Sam Rayburn Series on Rural Life – serie
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Brush Men and Vigilantes
Civil War Dissent in Texas
Av David Pickering, Judy Falls
Häftad, 2004
194 kr
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As Charles Frazier's novel Cold Mountain dramatizes, dissenters from the Confederacy lived in mortal danger throughout the South. In scattered pockets from the Carolinas to the frontier in Texas, these dissenters, or ""brush men,"" often died at the hands of their own neighbors as a result of their …
Texas, Cotton, and the New Deal
Häftad, 2015
246 kr
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Cotton supplied the Native Americans with clothing fibers before the Spanish ever entered Texas. It drew Southern settlers fleeing U.S. antislavery trends during the Mexican Republic in the 1820s. By the early 1930s, cotton was produced in 223 of the 254 counties in Texas and was a central element …
Ten Dollars to Hate
The Texas Man Who Fought the Klan
Häftad, 2018
303 kr
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Ten Dollars to Hate tells the story of the massive Ku Klux Klan of the 1920s—by far the most “successful” incarnation since its inception in the ashes of the Civil War—and the first prosecutor in the nation to successfully convict and jail Klan members. Dan Moody, a twenty-nine-year-old Texas …
Lone Star Picture Shows
Inbunden, 2001
409 kr
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An examination of the evolution of the movie industry in Texas, recreating the environment of the darkened movie theatre. Drawing on interviews with theatre managers, cashiers, projectionists and others, the author seeks to describe life in the movie business throughout the 20th century.
Her Act and Deed
Women's Lives in a Rural Southern County
Inbunden, 2001
352 kr
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This text follows the threads of Southern women's lives as they weave through the public records of one Texas county during the 19th century. It seeks to illuminate the truths of the feminine world of this period and challenge the theory of men's and women's separate spheres of influence.
Rock Beneath the Sand
Country Churches in Texas
Av Lois E. Myers, Rebecca Sharpless
Inbunden, 2003
398 kr
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Cotton has disappeared from the land of Texas and only the churches remain of the communities that grew around it. This title set out to understand the staying power of these rural churches, which remain while the surrounding communities have given way to larger towns and cities nearby.
Murder and Mayhem
The War of Reconstruction in Texas
Av James M. Smallwood, Barry A. Crouch m. fl.
Inbunden, 2003
294 kr
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In the states of the former Confederacy, Reconstruction amounted to a second Civil War, one that white southerners were determined to win. An important chapter in that undeclared conflict played out in northeast Texas, in the Corners region. This book details the violent events that played out.
Gospel Tracks Through Texas
The Mission of the Chapel Car Good Will
Inbunden, 2005
342 kr
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In 1895 a different kind of railroad car rolled into Texas, bringing the ""good news"" of the evangelical Gospel to transient railroad workers and far-flung communities alike. A ministry to railroad men and their families lay at the heart of chapel car work, which over a period of fifty years saw …
Bootlegger's Other Daughter
Häftad, 2004
185 kr
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The generation that toiled through the Great Depression and won the Second World War has become known as ""the greatest generation."" But not all of them qualified for that exaggerated epithet in the eyes of their own children. In this tender but unsparing memoir, Mary Cimarolli remembers a world …
Woman of Letters, Karle Wilson Baker
Inbunden, 2005
422 kr
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Karle Wilson Baker was the best-known Texas poet of the early twentieth century. Yet, while many of her male contemporaries remain well known to Texas literature, she does not. Her energy and significant role in shaping the literature of Texas equaled those of Walter Prescort Webb or J. Frank …
Mennonites in Texas
The Quiet in the Land
Av Laura L. Camden, Susan Gaetz Duarte m. fl.
Inbunden, 2006
398 kr
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With their distinctive head coverings, plain dress, and quiet, unassuming demeanor, the Mennonites are a striking presence within the often flamboyant and proud people of Texas. If you have seen them at a gas station, in a grocery store, or even at the Dallas - Fort Worth airport, you have probably …
Birds of Tanglewood
Inbunden, 2006
215 kr
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In the intimate language of one who watched birds daily, Karle Wilson Baker brought readers face to face with the wonders of the East Texas woods in the 1930s. She wrote about tiny warblers, industrious chickadees, and purple finches; the aery trills and tantalizing color flashes of the …
Feud That Wasn't
The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in Texas
Inbunden, 2008
352 kr
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Marauding outlaws, or violent rebels still bent on fighting the Civil War? For decades, the so-called ""Taylor-Sutton feud"" has been seen as a bloody vendetta between two opposing gangs of Texas gunfighters. However, historian James M. Smallwood here shows that what seemed to be random lawlessness …
Texas Confederate, Reconstruction Governor
James Webb Throckmorton
Inbunden, 2008
352 kr
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Of the 174 delegates to the Texas convention on secession in 1861, only 8 voted against the motion to secede. James Webb Throckmorton of McKinney was one of them. Yet upon the outbreak of the Civil War, he joined the Confederate Army and fought in a number of campaigns. At war's end, his centrist …
Ground on Which I Stand
Tamina, a Freedmen’s Town
Av Marti Corn
Inbunden, 2016
467 kr
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In 1871, newly freed slaves established the community ofTamina—then called “Tammany”—north of Houston, near therich timber lands of Montgomery County. Located in proximityto the just-completed railroad from Conroe to Houston, thecommunity benefited from the burgeoning local lumber industryand …
