Download or read book Haunting the Graveyard written by Gayle Brennan Spencer and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the history of the Coker Settlement in San Antonio, Texas lies the story of life in the late 1800's. The cas of farmers represent the underlying agricultural heritage that shaped San Antonio. Over 600 families are mentioned in this rich slice of Texas history.
Download or read book Texas Graveyards written by Terry G. Jordan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
Download or read book National Policy on Cemeteries Provided for Burial of Veterans and Servicemen written by United States. Congress. House. Veterans' Affairs Committee and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book National Policy on Cemeteries Provided for Burial of Veterans and Servicemen written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs. Subcommittee on Hospitals and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers a national burial policy for veterans that would shift responsibility from the Department of the Army to the Veterans Administration. Focuses on the acquisition of national military cemetery space.
Download or read book Cemeteries of Ambivalent Desire written by Marie Theresa Hernández and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From San Isidro Cemetery, a burial place for Latino workers, the author pieces together a narrative of the lives and struggles of the Mexican American community that formed her heritage. She also provides visual images to spur the reader's imagination and anchor the narrative in historical reality.
Download or read book The Veterans Cemeteries of Texas written by Michael Lee Lanning and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-12 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas, home to more than 1.7 million living veterans (the second largest number of any state), is also home to six nationally run and four state-run veterans cemeteries. Each year, more than 12,000 veterans are laid to rest in these hallowed grounds. The Veterans Cemeteries of Texas recounts the stories of these ten official final resting places for Texas veterans, creating—for the first time—a complete guide to these solemn bivouacs of the dead. Author Michael Lee Lanning, a US Army veteran, has not only reconstructed the history of these cemeteries as a tribute to the fallen but has also compiled a useful resource for the living. Lanning details the exact locations, eligibility requirements, and contact information throughout the state for those veterans and their families who might choose to make use of these important public services. Richly illustrated, the book also provides moving descriptions of military burial traditions, such as “Taps” and the 21-gun salute, as well as information about the various types of military headstones (including sixty authorized religious symbols). In the author’s words, “A walk through these burial grounds is a journey across the history of Texas and of the United States.” Lanning’s use of more than 100 captivating photographs, along with his compelling text, allows readers to take that walk through veterans cemeteries in Texas. For lovers of Texas history and military history, The Veterans Cemeteries of Texas is a gripping tribute to past, present, and future Texas veterans and the solemn places where they rest in their last formation and final parade.
Download or read book Texas Mass Graves written by Kathy Benjamin and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-10-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every mass grave in Texas offers morbid proof that at one time, in that place, something went very, very wrong. Texans have resorted to mass graves out of necessity, desperation and appalling indifference. These sites mark natural disasters or hide unnatural crimes that tested the limits of human endurance and empathy. Because of this, memorializing those who lie in mass graves can be controversial. Not everyone wants to dig up the darkness of the past, much less admit that the dirt is still fresh. Nevertheless, to honor those whose bones lie mixed with others, their stories must be told. In so doing, Kathy Benjamin exhumes essential shards of Lone Star history, from the Alamo to the present day.
Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1646 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Prehistory of Texas written by Timothy K. Perttula and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than eleven thousand years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the state. This comprehensive volume explores in detail the varied experience of native peoples who lived on this land in prehistoric times. Chapters on each of the regions offer cutting-edge research, the culmination of years of work by dozens of the most knowledgeable experts. Based on the archaeological record, the discussion of the earliest inhabitants includes a reclassification of all known Paleoindian projectile point types and establishes a chronology for the various occupations. The archaeological data from across the state of Texas also allow authors to trace technological changes over time, the development of intensive fishing and shellfish collecting, funerary customs and the belief systems they represented, long-term changes in settlement mobility and character, landscape use, and the eventual development of agricultural societies. The studies bring the prehistory of Texas Indians all the way up through the Late Prehistoric period (ca. a.d. 700–1600). The extensively illustrated chapters are broadly cultural-historical in nature but stay strongly focused on important current research problems. Taken together, they present careful and exhaustive considerations of the full archaeological (and paleoenvironmental) record of Texas.
Download or read book Death of a Texas Ranger written by Cynthia Leal Massey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Death of a Texas Ranger is the thrilling, action-packed story of the murder of Texas Ranger John Green by Cesario Menchaca, one of three Rangers of Mexican descent under Green’s command. Immediately word spread that the killing may have been the botched outcome of a contract taken out on Menchaca’s life by the notorious Gabriel Marnoch, a local naturalist who had run up against the law himself. But was it? Much more than just a story about a tragic frontier killing, it is the story of an era. The events leading up to the murder and Green’s son’s decades’ long quest for justice for his father’s killer exemplify the chaotic frontier society in Texas after the Civil War, a time fraught with political turmoil and cultural clashes. Amidst that chaos, the virgin landscape of Texas was a magnet to those interested in the natural sciences in the nineteenth century, an era often referred to as the Age of Darwin. The clash between the seemingly pastoral landscape with its offerings for science and the brutal history of the region ties this very readable regional history into the larger American story.
Download or read book Texas First Families Lineages Applications 1 through 2400 written by Doris Galyean Cozart and published by . This book was released on 2000-10-01 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Moores written by Javier Leandro Maffucci Moore and published by Editorial Autores de Argentina. This book was released on 2023-01-19 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three centuries of a family history that incite, more than to bask in the display of an absent aristocratic ancestry, to explore the details of a trajectory that begins in the British colonial world of north America, to anchor in the late 19th century in the wild frontier of the northeast of Santa Fe, Argentina. A panorama where the lights and shadows of lives that have left a deep mark are integrated.
Download or read book Heart of Texas Records written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Reservations National Military Parks and National Cemeteries written by United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book United States Military Reservations National Cemeteries and Military Parks written by United States. Army. Office of the Judge Advocate General and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Stinson Municipal Airport Proposed Airport Layout Plan San Antonio Bexar County written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Footprints written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
