Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938873621
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1279
Book Description
My Texas Family
Author: Rick Hyman
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738501819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Hyman family left Virginia when they were freed from slavery and settled in East Texas.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738501819
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 136
Book Description
The Hyman family left Virginia when they were freed from slavery and settled in East Texas.
Olympus, Texas: A GMA Book Club Pick
Author: Stacey Swann
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1984897403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut" (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga, rich in drama and psychological complexity. After all, at some point, don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?
Publisher: Anchor
ISBN: 1984897403
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
A Good Morning America Book Club Pick! • A bighearted novel with technicolor characters, plenty of Texas swagger, and a powder keg of a plot in which marriages struggle, rivalries flare, and secrets explode, all with a clever wink toward classical mythology. For fans of Madeline Miller's Circe: "The Iliad meets Friday Night Lights in this muscular, captivating debut" (Oprah Daily). The Briscoe family is once again the talk of their small town when March returns to East Texas two years after he was caught having an affair with his brother's wife. His mother, June, hardly welcomes him back with open arms. Her husband's own past affairs have made her tired of being the long-suffering spouse. Is it, perhaps, time for a change? Within days of March's arrival, someone is dead, marriages are upended, and even the strongest of alliances are shattered. In the end, the ties that hold them together might be exactly what drag them all down. An expansive tour de force, Olympus, Texas cleverly weaves elements of classical mythology into a thoroughly modern family saga, rich in drama and psychological complexity. After all, at some point, don't we all wonder: What good is this destructive force we call love?
Annotated Texas Family Code 2018
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938873621
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1279
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781938873621
Category : Domestic relations
Languages : en
Pages : 1279
Book Description
An East Texas Family’s Civil War
Author: John T. Whatley
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807171328
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
During six months in 1862, William Jefferson Whatley and his wife, Nancy Falkaday Watkins Whatley, exchanged a series of letters that vividly demonstrate the quickly changing roles of women whose husbands left home to fight in the Civil War. When William Whatley enlisted with the Confederate Army in 1862, he left his young wife Nancy in charge of their cotton farm in East Texas, near the village of Caledonia in Rusk County. In letters to her husband, Nancy describes in elaborate detail how she dealt with and felt about her new role, which thrust her into an array of unfamiliar duties, including dealing with increasingly unruly slaves, overseeing the harvest of the cotton crop, and negotiating business transactions with unscrupulous neighbors. At the same time, she carried on her traditional family duties and tended to their four young children during frequent epidemics of measles and diphtheria. Stationed hundreds of miles away, her husband could only offer her advice, sympathy, and shared frustration. In An East Texas Family’s Civil War, the Whatleys’ great-grandson, John T. Whatley, transcribes and annotates these letters for the first time. Notable for their descriptions of the unraveling of the local slave labor system and accounts of rural southern life, Nancy’s letters offer a rare window on the hardships faced by women on the home front taking on unprecedented responsibilities and filling unfamiliar roles.
A Southern Family in White and Black
Author: Douglas Hales
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more dramatically embodied than in three generations of the family of Norris Wright Cuney, mulatto labor and political leader. Douglas Hales explores the birthright Cuney received from his white plantation-owner father, Philip Cuney, and the way his heritage played out in the life of his daughter Maud Cuney-Hare. This intergenerational study casts light on the experience of race in the South before Emancipation, after Reconstruction, and in the diaspora that eventually led cultural leaders of African American heritage into the cities of the North. Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s generations. A politically active plantation owner and slaveholder in Austin County, Philip Cuney participated in the annexation of Texas to the United States and supported the role of slavery and cotton in the developing economy of the new state. Wealthy and powerful, he fathered eight slave children whom he later freed and saw educated. Hales explores how and why Cuney differed from other planters of his time and place. He then turns to the better-known Norris Wright Cuney to study how the black elite worked for political and economic opportunity in the reactionary period that followed Reconstruction in the South. Cuney led the Texas Republican Party in those turbulent years and, through his position as collection of customs at Galveston, distributed federal patronage to both white and black Texans. As the most powerful African American in Texas, and arguably in the entire South, Cuney became the focal point of white hostility, from both Democrats and members of