Download or read book A Tale of the Texas Frontier The Journey Home written by Michael J. Crossley and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-11-21 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historical fiction novel that highlights some of the characteristics commonly attributed to Texans; independent, strong, self-reliant, resourceful. The story takes place in the late 1850s on the north and central Texas frontier.
Download or read book Long Journey Home written by Celina Easterling and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-11 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the mid 1800's, siblings Ollie and Sadie Hartmann, find themselves alone on the Texas frontier. The weather is harsh and unforgiving, yet they are determined to make the best of the homestead to fulfil their fathers dying dream. Searching for something unknown to himself Texas Ranger, Hamlet Abner, finds his path intertwined with the Hartmann's, changing everyone's perception of home. Their paths converge for a moving tale of God's grace and provision.
Download or read book The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail 1858 1861 written by Glen Sample Ely and published by . This book was released on 2023-08-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the antebellum frontier in Texas, from the Red River to El Paso, a raw and primitive country punctuated by chaos, lawlessness, and violence. During this time, the federal government and the State of Texas often worked at cross-purposes, their confused and contradictory policies leaving settlers on their own to deal with vigilantes, lynchings, raiding American Indians, and Anglo-American outlaws. Before the Civil War, the Texas frontier was a sectional transition zone where southern ideology clashed with western perspectives and where diverse cultures with differing worldviews collided. This is also the tale of the Butterfield Overland Mail, which carried passengers and mail west from St. Louis to San Francisco through Texas. While it operated, the transcontinental mail line intersected and influenced much of the region's frontier history. Through meticulous research, including visits to all the sites he describes, Glen Sample Ely uncovers the fascinating story of the Butterfield Overland Mail in Texas. Until the U.S. Army and Butterfield built West Texas's infrastructure, the region's primitive transportation network hampered its development. As Ely shows, the Overland Mail Company and the army jump-started growth, serving together as both the economic engine and the advance agent for European American settlement. Used by soldiers, emigrants, freighters, and stagecoaches, the Overland Mail Road was the nineteenth-century equivalent of the modern interstate highway system, stimulating passenger traffic, commercial freighting, and business. Although most of the action takes place within the Lone Star State, this is in many respects an American tale. The same concerns that challenged frontier residents confronted citizens across the country. Written in an engaging style that transports readers to the rowdy frontier and the bustle of the overland road, The Texas Frontier and the Butterfield Overland Mail offers a rare view of Texas's antebellum past.
Download or read book A Journey through Texas written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-06-14 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1857. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas Or A Saddle trip on the South western Frontier written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Salado Texas written by Charles Alton Turnbo and published by Robertson Plantation LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thoroughly researched book about Salado, Texas. Charlie Turnbo researched and interviewed countless books and people to tell the history of Salado.
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas Or A Saddle trip on the Southwestern Frontier with a Statistical Appendix written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book A Journey Through Texas written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Journey Through Texas Or a Saddle Trip on the Southwestern Frontier written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of the original artefact. Generally these books are created from careful scans of the original. This allows us to preserve the book accurately and present it in the way the author intended. Since the original versions are generally quite old, there may occasionally be certain imperfections within these reproductions. We're happy to make these classics available again for future generations to enjoy!
Download or read book The Texas Panhandle Frontier written by Frederick W. Rathjen and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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...
Download or read book The Frontier Book of Children s Short Stories written by Charles Beard and published by Dog Ear Publishing. This book was released on 2010-12 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of short stories designed to be used for reading practice and entertainment for home and classroom readers. It consists of 50 mostly fictional stories in several different interest areas. The areas include adults, boys and girls, animals, strange happenings, directions, lifelike objects, humor, and others. Many of these stories contain an introduction of factual information followed by a fictional story. In selected stories, there is another story following it that is related to it in some way. I have been associated with education most of my life, from being a teacher, a counselor, and a sales representative for a company whose main business was selling to the education market. Then for many years that followed, I have worked as a developer of educational software in reading, writing, and math. My favorite part of developing was always the creation of new stories, and that is why I decided to put this new book together.
