The Big Thicket Guidebook
Title | The Big Thicket Guidebook PDF eBook |
Author | Lorraine G. Bonney |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 865 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 157441318X |
Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
The Big Thicket ; a Challenge for Conservation. Photog. by Roy Hamric
Title | The Big Thicket ; a Challenge for Conservation. Photog. by Roy Hamric PDF eBook |
Author | Pete Addison Y. Gunter |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
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Reflections on the Neches
Title | Reflections on the Neches PDF eBook |
Author | Geraldine Ellis Watson |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 377 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 1574411608 |
Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Impressions of the Big Thicket
Title | Impressions of the Big Thicket PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Frary |
Publisher | |
Pages | 113 |
Release | 1973 |
Genre | Big Thicket (Tex.) |
ISBN | 9781477306253 |
Big Thicket Legacy
Title | Big Thicket Legacy PDF eBook |
Author | Campbell Loughmiller |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 255 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Big Thicket (Tex.) |
ISBN | 157441156X |
In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
Big Thicket National Preserve
Title | Big Thicket National Preserve PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Parent |
Publisher | Western National Parks Association |
Pages | 16 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Big Thicket National Preserve (Tex.) |
ISBN | 1877856215 |
Tales from the Big Thicket
Title | Tales from the Big Thicket PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Edward Abernethy |
Publisher | University of North Texas Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9781574411423 |
Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.