Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine

Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine PDF Author: Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
Sixteen women tell their stories, providing a personal history of the state of Texas.

Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine

Texas Tears and Texas Sunshine PDF Author: Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300

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Book Description
Sixteen women tell their stories, providing a personal history of the state of Texas.

Frontier Blood

Frontier Blood PDF Author: Jo Ella Powell Exley
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.

Women in Texas History

Women in Texas History PDF Author: Angela Boswell
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623497078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 368

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Winner, 2019 Liz Carpenter Award, sponsored by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) In recent decades, a small but growing number of historians have dedicated their tireless attention to analyzing the role of women in Texas history. Each contribution—and there have been many—represents a brick in the wall of new Texas history. From early Native societies to astronauts, Women in Texas History assembles those bricks into a carefully crafted structure as the first book to cover the full scope of Texas women’s history. By emphasizing the differences between race and ethnicity, Angela Boswell uses three broad themes to tie together the narrative of women in Texas history. First, the physical and geographic challenges of Texas as a place significantly affected women’s lives, from the struggles of isolated frontier farming to the opportunities and problems of increased urbanization. Second, the changing landscape of legal and political power continued to shape women’s lives and opportunities, from the ballot box to the courthouse and beyond. Finally, Boswell demonstrates the powerful influence of social and cultural forces on the identity, agency, and everyday life of women in Texas. In challenging male-dominated legal and political systems, Texan women shaped (and were shaped by) class, religion, community organizations, literary and artistic endeavors, and more. Women in Texas History is the first book to narrate the entire span of Texas women’s history and marks a major achievement in telling the full story of the Lone Star State. Historians and general readers alike will find this book an informative and enjoyable read for anyone interested in the history of Texas or the history of women.

Women in Civil War Texas

Women in Civil War Texas PDF Author: Deborah M. Liles
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416510
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Women in Civil War Texas is the first book dedicated to the unique experiences of Texas women during the Civil War. It fills the literary void in Texas women’s history during this time, connects Texas women’s lives to southern women’s history, and shares the diversity of experiences of women in Texas during the Civil War. An introductory essay situates the anthology within both Civil War and Texas women’s history. Contributors explore Texas women and their vocal support for secession and in support of a war, coping with their husbands’ wartime absences, the importance of letter-writing as a means of connecting families, and how pro-Union sentiment caused serious difficulties for women. They also analyze the effects of ethnicity, focusing on African American, German, and Tejana women’s experiences. Finally, two essays examine the problem of refugee women in east Texas and the dangers facing western frontier women. These essays develop the historical understanding of what it meant to be a Texas woman during the Civil War and also contribute to a deeper understanding of the complexity of the war and its effects.

Texas Cowboys

Texas Cowboys PDF Author: Jim Lanning
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890966587
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 260

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A collection of twenty-three Depression-era interviews in which Texas cowhands describe their everyday responsibilities and experiences.

Breathless

Breathless PDF Author: Lex Martin
Publisher: Lex Martin
ISBN: 1950554007
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 347

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I have one goal—protect my heart from my best friend—the handsome Texas rancher next door, who has no clue that I've loved him my whole life… even with a front row seat to his revolving bedroom door. Joey... I didn't exactly run away. I'd call it self-preservation. My escape plan almost worked. Except I left one thing behind. Logan Carter hijacked my heart, and now it's time to get it back. This time for good. Logan... I'm not lying exactly… not about everything. Not about how much I miss my best friend Joey, and definitely not about how pissed I am that she left with hardly a goodbye. She's the last person I ever expected to ghost me, and her absence left a gaping hole in my chest. When Joey Grayson steps off that bus, I know I'll do anything to keep her home, and that means being honest. But I'm not sure how to tell her my truths, when I'm living so many lies. * * * Breathless is a swoony standalone best friends-to-lovers romance novel in the USA Today bestselling Texas Nights series. It’s a perfectly sweet, but passionately sexy story of unrequited love with plenty of angst and humor. If you enjoy irresistible, slow burn, small-town Western romances, this book is for you! Will Logan finally quit holding back his true feelings, when Joey tells him that she’s going back to Florida, during an emotional walk together on the beach… or will he let her disappear from his life forever? “It has been a long time since I stayed up past midnight reading a book without even realizing it. This friends to lovers story hit me right in the feels, tugging on my heartstrings, pining right alongside with Joey for those long awaited feelings to be reciprocated from the man she loved in secret for years. Being seen as a little sister has never been what Joey wanted, but how do you get yourself out of the friend zone with a handsome cowboy like Logan?”- Reader Review

Tomorrow's Garden

Tomorrow's Garden PDF Author: Amanda Cabot
Publisher: Revell
ISBN: 0800733266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Book Description
This Texas historical romance features a young schoolteacher determined to put the past behind her and look toward a brighter tomorrow.

Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado

Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado PDF Author: Bill Neal
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574417061
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were enraged by the encroachment of these “nesters.” In August 1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and murdered J. W. Jarrott. Who hired Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now. Award-winning author Bill Neal investigates this cold case and successfully pieces together all the threads of circumstantial evidence to fit the noose snugly around the neck of Jim Miller’s employer. What emerges from these pages is the strength of intriguing characters in an engrossing narrative: Jim Jarrott, the diminutive advocate who fearlessly champions the cause of the little guy. The ruthless and slippery assassin, Deacon Jim Miller. And finally Jarrott’s young widow Mollie, who perseveres and prospers against great odds and tells the settlers to “Stay put!”

Kisses of Sunshine for Women

Kisses of Sunshine for Women PDF Author: Carol Kent
Publisher: Zondervan
ISBN: 0310247683
Category : Christian women
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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"This devotional provides sources of hope for readers"--Provided by the publisher.

Texas Dames

Texas Dames PDF Author: Carmen Goldthwaite
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1614237093
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 201

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These are the Texas Dames, women who sallied forth to run sprawling ranches, build towns, helm major banks and shape Lone Star history. These "Dames" broke gender and racial barriers in every facet of life. Some led the way as heroines, while others slid headlong into notoriety, but nearly all exhibited similar strands of courage and determination to wrest a country, a state and a region from the wilds. From Angelina of the Hasinai, interpreter for the Spanish, and sharpshooter Sally Scull to Dr. Claudia Potter, America's first female anesthesiologist, and Birdie Harwood, first female mayor in the United States, historian Carmen Goldthwaite has been profiling Texas women and their accomplishments in her popular "Texas Dames" column. Here are their stories, from early Tejas to the twentieth century.