Download or read book State of Mind written by Tom Pilkington and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays that discuss the evolution of Texas literature from the state's settlement through the twentieth century.

Download or read book Hometown Texas written by and published by Trinity University Press. This book was released on 2017-11-07 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.

Download or read book Lone Star Mind written by Ty Cashion and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2018-11-01 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is the story the Lone Star State likes to tell about itself—and then there is the reality, a Texas past that bears little resemblance to the manly Anglo myth of Texas exceptionalism that maintains a firm grip on the state’s historical imagination. Lone Star Mind takes aim at this traditional narrative, holding both academic and lay historians accountable for the ways in which they craft the state’s story. A clear-sighted, far-reaching work of intellectual history, this book marshals a wide array of pertinent scholarship, analysis, and original ideas to point the way toward a new “usable past” that twenty-first-century Texans will find relevant. Ty Cashion fixes T. R. Fehrenbach’s Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans in his crosshairs in particular, laying bare the conceptual deficiencies of the romantic and mythic narrative the book has served to codify since its first publication in 1968. At the same time, Cashion explores the reasons why the collective efforts of university-trained scholars have failed to diminish the appeal of the state’s iconic popular culture, despite the fuller and more accurate record these historians have produced. Framing the search for a collective Texan identity in the context of a post-Christian age and the end of Anglo-male hegemony, Lone Star Mind illuminates the many historiographical issues besetting the study of American history that will resonate with scholars in other fields as well. Cashion proposes that a cultural history approach focusing on the self-interests of all Texans is capable of telling a more complete story—a story that captures present-day realities.

Download or read book Amon written by Jerry Flemmons and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For much of the mid-twentieth-century, Amon G. Carter Sr. was the man who invented the cowboy at least the larger-than-life Texas version that captured the imagination of the public, presidents, movie stars, and moguls. Carter donned his cowboy persona to build Fort Worth, from the Star-Telegram up, and much of the rest of West Texas. Jerry Flemmons brings to life the mythic huckster and newspaper giant who ushered the likes of Gary Cooper, Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, and Ike through the back door of his Fort Worth mansion and feted them at his Shady Oak Farm with rodeos and parties.

Download or read book On The Border written by Char Miller and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2001-11-29 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past 300 years, settlement patterns, geography, and climate have greatly affected the ecology of the south Texas landscape. Drawing on a variety of interests and perspectives, the contributors to On the Border probe these evolving relationships in and around San Antonio, the country's ninth-largest city.Spanish, Mexican, and American settlers required open expanses of land for agriculture and ranching, displacing indigenous inhabitants. The high poverty traditionally felt by many residents, combined with San Antonio's environment, has contributed to the development of the city's unusually complex public health dilemmas. The national drive to preserve historic landmarks and landscapes has been complicated by the blight of homogenous urban sprawl. But no issue has been more contentious than that of water, particularly in a city entirely dependent on a single aquifer in a region of little rain. Managing these environmental concerns is the chief problem facing the city in the new century.

Download or read book The Club written by Stephen Brook and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 1996 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Joyful Trek written by Robert H. Williams and published by Texas Tech University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Texan's times and travels.

Download or read book Kings of Texas written by Don Graham and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." -H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Texas written by Nancy Capace and published by North American Book Dist LLC. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 1101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Double Eagle written by Stephen Brook and published by Picador. This book was released on 1989 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Opera written by Stephen Brook and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Opera is perhaps the world's greatest art form. It combines high drama with sublime music, great seriousness of purpose with tremendous scope for triumph or disaster. In this anthology, [the author] has gleaned material from a broad range of sources to enlighten, educate and entertain us on this fascinating subject. -Back cover.

Download or read book Punch written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 802 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book L A Lore written by Stephen Brook and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Best Sellers written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book AB Bookman s Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book British Book News written by British Council and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 1046 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Writers Directory written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 728 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: