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.
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.
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.
Bulletin
Author: Laws Relating to Veterans and Their Dependents
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Veterans' AffairsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Survivors' benefits
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
Annual Report of the Director
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 654
Book Description
Annual Report of the Director of the Coast and Geodetic Survey
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Results of Magnetic Observations Made by the Coast and Geodetic Survey Between July 1, 1902, and June 30, 1903
Author: Louis Agricola BauerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geomagnetism
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Report of the Superintendent of the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey Showing the Progress of the Work During the Fiscal Year Ending with ...
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Coasts
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Reflector
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Amarillo Region (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description