Texas flags
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
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Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781603443692
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Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published:
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781603443692
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Charles E. Gilbert, Jr.
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781455604388
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"The tumultuous history of Texas is told through the flags that have flown over the state since the days of the first explorers. Carefully researched full-color illustrations bring to life more than thirty flags from Texas history, including the stately banners of France and Spain, the dramatic and colorful pennants of the Texans seeking independence, and the famous Lone Star flag."--BOOK COVER
Author: David Courtney
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2017-04-25
Total Pages: 120
ISBN-13: 1477312978
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Author: Jane Alexander Knapik
Publisher: Eakin Press
Published: 2016-11-01
Total Pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9781681790817
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Many Texans give Sarah Bradley Dodson credit for having made the first Lone Star flag. Of all the early Texas flags, her creation most closely resembles the official Lone Star flag that has flown proudly in Texas since 1839. Most of the people named in this book actually lived in early Texas and experienced the historical events related here.
Author: Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr.
Publisher: FriesenPress
Published: 2023-06-13
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 103915106X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Texans are fiercely proud of their “Lone Star” flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a history of Texas. Throughout each chapter, the author provides a story taken from history texts, research and anecdotes collected during his teaching and travels, which took fifteen years. This unique history of Texas will captivate the reader from the first Spanish flag through revolutions and pirates, to the “Bonnie Blue Flag” of the Civil War.
Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher:
Published: 1952
Total Pages: 1176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Author: Sid Balman, Jr.
Publisher: SparkPress
Published: 2019-10-08
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 1684630150
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The US and Europe have unraveled since World War II and radicalism has metastasized into every community, tearing away the decency, optimism, and security that shaped those robust democracies for more than eight decades. No place is immune, including the small West Texas town of Dell City, where four generations of an iconic American family and a Syrian Muslim family carve a farming empire out of the unforgiving high desert. These families’ partnership is as unlikely as the idea of a United States, and their powerful friendship can be traced back to a bloody knife fight in a Juarez cantina just after World War II. The bond forged that night between Jack Laws, an Irish American who staked his claim in West Texas after the war, and Ali Zarkan, whose great-grandfather sailed from the Middle East to Texas in the mid-1800s as part of President Franklin Pierce’s attempt to create the US Army Camel Corps, shapes each generation of the families as they come of age and adapt to shifting paradigms of gender, commerce, patriotism, loyalty, religion, and sexuality. From the beaches of the Western Pacific to the battlefields of the Middle East and from the lawless streets of Juarez to the darkest corners of the Internet, the two families fight real and perceived enemies—journeying, as they do, through the football fields of Texas and West Point, the hippie playgrounds of Asia, the music halls of Austin, the terrorist cells of Europe and the political backrooms where fortunes are gained or lost over the rights to Western water. Underlying their experiences is the basic question of what constitutes identity and citizenship in America, or in Texas, a land over which six flags have flown. The seventh flag, ultimately, is not one of a state or a nation, but of a mosaic of cultures, religions, and people from every corner of the world—all struggling to define what it means to be unified under an ambiguous banner.
Author: Andrés Tijerina
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To be sure, the dramatic shift in land and resources greatly affected the Mexican, but it had its effect on the Anglo American as well. After the 1820s, many of the Anglo-American pioneers changed from buckskin-clad farmers to cattle ranchers who wore boots and "cowboy" hats. They learned to ride heavy Mexican saddles mounted on horses taken from the wild mustang herds of Texas. They drove great herds of longhorns north and westward, spreading the Mexican life-style and ranch economy as they went. With the cattle ranch went many words, practices, and legal principles that had been developed long before by the native Mexicans of Texas - the Tejanos.
Author: Frank E. Vandiver
Publisher: Williams-Ford Texas A&M Univer
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 388
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Their tattered flags became the symbol of a defeated class, and Vandiver's description of aristocratic Southern leadership in crisis is a real contribution to the literature of the Civil War."--New York Times Book Review " . . . goes beyond the legendary heroism of the Lees and the Johnstons and the fabled soldiers in gray and shows how and why these men were unable to create an independent Southern nation."--Bruce Catton "A Southern mirror to Bruce Catton's splendid books on the Civil War . . . written with the pace of a Confederate infantry charge."--Robert K. Massie