Author: George W. Knight
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
ISBN: 1634091728
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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Want to know God better? This study of some 250 names and titles of God the Father, Jesus the Son, and the Holy Spirit will help! By veteran Bible reference writer George W. Knight, The Names of God is now available in Spanish, and shows you the meaning behind each name—from Abba, Advocate, and Amen to Wall of Fire, Way, and the Word. Lavishly illustrated in full color, The Names of God is a Bible reference book with a devotional flavor, now presented in a handy, go-anywhere size. ¿Quieres conocer mejor a Dios? ¡Este estudio de unos 250 nombres y títulos de Dios el Padre, Jesús el Hijo y el Espíritu Santo te ayudará! Del veterano autor de referencias, George W. Knight, Los nombres de Dios proporcionan un detalle fascinante sobre veintenas de nombres bíblicos, desde Abba, Abogado y Amén a Muro de fuego, Camino y el Verbo. Lujosamente ilustrado a todo color, Los nombres de Dios es un libro de referencias bíblicas con sabor devocional que ahora se presenta en un tamaño manual para llevarlo a todas partes.
Author: J. Frank Dobie
Publisher: Pelican Publishing Company
ISBN: 1455607266
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 174
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There's treasure buried beneath Texas soil or stowed in caves covered over by stones. It might be the mother lode that's waiting to be uncovered or some Spanish pirate's chest of jewels and doubloons. Nearby a ghostly figure walks the dunes, or is it just an illusion brought on by the approaching dust storm? In this new mass market edition, J. Frank Dobie has collected accounts of some of the best known tales of booty hidden in Texas hill and dale as well as some eerie stories and the origins of Texas flowers, names, and streams. You will learn about "The Enchanted Rock in Llano County," "Lafitte's Treasure Vault," and "The Holy Spring of Father Margil at Nacogdoches." These lively stories reveal the love for adventure, independence, and mystery that has made Texas the state it is. And just as Dobie hoped, with these tales readers from all over can see the "richness of their own traditions." Dobie believed that worthwhile literature about this region had to be derived from an understanding of its life, lore, and history. Legends of Texas indirectly led to the founding of the Texas Folklore Society, the nation's second oldest folklore organization.
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 308
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"Proceedings of the 9th annual meeting (1923) of the Texas folk-lore societyP : p. [263]-268. Bibliography of Texas legends.
Author: Alexander Edwin Sweet
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Author: Kenneth W. Howell
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574416715
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 547
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Does Texas’s experience as a republic make it unique among the other states? In many ways, Texas was an “accidental republic” for nearly ten years, until Texans voted overwhelmingly in favor of annexation to the United States after winning independence from Mexico. Single Star of the West chronicles Texas’s efforts to maneuver through the pitfalls and hardships of creating and maintaining the “accidental republic.” The volume begins with the Texas Revolution and examines whether or not a true Texas identity emerged during the Republic era. Next, several contributors discuss how the Republic was defended by its army, navy, and the Texas Rangers. Individual chapters focus on the early founders of Texas—Sam Houston, Mirabeau B. Lamar, and Anson Jones—who were all exceptional men, but like all men, suffered from their own share of fears and faults. Texas’s efforts at diplomacy, and persistence and transformation in its economy, also receive careful analysis. Finally, social and cultural aspects of the Texas Republic receive coverage, with discussions of women, American Indians, African Americans, Tejanos, and religion. The contributors also focus on the extent that conditions in the republic attracted political and economic opportunists, some of whom achieved a remarkable degree of success. Single Star of the West also highlights how the Texas Republic was established on American political ideology. With the majority of the white settlers coming from the United States, this will not surprise many scholars of the era. In some cases, the Texans successfully adopted American political and economic ideology to their needs, while other times they failed miserably.
Author: Sean M. Kelley
Publisher: LSU Press
ISBN: 0807136875
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Historians have long believed that the "frontier" shaped Texas plantation society, but in this detailed examination of Texas's most important plantation region, Sean M. Kelley asserts that the dominant influence was not the frontier but the Mexican Republic. The Lower Brazos River Valley -- the only slave society to take root under Mexican sovereignty -- made replication of eastern plantation culture extremely difficult and complicated. By tracing the synthesis of cultures, races, and politics in the region, Kelley reveals a distinct variant of southern slavery -- a borderland plantation society. Kelley opens by examining the four migration streams that defined the antebellum Brazos community: Anglo-Americans and their African American slaves who constituted the first two groups to immigrate; Germans who came after the Mexican government barred immigrants from the U.S. while encouraging those from Europe; and African-born slaves brought in through Cuba who ultimately made up the largest concentration of enslaved Africans in the antebellum South. Within this multicultural milieu, Kelley shows, the disparity between Mexican law and German practices complicated southern familial relationships and master-slave interaction. Though the Mexican policy on slavery was ambiguous, alternating between toleration and condemnation, Brazos slaves perceived the Rio Grande River as the boundary between white supremacy and racial egalitarianism. As a result, thousands fled across the border, further destabilizing the Brazos plantation society. In the1850s, nonslaveholding Germans also contributed to the upheaval by expressing a sense of ethnic solidarity in politics. In an attempt to undermine Anglo efforts to draw a sharp boundary between black and white, some Germans hid runaway slaves. Ultimately, Kelley demonstrates how the Civil War brought these issues to the fore, eroding the very foundations of Brazos plantation society. With Los Brazos de Dios, Kelley offers the first examination of Texas slavery as a borderland institution and reveals the difficulty with which southern plantation society was transplanted in the West.
Author: Paul Barba
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496208358
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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A sweeping, comparative analysis of the slaving regimes of Hispanic, Comanche, and Anglo American communities in the Texas borderlands during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author: James Shannon Buchanan
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 476
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Author: Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786474491
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 277
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For the first time, the true story of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories. For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America's most popular western myths, growing larger over time and little resembling the truth of what happened on April 21, 1836, at the battle of San Jacinto, where a new Texas Republic won its independence. The woman who has been popularly connected to the story was an ordinary but also quite remarkable free black woman from the North, Emily D. West. This work reconstructs her experience, places it in full context and explores the evolution of a most fanciful myth.
Author: James Frank Dobie
Publisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 674
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List of members in no. 1-4.
