Download or read book Giant Under the Hill written by Judith Walker Linsley and published by Texas State Historical Assn. This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the Spindletop oil discovery at Beaumont, Texas, in 1901.
Download or read book 100 Things to Do in Beaumont Texas Before You Die written by Lauren Monitz and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-09-01 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The biggest city between Houston and New Orleans, Beaumont is perfectly primed for adventure along the I-10 corridor. Straddling the line between the Lonestar state and Louisiana, it’s a little bit Texan, a little bit Cajun, and the best of both worlds with Southern charm in spades. With 100 Things to Do in Beaumont, Texas, Before You Die, everything’s bigger and bolder in one of America’s original boomtowns. There’s no better time to embrace Cajun culture with crawfish and Mardi Gras, snap a photo with the world’s largest working fire hydrant (one of the quirkiest roadside attractions in America), and see where the Texas oil industry was changed forever at Spindletop. Kayak the Big Thicket, navigate the swamp on an airboat ride, splash around on the Gulf Coast, and work up an appetite hiking America’s first National Reserve before eating your weight in Texas-sized delicacies like Tex-Mex and barbecue. Hold and feed baby gators at Gator Country or meander the historic downtown, enjoying the city’s burgeoning art scene. Let travel writer Lauren Monitz guide you from the woods to the wetlands, the beaches to the bayous, and everywhere in between. Whether you’re just passing through or exploring your own backyard, you’re sure to find your new favorite attraction, restaurant, and hidden gem in 100 Things to Do in Beaumont, Texas, Before You Die.
Download or read book Fair Ways written by Robert J. Robertson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation In the summer of 1955, six African American golfers in Beaumont, Texas, began attacking the Jim Crow caste system when they filed a federal lawsuit for the right to play the municipal golf course. The golfers and their African American lawyers went to federal court and asked a conservative white Republican judge to render a decision that would not only integrate the local golf course but also set precedent for desegregation of other public facilities. In Fair Ways, Robert J. Robertson chronicles three parallel stories that converged in this important case. He tells the story of the plaintiffs-avid golfers who had learned the game while working as caddies and waiters-of their young lawyers, recent graduates from Howard University law school, and of the Republican judge just appointed to the bench by President Eisenhower. Using public case papers, public records, newspapers, and oral histories, Robertson has recreated the scene in Beaumont on the eve of desegregation. Fair Ways gives a vivid picture of racial segregation and the forces that brought about its end.
Download or read book Historic Beaumont written by Ellen Walker Rienstra and published by HPN Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An illustrated history of Beaumont, Texas, paired with histories of the local companies.
Download or read book Betting Booze and Brothels written by Wanda A. Landry and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the turn of the twentieth century, Beaumont, Texas had acquired a reputation as a rough place. Situated in the oil-soaked chaos of Spindletop, Jefferson County was a hotbed of vice. For decades, gambling and prostitution thrived as elected officials either looked the other way or took money to keep quiet. That is, until 1960 when a swashbuckling young state legislator blew into town and spearheaded an intensive investigation into the rampant vice and governmental corruption that supported it. And, at a time when such things were virtually unheard of, he and his committee played it out on live television. When the dust finally cleared, the local governments of Jefferson County were turned inside out.
Download or read book Biennial Report written by Texas. Secretary of State and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 1430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Early Beaumont written by Rob Blain and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beaumont was born when the thickly wooded banks of the Neches River were settled in the 1820s. Businessmen and adventurers stayed in the area once they saw the advantages of the river and the region's abundance of timber and other agricultural resources. By 1880, Beaumont was a lumber, ranching, farming, and shipping center. The railroad spurred population growth from 2,500 to 5,000, then Providence intervened: the Lucas Gusher at Spindletop blew in on January 10, 1901, and suddenly more oil than had ever been seen ushered in a new world. The Rockefeller Standard Oil monopoly may have ended in the courts, but Spindletop's oil dwarfed the known world supply, creating companies like Humble Oil (now ExxonMobil), Gulf, and Texaco. Beaumont continued to grow, and with a second boom in 1925, flowing oil brought more people and the building of a gracious city.
Download or read book The Do Right written by Lisa Sandlin and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2015-10-05 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 Dashiell Hammett Prize and 2016 Shamus Award 1959. Delpha Wade killed a man who was raping her. Wanted to kill the other one too, but he got away. Now, after fourteen years in prison, she’s out. It’s 1973, and nobody’s rushing to hire a parolee. Persistence and smarts land her a secretarial job with Tom Phelan, an ex-roughneck turned neophyte private eye. Together these two pry into the dark corners of Beaumont, a blue-collar, Cajun-influenced town dominated by Big Oil. A mysterious client plots mayhem against a small petrochemical company-why? Searching for a teenage boy, Phelan uncovers the weird lair of a serial killer. And Delpha — on a weekend outing — looks into the eyes of her rapist, the one who got away. The novel's conclusion is classic noir, full of surprise, excitement, and karmic justice. Sandlin's elegant prose, twisting through the dark thickets of human passion, allows Delpha to open her heart again to friendship, compassion, and sexuality. Lisa Sandlin's story "Phelan's First Case" was anthologized in Lone Star Noir and was later re-anthologized in Akashic's Best of the Noir series, USA Noir. The Do-Right is her first full-length mystery. Lisa was born in Beaumont, currently lives and teaches in Omaha, Nebraska, and summers in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Download or read book Spindletop unwound written by Roger L. Shaffer and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1997-07-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Well documented by public records, actual court reports, and newspaper accounts, this book is a true story of greed, ambition and murder in the first degree.
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Download or read book Hearings Reports and Prints of the Senate Committee on Appropriations written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 1838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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