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Author: Ken Gire
Publisher: Focus on the Family Pub
Published: 1990
Total Pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780929608723
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follows the adventures of a group of small animals living in a bayou in East Texas. Each adventure concludes with a Bible verse.
Author: Pete Addison Y. Gunter
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780929398525
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →When a bill creating the Big Thicket National Preserve was signed into law, it climaxed more than half a century of environmental debate, planning and destruction. The preserve opened new vistas for recreation. In this revised and updated version, Gunter not only describes the history and rich diversity of the region saved from the bulldozers of real estate developers and lumber companies, but also the dimensions of the new Big Thicket Preserve. He makes it possible to plan a trip there by including descriptions of each stream corridor unit, maps and canoeing conditions, hiking trails, and camping facilities. He lists representative flora and fauna. The book provides a background—both historical and biological—which will make clear just what the visitor to the Big Thicket is seeing; why it has mattered, and why it will continue to matter.
Author: Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9781574411423
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.
Author: Geyata Ajilvsgi
Publisher:
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 380
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"A total of 475 wild flowers from the area of Texas' Big Thicket are described and spectacularly pictured in true-to-life, full-color photographs in this field guide to one of the United States' most diverse, complex, and biologically lavish wild-flower regions"--Inside flap.
Author: Lorraine G. Bonney
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 865
ISBN-13: 157441318X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
Author: Campbell Loughmiller
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 157441156X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
Author: Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0316248754
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Love and vengeance at the dark dawn of the East Texas oil boom from Joe Lansdale, "a true American original" (Joe Hill, author of Heart-Shaped Box). Jack Parker thought he'd already seen his fair share of tragedy. His grandmother was killed in a farm accident when he was barely five years old. His parents have just succumbed to the smallpox epidemic sweeping turn-of-the-century East Texas -- orphaning him and his younger sister, Lula. Then catastrophe strikes on the way to their uncle's farm, when a traveling group of bank-robbing bandits murder Jack's grandfather and kidnap his sister. With no elders left for miles, Jack must grow up fast and enlist a band of heroes the likes of which has never been seen if his sister stands any chance at survival. But the best he can come up with is a charismatic, bounty-hunting dwarf named Shorty, a grave-digging son of an ex-slave named Eustace, and a street-smart woman-for-hire named Jimmie Sue who's come into some very intimate knowledge about the bandits (and a few members of Jack's extended family to boot). In the throes of being civilized, East Texas is still a wild, feral place. Oil wells spurt liquid money from the ground. But as Jack's about to find out, blood and redemption rule supreme. In The Thicket, award-winning novelist Joe R. Lansdale lets loose like never before, in a rip-roaring adventure equal parts True Grit and Stand by Me - - the perfect introduction to an acclaimed writer whose work has been called "as funny and frightening as anything that could have been dreamed up by the Brothers Grimm -- or Mark Twain" (New York Times Book Review).
Author: James Cozine
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 1574411756
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Big Thicket of East Texas, which at one time covered over two million acres, served as a barrier to civilizations throughout most of historic times. This text is a classic account of the region's history and a play-by-play narrative of the prolonged fight for the Big Thicket Preserve.
Author: Rob Riggs
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 199
ISBN-13: 1931044260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Geraldine Ellis Watson
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1574411608
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
