[PDF] Native Texan eBook

Author : Joe Holley
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 32,18 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 : 45,90 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 : 37,31 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 : Joe Holley
Publisher : Maverick Books
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 45,61 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

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Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 47,68 MB
Release : 2017-11-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1595348085

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Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.

Author : Jane Arcger
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 35,43 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0585319782

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Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.

Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher :
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 20,99 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Texas
ISBN :

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Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.

Author : David Courtney
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1477312978

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A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.

Author : James L. Haley
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 673 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2022-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1574418688

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Utilizing many sources new to publication, James L. Haley delivers a most readable and enjoyable narrative history of Texas, told through stories—the words and recollections of Texans who actually lived the state’s spectacular history. From Jim Bowie’s and Davy Crockett’s myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo, to the Mexican-American War, and to Sam Houston’s heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the “normal” periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation. “Texas native Haley does an outstanding job of narrating the outsized and dramatic history of the Lone Star State. John Steinbeck observed, ‘Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts.’ Cognizant of this, Haley takes pains to separate folklore from fact. He's a good storyteller, but then it's hard to go wrong with the colorful characters he has to work with: pioneer nationalists Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, a wagonload of liquored-up turn-of-the-century oilmen and such latter-day heroes as Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Janis Joplin.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Author : Robin Cole
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,87 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.