Texas Tales

Texas Tales

Author: Myra Hargrave McIlvain

Publisher: Sunstone Press

Published: 2017-11-15

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 1611394937

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These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.


Spooky Texas Tales

Spooky Texas Tales

Author: Tim Tingle

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 104

ISBN-13: 9780896725652

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Collects ten stories set in Texas and starring ghosts, monsters, and haunted places.


Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You

Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You

Author: C. F. Eckhardt

Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

Published: 1997-12-30

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 1461625416

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Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds to the flavor of Texas history with tales about such things as the first Texas revolution, the first English speaking person in Texas, and the little known counterrevolution of 1838-1840. Charlie examines the expulsion of the Cherokees from Texas and provides details of some of the more famous Indian fights. Charlie also shows his romantic side with the legend of the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.


West Texas Tales

West Texas Tales

Author: Mike Cox

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2011-06-21

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1614238146

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Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. Travel to El Paso during the "Big Blow" of 1895, brave the frontier with Elizabeth Russell Baker, and stare down the infamous killer known as Old Three Toe. From frontier stories and ghost towns to famous folks and accounts of everyday life, this collection of West Texas Tales has it all.


Tales of Texas Cooking

Tales of Texas Cooking

Author: Frances Brannen Vick

Publisher: University of North Texas Press

Published: 2015-12-15

Total Pages: 407

ISBN-13: 1574416189

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According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food is comfort, yet it is also political and contested because we often are what we eat--meaning what is available and familiar and allowed. Texas is fortunate in having a bountiful supply of ethnic groups influencing its foodways, and Texas food is the perfect metaphor for the blending of diverse cultures and native resources. Food is a symbol of our success and our communion, and whenever possible, Texans tend to do food in a big way. This latest publication from the Texas Folklore Society contains stories and more than 120 recipes, from long ago and just yesterday, organized by the 10 vegetation regions of the state. Herein you'll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s Family Cake, memories of beef jerky and sassafras tea from John Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame, Sam Houston's barbecue sauce, and stories and recipes from Roy Bedichek, Bob Compton, J. Frank Dobie, Bob Flynn, Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, Gary Lavergne, James Ward Lee, Jane Monday, Joyce Roach, Ellen Temple, Walter Prescott Webb, and Jane Roberts Wood. There is something for the cook as well as for the Texan with a raft of takeaway menus on their refrigerator.


More Spooky Texas Tales

More Spooky Texas Tales

Author: Tim Tingle

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 92

ISBN-13: 9780896727007

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Collects ten stories set in Texas featuring monsters, werewolves, and gypsies.


Waynetta and the Cornstalk

Waynetta and the Cornstalk

Author: Helen Ketteman

Publisher: Albert Whitman & Company

Published: 2012-07-01

Total Pages: 36

ISBN-13: 0807593508

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Times sure are tough on the ranch, and Waynetta and her ma can use all the luck they can get. But when Waynetta trades their last longhorn for a handful of so-called magic corn, Ma is non too pleased. A fast-paced Texas retelling of Jack and the Beanstalk featuring a girl hero.


Tales of Old-Time Texas

Tales of Old-Time Texas

Author: James Frank Dobie

Publisher: Booksales

Published: 1999-09

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780785811329

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A retelling of 28 tales about or taking place in Texas.