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Book Short Grass and Longhorns

Download or read book Short Grass and Longhorns written by Laura Vernon Hamner and published by . This book was released on 1943 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Short Grass   Longhorns

Download or read book Short Grass Longhorns written by Laura Vernon Hamner and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle

Download or read book Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle written by Paul H. Carlson and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outsider, he brought his business savvy and vision of civic growth to bear on America's last frontier.

Book Texas Women on the Cattle Trails

Download or read book Texas Women on the Cattle Trails written by Sara R. Massey and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tells the stories of sixteen women who drove cattle up the trail from Texas during the last half of the nineteenth century.

Book The Cowboy Encyclopedia

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  • Author : Richard W. Slatta
  • Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
  • Release : 1996
  • ISBN : 9780393314731
  • Pages : 504 pages

Download or read book The Cowboy Encyclopedia written by Richard W. Slatta and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over 450 entries provide information on cowboy history, culture, and myth of both North and South America.

Book The LH7 Ranch  in Houston s Shadow

Download or read book The LH7 Ranch in Houston s Shadow written by Deborah Lightfoot Sizemore and published by . This book was released on 1991-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Emil Henry Marks and the LH7 Ranch he founded records not only the history of a unique family but also tells something of the cattle business on the coastal prairies of Texas when ranching was the principal industry of the region, before Houston became a major metropolitan center and industry became king. It also chronicles the beginning of the Salt Grass Trail, one of Houston's most enduring traditions. Marks registered the LH7 brand in Harris County in 1898 and started the ranch with 63 acres of grass west of Houston and a few Longhorn cattle. By the early 1930s the LH7 was running 6,670 head on 36,000 acres. The city's shadow loomed over the LH7 in the 1940s and 1950s, and eventually a big bite of the ranch was condemned to protect booming Houston from flooding along Buffalo Bayou. At age seventy, Marks made the first Salt Grass Trail ride in January, 1952, which is reenacted each February to kick off the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo.

Book Shortgrass Song

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mike Blakely
  • Publisher : Macmillan
  • Release : 1995-06-15
  • ISBN : 0812530292
  • Pages : 603 pages

Download or read book Shortgrass Song written by Mike Blakely and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1995-06-15 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows a Texas family in the 1800s through Civil War battles, buffalo hunts, barroom shootouts, Indian wars, blizzards, and trail drives.

Book Game of My Life Texas Longhorns

Download or read book Game of My Life Texas Longhorns written by Michael Pearle and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-08-22 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Game of My Life Texas Longhorns, prominent Texas players of the past and coach Darrell Royal share their fondest experiences and game-day memories of the games they remember the most, largely in their own words, with authors Michael Pearle and Bill Frisbie. Longhorn greats take the reader on a journey back to some of the greatest games in Texas history. How did Earl Campbell prove that he was worthy of the Heisman? How did a Snickers bar help convince Ricky Williams to return to Texas for his senior year? What was Vince Young really thinking just before the 2006 Rose Bowl? In Game of My Life Texas Longhorns, fans will find the answers to these questions and many more as more than twenty of the greatest players relive the moment that shaped their college football career. Within these pages, Texas fans will finally get the chance to step into the game and onto the grass with their favorite Longhorns legends. UT grads Michael Pearle and Bill Frisbie walk readers down memory lane to capture some of the most exciting, poignant, and fulfilling games ever played by the Horns. A must-have for any Horns fan.

Book The Longhorns

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Frank Dobie
  • Publisher : Booksales
  • Release : 1999-08
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 458 pages

Download or read book The Longhorns written by James Frank Dobie and published by Booksales. This book was released on 1999-08 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a history of the Texas longhorn cattle in the West and of the cowboys who lived alongside them.

Book The Mark Inside

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  • Author : Amy Reading
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2013-02-26
  • ISBN : 0307473597
  • Pages : 306 pages

Download or read book The Mark Inside written by Amy Reading and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1919, Texas rancher J. Frank Norfleet lost everything he had in a stock market swindle—twice. But instead of slinking home in shame, he turned the tables on the confidence men. Armed with a revolver and a suitcase full of disguises, Norfleet set out to capture the five men who had conned him, allowing himself to be ensnared in the con again and again to gather evidence on his enemies. Through the story of Norfleet’s ingenious reverse-swindle, Amy Reading reveals the fascinating mechanics behind the big con—an artful performance targeted to the most vulnerable points of human nature—and invites you into the crooked history of a nation on the hustle, constantly feeding the hunger and the hope of the mark inside.

Book The Longhorns

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Frank Dobie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1980
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 388 pages

Download or read book The Longhorns written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The longhorns

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  • Author : James Frank Dobie
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 387 pages

Download or read book The longhorns written by James Frank Dobie and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Lonesome Plains

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  • Author : Louis Fairchild
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9781585441822
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book The Lonesome Plains written by Louis Fairchild and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Loneliness pervaded the lives of pioneers on the American plains, including the empty expanses of West Texas. Most settlers lived in isolation broken only by occasional community gatherings such as funerals and religious revivals. In The Lonesome Plains, Louis Fairchild mines the letters and journals of West Texas settlers, as well as contemporary fiction and poetry, to record the emotions attending solitude and the ways people sought relief. Hungering for neighborliness, people came together in times of misfortune--sickness, accident, and death--and at annual religious services. In fascinating detail, Fairchild describes the practices that grew up around these two focal points of social life. He recounts the building of coffins and preparation of a body for burial, the conflicting emotions of the pain of death and the hope of heaven, the funeral rite itself, the lost and lonely graves. And he tells the story of yearly outdoor revivals: the choice of the meeting site and construction of the arbor or other shelter, the provision of food, the music and emotionally-charged services, and tangential courting and mischief. Loneliness is most recognized as a feature of life in the time of the early West Texas cattle industry, a period of sprawling cattle ranches and legendary cattle drives, roughly from 1867 to 1885. But Fairchild shows that it also characterized the lives of settlers who lived in West Texas from the beginning of permanent settlement of the Texas Panhandle (around 1876) through the population shift that occured around the turn of the century, as farmers and their families supplanted ranchers and their cattle. Fairchild draws on primary materials of the early residents to give voice to the settlers themselves and skillfully weaves a moving picture of life in the open spaces of West Texas during the frontier-rural period of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1421425904
  • Pages : pages

Download or read book written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Cowboys   Longhorns

Download or read book Cowboys Longhorns written by Jerry Stanley and published by Crown Books For Young Readers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at the fascinating and true story of how Texas Longhorns were run from Texas to Kansas so they could be shipped to meet the new demand for beef in the eastern U.S. Filled with gritty details, excerpts from first-hand accounts, photos, and other visuals, this will be a great choice for readers interested in the real story behind this compelling and pivotal part of U.S. history.

Book Longhorns Bring Culture

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  • Author : August Herman Schatz
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2012-06-01
  • ISBN : 9781258397692
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book Longhorns Bring Culture written by August Herman Schatz and published by . This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Learning from Longhorns

Download or read book Learning from Longhorns written by Lester Galbreath and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of the Texas Longhorn with wit and folk wisdom in the tradition of cattle drover, Lester Galbreath offers his ruminations on the breed, gained from his vantage point as longtime park ranger who wrangles the Longhorn herd headquartered a Fort Griffin State Park.