Download or read book Lady Bird written by Jan Jarboe Russell and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes an excerpt from Jan Jarboe Russell's The Train to Crystal City.
Download or read book Travelers In Texas 1761 1860 written by Marilyn Mcadams Sibley and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-19 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History passed in review along the highways of Texas in the century 1761–1860. This was the century of exploration and settlement for the big new land, and many thousands of people traveled its trails: traders, revolutionaries, missionaries, warriors, government agents, adventurers, refugees, gold seekers, prospective settlers, land speculators, army wives, and filibusters. Their reasons for coming were many and varied, and the travelers viewed the land and its people with a wide variety of reactions. Political and industrial revolution, famine, and depression drove settlers from many of the countries of Europe and many of the states of the United States. Some were displeased with what they found in Texas, but for many it was a haven, a land of renewed hope. So large was the migration of people to Texas that the land that was virtually unoccupied in 1761 numbered its population at 600,000 a century later. Several hundred of these travelers left published accounts of their impressions and adventures. Collectively the accounts tell a panoramic story of the land as its boundaries were drawn and its institutions formed. Spain gave way to Mexico, Mexico to the Republic of Texas, the Republic to statehood in the United States, and statehood in the Union was giving way to statehood in the Confederate states by 1860. The travelers’ accounts reflect these changes; but, more important, they tell the story of the receding frontier. In Travelers in Texas, 1761–1860, the author examines the Texas seen by the traveler-writer. Opening with a chapter about travel conditions in general (roads or trails, accommodations, food), she also presents at some length the travelers’ impressions of the country and its people. She then proceeds to examine particular aspects of Texas life: the Indians, slavery, immigration, law enforcement, and the individualistic character of the people, all as seen through the eyes of the travelers. The discussion concludes with a “Critical Essay on Sources,” containing bibliographic discussions of over two hundred of the more important travel accounts.
Download or read book My Life with the Duvals written by Tim Keegan and published by Penguin Random House South Africa. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is the Swinging Sixties. Rex Duval arrives in Cape Town to teach English Literature at the university. Freshly promoted from Oxford, debonair and dashing, he takes Cape academia and society by storm. In his wake come Milla and Gladys, luscious twin sisters in search of the good life. Gladys lands a wealthy local layabout named Edward, while Milla marries Rex. With gay abandon the Duvals, with Gladys and Edward in tow, gallivant from the Mother City to the beach cottage in Hermanus and to Europe in pursuit of gratification and of Rex’s quixotic scholarly obsession with a dead writer named Finch Magnus Finch. There is no end to the complications that bedevil their lives. The whirlwinds that Rex churns up around himself soon produce stormy clouds over his career and family. When the wind of change sweeps over his colonial playground, his life spins out of control, while at the university he is furiously digging his own grave. And through it all the long-suffering Edward powerlessly witnesses his friend, the object of his most secret longing, go down, and ponders how to settle scores.
Download or read book American Hereford Record and Hereford Herd Book written by American Hereford Cattle Breeders' Association and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Laughter Life s Tonic written by Vincent Thnay and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book FREEDOM FOR GRANTED written by Paul R Tomko and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2022-08-05 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has been a struggle of love, just as my life has been a struggle of ups and downs. While the successes in my life have been important, I would say my failures have been even more important in shaping me into the person who God wants me to be for His glory. I see each day now as an opportunity to help others and reflect on how we can all use our failures to grow, support each other, and become better individuals. I praise God for my successes and even more for my failures, so I learned more about Him and myself.
Download or read book Berlandier written by James Kaye and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Berlandier: A French Naturalist on the Texas Frontier tells the history of Jean Louis Berlandier (1805-1851), remembered as one of the most enlightened naturalists of the American Southwest. He was one of the first to investigate the natural history of the Gulf Coastal Plain, the Rio Grande Valley, the Balcones Escarpment and the Edwards Plateau. Students of Texas biology have learned about Berlandier through such species as the Texas Green-Eyed Sunflower, Texas Windflower, Texas Tortoise, and the Rio Grande Leopard Frog. Between 1826 and 1828, Berlandier collected these species for the Academy of Natural Sciences, Geneva, and studied the Indians of Texas for the Mexican Ministry of the Interior, resulting in his scholarly treatise, The Indians of Texas, in 1830. Berlandier's plant collections are in twenty-seven world herbaria, and many hundreds of his insects, mollusks, reptiles, birds, and mammals are in prestigious institutions such as the Smithsonian and the United States National Museum. Most of the Indian material collected by Berlandier is in the Gilchrest Museum, and the wealth of his writing resides in the libraries of Yale, Harvard, Texas A&M, and the University of Texas. His diary, the most important of his writings, consists of more than 1,500 pages, currently housed in the Library of Congress; it serves as the basis of this history of his life and work.
