A Guide to Hispanic Texas
A Guide to Hispanic Texas

Author: Helen Simons

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1996

Total Pages: 374

ISBN-13: 9780292777095

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Hispanic culture is woven into all aspects of Texas life, from mission-style architecture to the highly popular Tex-Mex cuisine, from ranching and rodeo traditions to the Catholic religion. So common are these Hispanic influences, in fact, that they have been widely accepted as a part of everyone's heritage, comfortingly familiar and distinctively Texan. This new edition of Hispanic Texas contains all the guidebook entries of the original volume in a compact format perfect for taking along on trips throughout the state. Entries are arranged by region: San Antonio and South Texas Laredo and the Rio Grande Valley El Paso and Trans-Pecos Texas Austin and Central Texas Houston and Southeast Texas Dallas and North Texas Lubbock and the Plains Within each region, a city-by-city listing details the historic and modern sites and structures that bear Hispanic influence. Descriptions of local festivals and events, public art, museums, natural areas, and scenic drives enhance the entries, which are also profusely illustrated with historic and modern photographs and other illustrations.

Ray Miller's Texas Parks
Ray Miller's Texas Parks

Author: Ray Miller

Publisher:

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13: 9780891230465

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Ray Miller's Texas parks, blends the fascinating history of Texas with the state park system.

Texas--family Style
Texas--family Style

Author: Ruth N Wolverton

Publisher:

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 124

ISBN-13: 9780884158509

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This is a guide to more than a hundred parks, museums, and recreational area all over the state where you can have fun with you kids--often for free.

Yonder
Yonder

Author: Jim W. Corder

Publisher: University of Georgia Press

Published: 2011-03-01

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0820338036

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Merging cultural commentary and intense introspection, Yonder is a remarkable meditation on change, memory, nostalgia, and the modern condition. A contrapuntal mix of contemporary history and the events of the author's personal life, Yonder portrays and ponders a world delivered from the pieties and hierarchies of the past yet incapacitated by the dizzying excess of new connotations and perspectives, choices and possibilities. Yonder is about Corder's struggle for a footing against nostalgia's pull. In a kind of nonlinear, semi random sorting process reflected in the book's structure, Corder turns inward to refocus hazy memories and estimate and shoulder his responsibilities for the turns his life has taken. These events are juxtaposed against the momentous changes of his generation, drawing universal truths from the offhand and obscure, discerning pitch and tone in the white noise.

Frontier Blood
Frontier Blood

Author: Jo Ella Powell Exley

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9781603441094

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A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.

Going Places
Going Places

Author: Gregory Hayes

Publisher: Harvard, Mass. : Harvard Common Press

Published: 1988

Total Pages: 812

ISBN-13:

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Don't waste hours sifting through the wrong books. This book has done all that work for you.

A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas
A Comprehensive Guide to Outdoor Sculpture in Texas

Author: Carol Morris Little

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 520

ISBN-13: 9780292760363

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Traces the history of outdoor sculpture in Texas, and features brief descriptions of over eight hundred works, each with the artist's name, birth date, and nationality, the sculpture's date, type, size, material, location, and source of funding, and comments. Grouped by city.

Ray Miller's Houston
Ray Miller's Houston

Author: Ray Miller

Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780884150817

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The stories of Santa Anna, Sam Houston, William Marsh Rice, Howard Hughes, Dr. Michael DeBakey, Richard Nixon, Nolan Ryan, and dozens of others into a chronological tapestry depicting the history of a fascinating city. The narrative covers the progress of Houston's industry, politics, art, and medicine, set off with more than 200 black-and-white photos of the city's yesterdays and tomorrows. An all-new section of color photographs crowns this second edition with vibrant.