Amarillo
Amarillo

Author: Paul Howard Carlson

Publisher: Texas Tech University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780896725874

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The first comprehensive history of the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle.

Cotton on the South Plains
Cotton on the South Plains

Author: John Taylor Becker

Publisher: Arcadia Publishing

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 130

ISBN-13: 0738595853

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Today's cotton production on the South Plains barely resembles the cotton culture of 100 years ago. When cotton first came to the South Plains it was very labor intensive, with every stage of production depending on large amounts of hand labor. The planting, cultivating, and picking or pulling of cotton were all done by hand. Often, the harvested cotton was transported to gins in wagons pulled by teams of horses or mules. Today, due to the many improvements in the industry, most cotton is grown without ever being touched by human hands. The story of cotton on the South Plains is the story of continuous change, improvement, and mechanization.

Legendary Ladies of Texas
Legendary Ladies of Texas

Author: Francis Edward Abernethy

Publisher: Publications of the Texas Folk

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 237

ISBN-13: 9780929398754

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Gift of the Friends of the PPL 2001.

All My Yesterdays
All My Yesterdays

Author: David Guillen

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 290

ISBN-13: 9781469134451

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In "All My Yesterdays" the author takes his readers from a tiny farm in Texas where he was born in 1930 and his childhood during the Great Depression, to his boyhood in the little agricultural town of Victoria, where he discovered he could sing. He takes you to the port city Galveston during and after World War II, where he went to high school and where he became a popular teenage singer, to his time in the army during the Korean War, from 1951 to 1953, and afterward to Hollywood to pursue a singing career.