Author: West Texas Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The West Texas Historical Association Year Book
Author: West Texas Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
The West Texas Historical Association Year Book
Author: West Texas Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
West Texas
Author: Paul H. CarlsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145234
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 393
Book Description
Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary. In four parts—comprehending the place, people, politics and economic life, and society and culture—Carlson and Glasrud and their contributors survey the confluence of life and landscape shaping the West Texas of today. Early chapters define the region. The “giant side of Texas” is a nineteenth-century geographical description of a vast area that includes the Panhandle, Llano Estacado, Permian Basin, and Big Bend–Trans-Pecos country. It is an arid, windblown environment that connects intimately with the history of Texas culture. Carlson and Glasrud take a nonlinear approach to exploring the many cultural influences on West Texas, including the Tejanos, the oil and gas economy, and the major cities. Readers can sample topics in whichever order they please, whether they are interested in learning about ranching, recreation, or turn-of-the-century education. Throughout, familiar western themes arise: the urban growth of El Paso is contrasted with the mid-century decline of small towns and the social shifting that followed. Well-known Texas scholars explore popular perceptions of West Texas as sparsely populated and rife with social contradiction and rugged individualism. West Texas comes into yet clearer view through essays on West Texas women, poets, Native peoples, and musicians. Gathered here is a long overdue consideration of the landscape, culture, and everyday lives of one of America’s most iconic and understudied regions.
A Personal Country
Author: A. C. GreenePublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574410532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 372
Book Description
Describes growing up in small town West Texas in the early twentieth century focusing on fishing, festivals, and friendships. Also discusses the difficult struggles which many people experienced as well as portraying unusual people in humorous anecdotes.
Whistle in the Piney Woods
Author: Robert S. MaxwellPublisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 9781574410617
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Story of the founding of the Houston, East and West Texas Railroad, its symbiotic relationship with forests and the lumber industry and its role in the development of East Texas.
The Wind
Author: Dorothy ScarboroughPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292785895
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 358
Book Description
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 nerves. But it is the wind itself, a demon personified, that eventually drives her over the brink of madness.
The Big Bend
Author: Ronnie C. TylerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Big Bend National Park (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
On the Border with Mackenzie, Or, Winning West Texas from the Comanches
Author: Robert Goldthwaite CarterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Comanche Indians
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Lambshead Before Interwoven
Author: Frances Mayhugh HoldenPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890961223
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
The history of Lambshead Ranch which is located in Throckmorton and Shackelford counties, Texas. The Lambshead Ranch area was occupied by several persons, including Randolph March, Robert Neighbors, and Jesse Stem, an Indian agent, who established an Indian agency there. Stem was killed by Indians, and his wife oversaw expansion of the ranch. The ranch is named for Thomas Lambshead, born in 1805 in England, who emigrated to Texas around 1847. Thomas bought land in the nearby Round Mountain Creek area. Whether Thomas ever lived on Lambshead is not known. John A. Matthews located on Lambshead in 1897, and brought his family to the ranch in 1915.
West Texas
Author: Paul H. CarlsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 0806145242
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
Texas is as well known for its diversity of landscape and culture as it is for its enormity. But West Texas, despite being popularized in film and song, has largely been ignored by historians as a distinct and cultural geographic space. In West Texas: A History of the Giant Side of the State, Paul H. Carlson and Bruce A. Glasrud rectify that oversight. This volume assembles a diverse set of essays covering the grand sweep of West Texas history from the ancient to the contemporary. In four parts—comprehending the place, people, politics and economic life, and society and culture—Carlson and Glasrud and their contributors survey the confluence of life and landscape shaping the West Texas of today. Early chapters define the region. The “giant side of Texas” is a nineteenth-century geographical description of a vast area that includes the Panhandle, Llano Estacado, Permian Basin, and Big Bend–Trans-Pecos country. It is an arid, windblown environment that connects intimately with the history of Texas culture. Carlson and Glasrud take a nonlinear approach to exploring the many cultural influences on West Texas, including the Tejanos, the oil and gas economy, and the major cities. Readers can sample topics in whichever order they please, whether they are interested in learning about ranching, recreation, or turn-of-the-century education. Throughout, familiar western themes arise: the urban growth of El Paso is contrasted with the mid-century decline of small towns and the social shifting that followed. Well-known Texas scholars explore popular perceptions of West Texas as sparsely populated and rife with social contradiction and rugged individualism. West Texas comes into yet clearer view through essays on West Texas women, poets, Native peoples, and musicians. Gathered here is a long overdue consideration of the landscape, culture, and everyday lives of one of America’s most iconic and understudied regions.
