Author: Frank White JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
A History of Texas and Texans
Author: Frank White JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Historic Churches in Texas
Author: ,WilliamPublisher: Covenant Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1643000179
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
The story of historic churches in Texas is the story of the Anglo-American and European immigrants in Texas. It is the story of the struggle of three cultures trying to coexist in an empty and often hostile land: the Native Americans, the Mexicans, and the immigrants. It is the story of circuit-riding preachers tirelessly, clandestinely crisscrossing Texas, bringing the Protestant word of God to the people in a land where, prior to Texas's independence, only Catholicism was legal. It is the story of a people who successfully fought and won their independence to build a nation. It is the story of Texas. Over the past ten years, my wife and I have visited and photographed almost one thousand historic churches in Texas. We have seen stunningly beautiful stained-glass windows, listened to the rich tones of Texas's largest organ, and prayed in the smallest active Catholic Church in the world. We visited the oldest Polish church in the United States in Panna Maria, lingered with spirits in an abandoned church in Nacogdoches, and were dazzled by the bright colors and designs found in the Catholic Cathedral in Beaumont. In Berlin, we held a silver communion cup donated to the church in 1889, and in San Antonio we touched the sarcophagus where the remains of Alamo heroes William Travis, David Crockett, and James Bowie are said to be kept. The photographs and text, which was jointly written by William and Mary Pamela Schaefer, are attempts to capture the important history and the quiet beauty of the 186 historic Texas churches presented in this book.
Women and the Creation of Urban Life
Author: Elizabeth York EnstamPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967997
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Those individuals remembered as the "founders" of cities were men, but as Elizabeth York Enstam shows, it was women who played a major role in creating the definitive forms of urban life we know today.
The Western Architect
Author: Journal of Presbyterian History
Author: A History of Texas and Texans
Author: Francis White JohnsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
150th Anniversary History, First Presbyterian Church of Plymouth, Michigan, 1835-1985
Author: Samuel HudsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Plymouth (Mich.)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Writings on American History
Author: Journal of the Presbyterian Historical Society
Author: Memorial and biographical history of Ellis county, Texas
Author: Lewis PublishingPublisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 5885328870
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
Book Description
Memorial and biographical history of Ellis county, Texas: containing a history of this important section of the great state of Texas, from the earliest period of its occupancy to the present time, together with glimpses of its future prospects, with full-page portraits of the presidents of the United States, and also full-page portraits of some of the most eminent men of the county, and biographical mention of many of its pioneers, and also of prominent citizens of to-day.