Author: Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1649134851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 2 By: Malcolm Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 2
Author: Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1649134851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 2 By: Malcolm Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 1649134851
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 2 By: Malcolm Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 1
Author: Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 164913486X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 1: Texas History from 1528-1945 the End of WW 2 By: Malcom Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived, to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.
Publisher: Dorrance Publishing
ISBN: 164913486X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
Texas Tales and Tall Ships, Vol. 1: Texas History from 1528-1945 the End of WW 2 By: Malcom Lee Johnson Texas Tales & Tall Ships is a well-documented book on the history of the region of the United States now known as Texas, covering the time period from 1528 when Cabeza de Vaca arrived, to the end of World War II in 1945. This well-referenced and educational look into the past is an important work for understanding the history of Texas and how it has evolved into the Lone Star State.
Texas Tales and Tall Ships
Author: Malcom Lee Johnson
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN: 9781634186773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how many Republics of Texas there have been?
Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises
ISBN: 9781634186773
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Have you ever wondered how many Republics of Texas there have been?
Galveston's the Elissa
Author: Kurt D. Voss
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738578552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
For nearly three decades, the 1877 sailing ship Elissa has been widely recognized as one of the finest maritime preservation projects in the world. Unlike some tall ships of today, the Elissa is not a replica but a survivor. Over her century-long commercial history, she carried cargoes to ports around the world for a succession of owners. Her working life as a freighter came to an end in Piraeus, Greece, where she was rescued from the salvage yard by a variety of ship preservationists who refused to let her die. The story of Elissa's discovery and restoration by the Galveston Historical Foundation is nothing short of miraculous.
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 9780738578552
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
For nearly three decades, the 1877 sailing ship Elissa has been widely recognized as one of the finest maritime preservation projects in the world. Unlike some tall ships of today, the Elissa is not a replica but a survivor. Over her century-long commercial history, she carried cargoes to ports around the world for a succession of owners. Her working life as a freighter came to an end in Piraeus, Greece, where she was rescued from the salvage yard by a variety of ship preservationists who refused to let her die. The story of Elissa's discovery and restoration by the Galveston Historical Foundation is nothing short of miraculous.
South Texas Tales
Author: Patricia Cisneros Young
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602475482
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas
Publisher: Tate Publishing
ISBN: 1602475482
Category : Short stories, American
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
' These] vignettes of Brownsville people, part real and part fiction, capture the character of our border community. The reader becomes involved with the characters and the stories. It's as though the essence of our society and culture had been opened to view through a historical prism. And the stories are just plain pleasurable to read.' -Dr. Anthony Knopp, Ph.D, Professor of History at the University of Texas at Brownsville, Texas
Texas Tales Your Teacher Never Told You
Author: C. F. Eckhardt
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1461625416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds to the flavor of Texas history with tales about such things as the first Texas revolution, the first English speaking person in Texas, and the little known counterrevolution of 1838-1840. Charlie examines the expulsion of the Cherokees from Texas and provides details of some of the more famous Indian fights. Charlie also shows his romantic side with the legend of the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN: 1461625416
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Cold facts and impersonal statistics may be the bacon of Texas history, but the tall tales and interesting side stories are the sizzle. In this book, C.F. Charlie Eckhardt presents some of the Texas history sizzle that is often ignored when pure historians write about the Lone Star State. He adds to the flavor of Texas history with tales about such things as the first Texas revolution, the first English speaking person in Texas, and the little known counterrevolution of 1838-1840. Charlie examines the expulsion of the Cherokees from Texas and provides details of some of the more famous Indian fights. Charlie also shows his romantic side with the legend of the famous Yellow Rose of Texas.
Schooners in Peril
Author: James L. Donahue
Publisher: James L Donahue
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: James L Donahue
ISBN:
Category : Transportation
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
American Clipper Ships, 1833-1858
Author: Octavius Thorndike Howe
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Clipper ships
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Texas Tales
Texas Market Hunting
Author: R. K. Sawyer
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623490111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest. At the peak of Texas market hunting in the late 1890s, Rockport merchants shipped an average of 600 ducks a day in a five-month shooting season, and in the last year of legal market hunting, an estimated 60,000 ducks and geese were shipped from Corpus Christi alone. Market men employed efficient methods to harvest nature’s bounty. They commonly hunted at night, often using bait to concentrate large numbers of waterfowl. The effectiveness of the hunt was improved when side-by-side double barrel shotguns and large-gauge swivel guns gave way to repeating firearms, with some capable of discharging as many as eleven shells in a single volley. Their methods were so efficient that, by the late 1800s, Texas sportsmen and others blamed the alarming decline of coastal waterfowl populations on the market hunter’s occupation. In 1903, after a long fight and many failures, the first migratory bird game law passed the Texas legislature. Though the fight would continue, it was the beginning of the end of the year-round slaughter. Most market hunters quit, and those who didn’t became outlaws. In this book, R. K. Sawyer chronicles the days of market hunting along the Texas coast and the showdown between the early game wardens and those who persisted in commercial waterfowl hunting. Containing an abundance of rare historical photographs and oral history, Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws provides a comprehensive and colorful account of this bygone period.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623490111
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
From its earliest days of human habitation, the Texas coast was home to seemingly endless clouds of ducks, geese, swans, and shorebirds. By the 1880s Texas huntsmen, or market hunters, as they came to be called, began providing meat and plumage for the restaurant tables and millinery salons of a rapidly growing nation. A network of suppliers, packers, distribution centers, and shipping hubs efficiently handled their immense harvest. At the peak of Texas market hunting in the late 1890s, Rockport merchants shipped an average of 600 ducks a day in a five-month shooting season, and in the last year of legal market hunting, an estimated 60,000 ducks and geese were shipped from Corpus Christi alone. Market men employed efficient methods to harvest nature’s bounty. They commonly hunted at night, often using bait to concentrate large numbers of waterfowl. The effectiveness of the hunt was improved when side-by-side double barrel shotguns and large-gauge swivel guns gave way to repeating firearms, with some capable of discharging as many as eleven shells in a single volley. Their methods were so efficient that, by the late 1800s, Texas sportsmen and others blamed the alarming decline of coastal waterfowl populations on the market hunter’s occupation. In 1903, after a long fight and many failures, the first migratory bird game law passed the Texas legislature. Though the fight would continue, it was the beginning of the end of the year-round slaughter. Most market hunters quit, and those who didn’t became outlaws. In this book, R. K. Sawyer chronicles the days of market hunting along the Texas coast and the showdown between the early game wardens and those who persisted in commercial waterfowl hunting. Containing an abundance of rare historical photographs and oral history, Texas Market Hunting: Stories of Waterfowl, Game Laws, and Outlaws provides a comprehensive and colorful account of this bygone period.