Texas Panhandle Tales
Title | Texas Panhandle Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Mike Cox |
Publisher | Arcadia Publishing |
Pages | 168 |
Release | 2012-04-25 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1614238154 |
The Texas Panhandle is like a whole 'nother country. The area stretching from just south of Lubbock all the way north to Oklahoma is filled with ranch land, oil fields, windy plains, and some of the Lone Star State's most unique history. Meet the duck that started a gun battle in Oldham County and find out how Kate Polly's pancake flipping saved her life. Or witness Gene Autry's days as a performer in Childress and a different sort of "gold rush" in Palo Duro Canyon as historian Mike Cox shares his favorite pieces of the Panhandle's past.
The Texas Panhandle Frontier
Title | The Texas Panhandle Frontier PDF eBook |
Author | Frederick W. Rathjen |
Publisher | Texas Tech University Press |
Pages | 292 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780896723993 |
The Texas Panhandle-its eastern edge descending sharply from the plains into the canyons of Palo Duro, Tule, Quitaque, Casa Blanca, and Yellow House-is as rich in history as it is in natural beauty. Long considered a crossroads of ancient civilizations, the twenty-six northernmost Texas counties lie on the southern reaches of the Great Plains, w...
Panhandle Pilgrimage
Title | Panhandle Pilgrimage PDF eBook |
Author | R. L. Robertson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Frontier and pioneer life |
ISBN |
Texas Tales
Title | Texas Tales PDF eBook |
Author | Myra Hargrave McIlvain |
Publisher | Sunstone Press |
Pages | 198 |
Release | 2017-11-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1611394937 |
These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.
The Devil in Texas and Other Cowboy Tales
Title | The Devil in Texas and Other Cowboy Tales PDF eBook |
Author | John R. Erickson |
Publisher | Maverick Books (TX) |
Pages | 112 |
Release | 1982 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780960861200 |
Presents humorous tales of contemporary cowboy life
Waylon County
Title | Waylon County PDF eBook |
Author | Heath Dollar |
Publisher | Sleeping Panther Press |
Pages | 227 |
Release | 2017-09-14 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780998066141 |
Whether they left home as fast as they could or would never dream of leaving, this collection is about the folks from Waylon County in the heart of the Texas Hill Country. A nine-time bride is faced with a law stopping her from marrying again. A military contractor, fresh from Afghanistan, enters the Wailin¿ Biscuit Café with a comfort monkey on his back, and a bookman descended from Spanish explorers discovers an incredible treasure. Waylon County is Texas itself. It is a place of fable, satire, and the slow drawl of truth.
Texas in Her Own Words
Title | Texas in Her Own Words PDF eBook |
Author | Tweed Scott |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016-06-15 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9780997372106 |
2nd Edition. This book is a peek into the Texas psyche and explains why Texans are the way they are...where all that attitude comes from.