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Author |
: Alan Brown |
Publisher |
: Stackpole Books |
Total Pages |
: 290 |
Release |
: 2012-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780811748537 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0811748537 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories by : Alan Brown
The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa
Author |
: Myra Hargrave McIlvain |
Publisher |
: Sunstone Press |
Total Pages |
: 234 |
Release |
: 2017-04-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781632931634 |
ISBN-13 |
: 163293163X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (34 Downloads) |
Synopsis Texas Tales by : Myra Hargrave McIlvain
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.
Author |
: James Frank Dobie |
Publisher |
: Booksales |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 1999-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 078581132X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780785811329 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (2X Downloads) |
Synopsis Tales of Old-Time Texas by : James Frank Dobie
A retelling of 28 tales about or taking place in Texas.
Author |
: Tim Tingle |
Publisher |
: Texas Tech University Press |
Total Pages |
: 104 |
Release |
: 2005 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0896725650 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780896725652 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spooky Texas Tales by : Tim Tingle
Collects ten stories set in Texas and starring ghosts, monsters, and haunted places.
Author |
: Frances Brannen Vick |
Publisher |
: University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 407 |
Release |
: 2015-12-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781574416183 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1574416189 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tales of Texas Cooking by : Frances Brannen Vick
According to Renaissance woman and Pepper Lady Jean Andrews, although food is eaten as a response to hunger, it is much more than filling one's stomach. It also provides emotional fulfillment. This is borne out by the joy many of us feel as a family when we get in the kitchen and cook together and then share in our labors at the dinner table. Food is comfort, yet it is also political and contested because we often are what we eat--meaning what is available and familiar and allowed. Texas is fortunate in having a bountiful supply of ethnic groups influencing its foodways, and Texas food is the perfect metaphor for the blending of diverse cultures and native resources. Food is a symbol of our success and our communion, and whenever possible, Texans tend to do food in a big way. This latest publication from the Texas Folklore Society contains stories and more than 120 recipes, from long ago and just yesterday, organized by the 10 vegetation regions of the state. Herein you'll find Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson’s Family Cake, memories of beef jerky and sassafras tea from John Erickson of Hank the Cowdog fame, Sam Houston's barbecue sauce, and stories and recipes from Roy Bedichek, Bob Compton, J. Frank Dobie, Bob Flynn, Jean Flynn, Leon Hale, Elmer Kelton, Gary Lavergne, James Ward Lee, Jane Monday, Joyce Roach, Ellen Temple, Walter Prescott Webb, and Jane Roberts Wood. There is something for the cook as well as for the Texan with a raft of takeaway menus on their refrigerator.
Author |
: Mike Cox |
Publisher |
: History Press Library Editions |
Total Pages |
: 146 |
Release |
: 2012-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1540232212 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781540232212 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Central Texas Tales by : Mike Cox
Author |
: Mike Cox |
Publisher |
: Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 173 |
Release |
: 2011-06-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781614238140 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1614238146 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (40 Downloads) |
Synopsis West Texas Tales by : Mike Cox
Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. Travel to El Paso during the "Big Blow" of 1895, brave the frontier with Elizabeth Russell Baker, and stare down the infamous killer known as Old Three Toe. From frontier stories and ghost towns to famous folks and accounts of everyday life, this collection of West Texas Tales has it all.
Author |
: Tim Tingle |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 92 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0896727009 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780896727007 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis More Spooky Texas Tales by : Tim Tingle
Collects ten stories set in Texas featuring monsters, werewolves, and gypsies.
Author |
: Bill Brett |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 1979 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015010736794 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (94 Downloads) |
Synopsis There Ain't No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales by : Bill Brett
Author |
: Patricia Cisneros Young |
Publisher |
: Tate Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 174 |
Release |
: 2007-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781602475489 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1602475482 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis South Texas Tales by : Patricia Cisneros Young
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas