mercenary for a foreign emperor, hired gun for a railroad, an elected lawman, professional gambler, and the victor of numerous gunfights. As a leading member of the Wild West’s sporting element, Ben Thompson spent most of his life moving in the unsavory underbelly of the West: saloons, dance-houses, billiard halls, bordellos, and gambling dens. During these travels many of the Wild West’s most famous icons—Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, Bat Masterson, Wild Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin, John Ringo, and Buffalo Bill Cody—became acquainted with Ben Thompson. Some of these men called him a friend; others considered him a deadly enemy. In life and in death no one ever doubted Ben Thompson’s courage; one Texas newspaperman asserted he was “perfectly fearless, a perfect lion in nature when aroused.” This willingness to trust his life to his expertise with a pistol placed Thompson prominently among the western frontier’s most flamboyant breed of men: gunfighters.
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Paul Smith
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Published: 1996*
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ralph Yznaga
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012-04-03
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1603445765
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a beautiful tribute to the natural heritage of the Lone Star State, photographer Ralph Yznaga celebrates the strong connections between Texans and their trees. Inspired by the old Texas Forest Service book, Famous Trees of Texas, Yznaga has captured the continuing attachment we have to these magnificent reminders of our culture and history. Stunning images, stories, a detailed map, and driving directions to thirty-seven famous (and infamous) trees help us appreciate how entwined the lives of people and trees are: The Treaty Oak, memorialized in Texas lore as a meeting place for Native Americans and also as the site of Stephen F. Austin’s first boundary treaty with local Indians; The Burnt Oak, standing witness to the dramatic events leading up to the Battle of the Alamo, one of the largest known specimens of Quercus virginiana var. fusiformis; The Sam Houston Kissing Oak, said to occupy the location of a Houston campaign speech near San Marcos, where the "Old Hero" kissed local young women who presented him with a flag; The Great Goose Island Tree, believed to be more than a thousand years old; and many others. The photographs in Living Witness premiered at the groundbreaking of the Mollie Steves Zachry Texas Arboretum at the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center. Set to open in 2012, the centennial of Lady Bird Johnson’s birth, the arboretum will feature descendents of historic trees in the Hall of Texas Heroes.