Six Flags Over Texas
Six Flags Over Texas

Author: Davis McCown

Publisher:

Published: 2021-03-10

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780997421330

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A pictorial history of the first fifty years of the Six Flags over Texas Amusement park. This work traces the history of the Six Flags Over Texas amusement park, located in Arlington, Texas for over fifty years. Coverage begins with a discussion of the theme parks built around the country after the opening of Disneyland in 1955. The story proceeds to Six Flags' initial planning and construction in the late 1950s and continues through its fiftieth anniversary season in 2011.Presented are hundreds of facts and over 230 images. The images include concept art for the park; original postcards; tourist photographs; public relations photographs; souvenir documents; and original photographs by the author.The book provides background regarding the individuals that designed and built the park. It covers each of the major attractions added each season. Typical information includes the manufacturer of each attraction, with the ride's capacity, speed or height.The author is an attorney in Tarrant County that worked as a ride operator in the park for four years. He has consulted newspaper articles, books, and old park souvenirs and artifacts to collect the information included.

Under Six Flags
Under Six Flags

Author: M. E. M. Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2019-09-13

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 9781692867225

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Since long before the advent of theme parks, Texans have paid homage to the history of their land under the banners of six nations. Nineteenth century writer Molly E. Moore Davis has given us a very readable (and richly detailed, considering its length) account of the land and people of Texas under each of those flags. Written with attention to fact over glory, it is a source of valuable historical interest, including some details that may have been lost to general public knowledge over time. Famed as a poet and a novelist, Molly E. Moore spent her youth in Texas and gave special attention to that state in both mediums. Her Massachusetts-born father moved his family first to Alabama and then Texas a decade before the Civil War. Davis spent her married life and most of her writing career in New Orleans.

Under Six Flags
Under Six Flags

Author: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis

Publisher:

Published: 1897

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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A brief sketch of the story of Texas. It is a record of bold conceptions and bolder deeds, the history of the rise and progress of a great state.

Under Six Flags
Under Six Flags

Author: Mollie Evelyn Moore Davis

Publisher:

Published: 2019-10-06

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9781697431575

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A brief sketch of the story of Texas. It is a record of bold conceptions and bolder deeds, the history of the rise and progress of a great state.

Big Wonderful Thing
Big Wonderful Thing

Author: Stephen Harrigan

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2019-10-01

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 0292759517

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The 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.