Author: James Cozine
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411756
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 313
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The Big Thicket of East Texas, which at one time covered over two million acres, served as a barrier to civilizations throughout most of historic times. This text is a classic account of the region's history and a play-by-play narrative of the prolonged fight for the Big Thicket Preserve.
Author: Lorraine G. Bonney
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441318X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 865
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Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
Author: Pete Addison Y. Gunter
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9780929398525
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 252
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When a bill creating the Big Thicket National Preserve was signed into law, it climaxed more than half a century of environmental debate, planning and destruction. The preserve opened new vistas for recreation. In this revised and updated version, Gunter not only describes the history and rich diversity of the region saved from the bulldozers of real estate developers and lumber companies, but also the dimensions of the new Big Thicket Preserve. He makes it possible to plan a trip there by including descriptions of each stream corridor unit, maps and canoeing conditions, hiking trails, and camping facilities. He lists representative flora and fauna. The book provides a background—both historical and biological—which will make clear just what the visitor to the Big Thicket is seeing; why it has mattered, and why it will continue to matter.
Author: Campbell Loughmiller
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 157441156X
Category : Big Thicket (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
Author: Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574411423
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
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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.
Author: Geraldine Ellis Watson
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574411608
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 377
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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).
Author: Ken Gire
Publisher: Focus on the Family Pub
ISBN: 9780929608723
Category : Animals
Languages : en
Pages : 115
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Follows the adventures of a group of small animals living in a bayou in East Texas. Each adventure concludes with a Bible verse.
Author: Geyata Ajilvsgi
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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"A total of 475 wild flowers from the area of Texas' Big Thicket are described and spectacularly pictured in true-to-life, full-color photographs in this field guide to one of the United States' most diverse, complex, and biologically lavish wild-flower regions"--Inside flap.
Author: Bud Shrake
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292748523
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Edwin "Bud" Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of the Texas Republic to the making of the atomic bomb. His real gift has been to capture the Texas Zeitgeist. Legendary Harper's Magazine editor Willie Morris called Shrake's essay "Land of the Permanent Wave" one of the two best pieces Morris ever published during his tenure at the magazine. High praise, indeed, when one considers that Norman Mailer and Seymour Hersh were just two of the luminaries featured at Harper's during Morris's reign. This anthology is the first to present and explore Shrake's writing completely, including his journalism, fiction, and film work, both published and previously unpublished. The collection makes innovative use of his personal papers and letters to explore the connections between his journalism and his novels, between his life and his art. An exceptional behind-the-scenes look at his life, Land of the Permanent Wave reveals and reveres the life and calling of a writer whose legacy continues to influence and engage readers and writers nearly fifty years into his career.
Author: Edward Swift
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 9780820321004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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The author recounts his youth in the Big Thicket region of eastern Texas during the 1940s and 1950s, and describes the distinctive way of life in the area and some of the people that lived there.
