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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Confederate Veterans in Potter County, Amarillo, Texas
Author: Some Confederate Veterans of Texas
Author: Joan Green LawrencePublisher:
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Category : Dickens County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Upshur County, Texas, Confederate Veterans
Author: Carolyn E. SowellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Amarillo
Author: Paul Howard CarlsonPublisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896725874
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The first comprehensive history of the Queen City of the Texas Panhandle.
Taming the Land: the Lost Postcard Photographs of the Texas High Plains
Author: John Miller MorrisPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603443673
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
A postcard craze gripped the nation from 1905 to 1920, as the rise of outdoor photography coincided with a wave of settlement and prosperity in Texas. Hundreds of people took up cameras, and photographers of note chose some of their best work for duplication as photo postcards--sold for a nickel and mailed for a penny to distant friends and relatives. These postcards, which now enjoy another kind of craze in the collecting world, left what author John Miller Morris calls a "significant visual legacy" of the history and social geography of Texas. For more than a decade, Morris has been finding and studying the photographers and methodically gathering their postcards. In "Taming the Land," he shares those finds with readers, introducing each photographer and providing interpretive descriptions of the places, people, or events depicted in the photographs. The stories the cards tell--in the images captured and the messages carried--add an exceptional dimension to our understanding of life in rural Texas a century ago. "Taming the Land" presents postcards from twenty-four counties in the booming Texas Panhandle. This is the first book in a set called Plains of Light, which will collect and document turn-of-the-twentieth-century photo postcards from all over West Texas.
Marion County, Texas, Veterans of the Confederate Forces
Author: Donald E. McLatchiePublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages :
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Marion County, Texas Veterans of the Confederate Forces
Author: Donald E. McLatchieSons of Confederate Veterans
Author: Hill County, Texas in the Civil War
Author: Joe E. EricsonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780911317831
Category : Hill County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Alphabetical listing of veterans of the Civil War and/ or their widows from Hill County, Texas, supplemented with additional personal information from various sources. Includes those who drew pensions or Confederate Land Grants, giving dates of birth and death, place of interment, name of spouse and date of marriage, where known and service.
Sacred Memories
Author: Kelly McMichaelPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0876112998
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 157
Book Description
War memorials are symbols of a community’s sense of itself, the values it holds dear, and its collective memory. They inform us more, perhaps, about the period in which the memorials were erected than the period of the war itself. Kelly McMichael, in her book, Sacred Memories: The Civil War Monument Movement in Texas, takes the reader on a tour of Civil War monuments throughout the state and in doing so tells the story of each monument and its creation. McMichael explores Texans’ motivations for erecting Civil War memorials, which she views as attempts during a period of turmoil and uncertainty—“severe depression, social unrest, the rise of Populism, mass immigration, urbanization, industrialization, imperialism, lynching, and Jim Crow laws”—to preserve the memory of the Confederate dead, to instill in future generations the values of patriotism, duty, and courage; to create a shared memory and identity “based on a largely invented story”; and to “anchor a community against social and political doubt.” Her focus is the human story of each monument, the characters involved in its creation, and the sacred memories held dear to them.