the “Lily White” faction of his own party. His effective leadership won not only continued office for him but also a position of power within the Republican Party for Texas blacks at a time when the party of Lincoln repudiated African Americans in many other Southern states. From his position on the Galveston City Council, Cuney worked tirelessly for African American education and challenged the domination of white labor within the growing unions. Norris Wright Cuney’s daughter, Maud, who was graced with a prestigious education, pursued a successful career in the arts as a concert pianist, musicologist, and playwright. A friend of W. E. B. Du Bois, she became actively involved in the racial uplift movement of the early twentieth century. Hales illuminates her role in the intellectual and political “awakening” of black America that culminated in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He adroitly explores her decision against “passing” as white and her commitment to uplift. Through these three members of a single mixed-race family, Douglas Hales gives insight into the issues, challenges, and strengths of individuals. His work adds an important chapter to the history of Texas and of African Americans more broadly.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442003
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
The complex issues of race and politics in nineteenth-century Texas may be nowhere more dramatically embodied than in three generations of the family of Norris Wright Cuney, mulatto labor and political leader. Douglas Hales explores the birthright Cuney received from his white plantation-owner father, Philip Cuney, and the way his heritage played out in the life of his daughter Maud Cuney-Hare. This intergenerational study casts light on the experience of race in the South before Emancipation, after Reconstruction, and in the diaspora that eventually led cultural leaders of African American heritage into the cities of the North. Most Texas history books name Norris Wright Cuney as one of the most influential African American politicians in nineteenth-century Texas, but they tell little about him beyond his elected positions. In The Cuneys, Douglas Hales not only fills in the details of Cuney’s life and contributions but places him in the context of his family’s generations. A politically active plantation owner and slaveholder in Austin County, Philip Cuney participated in the annexation of Texas to the United States and supported the role of slavery and cotton in the developing economy of the new state. Wealthy and powerful, he fathered eight slave children whom he later freed and saw educated. Hales explores how and why Cuney differed from other planters of his time and place. He then turns to the better-known Norris Wright Cuney to study how the black elite worked for political and economic opportunity in the reactionary period that followed Reconstruction in the South. Cuney led the Texas Republican Party in those turbulent years and, through his position as collection of customs at Galveston, distributed federal patronage to both white and black Texans. As the most powerful African American in Texas, and arguably in the entire South, Cuney became the focal point of white hostility, from both Democrats and members of the “Lily White” faction of his own party. His effective leadership won not only continued office for him but also a position of power within the Republican Party for Texas blacks at a time when the party of Lincoln repudiated African Americans in many other Southern states. From his position on the Galveston City Council, Cuney worked tirelessly for African American education and challenged the domination of white labor within the growing unions. Norris Wright Cuney’s daughter, Maud, who was graced with a prestigious education, pursued a successful career in the arts as a concert pianist, musicologist, and playwright. A friend of W. E. B. Du Bois, she became actively involved in the racial uplift movement of the early twentieth century. Hales illuminates her role in the intellectual and political “awakening” of black America that culminated in the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. He adroitly explores her decision against “passing” as white and her commitment to uplift. Through these three members of a single mixed-race family, Douglas Hales gives insight into the issues, challenges, and strengths of individuals. His work adds an important chapter to the history of Texas and of African Americans more broadly.
Kingdom
Author: Jerome Tuccille
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587982262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with the life of H.L. Hunt, the oil tycoon, and his family.
Publisher: Beard Books
ISBN: 9781587982262
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
This is a reprint of a previously published work. It deals with the life of H.L. Hunt, the oil tycoon, and his family.
The Family Saga
Author: Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574411683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The family saga is made up of an accumulation of separate family legends. These are the stories of the old folks and the old times that are told among the family when they gather for funerals or Thanksgiving dinner. These are the "remember-when" stories the family tells about the time when the grownups were children.
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574411683
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The family saga is made up of an accumulation of separate family legends. These are the stories of the old folks and the old times that are told among the family when they gather for funerals or Thanksgiving dinner. These are the "remember-when" stories the family tells about the time when the grownups were children.
