Author: Jacob W. OlmsteadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781682830840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Frontier Centennial
Author: Jacob W. OlmsteadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781682830840
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Texas Frontier Centennial & Casa Manana, Billie Rose, Fort Worth, 1936-1937
Author: Texas frontier centennial celebrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Frontier Centennial
Author: Jacob W. OlmsteadPublisher:
ISBN: 9781682830833
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In 1936, the Texas centennial was celebrated across the state. In The Frontier Centennial, Jacob Olmstead argues that Fort Worth?s celebration of the centennial represented a unique opportunity to reshape the city?s identity and align itself with a progressive future. Olmstead draws out the Frontier Centennial from its inception as a commemorative fair to theme park enshrining the mythic West to show the various ways centennial planners, boosters, and civic leaders sought to use the celebration as a means to bolster the city?s identity and image as a modern city of the American West. Olmstead?s retelling of the Frontier Centennial looks at two distinctive processes. The first addresses the interplay of memory, identity, and image in the evolution of the celebration?s commemorative messages. Fort Worth?s image as a progressive western metropolis also impacted other areas, less central, to Frontier Centennial planning. Debates over how outsiders would interpret features of the celebration, carried on by club women and others, reveal the interest the citizenry held in upholding or contesting the city?s modern image. Overlapping with the issues of memory and identity, the second process addresses how the larger narratives of the mythic West influenced the content of the celebration. Though drawn from actual events and people, the myth reduces the past to its ?ideological essence.? Mythmakers, like historians, draw upon facts to explain and give meaning to a particular worldview.
Women's Division
Author: Texas frontier centennial celebrationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fort Worth (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages :
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Sky As Frontier
Author: David T. CourtwrightPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585444199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
A look at how aviation's frontier lasted only a scant 3 decades, then vanished as commercial and military imperatives made flying routine.
History of the Fort Worth Frontier Centennial
Author: Lois GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Livestock exhibitions
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Frontier Blood
Author: Jo Ella Powell ExleyPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603441094
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
A must read for anyone with an interest in the far Southwest or Native American history.
Frontier Defense in the Civil War
Author: David Paul SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
Texans faced two foes as the Civil War began in 1861: the Union armed forces and the Plains Indians. In this breakthrough volume, David Paul Smith demonstrates that through the efforts of the Home Guard and the Texas Rangers, the Texas frontier held its own during the eventful war years, in spite of a number of factors that could easily have overwhelmed it.
Fort Worth
Author: Riff, Ram, Bah, Zoo! Football Comes to TCU
Author: Ezra HoodPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 0875655920
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
Riff, Ram, Bah, Zoo, Lickety Lickety, Zoo Zoo, Who Wah, Wah Who, Give 'em hell, TCU! Ezra Hood’s Riff, Ram, Bah, Zoo! Football Comes to TCU (named after TCU's "Riff, Ram" cheer, one of the oldest known cheers in the nation) traces the origins of Texas Christian University, a tiny liberal arts college in Waco, Texas, to its induction into the Southwest Conference in 1922 as an up-and-coming collegiate football power. Drawing from numerous newspaper sources—most notably from the TCU Daily Skiff—Hood’s book provides an in-depth, game-by-game history of a football program that struggled to find its place amongst established Texas football programs in the early twentieth century. Hood begins with the university’s conception in 1873, when it was known as AddRan Male and Female College, and describes the rise of football’s popularity in Texas. From there, the book chronicles each of TCU’s football seasons from its first year in 1896 to its final year in TIAA play, before it joined the Southwest Conference and went on to become, in Hood’s words, “the prince of the Southwest in the 1930s.” Hood captures particular details of each season—noting significant coaching changes and highly-touted recruits—all the while providing anecdotes from local newspapers as a way to capture the community response to TCU football in both Waco and Fort Worth. And while the book focuses largely on the ups and downs of the program, Hood also captures the impact of the times on both TCU and the many towns of central and north Texas—the impact of the first World War, for instance, on the state of football nationwide and the loss of notable TCU players to the war effort. Thanks to Hood’s exhaustive historical account, this book will be a valuable reference for both fans and historians of TCU and the game of football.