Sketches from the Five States of Texas

Sketches from the Five States of Texas
Title Sketches from the Five States of Texas PDF eBook
Author A. C. Greene
Publisher Texas A&M University Press
Pages 206
Release 1998
Genre History
ISBN 9780890968536

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When veteran columnist A. C. Greene turns his eyes on Texas, he sees a variety of experiences and a scope of history that fascinate the rest of us. Under its annexation terms, Texas is allowed to divide itself into as many as six states. While that is not ever likely to happen, Greene masterfully shows that several cultural states do exist within the one political entity of Texas--and have throughout the state's history. Greene has a wide-ranging curiosity about the "facts" of Texas history: what lies behind them, what quirks of human nature they reveal, how the people who lived them might have experienced them, roads not taken, and why things have come to be as they are. His historical writing has helped make Texas' past accessible and even interesting to the public for over forty years. Spotlighting individuals, places, and events that make for distinctiveness, Sketches from the Five States of Texas features oddities and little-known facts that present a kind of "history-within-history." Several sketches look at inventions or innovations, such as plows and Other pieces focus on historic moments: the first long distance telephone service; the last messenger from the Alamo. Transportation is a theme that runs through this book: trains, planes (including a box-kite contraption), early automobiles and roads, and steamboats, ice boats, and war boats. Place names get attention, too: peculiar names, unexpected sources, and long-lost places. Naturally, the wars of Texas are also covered: the Revolution, the Indian wars, the Civil War, and the Texas Navies. The pieces in this collection originated, for the most part, in Greene's popular Dallas Morning News columns; several sketches and all the regional introductions are completely new. Aficionados of Texas history will already know some of what they read here, but they will not know all of it. Greene's nuggets of history will inform and entertain a wide reading public. They represent A. C. Greene at his best and most engaging--and the states of Texas at their best, too.

Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States

Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States
Title Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the United States PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 1266
Release 1901
Genre Finance
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Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States

Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States
Title Monthly Summary of Commerce and Finance of the United States PDF eBook
Author
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Pages 910
Release 1901
Genre Finance
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The Texanist

The Texanist
Title The Texanist PDF eBook
Author David Courtney
Publisher University of Texas Press
Pages 120
Release 2017-04-25
Genre 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.

102 Motion Pictures on Democracy

102 Motion Pictures on Democracy
Title 102 Motion Pictures on Democracy PDF eBook
Author Seerley Reid
Publisher
Pages 1246
Release 1950
Genre Civics
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United States Educational, Scientific and Cultural Motion Pictures and Filmstrips

United States Educational, Scientific and Cultural Motion Pictures and Filmstrips
Title United States Educational, Scientific and Cultural Motion Pictures and Filmstrips PDF eBook
Author United States. Interdepartmental Committee on Visual and Auditory Materials for Distribution Abroad. Subcommittee on Catalog
Publisher
Pages 408
Release 1956
Genre Documentary films
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Library of Southern Literature

Library of Southern Literature
Title Library of Southern Literature PDF eBook
Author Edwin Anderson Alderman
Publisher
Pages 830
Release 1913
Genre American literature
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