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Author: Malcom Lee Johnson Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises ISBN: 9781634188272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
All the "little facts" you never learned in school. Have you ever wondered how many "Republic's of Texas" have there been? You probably will be "shocked" at the answer. Have you ever wondered how many artillery pieces did Santa Anna "actually" have at the siege of the Alamo? Have you ever wondered where the remains of the Alamo Defenders were actually buried? When and by whom? Have you ever wondered which was the "very first" steamboat to come to Texas and what happened to it? You will probably be surprised! Have you ever wondered what roll did Texas play during World War II? And were there any casualties? Have you ever wondered where the "Original Capitol of Texas" was? Hint, today to visit this historic place, you will have to travel out of state! Yes! Texas used to be even bigger! If you have ever pondered any of these questions, then you really do need to read the two-volume book Texas Tales and Tall Ships by Malcom Lee Johnson. These and other pertinent questions are all addressed.
Author: Malcom Lee Johnson Publisher: Tate Publishing & Enterprises ISBN: 9781634188272 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 384
Book Description
All the "little facts" you never learned in school. Have you ever wondered how many "Republic's of Texas" have there been? You probably will be "shocked" at the answer. Have you ever wondered how many artillery pieces did Santa Anna "actually" have at the siege of the Alamo? Have you ever wondered where the remains of the Alamo Defenders were actually buried? When and by whom? Have you ever wondered which was the "very first" steamboat to come to Texas and what happened to it? You will probably be surprised! Have you ever wondered what roll did Texas play during World War II? And were there any casualties? Have you ever wondered where the "Original Capitol of Texas" was? Hint, today to visit this historic place, you will have to travel out of state! Yes! Texas used to be even bigger! If you have ever pondered any of these questions, then you really do need to read the two-volume book Texas Tales and Tall Ships by Malcom Lee Johnson. These and other pertinent questions are all addressed.
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.
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.
Author: R. K. Sawyer Publisher: Texas A&M University Press ISBN: 1623490111 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 202
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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.
Author: National Information Center for Educational Media Publisher: National Information Center for Special Education Materials ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 1030