Download or read book Bluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum written by Casad, Mary Brooke and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bluebonnet visits her sister Irmadillo, she meets her four nephews-Wildcatter, Bradford, Hunt, and Lloyd-all named for aspects of East Texas oil history. As the boys describe their namesakes, Bluebonnet learns how the East Texas Oil Field was discovered and how it changed rural Texas into "Boomtown U.S.A."
Download or read book Bluebonnet at the East Texas Oil Museum written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by . This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Bluebonnet visits her sister Irmadillo, she meets her four nephews--Wildcatter, Bradford, Hunt, and Lloyd--all named for aspects of East Texas oil history. As the boys describe their namesakes, Bluebonnet learns how the East Texas Oil Field was discovered and how it changed rural Texas into "Boomtown U.S.A." Casad is Director of Mission for the United Methodist Church in the Dallas area. She is also the author of Bluebonnet at the Marshall Train Depot ($15.95), Bluebonnet at the Texas State Capitol ($15.95), and Bluebonnet at Johnson Space Center ($7.95 pb).
Download or read book Bluebonnet at the Ocean Star Museum written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2012-09-14 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tour the oil rig with our favorite armadillo! The latest in the adventure series finds Bluebonnet exploring the Ocean Star Museum in Galveston, Texas. To discover facts about the offshore oil system, she secretly follows a school group touring the museum. She learns about life on a drilling rig, offshore history, and rig safety through the tour guide and the knowledgeable pelican, Red.
Download or read book Bluebonnet at the State Fair of Texas written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08-19 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebonnet heads off to Dallas for a series of fall festivities. After a mishap at the Cotton Bowl, the well-traveled armadillo meets Joe Bob, a rabbit from east Texas. Together they explore the State Fair, make a surprise appearance in the fashion sewing contest, ride the roller coaster, see Big Tex, and experience the livestock show in this entertaining book for young readers.
Download or read book Bluebonnet at the Alamo written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Pelican Publishing Company, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-08-29 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her latest Texas adventure, everyone's favorite armadillo visits San Antonio. While at the Alamo, she meets Digger Diller, whose Great Great Grand Diller was there during the famous battle. Digger Diller even has Jim Bowie's knife! Bluebonnet thinks he should donate his family treasure to the Alamo Museum so everyone can learn from it. Can Bluebonnet convince him to share?
Download or read book Bluebonnet at Johnson Space Center written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 2002-09-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebonnet the armadillo visits the Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center in Houston and takes a ride on the space shuttle.
Download or read book Bluebonnet at the Texas State Capitol written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Bluebonnet. This book was released on 2017-04-28 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebonnet makes new friends as she learns about Texas history.
Download or read book Bluebonnet at Dinosaur Valley State Park written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1990 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebonnet the armadillo visits Dinosaur Valley State Park and has adventures with a glyptodon, an armadillo ancestor.
Download or read book East Texas Oil Museum written by Janet R. Edwards and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bluebonnet of the Hill Country written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum. This book was released on 1995-09 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a very special armadillo named Bluebonnet who was born near the banks of the Guadalupe River in Texas.
Download or read book The Art of Texas written by Ronnie C. Tyler and published by Texas Christian University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critic Michael Ennis stated twenty-five years ago that there has never been more than a cursory overview of Texas art from the nineteenth century to the present. The Art of Texas: 250 Years now tells a deeper story, beginning with Spanish colonial paintings and moving through two and a half centuries of art in Texas. By the twentieth century, most Texas artists had received formal training and produced work in styles similar to European and other American artists. Written by noted scholars, art historians, and curators, this survey is the first attempt to analyze and characterize Texas art on a grand scale.
Download or read book Bluebonnet at the Marshall Train Depot written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Pelican Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bluebonnet the armadillo visits the newly renovated train depot in Marshall, Texas, and learns a little about the history of the railroads.
Download or read book The Great Texas Oil Heist written by Robert Cargill and published by Stephen F. Austin University Press. This book was released on 2021-04 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was 1946. World War II was over. The thieves went to work. They drilled deviated wells from outside the East Texas Oil Field back into the oil that remained after 16 years of production. This was the oil field that supplied the oil needed for an Allied victory in 1945. The deviators continued their nefarious activity until an angry and aggressive attorney general led his posse of lawmen, including the Texas Rangers, into East Texas to stop the theft and administer Texas justice. I tell this story on the basis of 35 years of research and my father's well files. Yes, he drilled six of the nearly 400 deviated wells. I first learned of the so-called Slant-Hole scandal in late spring 1962. That's when colleagues in my research group at the University of California at Berkeley accosted me with the morning's San Francisco Chronicle. They knew my father was an East Texas oilman. One pointed to an article reporting that oilmen in East Texas had drilled "deviated" oil wells from beyond the known productive limits of the East Texas Oil Field to steal oil. "Has your dad been stealing oil?" "Of course, not!" I replied. I had known nothing of the illicit activity until that morning. Then a report in TIME further exposed the East Texas oil scandal that had erupted in my hometown of Longview. Here, then, for the first time, I reveal the story of how a few dozen oilmen stole up to 20 million barrels from the East Texas Oil Field. I am eager to share what I have learned and to tell the truth of the slant-hole scandal--the circumstances that made it inevitable, who did what to whom, and how the matter eventually reached its conclusion. Much of what I reveal in this book has been the tightly guarded secrets of the families of the participants so that grandchildren can be kept from knowledge of granddaddy's scandalous behavior. But most of what I reveal here lies barely hidden in the public record. The slant-hole story is a significant piece of Texas history, and it must be told before no one is left to tell it.
