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Author | : Patricia Cisneros Young |
Publisher | : Tate Publishing |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 2007-11 |
Genre | : Short stories, American |
ISBN | : 1602475482 |
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' 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
Author | : Murphy Givens |
Publisher | : Jim |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780983256533 |
Download Great Tales from the History of South Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of the Old West has deep roots in South Texas where the Wild Horse Desert was a lawless land controlled by no authority. The western region of South Texas, from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, stretching west and south to the Rio Grande, was the birthplace of the big cattle ranches, the cattle barons, rustlers, hide thieves, outlaws, and bad men operating on both sides of the border. Murphy Givens brings the stories of the Old West to life in "Great Tales From the History of South Texas"
Author | : Juan Sauvageau-Pro |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Legends |
ISBN | : 9780605233690 |
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Collection of Mexican-American folklore.
Author | : David Bowles |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2015-06-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9781942956013 |
Download Border Lore Folktales and Legends of South Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Award-winning translator and author David Bowles brings together twenty-five darkly memorable stories of the southern borderlands of Texas, retold in his unique voice. Ranging from the age-old folktales heard at his grandmother's knee to urban legends collected down the years, each of these narratives is brought to stunning visual life by artist Jose Melendez. An appendix classifies the pieces and enumerates motifs."
Author | : Bill Brett |
Publisher | : Texas A & M University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780890960684 |
Download There Ain't No Such Animal and Other East Texas Tales Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The stories in this book are the kind you might hear sitting on the porch past dark listening to distant hounds after a fox in the southeast Texas bottoms, tales with some truth and some lies and much pleasure take in the telling and the listening, tales with a strong sense of place and people, rooted firmly in the oral tradition. Sure enough, there ain't no such animal” as a completely honest man, as the title story shows. Other stories tell of justice as swift and sure as a mule's kick, of epic brawls and the trials of courtship, of poachers, politicians, and preachers, of hogs and dogs and horse traders, of good neighboring and bad blood, of life and death and youth and age in southeast Texas as it was early in the twentieth century. In the tradition of Frank Dobie and Fred Gipson, Bill Brett writes with the natural humor and wisdom of the folk themselves. His stories will delight anyone with an interest in folk life or with the inclination to stop and set a spell” and listen to a good yarn.
Author | : Docia Schultz Williams |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Spirits of San Antonio and South Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The number one tourist destination in Texas may also be one of the most haunted cities in the entire state. Steeped in history and tradition, San Antonio has many locations that are claimed as home for some interesting and intriguing spirits. Docia Williams has spent years tracking down the spirits of San Antonio and has found them in such interesting places as the Alamo, the Institute of Texan Cultures, numerous hotels and restaurants, the city library, the choir loft of a Methodist church, the Midget Mansion, and the haunted Sea Captain's house.
Author | : Murphy Givens |
Publisher | : Jim |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2012-12-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780983256533 |
Download Great Tales from the History of South Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The history of the Old West has deep roots in South Texas where the Wild Horse Desert was a lawless land controlled by no authority. The western region of South Texas, from San Antonio to Corpus Christi, stretching west and south to the Rio Grande, was the birthplace of the big cattle ranches, the cattle barons, rustlers, hide thieves, outlaws, and bad men operating on both sides of the border. Murphy Givens brings the stories of the Old West to life in "Great Tales From the History of South Texas"
Author | : Esteban Bravo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781467576581 |
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Author | : Tiya Miles |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 175 |
Release | : 2015-08-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469626349 |
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In this book Tiya Miles explores the popular yet troubling phenomenon of "ghost tours," frequently promoted and experienced at plantations, urban manor homes, and cemeteries throughout the South. As a staple of the tours, guides entertain paying customers by routinely relying on stories of enslaved black specters. But who are these ghosts? Examining popular sites and stories from these tours, Miles shows that haunted tales routinely appropriate and skew African American history to produce representations of slavery for commercial gain. "Dark tourism" often highlights the most sensationalist and macabre aspects of slavery, from salacious sexual ties between white masters and black women slaves to the physical abuse and torture of black bodies to the supposedly exotic nature of African spiritual practices. Because the realities of slavery are largely absent from these tours, Miles reveals how they continue to feed problematic "Old South" narratives and erase the hard truths of the Civil War era. In an incisive and engaging work, Miles uses these troubling cases to shine light on how we feel about the Civil War and race, and how the ghosts of the past are still with us.
Author | : Mike Cox |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1614237506 |
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Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco and New Braunfels in the north and south, this area has drawn settlers from around the globe for over two centuries, leaving their mark and their stories along the way. From a surprising story of nineteenth-century psych ops at Fort Mason and what really happened to Bevo, the UT longhorn, in 1920 to Mrs. Ross's Croghan Cobbler recipe and rumors of a Lone Star visit by old Abe himself, historian Mike Cox regales readers with over fifty stories about the fascinating people, history and places of middle Texas.