Download or read book Wild East Texas Tales written by W. J. Riley and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-02-07 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Tale Tails and Short Storys as well as a few Poems. The storys are based on People and places that were real but have been altered and combined with others. They are Both storys of Humer and Morals.
Download or read book East Texas Tales written by Bill Brett and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Morgan s East Texas Tales written by Kenneth Morgan and published by . This book was released on 1997-06-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book East Texas written by Michael Dougan and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Tales from the Big Thicket written by Francis Edward Abernethy and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.
Download or read book Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You written by C. F. Eckhardt and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 1997-12-30 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charlie Eckhardt, a newspaper columnist and owner of the Lone Star Barber Shop in Seguin, Texas, spins his tales as only Charlie can. This book covers such topics as the little-known first Texas revolution and the counterrevolution of 1838-1840; the Linville raid; the legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas; Jim Bowie's famous knife and Sam Colt's equally famous pistol; and many more. From the early days of Texas up to the saving of the oil industry, Charlie tells 'em like he heard 'em and assures that some of the stories are actually true.
Download or read book There Ain t No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales written by Bill Brett and published by Texas A & M University Press. This book was released on 1979 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms, tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure take in the telling and the listening, tales with a strong sense of place and people, rooted firmly in the oral tradition. Sure enough, there ain't no such animal” as a completely honest man, as the title story shows. Other stories tell of justice as swift and sure as a mule's kick, of epic brawls and the trials of courtship, of poachers, politicians, and preachers, of hogs and dogs and horse traders, of good neighboring and bad blood, of life and death and youth and age in southeast Texas as it was early in the twentieth century. In the tradition of Frank Dobie and Fred Gipson, Bill Brett writes with the natural humor and wisdom of the folk themselves. His stories will delight anyone with an interest in folk life or with the inclination to stop and set a spell” and listen to a good yarn.
Download or read book Bloomin Tales written by Cherie Foster Colburn and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven tales from Texas reveal the stories behind wildflowers as they were told by Native Americans, Mexicans, or European settlers. Includes "fun facts" about each flower and notes on the stories.
Download or read book Under the Chinaberry Tree written by Tumbleweed Smith and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of some of the most fascinating East Texas tales and folk wisdom that the author has gathered over the years.
Download or read book Ten Texas Tales written by Robert Gilstrap and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of stories and legends about Texas and Texans.
Download or read book East Texas Tales written by Van Craddock and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of columns written for the Longview (Texas) News-Journal. Spans 1978-2009
Download or read book Texas Tales written by Myra Hargrave McIlvain and published by Sunstone Press. This book was released on 2017-11-15 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These tales trace the Texas story, from Cabeza de Vaca who trekked barefoot across the country recording the first accounts of Indian life, to impresarios like Stephen F. Austin and Don Martín DeLeón who brought settlers into Mexican Texas. There are visionaries like Padre José Nicolás Ballí, the Singer family, and Sam Robertson, who tried and failed to develop Padre Island into the wonderland that it is today. There are legendary characters like Sally Skull who had five husbands and may have killed some of them, and Josiah Wilbarger who was scalped and lived another ten years to tell about it. Also included are the stories of Shanghai Pierce, cattleman extraordinaire, who had no qualms about rounding up other folks’ calves, and Tol Barret who drilled Texas’ first oil well over thirty years before Spindletop changed the world. The Sanctified Sisters got rich running a commune for women, and millionaire oilman Edgar B. Davis gave away his money as fast as he made it. Sam Houston, Jean Lafitte, Antonio López de Santa Anna, Lucy Kidd-Key, Minnie Fisher Cunningham, all these characters and many more—early-day adventurers, Civil War heroes, and latter-day artists and musicians—created the patchwork called Texas.
Download or read book East Texas Tales Book 2 ba Continued Celebration of Piney Woods People Places Facts and Fables cby Van Craddock written by Van Craddock and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of columns written for the Longview (Texas) News-Journal. Spans 2008-2014.
Download or read book Reflections on the Neches written by Geraldine Ellis Watson and published by University of North Texas Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Download or read book Cowboy Stories from East Texas written by John Lash and published by . This book was released on 1991-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Follows the life of a fictional East Texas cowboy family.
Download or read book Tall Tales from Texas written by Mody Coggin Boatright and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-07-04 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the heart of the Lone Star State with "Tall Tales from Texas"! If you've ever yearned for a taste of Texas-sized tales, then buckle up and prepare for a wild, windswept ride. This book is a captivating collection of stories teeming with larger-than-life characters, fantastical creatures, and whirlwinds of adventure that will have you chuckling, gasping, and marveling page after page. No collection of Texan tales would be without the legendary Pecos Bill! The final three stories are devoted to this larger-than-life hero. "The Genesis of Pecos Bill" introduces us to the birth of this extraordinary character. Follow his wild and outrageous "Adventures of Pecos Bill", where reality is bent and twisted, and the impossible is just another day in the life. Finally, bear witness to "The Exodus of Pecos Bill", an epic conclusion to a story as vast as Texas itself. Get ready to holler "Yeehaw!" with "Tall Tales from Texas", a tribute to the Lone Star State's legacy of storytelling. Prepare to be swept away by the Pecos wind and thrown into a world where the wild roams free, and tall tales stand even taller.
Download or read book The Thicket written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by Mulholland Books. This book was released on 2013-09-10 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a Tubi original film starring Peter Dinklage and Juliette Lewis, this rip-roaring adventure set at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom is the perfect introduction to Joe R. Lansdale, whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm — or Mark Twain" (New York Times Book Review). Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas -- orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle's farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack's grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes the likes of which has never been seen if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who's come into some very intimate knowledge about the bandits (and a few members of Jack's extended family to boot). In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack's about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme. In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in an action-packed adventure that's equal parts True Grit and Stand by Me.
