Download or read book The Alamo Playset written by Gary Toenges and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-27 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I have revised my first publication to an 8.5" x 11" format. I have collected MARX Playsets for over thirty years. Until I retired they sat in my attic collecting dust. After I retired I dusted them off and set them up taking pictures which I then turned into books like this one. What I've learned from being a collector is this, at some point you have to do something with all this stuff. I've spent a lot of money over the years and in hindsight if a book like this one had been available I would have purchased it. It would have saved me money and work because setting these playsets were work and nothing like I remember as a kid playing with them. If you are a MARX toy enthusiast I believe you'll enjoy my books on these great toys. Thank you, Gary
Download or read book The Alamo written by Frank Thompson and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After two short weeks under siege, the climactic battle of the Alamo lasted under an hour, but its aftermath spawned a legend. The Alamo: A Cultural History explores the transformation of the fort from its 1718 inception as a Franciscan mission to its current status as a tourist attraction, historical monument, and international symbol of freedom.
Download or read book Marx Western Playsets written by Jay Horowitz and published by Greenberg Books. This book was released on 1992 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents information about all of Marx's Western Playsets and about people who designed the dozens of types of playsets and action figures. Includes never-before-published material, such as factory specifications, from Louis Marx & Company.
Download or read book Death and Texas written by Joseph E. Joria and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2002-07-15 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Ian Norman, historian, academic, and toy soldier maker, travels to Texas to visit the filming of the latest Hollywood epic based on the fall of the Alamo. Shortly after his arrival, the award-winning director is found murdered on the set. Working with his friend, FBI agent Maggie Sullivan, he soon finds himself in the thick of death as the stars of the film fall around him. Only the quick thinking of the pair exposes the killer and prevents the sinister destruction of one of the best known symbols in American history.
Download or read book The Alamo and Beyond written by Phil Collins and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Phil Collins was a kid growing up in a London suburb, he would often watch an amazing show on his family television. There, in black and white, was Fess Parker as Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier. As he matured, Collins not only acted out the exploits of his new hero, but he often refought the Battle of the Alamo with his toy soldiers. Even though music came to dominate his life, it was this love of history--and Davy Crockett and the Alamo in particular--that was always near by. On one musical tour, Collins encountered his first David Crockett autograph--for sale at a store called the Gallery of History. "I didn't know this stuff was out there, that you could own it," the rock-n-roll legend said. "It had never occurred to him. Later, he received a birthday-present that would change his life: a receipt for a saddle signed by an Alamo defender. From that point forward, the drummer began building his impressive Alamo and Texas Revolution collection.Here, for the first time in history, are the artifacts, relics, and documents that compose the Phil Collins collection, available in a beautifully designed color book shot-through with stunning photography and crisply rendered illustrations. Collins's prose takes the reader through the joys of being a collector as he lovingly describes what each piece in this impressive assemblage means to him. Photographer Ben Powell of Austin brought these items to vivid relief, and artist Gary Zaboly's masterful pen-and-ink drawings breath life into the items. Essays by Texas historians Bruce Winders, Don Frazier, and Stephen Hardin provide the historical background to the collection and help make this into a work of art that also serves handily as a serious research tool. The link below takes you to a crowd source funding site for Ben Powell's short documentary, Phil Collins and the Wild Frontier. It captures Phil Collins during the week-long book tour in June 2012. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/722972912/phil-collins-and-the-wild-frontier
Download or read book Operation Chupacabra written by J. P. Young and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2020-02-25 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After battling other worldly creatures as recounted in MERCENARY EXOTIQUE, Pete and Jeanette are expecting the birth of their child. They're now living an idyllic life in a secret place for those who have information the public must never know. Pete's peaceful existence and loving wife are stressing him out... Rescued from nightmarish inactivity by his former Skipper, Lt. Commander Hayley Nathaniel activates Pete to the Marine Corps for an overseas assignment. He poses as her husband, an Australian occult journalist seeking the elusive beast called the Chupacabra who has been sighted in El Salvador. Their actual mission is to locate and eliminate a Cuban training local insurgents to attack a naval base; however, nothing is as it seems... Faced with unexplained satellite photographs, ambushers, inquisitive police, devil worshippers, a mysterious redhead, and an unexpected enemy, Pete is permanently transformed beyond belief...
Download or read book Crockett s Devil written by Evan Lewis and published by Steeger Properties, LLC. This book was released on 2021-12-18 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Davy Crockett has a Devil in his heart: The Time: 1813. The Place: The Mississippi Territory. The Problem: Rebelling Creek warriors, under war chief Red Eagle, spread terror across the frontier, slaughtering settlers and peaceful Creeks alike. The Solution: Kill Red Eagle! But Davy Crockett disagrees. He sees Red Eagle as the young nation’s best hope for peace, and risks his hair—and his life—to stop the fighting. Standing in his way are: General Andrew Jackson, seeking glory to restart his political career. A Militia Commander leading some of the most brutal killers in the South. A Revolutionary War hero offering a bounty for Creek scalps. Davy’s best friend, who demands vengeance for his family. An Indian Princess who lost her mother to Red Eagle’s war. Red Eagle himself and his thousand bloodthirsty warriors. And most of all, Crockett’s Devil, an inner demon threatening all his hopes. Can Davy best them all and bring peace to the wild frontier?
Download or read book The Man from Waukegan written by J. P. Zabolski and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2005-02-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Man From Waukegan is a man born and raised in an industrial town halfway between Milwaukee and Chicago. Thirty years ago he graduated from its high school and left for foreign adventure. Twenty years ago he returned home to enlist in his childhood goal of the US Marines. He later left his twin homes of Waukegan and the Marines for a new life in Australia. Ten years ago both his parents died and he returned to Waukegan to bury them and sell their home. He had not returned until the Indian Summer of October 2003. The Man From Waukegan spends a two-week trip meeting his old friends and walking in his old haunts that lead to self-discovery. He learns that not only do some things in the outwardly transformed Waukegan never change, but that the new inhabitants from different States and countries subconsciously adopt and preserve the traditions of the Waukegan he knew.
Download or read book Little Big World written by Jeffrey Hammond and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Collections are more about who one is than about what is collected. In Little Big World, Jeffrey Hammond's resonant 1950Æs inner child speaks through the reflective sixty-something man about the culture and magic of a spectrum of action figure playsets through a lifetime."ùMarilynn Gelfman Karp, author, In Flagrante Collecto
Download or read book The Second Battle of the Alamo written by Judy Alter and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1900, the tale of the 300 Texians who died in the 1836 battle of the Alamo had already become legend. But to corporate interests in the growing City of San Antonio, the land where that blood was shed was merely a desirable plot of land across the street from new restaurants and hotels, with only a few remaining crumbling buildings to tell the tale. When two women, Adina Emilia De Zavala, the granddaughter of the first vice-president of the Texas Republic, and Clara Driscoll, the daughter of one of Texas’s most prominent ranch families and first bankers, learned of the plans, they hatched a plan to preserve the site—and in doing so, they reinvigorated both the legend and lore of the Alamo and cemented the site’s status as hallowed ground. These two strong-willed, pioneering women were very different, but the story of how they banded together and how the Alamo became what it is today despite those differences, is compelling reading for those interested in Texas history and Texas’s larger-than-life personality.
Download or read book The Alamo written by Kristin L. Nelson and published by First Avenue Editions. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Briefly presents the story of the Alamo and its significance in Texas history.
Download or read book What Was the Alamo written by Pam Pollack and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2013-10-03 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Remember the Alamo!" is still a rallying cry more than 175 years after the siege in Texas, where a small band of men held off about two thousand soldiers of the Mexican Army for twelve days. The Alamo was a crucial turning point in the Texas Revolution, and led to the creation of the Republic of Texas. With 80 black-and-white illustrations throughout and a sixteen-page black-and-white photo insert, young readers will relive this famous moment in Texas history.
Download or read book The Battle of the Alamo written by Amie Jane Leavitt and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2016-08 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "2 story paths, 50 choices, 16 endings"--Cover.
Download or read book Alamo Almanac Book of Lists written by William R. Chemerka and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains a brief history of the Texas Revolution and the siege and battle of the Alamo; features a chronology of events at the Alamo from 1519 to 1997; provides an alphabetical listing of people, items, and events related to the Alamo; and includes reference lists.
Download or read book Boys Toys of the Fifties and Sixties written by Thomas W. Holland and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're like most of us, the mailman's annual delivery of Sears, Roebuck and Company's Christmas Catalog was a holiday event in years past. Most American children watched the mailbox carefully for those wondrous old catalogs. They were chock full of childhood fantasies... enough toys, dolls, trains and bikes to make any kid start writing his or her letter to Santa Claus. That's probably why the nickname "Wishbook" stuck. And if you grew up during the Baby Boomer years of the Fifties and Sixties, there's big news. Those lost Wishbook pages full of wonderful toys targeted to boys have been reproduced in Boys' Toys, an exciting new book containing authorized reproductions of the very best boy-toy pages from 1950 through 1969. Boys' Toys and its companion book Girls' Toys are two in a series of Sears catalog re-issues covering the spectrum of toys, dolls and other popular collectibles of the Fifties and Sixties. This 8 fi x 11 softcover book's 192 pages illustrate hundreds of now-collectible toys. All the best are represented: Lionel trains, Marx playsets, Remco's "Toys for Boys" G.I. Joe, Matchbox cars, Tonka trucks... all the way to Sixties space-age robots, rockets, and flying saucers! Included too, is a year-by-year commentary on the toys, their manufacturers and historical relevance. So put on your Davy Crockett coonskin cap and settle in for hours of fond childhood memories. Boys' Toys is fun reading for anyone... male or female... toy fan or not. It's an invaluable reference source for serious collectors and history buffs, too. -- Jam-packed with warm and happy childhood memories. Hundreds of photographs and illustrations with accompanying commentary -- A "must have"reference volume for all toy, antique and memorabilia enthusiasts
Download or read book Antique Trader Guide to Fakes Reproductions written by Mark Chervenka and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readers will learn how to tell fakes and reproductions from the original antique in author Chervenka's updated version of his bestseller. New and old items are shown side-by-side so collectors can see the exact differences between the fabulous fakes and the priceless originals. 950 photos.
Download or read book Military History written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
