Download or read book The Poor Farm written by Dusty Williams and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-07-27 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A place vanished from many record books was a home to many residents of Grayson County, Texas...it was, The Poor Farm. Follow the colorful history of this eventful place from its begining to its end. The County Farm of Grayson County, like other County Poor Farms, provided a home for the needy and less fortunate. From times of peace, prosperity and production, to Edna Gladney's famous march on the dire circumstances that surrounded the county farm of Grayson County. Trace the intimate history of many of the residents, including farmers, doctors and even a niece of Davy Crockett who once called this place home. This book not only documents the history of the home, but provides biographies of those who lived here as well as those who ran the farm throughout its long history. -Also includes a history of the Pecan Grove Community, west of Sherman.
Download or read book Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County Virginia written by Benjamin Floyd Nuckolls and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploration of the Red River of Louisiana in the Year 1852 written by Randolph Benton Marcy and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Murder and Mayhem written by James Smallwood and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region where Grayson, Fannin, Hunt, and Collin Counties converged. Part of that violence came to be called the Lee-Peacock Feud, a struggle in which Unionists led by Lewis Peacock and former Confederates led by Bob Lee sought to even old scores, as well as to set the terms of the new South, especially regarding the status of freed slaves. Until recently, the Lee-Peacock violence has been placed squarely within the Lost Cause mythology. This account sets the record straight. For Bob Lee, a Confederate veteran, the new phase of the war began when he refused to release his slaves. When Federal officials came to his farm in July to enforce emancipation, he fought back and finally fled as a fugitive. In the relatively short time left to his life, he claimed personally to have killed at least forty people--civilian and military, Unionists and freedmen. Peacock, a dedicated leader of the Unionist efforts, became his primary target and chief foe. Both men eventually died at the hands of each other's supporters. From previously untapped sources in the National Archives and other records, the authors have tracked down the details of the Corners violence and the larger issues it reflected, adding to the reinterpretation of Reconstruction history and rescuing from myth events that shaped the following century of Southern politics.
Download or read book Grayson County written by Graham Landrum and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Times of Grayson County Texas written by R. C. Vaughan and published by . This book was released on 2007-02-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Texas Almanac 2000 2001 Millennium Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Black Land Red River written by Sherrie McLeRoy and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Republic of Texas Poll Lists for 1846 written by Marion Day Mullins and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1974 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Arranged alphabetically, this work lists the names and counties of residence of approximately 18,000 Texas taxpayers. (A "poll" tax of one dollar was levied on every white male resident over the age of twenty-one and on women who were heads of household.) By 1846, when Texas became the thirty-sixth state in the Union, there were sixty-seven county governments already organized as functioning units of the state, yet no authorized census of the state was undertaken until 1850. This 1846 poll list, compiled from the original tax rolls housed in the Texas State Archives, is actually the nearest thing we have to a complete census of the period.
Download or read book Springs of Texas written by Gunnar M. Brune and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Download or read book A History of Grayson County Texas by Mattie Davis Lucas Mrs W H Lucas and Mita Holsapple Hall Mrs H E Hall written by Mattie Davis (W. H. Lucas Lucas (Mrs.)) and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grape Man of Texas written by Roy Renfro and published by Board and Bench Publishing. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Grape Man of Texas is the first biography of Thomas Volney Munson (1843-1913), the internationally recognized horticulturist who developed over 300 new varieties of grapes, some of which are still grown today on almost every continent. He is perhaps best known for his work in fighting the phylloxera epidemic of the late nineteenth century, which nearly destroyed the world's vineyards. His solution—grafting vinifera onto certain resistant native rootstocks from Texas—earned him the Chevalier du Merite Agricole in the French Legion of Honor and numerous accolades. This second edition introduces new insights into the phylloxera period, Munson's many papers and publications, and his far-sighted grasp of the needs of twentieth century agriculture and transportation. It details the continuing influence of both his research and his hybrid grapes on modern viticulture and new varieties of vitis that have been bred from them around the world.
Download or read book Historic Hunt County written by Milton Babb and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2010 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Hunt County, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Download or read book Forever Texas written by Mike Blakely and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-10-09 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Featuring the writing of President Geogre W. Bush, H. Ross Perot, Phil Gramm, Dale Evans, Lyndon B. Johnson, Stephen Austin, Sam Houston.
Download or read book The Great Hanging at Gainesville 1862 written by and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In what may have been the single largest outbreak of vigilante violence in American history, forty suspected Unionists were hanged at Gainesville, Texas, in October 1862. The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862, combines two accounts of the events surrounding the executions along with an introduction by noted Civil War historian Richard B. McCaslin and an afterword by L.D. Clark, a descendent of one of the men hanged.
Download or read book Indian Depredations in Texas written by John Wesley Wilbarger and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 691 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reliable accounts of battles, wars, adventures, forays, murders, and massacres together with biographical sketches of many of the most noted Indian fighters and frontiersmen of Texas.
Download or read book Lives in Photography written by Mavis Bryant and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographers were among the colorful characters who populated the American West and documented its history. The small North Texas town of Denison was a crossroads where several railroads met, a place where travelers and settlers found adventure, made fortunes—and had their portraits made. Founded in 1872, Denison was the "Gate City" to Texas, carved out of the prairie just south of Indian Territory. The town grew and prospered, changing from a railhead for cattle drives into a shipping mecca for agricultural riches. Newly affluent citizens erected large buildings and impressive homes. By the end of the twentieth century, Denison was a mature city. In every decade, camera artists came and went, recording the shifting social and physical scene. This book tells the stories of some 125 photographers who worked in Denison. Many of them also worked elsewhere in the West and the Great Plains. Complementing the classic reference works that inventory photographers in large regions or states, this volume explores the place of photographers in a single community over time. Based on extensive research in genealogical sources and local newspapers, city directories, and other documents, "Lives in Photography" identifies dynasties of studio owners, women active in the profession, and career trajectories of individual photographers. Many of these individuals have never been studied in detail before. The book will also help family historians date particular images, based on the years when a given photographer was active in a locality.