Download or read book The Literatures of the U S Mexican War written by Jaime Javier Rodríguez and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-05-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The literary archive of the U.S.-Mexican War (1846-1848) opens to view the conflicts and relationships across one of the most contested borders in the Americas. Most studies of this literature focus on the war's nineteenth-century moment of national expansion. In The Literatures of the U.S.-Mexican War, Jaime Javier Rodríguez brings the discussion forward to our own moment by charting a new path into the legacies of a military conflict embedded in the cultural cores of both nations. Rodríguez's groundbreaking study moves beyond the terms of Manifest Destiny to ask a fundamental question: How do the war's literary expressions shape contemporary tensions and exchanges among Anglo Americans, Mexicans, and Mexican Americans. By probing the war's traumas, anxieties, and consequences with a fresh attention to narrative, Rodríguez shows us the relevance of the U.S.-Mexican War to our own era of demographic and cultural change. Reading across dime novels, frontline battle accounts, Mexican American writings and a wide range of other popular discourse about the war, Rodríguez reveals how historical awareness itself lies at the center of contemporary cultural fears of a Mexican "invasion," and how the displacements caused by the war set key terms for the ways Mexican Americans in subsequent generations would come to understand their own identities. Further, this is also the first major comparative study that analyzes key Mexican war texts and their impact on Mexico's national identity.
Download or read book Olmsted s Texas Journey written by Frederick Law Olmsted and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-04-21 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reporter’s account of the people, culture, and terrain of Texas in the mid-1800s. Frederick Olmsted was a journalist when he made his journey through Texas. Tasked with covering the state of slavery during the quiet years before the Civil War, he took copious notes about the people, places, and cultures of the Texas of his day. These notes, in the form of a journal, would become his seminal work, Olmsted’s Texas Journey. In Olmsted’s Texas Journey, the reader gets to travel back in time and witness Texas as it once was, and see how today’s Texas, with its variety of peoples and traditions, still shares a deep connection to the richness of its past. But his great Texas journey was in fact so much more. As he made his way to that great state, he took copious and wonderful notes of all the others he passed through. From Maryland to California, and Ohio to Louisiana, Olmsted’s great history chronicles every detail that he observed. This truly is a classic piece of American literature.
Download or read book Exploding the Western written by Sara L. Spurgeon and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The frontier and Western expansionism are so quintessentially a part of American history that the literature of the West and Southwest is in some senses the least regional and the most national literature of all. The frontier--the place where cultures meet and rewrite themselves upon each other's texts--continues to energize writers whose fiction evokes, destroys, and rebuilds the myth in ways that attract popular audiences and critics alike. Sara L. Spurgeon focuses on three writers whose works not only exemplify the kind of engagement with the theme of the frontier that modern authors make, but also show the range of cultural voices that are present in Southwestern literature: Cormac McCarthy, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Ana Castillo. Her central purposes are to consider how the differing versions of the Western "mythic" tales are being recast in a globalized world and to examine the ways in which they challenge and accommodate increasingly fluid and even dangerous racial, cultural, and international borders. In Spurgeon's analysis, the spaces in which the works of these three writers collide offer some sharply differentiated visions but also create new and unsuspected forms, providing the most startling insights. Sometimes beautiful, sometimes tragic, the new myths are the expressions of the larger culture from which they spring, both a projection onto a troubled and troubling past and an insistent, prophetic vision of a shared future
Download or read book Tales of Frontier Texas 1830 1860 written by John Q. Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixty-five sketches included in this volume. Tales from newspapers and magazines of the period.
Download or read book Literature Connections to American History K6 written by Lynda G. Adamson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1997-09-15 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifying thousands of historical fiction novels, biographies, history trade books, CD-ROMs, and videotapes, this book helps you locate resources on American history for students. Each book presents information in two sections. In the first part, titles are listed according to grade levels within eras and further organized according to product type. The books cover American history from North America Before 1600 and The American Colonies, 1600-1774 to The Mid-Twentieth Century, 1946-1975 and Since 1975. The second section has annotated bibliographies that describe each title and includes publication information and awards won. The focus is on books published since 1990, and all have received at least one favorable review. Some books with more illustration than text will be valuable for enticing slow or reticent readers. An index helps users find resources by author, title, or biographical subject.
