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Book Texas Is the Reason  The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk

Download or read book Texas Is the Reason The Mavericks of Lone Star Punk written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arriving in 1978, hitched to the back of the Sex Pistols tour bus, punk soon became as mythic in Texas as the state's devotion to football, cattle, and prayer. Confrontational renegades like the Huns, the Big Boys, and the Dicks led a defiant new era of blood, sweat, and cross-dressing cowboys. Austin son Pat Blashill grabbed a camera and began shooting local punk bands, uncovering a story of desperation and creative deliverance, set in trailer parks, low-rent shared housing, and wild, Texas bucket-of-beer bars.Along the trail Blashill befriended and photographed the Big Boys, the Dicks, Butthole Surfers. Poison 13, the Hickoids, the Offenders, Scratch Acid, Daniel Johnston, Doctors' Mob, Glass Eye, and others. As Austin became a mecca for live music, he captured equally iconic images of touring bands including Sonic Youth, Devo, Samhain, Soul Asylum, the Replacements, and the Dead Kennedys. More than two hundred of Blashill's deep black and white photos are joined here by essays from director Richard Linklater (Slacker/School of Rock); singer David Yow (Scratch Acid/Jesus Lizard); drummer Teresa Taylor (Butthole Surfers); and local luminaries Adriane "Ash" Shown and Donna Rich. True mavericks banded together to make a stand, and?Texas Is the Reason.

Book Big Wonderful Thing

    Book Details:
  • Author : Stephen Harrigan
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2019-10-01
  • ISBN : 0292759517
  • Pages : 944 pages

Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

Book The European Texans

    Book Details:
  • Author : Allan O. Kownslar
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2004
  • ISBN : 9781585443529
  • Pages : 222 pages

Download or read book The European Texans written by Allan O. Kownslar and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the experiences of European immigrants in Texas, and examines their social and cultural contributions to the Lone Star State. Includes illustrations, biographical sketches, recipes, and excerpts from personal letters.

Book Texas

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  • Author : Kimberly Young
  • Publisher : Hunter Publishing, Inc
  • Release : 1998
  • ISBN : 1556508123
  • Pages : 398 pages

Download or read book Texas written by Kimberly Young and published by Hunter Publishing, Inc. This book was released on 1998 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join adventure traveler Kimberly Young as she explores Austin, Houston, Dallas/Fort Worth, San Antonio, Waco and all the towns and attractions in between. Places to stay and eat are given, but the emphasis is on adventures in this massive state: Rafting the Guadalupe River, deep-sea fishing off the Texas coast, exploring the 96,000-acre Big Thicket National Preserve or Big Bend National Park, river-running the Rio Grande. Cattle drives, dude ranches and rodeos introduce you to the vibrant cowboy culture of the Southwest and relaxing days on the beaches of Padre Island take you away from it al.

Book Congressional Record

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Congress
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1932
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1116 pages

Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1932 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Our Year Book

Download or read book Our Year Book written by and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Thirty three Years  Thirty three Works

Download or read book Thirty three Years Thirty three Works written by Kenneth L. Untiedt and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2016-12-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Francis Edward Abernethy served as the Secretary-Editor of the Texas Folklore Society for 33 years. He played an integral part in the process of moving the headquarters from the University of Texas to Stephen F. Austin State University in 1971; for more than three decades, he managed the organization’s daily operations and helped it continue to grow—sometimes through lean years, both financially and in terms of academic interest. In addition to fostering many new members and guiding their contributions to folklore scholarship, his editorial accomplishments were substantial. In all, he edited two dozen volumes of the PTFS series, including the three volumes he wrote himself that serve as the Society’s history, from its beginning in 1909 up until the year 2000. While some publications during his tenure as Secretary-Editor may list the name of another writer (for an Extra Book) or a guest editor (for a special-topic PTFS), he most assuredly provided critical and creative input regarding the style, layout, content, and other aspects of the manuscript to make sure it was worthy of being identified as a TFS book. This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society celebrates Ab Abernethy’s many years of leadership and dedication to collecting, preserving, and presenting the folklore of Texas and the Southwest. Ab’s contributions to the Society’s publications cover a variety of topics. Here, they’ve been organized into some basic categories that serve as chapters. The prefaces to some of the more memorable volumes he edited are included, along with articles he wrote on music, teaching folklore, interesting anecdotes about historical figures and events, and a generalized category of articles on “cultural” examinations of the things we hold dear. In all, these pieces tell us what was important to Ab. In part, it also seems fair to say that these topics are what was—and still is—reflective of what’s important to the Texas Folklore Society.

Book     Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas

Download or read book Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas written by Railroad Commission of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Texas Tradition

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  • Author : Ross Phares
  • Publisher : Pelican Publishing
  • Release : 1954
  • ISBN : 9781455612932
  • Pages : 256 pages

Download or read book Texas Tradition written by Ross Phares and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1954 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report

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  • Author : Railroad Commission of Texas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1896
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 394 pages

Download or read book Report written by Railroad Commission of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Annual Report

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  • Author : Railroad Commission of Texas
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1907
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 534 pages

Download or read book Annual Report written by Railroad Commission of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 534 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Report of the Texas Water Rights Commission  Covering the Biennium

Download or read book Report of the Texas Water Rights Commission Covering the Biennium written by Texas Water Rights Commission and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book University of Texas Bulletin

Download or read book University of Texas Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest  with a Few Observations

Download or read book Guide to Life and Literature of the Southwest with a Few Observations written by J. Frank Dobie and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-09-15 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide book is a bibliography of books about the American West by various authors, compiled by the literary critic J. Franck Dobie. The list is subdivided along themes associated with the different aspects of life in the West such as Native American culture, Spanish influences, French influences, Texas Rangers, Missionaries, Women pioneers and Mountain men culture, among others. Each aspect is preceded by a brief discussion of the topic before the list of books themed on the subject.

Book     Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas for the Year

Download or read book Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Texas for the Year written by Railroad Commission of Texas and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: