[PDF] Native Texan eBook

Author : Joe Holley
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 15,23 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1595343091

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Native Texan: Stories from Deep in the Heart is a lively and personal tour of small town and big city Texas in search of what makes the state unique. Nationally acclaimed columnist Joe Holley is widely loved for his popular “Native Texan” column, which appears in the Houston Chronicle. In thirty stories curated from column archives, Holley introduces readers to his favorite people and places across the state. From interviews on the “weird” streets of Austin and his search for ghosts in Bigfoot to a decades-long love affair with everything about Marathon and hikes on the back trails of the Big Bend, Holley is a masterful storyteller. His instincts are backed by a seasoned journalist’s passion to measure legends and tall tales against investigations into what really happened. He reveals small-town Texas, and some small towns within the largest cities, with a style that has proven popular with readers and a keen eye for a unique spin on an old story. The result is an entertaining and certainly surprising view of the Lone Star state.

Author : Adán Medrano
Publisher : Grover E. Murray Studies in th
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9780896728509

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Delectably steeped in tradition, a living culinary heritage

Author : James M. Smallwood
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585443543

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Traces the history of Native Americans in Texas from prehistory to the early twenty-first century, providing information on each tribe, and including biographical sketches, illustrations, and excerpts about Indian Texas from the journals of explorer Cabeza de Vaca and others.

Author : A. Nobody
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 11,38 MB
Release : 2012-01-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781468189780

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A psycho-thriller, who done it with a challenge of can you guess who did it before the end. The humbling consequences of an apparent perfect crime fueled by ego, prejudice, and stereotype. A shocking example of taking responsibility for ones actions and righting wrongs. This was written in 1981 during a boom of growth in Houston, Texas and sat unpublished in a closet since then until now. At that time there was an explosion of growth and a growing animosity was spreading like an aggressive cancer. A cancer of stereotype, prejudice, and divisive close mindedness, that permeates our society today. At that time there was a massive number of out-of-state license plates and a strong dislike of the non natives by the natives. There was a native Texan movement highlighted by bumper stickers, tee shirt, and caps. Thirty years later the moral to the story transcends time and clearly applies to the social issues of today. With the bottom line being owning your actions and not blaming others. The parallels, of this story set in 1981, and now illustrate how we humans repeat history. The fear at the time was if published then, it would become reality. Copy cats have been a reality with help from the media. This book is the fictional work of myself with help from a college friend and family.

Author : Joe Holley
Publisher : Maverick Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 10,80 MB
Release : 2019-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781595349019

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Essay collection offers a lively, surprising tour of small town and big city Texas

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 18,36 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1497609704

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The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.

Author : C. Herndon Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 43,71 MB
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1439677190

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In the 1820s, Texas was a wilderness. Settlers thought it was uninhabited although rich with wild game. But many Native American tribes lived in Texas and were at war with the Spanish in Mexico. Mexico ignored Texas and did not try to inhabit this wilderness. Finally, in the late 1820s and early 1830s Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring in three hundred Anglo settlers and Texas began to be civilized. But to start there was only one town, no roads, no bridges, no planted fields. Texas was starting from ground zero but started fast. They tamed the wilderness and fought the Indians. They got their independence from Mexico and became a Republic, soon a U S state. They established a stable government similar to the one in the US and developed the infrastructure for business and international commerce. In less than eighty years Texas had tamed the wild frontier and became a modern state in the United States. C. Herndon Williams has found forty-two stories that chart this progress.

Author : Robin Cole
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0585231338

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This book is a must read for every native Texan, every returning Texan, and every wanna-be Texan.

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Page : 1 pages
File Size : 38,61 MB
Release : 1980
Category : American wit and humor
ISBN :

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Broadside printed with a list of words and their definitions as spoken in dialect by a native Texan