[PDF] The San Marcos eBook

Author : Jim Kimmel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 28,82 MB
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585445424

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The San Marcos springs have flowed for around ten million years. In this ode to the river they form, Jim Kimmel brings us a picture of a watercourse brimming with life, past and present. Native, non-native, prehistoric, and modern-day plants, animals, and people have inhabited the river and its banks. Kimmel touches on them all with the affectionate and knowledgeable voice of one whose own life has been closely linked to the San Marcos. As readers journey with Kimmel from the river's headwater springs to its junction with the Guadalupe River, The San Marcos: A River's Story will capture the imagination and provide valuable information about the river and its crucial role in the ecological health of Texas. Original photographs by Jerry Touchstone Kimmel add a sense of the beauty and complexity of the river.

Author : E R Bills
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 31,52 MB
Release : 2019-10-07
Category :
ISBN : 9781540241078

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On November 13, 1969, ten students at Texas State University were suspended for participating in a peaceful protest against the Vietnam War. They had kept vigil in front of the Huntington Mustangs, bearing signs that read, "Vietnam Is an Edsel" and "44,000 U.S. Dead, For What?" while an increasingly hostile anti-protest crowd chanted, "Love it or leave it!" and "Let's string 'em up!" It was a day after news of the My Lai massacre broke. Part of a coordinated, nationwide Vietnam Moratorium effort that confounded and infuriated the Nixon White House, the "San Marcos 10" challenged their suspension, taking their case all the way to the United States Supreme Court. Author E.R. Bills offers this fascinating glimpse into the 1960s antiwar movement in Texas, the extraordinary measures to quell it and the broader social activism in which it participated.

Author : Dav Pilkey
Publisher : Graphix
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,19 MB
Release : 2021
Category : JUVENILE FICTION
ISBN : 9781338736694

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George and Harold create a new comic book hero in Dog Man, a crimefighter with the head of a police dog and the body of a policeman, who faces off against his archnemesis Petey the cat.

Author : David R. Butler
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 17,51 MB
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1439655766

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San Marcos, Texas, permanently settled in 1846, was founded by former members of John C. Hays’s company of Texas Rangers. The town was designated the county seat of Hays County by the Texas legislature in 1848 and was formally laid out in 1851. A center for local commerce associated with cattle and cotton production, San Marcos became an educational center with the chartering in 1899 and subsequent opening in 1903 of the Southwest Texas State Normal School. The normal school is now Texas State University, the fourth largest university in Texas with more than 36,000 students. This volume tells the story of a formerly sleepy college town on the edge of the Texas Hill Country that has become the fastest-growing city in the United States.

Author : Vita Sackville-West
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 33,67 MB
Release : 2017-07-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0525433988

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Irreverently funny and surprisingly moving, All Passion Spent is the story of a woman who discovers who she is just before it is too late. After the death of elder statesman Lord Slane—a former prime minister of Great Britain and viceroy of India—everyone assumes that his eighty-eight-year-old widow will slowly fade away in her grief, remaining as proper, decorative, and dutiful as she has been her entire married life. But the deceptively gentle Lady Slane has other ideas. First she defies the patronizing meddling of her children and escapes to a rented house in Hampstead. There, to her offspring’s utter amazement, she revels in her new freedom, recalls her youthful ambitions, and gathers some very unsuitable companions—who reveal to her just how much she had sacrificed under the pressure of others’ expectations.

Author : Ann Felice Ramenofsky
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,63 MB
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 0826358349

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This volume provides the definitive record of a decade of archaeological investigations at San Marcos, ancestral home to Kewa (formerly Santo Domingo) and Cochiti descendants.

Author : Charles William Maynard
Publisher : Powerkids Press
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 20,50 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823958412

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Presents the history of the fort the Spaniards built to protect St. Augustine.

Author : P. J. Parrish
Publisher : Pinnacle Books
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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In a remote corner of the Michigan woods, behind rusted iron gates and crumbling stone walls, lie one of the country's most notorious sanitariums and its forgotten cemetery. The sprawling ruin is empty now, and the bulldozers have come to raze it. But as they do, a terrifying secret begins to emerge...