Download or read book Women in Texas History written by Angela Boswell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-12 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women’s history. By emphasizing the differences between race and ethnicity, Angela Boswell uses three broad themes to tie together the narrative of women in Texas history. First, the physical and geographic challenges of Texas as a place significantly affected women’s lives, from the struggles of isolated frontier farming to the opportunities and problems of increased urbanization. Second, the changing landscape of legal and political power continued to shape women’s lives and opportunities, from the ballot box to the courthouse and beyond. Finally, Boswell demonstrates the powerful influence of social and cultural forces on the identity, agency, and everyday life of women in Texas. In challenging male-dominated legal and political systems, Texan women shaped (and were shaped by) class, religion, community organizations, literary and artistic endeavors, and more. Women in Texas History is the first book to narrate the entire span of Texas women’s history and marks a major achievement in telling the full story of the Lone Star State. Historians and general readers alike will find this book an informative and enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of Texas or the history of women.
Download or read book My Life With John Steinbeck written by and published by LawsonPublishing Ltd. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time,the story ofJohn Steinbecksforgotten second wife,unmentioned in standard editions of his classics,such as The Grapes of Wrath..Their 1943 wartime marriage ended when she divorced him in 1948..Smart, adventurous and in love,she at first matched Steinbecks zest for on the road advntures but was then only too happy to settle down and make a home where he could write.Love and marriage were considered the appropriate vocation for women of her era.Gwyn paid a high price for her involvement of the restless,driven,genius,John Steinbeck.This was a marriage, which could not succeed despite her love for Steinbeck,the man and master storyteller.
Download or read book Branding Texas written by Leigh Clemons and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2013-05-15 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ask anyone to name an archetypal Texan, and you're likely to get a larger-than-life character from film or television (say John Wayne's Davy Crockett or J. R. Ewing of TV's Dallas) or a politician with that certain swagger (think LBJ or George W. Bush). That all of these figures are white and male and bursting with self-confidence is no accident, asserts Leigh Clemons. In this thoughtful study of what makes a "Texan," she reveals how Texan identity grew out of the history—and, even more, the myth—of the heroic deeds performed by Anglo men during the Texas Revolution and the years of the Republic and how this identity is constructed and maintained by theatre and other representational practices. Clemons looks at a wide range of venues in which "Texanness" is performed, including historic sites such as the Alamo, the battlefield at Goliad, and the San Jacinto Monument; museums such as the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum; seasonal outdoor dramas such as Texas! at Palo Duro Canyon; films such as John Wayne's The Alamo and the IMAX's Alamo: The Price of Freedom; plays and TV shows such as the Tuna trilogy, Dallas, and King of the Hill; and the Cavalcade of Texas performance at the 1936 Texas Centennial. She persuasively demonstrates that these performances have created a Texan identity that has become a brand, a commodity that can be sold to the public and even manipulated for political purposes.
Download or read book Buying Time written by Joe Haldeman and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2017-12-05 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nebula Award–winning author of The Forever War explores a world where time is money—and for some, both are running out . . . The Stileman Process is a medical miracle: Every ten years or so, you can restore youth and health to your aging, ailing body—as long as you can pay the enormous fee. The scientific advancement has altered the twenty-first-century world even more than space travel. Dallas Barr is one of the oldest men on Earth, and now he needs to repeat the procedure. But while scrambling desperately for his next essential million, he meets Maria, a woman from a previous life—and makes two chilling discoveries: Not all Stileman “immortals” were created the same. And their days may be more numbered than they think . . . From the author of The Hemingway Hoax and Camouflage, and the recipient of multiple science fiction honors including the Hugo, John W. Campbell, and Robert A. Heinlein Awards, Buying Time is “a mystery/SF hybrid that exhibits the author at his most inventive. . . . The action is fast and furious” (Publishers Weekly).
Download or read book The Sweetness of a Simple Life written by Diana Beresford-Kroeger and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2015-04-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of The Global Forest--an international bestseller and a classic upon publication, beloved by readers around the world--gives us her tips and advice for achieving better health and peace of mind, with frugality, simplicity and pleasure not far behind. In The Sweetness of a Simple Life, Diana Beresford-Kroeger mixes science with storytelling, wonderment, magic, myth and plenty of common sense. After pursuing a Ph.D. in medical biochemistry, Beresford-Kroeger set out on a quest to preserve the world's forests. In this warm and wise collection of essays, she gives us a guide for living simply and well: which foods to eat and which to avoid; how to clean our homes and look after pets; how we can protect ourselves and our loved ones from illness; and why we need to appreciate nature. She provides an easy dose of healing, practical wisdom, blending modern medicine with aboriginal traditions. This inspiring, accessible book emphasizes back to basics, with the touchstone not an exotic religion or meditation practice, but the natural world around us.
Download or read book A Virtuous Woman written by L.J. Breedlove and published by L.J. Breedlove. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Woman's Place? Ruthie Brewster was on a mission to make sure every abused woman in Plains City, Texas, has a safe place to go. Until someone killed her. Plains City Gazette news editor Katy Williams admired Ruthie a lot. She's appalled by other reactions: The police seem less than committed to finding her killer. A local minister thinks what she was doing was of the devil and she got what was due her. Even her own brother seems unmoved by her death. Then someone kills another woman on the board of the Women's Shelter. It looks like the killer has a list. And Katy's public support for the Shelter just added her to the list. Book 2 in the mystery series A Newspaper in Texas. It's the 1980s — where being called a little lady is considered affection not insult.
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