Download or read book In Their Shoes written by Grace Halsell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-31 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Probably no American journalist, man or woman, has had a more extraordinary career than Grace Halsell. Before President Lyndon Johnson personally hired her to work in the White House, Halsell had, over a period of two decades, written her way around the world - Europe, the Middle East, Africa, the Orient, and the Americas. Born on the windswept plains of West Texas, Halsell was encouraged from the age of five by her pioneer father, who had led cattle drives on the Chisolm Trail, "to travel, to get the benefit" of knowing other peoples. She began her travels at the age of twenty, going first to Mexico and then touring the British Isles by bicycle. Halsell studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and lived in London, Tokyo, Berlin, and Seoul. In Hong Kong, where she lived on a fishing junk with a Chineses family of nineteen, she wrote a column for the Tiger Standard; in Tokyo, where she slept on tatami mats, ate raw fish and took scalding ofuro baths, she was a columnist for the Japan Times. Moving to South America, she traveled on a tug for 2,000 miles down the Amazon and crossed the Andes by jeep. In Lima, she became a columnist for the Spanish-langauge daily, La Prensa. Halsell has seen the Big Buddha, the Taj Mahal, the pyramids and the Machu Micchu, has interviewed presidents, movie stars, kinds, and prime ministers. Her newspaper dispatches for the New York Herald Tribune, the New York Post, and the Christian Science Monitor have datelined war zones in Korea, Vietnam, and Bosnia, as well as Russia, China, Macedonia, and Albania.
Download or read book This Journal Belongs to Ratchet written by Nancy J. Cavanaugh and published by Sourcebooks, Inc.. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Move over Diary of a Wimpy Kid—there's a new journal in town and it belongs to Ratchet. "A book that is full of surprises...Triumphant enough to make readers cheer; touching enough to make them cry." —Kirkus, STARRED Review If only getting a new life were as easy as getting a new notebook. But it's not. It's the first day of school for all the kids in the neighborhood. But not for me. I'm homeschooled. That means nothing new. No new book bag, no new clothes, and no new friends. The best I've got is this notebook. I'm supposed to use it for my writing assignments, but my dad never checks. Here's what I'm really going to use it for: Ratchet's Top Secret Plan Turn my old, recycled, freakish, friendless life into something shiny and new. This Florida State Book Award gold medal winner is a heartfelt story about an unconventional girl's quest to make a friend, save a park, and find her own definition of normal.
Download or read book Central to Their Lives written by Lynne Blackman and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2018-06-20 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholarly essays on the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South Looking back at her lengthy career just four years before her death, modernist painter Nell Blaine said, "Art is central to my life. Not being able to make or see art would be a major deprivation." The Virginia native's creative path began early, and, during the course of her life, she overcame significant barriers in her quest to make and even see art, including serious vision problems, polio, and paralysis. And then there was her gender. In 1957 Blaine was hailed by Life magazine as someone to watch, profiled alongside four other emerging painters whom the journalist praised "not as notable women artists but as notable artists who happen to be women." In Central to Their Lives, twenty-six noted art historians offer scholarly insight into the achievements of female artists working in and inspired by the American South. Spanning the decades between the late 1890s and early 1960s, this volume examines the complex challenges these artists faced in a traditionally conservative region during a period in which women's social, cultural, and political roles were being redefined and reinterpreted. The presentation—and its companion exhibition—features artists from all of the Southern states, including Dusti Bongé, Anne Goldthwaite, Anna Hyatt Huntington, Ida Kohlmeyer, Loïs Mailou Jones, Alma Thomas, and Helen Turner. These essays examine how the variables of historical gender norms, educational barriers, race, regionalism, sisterhood, suffrage, and modernism mitigated and motivated these women who were seeking expression on canvas or in clay. Whether working from studio space, in spare rooms at home, or on the world stage, these artists made remarkable contributions to the art world while fostering future generations of artists through instruction, incorporating new aesthetics into the fine arts, and challenging the status quo. Sylvia Yount, the Lawrence A. Fleischman Curator in Charge of the American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, provides a foreword to the volume. Contributors: Sara C. Arnold Daniel Belasco Lynne Blackman Carolyn J. Brown Erin R. Corrales-Diaz John A. Cuthbert Juilee Decker Nancy M. Doll Jane W. Faquin Elizabeth C. Hamilton Elizabeth S. Hawley Maia Jalenak Karen Towers Klacsmann Sandy McCain Dwight McInvaill Courtney A. McNeil Christopher C. Oliver Julie Pierotti Deborah C. Pollack Robin R. Salmon Mary Louise Soldo Schultz Martha R. Severens Evie Torrono Stephen C. Wicks Kristen Miller Zohn
Download or read book Bluebonnet Visits Mount Vernon Texas written by Mary Brooke Casad and published by Eakin Press. This book was released on 2020-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the tenth book in the Bluebonnet Armadillo series, and it's very different from the previous books. We were commissioned to write and illustrate this book by the Franklin County Historical Association. Rather than focus on one Texas landmark, this story has Bluebonnet visiting a town full of them!