Searching for Perot
Author: Dave Lieber
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983614968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The first Ross Perot biography in 25 years by popular newspaper columnist Dave Lieber gathers the legendary stories about the beloved Texas billionaire in one place. Turns out that running for president of the United States (twice) was likely not the most important part of his life. Born during the Great Depression into a happy, peaceful East Texas life, he became one of America's patriots. Whether it was creating the computer services industry, battling General Motors to build better cars or helping veterans, Perot was all in. He woke up every day excited about who he could help and what problems he could solve. Yet the Perot story is also a grand saga of love passed down from generation to generation. And along with that love came strong business values that built the Perot family ethos: Always pursue world-class excellence.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780983614968
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The first Ross Perot biography in 25 years by popular newspaper columnist Dave Lieber gathers the legendary stories about the beloved Texas billionaire in one place. Turns out that running for president of the United States (twice) was likely not the most important part of his life. Born during the Great Depression into a happy, peaceful East Texas life, he became one of America's patriots. Whether it was creating the computer services industry, battling General Motors to build better cars or helping veterans, Perot was all in. He woke up every day excited about who he could help and what problems he could solve. Yet the Perot story is also a grand saga of love passed down from generation to generation. And along with that love came strong business values that built the Perot family ethos: Always pursue world-class excellence.
Midkiff
Author: Mary Lou Midkiff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976395508
Category : Midland (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From award-winning Western writer Elmer Kelton: "The story of the pioneering Midkiff family could, with individual variations, be the story of any number of Texas ranch and farm families. It is an account of sacrifice, hard work, and determination shared by so many who moved into sparsely-settled areas of rural Texas to make a home against challenging odds. They had to endure many obstacles: long distances from town, poor or non-existent roads, recurring droughts, undependable markets for what they produced and a perennial shortage of money. The days were long, the work physically demanding, the rewards all too often elusive. Though this is primarily one family's story, it could almost be a day-to-day account of any rural pioneer family of Texas in the 19th and 20th centuries."From Mike Cox, author of Texas Ranger Tales: "T.O. "Oscar" Midkiff stepped off the Texas and Pacific in Midland with three things: his saddle, $2.50 in cash, and a determination to become 'a real cowboy.' "Mary Lou Midkiff has traced her husband John's family from their roots in Tennessee and Georgia to Texas in a book that reads more like fiction than the carefully researched and documented history that it is."
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780976395508
Category : Midland (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
From award-winning Western writer Elmer Kelton: "The story of the pioneering Midkiff family could, with individual variations, be the story of any number of Texas ranch and farm families. It is an account of sacrifice, hard work, and determination shared by so many who moved into sparsely-settled areas of rural Texas to make a home against challenging odds. They had to endure many obstacles: long distances from town, poor or non-existent roads, recurring droughts, undependable markets for what they produced and a perennial shortage of money. The days were long, the work physically demanding, the rewards all too often elusive. Though this is primarily one family's story, it could almost be a day-to-day account of any rural pioneer family of Texas in the 19th and 20th centuries."From Mike Cox, author of Texas Ranger Tales: "T.O. "Oscar" Midkiff stepped off the Texas and Pacific in Midland with three things: his saddle, $2.50 in cash, and a determination to become 'a real cowboy.' "Mary Lou Midkiff has traced her husband John's family from their roots in Tennessee and Georgia to Texas in a book that reads more like fiction than the carefully researched and documented history that it is."
A Texas Family
Author: Linda Warren
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460320379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Texas-size secret… Nine years ago, Jena Brooks fled Willow Creek, Texas, as a frightened teenager. Now she's finally found the courage to come home, and this time she's not leaving without her baby. Memories of Asa Corbett stealing her newborn child still haunt Jena to this day. Unfortunately, her best chance at finding her baby is Asa's eldest son, local cop Carson Corbett. Trusting a Corbett again isn't easy, but they'll need to rely on each other completely to face their pasts and discover the truth. Together, Jena and Carson have a chance to heal old wounds and unite their families for good…if the truth doesn't first tear them apart.
Publisher: Harlequin
ISBN: 1460320379
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
A Texas-size secret… Nine years ago, Jena Brooks fled Willow Creek, Texas, as a frightened teenager. Now she's finally found the courage to come home, and this time she's not leaving without her baby. Memories of Asa Corbett stealing her newborn child still haunt Jena to this day. Unfortunately, her best chance at finding her baby is Asa's eldest son, local cop Carson Corbett. Trusting a Corbett again isn't easy, but they'll need to rely on each other completely to face their pasts and discover the truth. Together, Jena and Carson have a chance to heal old wounds and unite their families for good…if the truth doesn't first tear them apart.