Author: Y. P. Abrol
Publisher: Allied Publishers
ISBN: 9788177642742
Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 692

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Contributed articles presented at a workshop.

Author: David J. Schmidly
Publisher: Texas Tech University Press
ISBN: 9780896724693
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 580

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Natural history - Texas, table of contents, index.

Author: Texas
Publisher:
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Category : Natural resources
Languages : en
Pages : 588

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Author: Research and Planning Consultants (Austin, Tex.)
Publisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 72

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Author: James L. Haley
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574418688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 673

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Utilizing many sources new to publication, James L. Haley delivers a most readable and enjoyable narrative history of Texas, told through stories—the words and recollections of Texans who actually lived the state’s spectacular history. From Jim Bowie’s and Davy Crockett’s myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo, to the Mexican-American War, and to Sam Houston’s heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the “normal” periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation. “Texas native Haley does an outstanding job of narrating the outsized and dramatic history of the Lone Star State. John Steinbeck observed, ‘Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts.’ Cognizant of this, Haley takes pains to separate folklore from fact. He's a good storyteller, but then it's hard to go wrong with the colorful characters he has to work with: pioneer nationalists Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, a wagonload of liquored-up turn-of-the-century oilmen and such latter-day heroes as Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Janis Joplin.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review

Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Agricultural Land Use and Wildlife Resources
Publisher: National Academies
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Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Historical perspective. Wildlife values in a Changing World. New patterns on land and water. Influence of land management on wildlife. Special problems of waters and watersheds. Pesticides and wildlife. Wildlife demage and control. Legislation and administration. Evaluation and Conclusions.

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Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 542

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Author: Monica Muñoz Martinez
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674989384
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 241

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Winner of the Caughey Western History Prize Winner of the Robert G. Athearn Award Winner of the Lawrence W. Levine Award Winner of the TCU Texas Book Award Winner of the NACCS Tejas Foco Nonfiction Book Award Winner of the María Elena Martínez Prize Frederick Jackson Turner Award Finalist “A page-turner...Haunting...Bravely and convincingly urges us to think differently about Texas’s past.” —Texas Monthly Between 1910 and 1920, self-appointed protectors of the Texas–Mexico border—including members of the famed Texas Rangers—murdered hundreds of ethnic Mexicans living in Texas, many of whom were American citizens. Operating in remote rural areas, officers and vigilantes knew they could hang, shoot, burn, and beat victims to death without scrutiny. A culture of impunity prevailed. The abuses were so pervasive that in 1919 the Texas legislature investigated the charges and uncovered a clear pattern of state crime. Records of the proceedings were soon filed away as the Ranger myth flourished. A groundbreaking work of historical reconstruction, The Injustice Never Leaves You has upended Texas’s sense of its own history. A timely reminder of the dark side of American justice, it is a riveting story of race, power, and prejudice on the border. “It’s an apt moment for this book’s hard lessons...to go mainstream.” —Texas Observer “A reminder that government brutality on the border is nothing new.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 40

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Author: Robert B. Jacobson
Publisher:
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Category : Land use
Languages : en
Pages : 96

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