Barker Texas History Center Series – serie
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Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
Häftad, 1978
189 kr
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Written in 1930, Coronado's Children was one of J. Frank Dobie's first books, and the one that helped gain him national prominence as a folklorist. In it, he recounts the tales and legends of those hardy souls who searched for buried treasure in the Southwest following in the footsteps of that …
Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days
Häftad, 1983
312 kr
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"I was but a boy in my nineteenth year, and in for adventure when I started out from Hopkinsville, Kentucky, with all my worldly possessions, consisting of a few dollars in money, a change of clothes, and a gun, of course, to seek my fortune in this lazy man's paradise." Noah Smithwick was an old …
Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer
Av Ella Elgar Bird Dumont, Tommy J. Boley
Häftad, 1988
292 kr
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A crack shot, expert skinner and tanner, seamstress, sculptor, and later writer-a list that only hints at her intelligence and abilities-Ella Elgar Bird Dumont was one of those remarkable women who helped tame the Texas frontier. First married at sixteen to a Texas Ranger, she followed her husband …
Prisoners of Perote
Häftad, 1977
283 kr
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In late 1842, Private William Preston Stapp and about three hundred other citizens of the Republic of Texas took it upon themselves to invade Mexico. They intended to retaliate for a recent Mexican attack on San Antonio and to humiliate President Sam Houston, who had been hesitant to seek …
Wind
Häftad, 1979
446 kr
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The Wind stirred up a fury among Texas readers when it was first published in 1925. This is the story of Letty, a delicate girl who is forced to move from lush Virginia to desolate West Texas. The numbing blizzards, the howling sand storms, and the loneliness of the prairie all combine to undo her …
