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Author | : Donna Ingham |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 195 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0762766689 |
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Part of our growing Mysteries and Legends series, Mysteries and Legends of Texas explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Texas’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Texas history.
Author | : Donna Ingham |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2016-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493026135 |
Download Texas Myths and Legends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Texas Myths and Legends explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Texas’s history. Each episode included in the book is a story unto itself, and the tone and style of the book is lively and easy to read for a general audience interested in Texas history. The more than a dozen stories answer questions such as: Is the "Navidad Wildman"—aka Bigfoot—alive and well in Texas? Was the creature in one Texas woman's freezer the legendary blood-sucking beast known as the chupacabra? Just what are the mysterious Marfa Lights? Manifestations of otherworldly beings? Can they be explained scientifically? Is Jefferson the most haunted city in Texas? Or should the title go to San Antonio, which has enough ghosts to warrant at least three advertised ghost hunt tours? From rumors of Jean Lafitte's buried treasures to the hanging of Chipita Rodriguez and the love story of Frenchy McCormick, Texas Myths and Legends makes history fun and pulls back the curtain on some of the state's most fascinating and compelling stories.
Author | : Alan Brown |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2012-08-01 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 0811748537 |
Download The Big Book of Texas Ghost Stories Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The best ghost stories from the Lone Star State, including . . . • Spirits of the Alamo • The Black Hope Horror • Hauntings at the Driskill Hotel • The legend of El Muerto • Woman Hollering Creek • Stampede Mesa
Author | : J. Frank Dobie |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1995-08-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1455607266 |
Download THE LEGENDS OF TEXAS Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
There's treasure buried beneath Texas soil or stowed in caves covered over by stones. It might be the mother lode that's waiting to be uncovered or some Spanish pirate's chest of jewels and doubloons. Nearby a ghostly figure walks the dunes, or is it just an illusion brought on by the approaching dust storm? In this new mass market edition, J. Frank Dobie has collected accounts of some of the best known tales of booty hidden in Texas hill and dale as well as some eerie stories and the origins of Texas flowers, names, and streams. You will learn about "The Enchanted Rock in Llano County," "Lafitte's Treasure Vault," and "The Holy Spring of Father Margil at Nacogdoches." These lively stories reveal the love for adventure, independence, and mystery that has made Texas the state it is. And just as Dobie hoped, with these tales readers from all over can see the "richness of their own traditions." Dobie believed that worthwhile literature about this region had to be derived from an understanding of its life, lore, and history. Legends of Texas indirectly led to the founding of the Texas Folklore Society, the nation's second oldest folklore organization.
Author | : Howell |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 537 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Texas |
ISBN | : 9781890919627 |
Download Beyond Myths and Legends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Kenneth L. Untiedt |
Publisher | : University of North Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 317 |
Release | : 2013-12-15 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1574415328 |
Download Cowboys, Cops, Killers, and Ghosts Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This Publication of the Texas Folklore Society has something for everyone. The first section features a good bit of occupational lore, including articles on cowboys—both legendary ones and the relatively unknown men who worked their trade day by day wherever they could. You’ll also find a unique, personal look at a famous outlaw and learn about a teacher’s passion for encouraging her students to discover their own family culture, as well as unusual weddings, somewhat questionable ways to fish, and one woman’s love affair with a bull. The backbone of the PTFS series has always been miscellanies—diverse examinations of the many types of lore found throughout Texas and the Southwest. These books offer a glimpse of what goes on at our annual meetings, as the best of the papers presented are frequently selected for our publications. Of course, the presentations are only a part of what the Society does at the meetings, but reading these publications offers insight into our members’ interests in everything from bikers and pioneers of Tejana music to serial killers and simple folk from small-town Texas. These works also suggest the importance of the “telling of the tale,” with an emphasis on oral tradition, as well as some of the customs we share. All of these things together— the focus on tradition at our meetings, the fellowship among members, and the diversity of our research—are what sustain the Texas Folklore Society.
Author | : S. E. Schlosser |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 201 |
Release | : 2008-08-13 |
Genre | : Body, Mind & Spirit |
ISBN | : 1461746442 |
Download Spooky Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Suitably, hauntings and paranormal happenings in the Lone Star state are larger than life. Included in this must-read collection are tales of the ghost lights of Marfa, the werewolf of Elroy, and the Devil’s brand in the eternal roundup of El Paso. Your hair will stand on end as you read about the mysteries and lore in Spooky Texas.
Author | : W.C. Jameson |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2022-10-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493061496 |
Download Unsolved Mysteries of Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
When it comes to historical mysteries, Texas offers numerous long-perplexing conundrums for readers. Several of the Lone Star State’s enduring legends are associated with historical figures including Davy Crockett, Billy the Kid, John Wilkes Booth, the outlaws Sam Bass and Bill Longley, and the pirate Jean Lafitte. Lost mines and buried treasures are also a long-standing part of Texas history and lore, and the location of several of these riches has baffled searches for well over a century. Searches for these elusive treasures, represented by gold and silver ingots and coins, have ranged from Texas’s mountain ranges to the prairies to the coast, and continue to this day. Texas may also have been the site of several “lost civilizations. Growing evidence suggests that Mayans, a culture long associated with southern Mexican and Central America, may have established settlements in the state after having disappeared from their homeland. The Caddo Mounds spread out over a large section of southeast Texas represent what amounted of a city that was once inhabited by thousands of natives. The questions of where they came from and what became of them continue to intrigue researchers. In Unsolved Mysteries of Texas, author and professional treasure hunter W.C. Jameson will cover these and many other mysterious happenings in the Lone Star State.
Author | : Jane Arcger |
Publisher | : Taylor Trade Publishing |
Total Pages | : 246 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0585319782 |
Download Texas Indian Myths & Legends Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Step into a colorful pageantry of the powerful people who once ruled and still influence the great state of Texas. From the Caddo in the Piney Woods, the Lipan Apache in the Southwest, the Wichita at the Red River, and the Comanche across the Great Plains to the Alabama-Coushatta in the Big Thicket, five nations come alive through myth and history in Jane Archer's vividly written book about the first Texans.
Author | : James A. Crutchfield |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 217 |
Release | : 2020-01-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1493039709 |
Download It Happened in Texas Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the murder of French explorer La Salle to the impressive career of the state’s first female black senator, It Happened in Texas looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Lone Star State. Discover why a group of migrant farm workers marched nearly 500 miles in sweltering summer heat to meet with Texas’s governor. Find out how the annexation of Texas into the United States led to the first war Americans ever fought on foreign soil. Learn what prompted ranchers of South Texas to bombard the sky for hours with hundreds of explosives one starry night in the fall of 1891. And relive the last days of outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde, from an endearing family reunion to their violent deaths in an unrelenting hail of gunfire.