Author: Dorothy CrowderPublisher: Dorothenia Press
ISBN: 9780962119613
Category : Burkburnett Region (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Tales of the Red River Valley
Author: Dorothy CrowderPublisher: Dorothenia Press
ISBN: 9780962119613
Category : Burkburnett Region (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Red River Tales and Trails
Author: Red River Valley Heritage SocietyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Children's writings, American
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Red River Dust
Author: Eugene W. BowersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red River County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 178
Book Description
Sparkling tales of frontier America's Red River Valley.
Legends of the Red River Valley
Author: Bright RayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Legends of the early Denison. Sherman, Bonham, Caddo Lake and Paris areas.
Murder on the Red River
Author: Marcie R. RendonPublisher: Soho Press
ISBN: 1641293764
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
One Book, One Minnesota Selection for Summer 2021 Introducing Cash Blackbear, a young Ojibwe woman whose visions and grit help solve a brutal murder in this award-winning debut. 1970s, Red River Valley between North Dakota and Minnesota: Renee “Cash” Blackbear is 19 years old and tough as nails. She lives in Fargo, North Dakota, where she drives truck for local farmers, drinks beer, plays pool, and helps solve criminal investigations through the power of her visions. She has one friend, Sheriff Wheaton, her guardian, who helped her out of the broken foster care system. One Saturday morning, Sheriff Wheaton is called to investigate a pile of rags in a field and finds the body of an Indian man. When Cash dreams about the dead man’s weathered house on the Red Lake Reservation, she knows that’s the place to start looking for answers. Together, Cash and Wheaton work to solve a murder that stretches across cultures in a rural community traumatized by racism, genocide, and oppression.
History of the Red River Valley, Past and Present
Author: The Red River Bridge War
Author: Rusty WilliamsPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494052
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285
Book Description
Winner, 2017 Oklahoma Book Award, sponsored by the Oklahoma Center for the Book Winner, 2016 Outstanding Book on Oklahoma History, sponsored by the Oklahoma Historical Society At the beginning of America’s Great Depression, Texas and Oklahoma armed up and went to war over a 75-cent toll bridge that connected their states across the Red River. It was a two-week affair marked by the presence of National Guardsmen with field artillery, Texas Rangers with itchy trigger fingers, angry mobs, Model T blockade runners, and even a costumed Native American peace delegation. Traffic backed up for miles, cutting off travel between the states. This conflict entertained newspaper readers nationwide during the summer of 1931, but the Red River Bridge War was a deadly serious affair for many rural Americans at a time when free bridges and passable roads could mean the difference between survival and starvation. The confrontation had national consequences, too: it marked an end to public acceptance of the privately owned ferries, toll bridges, and turnpikes that threatened to strangle American transportation in the automobile age. The Red River Bridge War: A Texas-Oklahoma Border Battle documents the day-to-day skirmishes of this unlikely conflict between two sovereign states, each struggling to help citizens get goods to market at a time of reduced tax revenue and little federal assistance. It also serves as a cautionary tale, providing historical context to the current trend of re-privatizing our nation’s highway infrastructure.
Oklahoma Treasures and Treasure Tales
Author: Steve WilsonPublisher: University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN: 9780806121741
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
Contains stories; some true, some legendary, about caches of lost treasure.
An Untamed Land (Red River of the North Book #1)
Author: Lauraine SnellingPublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 1441203184
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Proud of Their Heritage and Sustained by Their Faith, They Came to Tame a New Land She had promised herself that once they left the fjords of Norway, she would not look back. After three long years of scrimping and saving to buy tickets for their passage to America, Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund, along with their son, Thorliff, finally arrive at the docks of New York City. It was the promise of free land that fed their dream and lured them from their beloved home high above the fjords of Norway in 1880. Together with Roald's brother Carl and his family, they will build a good life in a new land that promises untold wealth and vast farmsteads for their children. As they join the throngs of countless immigrants passing through Castle Garden, they soon discover that nothing is as they had envisioned it. Appalled by the horrid stories of fellow immigrants bilked of all their money and forced to live in squalid living conditions, the Bjorklunds continue their long journey by train as far as Grand Forks. From there a covered wagon takes them into Dakota Territory, where they settle on the banks of the Red River. But there was no way for them to foresee the price they will have to pay to wrest a living from the indomitable land. The virgin prairie refuses to yield its treasure without a struggle. Will they be strong enough to overcome the hardships of that first winter?
The Red River Valley, Then and Now
Author: Alexander White NevillePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Red River Valley (Tex.-La.)
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
Based on the author's daily feature, Backward glances, published in the Paris morning news, also referred to as the Paris news, published in Paris, Texas.