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West Texas
A History of the Giant Side of the State
Av Paul H. Carlson, Bruce A. Glasrud
Häftad, 2014
254 kr
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Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul …
Comanche Jack Stilwell
Army Scout and Plainsman
Av Clint E. Chambers, Paul H. Carlson
Häftad, 2019
249 kr
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In 1863, the thirteen-year-old boy who would come to be called Comanche Jack was sent to the well to fetch water. Instead, he joined a wagon train bound for Santa Fe. Thus began the exploits of Simpson E. ""Jack"" Stilwell (1850-1903), a man generally known for slipping through Indian lines to get …
Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
History and Geology
Inbunden, 2005
415 kr
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Carlson writes well in a style that lends itself to an understanding of how man got to the high plains, and what he did once he arrived. Highly recommended reading' - New Mexico Historical Notebook"". Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for …
Deep Time and the Texas High Plains
History and Geology
Häftad, 2005
232 kr
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'Carlson writes well in a style that lends itself to an understanding of how man got to the high plains, and what he did once he arrived. Highly recommended reading' - ""New Mexico Historical Notebook"". Humans have visited the Texas High Plains, and in particular the upper Brazos River region, for …
Myth, Memory, and Massacre
The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
Häftad, 2012
283 kr
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In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross raided a Comanche hunting camp, killed several Indians, and took three prisoners. One was the woman they would identify as Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive from …
Texas Woollybacks
The Range Sheep and Goat Industry
Häftad, 2016
254 kr
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Paul Carlson engagingly chronicles the developmentof the range sheep and goat industry from Spanishtimes to about 1930, when widespread use ofmesh-wire fences brought an end to the open-rangemanagement of sheep and goat ranches in Texas.
Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877
Häftad, 2018
254 kr
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In the middle of the arid summer of 1877, a drought year in West Texas, a troop of some forty buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers) struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches who had been raiding …
Heaven's Harsh Tableland
A New History of the Llano Estacado
Inbunden, 2023
496 kr
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The Llano Estacado—dubbed by author Paul H. Carlson as “heaven’s harsh tableland”—covers some 48,000 square miles of western Texas and eastern New Mexico. In this new survey of the region, the story begins during prehistoric times and with descendants of the Comanche, Apache, and other Native …
Amarillo
The Story of a Western Town
Häftad, 2026
207 kr
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Amarillo, the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle, is known far beyond its immediate vicinity—the high tableland called the Llano Estacado. The famous highway Route 66 ran through the very heart of Amarillo. Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, Neil Sedaka, and James Durst each recorded a different song …
Slavery to Integration
Black Americans in West Texas
Av Et Al Glasrud, Bruce A. Glasrud m. fl.
Häftad, 2008, 9-12 år
254 kr
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Black Americans arrived in West Texas in the early sixteenth century and nearly five centuries later continue to contribute to the region that shares so many characteristics with the western United States. Despite that distinguishing feature, no published study covers the lives of African Americans …
Georgia O'Keeffe in Texas: a Guide
Häftad, 2012, 9-12 år
225 kr
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Georgia O'Keeffe, a superbly gifted American artist usually associated with New Mexico, spent nearly four years in Texas, most of them in the Panhandle. She taught art in the public schools of Amarillo for two years, 1912-1914, and headed the art department at West Texas Normal College (now West …
Amarillo
The Story of a Western Town
Inbunden, 2006
348 kr
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'Step into the Real Texas' - 'Amarillo Chamber of Commerce'. Amarillo, the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle, is known far beyond its immediate vicinity the high tableland called the Llano Estacado. The famous highway Route 66 ran through the very heart of Amarillo. Alan Jackson, Emmylou Harris, …
Myth, Memory, and Massacre
The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker
Inbunden, 2010
352 kr
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In December 1860, along a creek in northwest Texas, a group of U.S. Cavalry under Sgt. John Spangler and Texas Rangers led by Sul Ross raided a Comanche hunting camp, killed several Indians, and took three prisoners. One was the woman they would identify as Cynthia Ann Parker, taken captive from …
Dancin' in Anson
A History of the Texas Cowboys' Christmas Ball
Inbunden, 2014
309 kr
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In the 1880s, there wasn't much in Anson, Texas, in the way of entertainment for the area’s cowhands. But Star Hotel operator M. G. Rhodes changed that when he hosted a Grand Ball the weekend before Christmas. A restless traveling salesman, rancher, and poet from New York named William Lawrence …
Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877
Inbunden, 2003
294 kr
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The year 1877 was a drought year in West Texas. In the middle of that arid summer, a troop of some forty buffalo soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers) struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada Comanches who had been …
