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Author: David Wharton
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 334
ISBN-13: 9780806131788
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A documentary photographic study of the people of McDade. accompanied by historical text.
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Publisher: Trinity University Press
Published: 2017-11-07
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1595348085
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brown and Holley are interested in place and what makes people who they are. With particular interest in how people take the hand they’ve been dealt—fate, family, circumstance, luck—and craft a life for themselves, the authors celebrate the grit and gumption of these Texas originals. Introducing quirky characters and tenacious spirits, Holley’s stories seek out the personality of the small town while Brown’s photographs capture the essence of a changing landscape. Hometown Texas aims not to be nostalgic or sentimental but rather to show readers an unknown Texas—one that, while not vanishing, is certainly on the wane. Organized into five topographical, geographic, and cultural sections—East, West, North, South, and Central—three dozen stories and more than eighty complementary images work to create a parallel narrative to reveal what Brown has described as the “collective, various, remarkably complex soul that makes Texas unique.” Hometown Texas is an exploration across miles and cultures, of well-traveled roads and forgotten byways, deep into the heart of Texas.
Author: David Wharton
Publisher: George F Thompson Publishing
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781938086090
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"David Wharton traveled with his camera and unique vision to the small towns of the American South and created amazing images that evoke a Zen-like stillness amid the visual tension of a rapidly changing townscape. ...the photographs in Small Town South make us think deeply about the world that Wharton sees in his mind and captures with his camera."
Author: Craig D. Hillis
Publisher:
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9781571685605
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Six o'clock silence of a new day beginnin'Is heard in the small Texas town.Like a signal from nowhere, the people who live thereAre up and moving around."Singer-songwriter Steven Fromholz's earliest memories go back to a small Texas town where he spent summers with his grandmother. He gave those memories expression in three songs--"Daybreak," "Trainride," and "Bosque County Romance"--that together form his "Texas Trilogy." This classic folksong has resonated with listeners from its first recording on the 1969 Frummox album From Here to There to Lyle Lovett's recent rendition on his album Step Inside This House.In this book, Craig Hillis and Bruce Jordan offer their own take on Fromholz's "Texas Trilogy." At the heart of the book are over 140 photographs of Bosque County, Texas, which capture the moods and some of the actual locales mentioned in the songs. Accompanying them are comments from local residents, Fromholz, Hillis, and Jordan, who talk about life "in the small Texas town." In addition to the photos, Fromholz explains how he wrote "Texas Trilogy," and Hillis and Jordan discuss why the song has such enduring meaning. Hillis also provides a history of Bosque County. A digitally remastered CD of the original recording is included in the book.
Author: Marie Bostwick
Publisher:
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1496707273
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gifted quilter Mary Dell Templeton is enjoying life with her new husband, and when their son is born, a child as different as he is wonderful, she must reconsider what truly matters as she begins to piece together the life she's always wanted.
Author: Lawrence Wright
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2019-03-05
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 0525435905
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
Author: J. Anthony Lukas
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2012-07-17
Total Pages: 884
ISBN-13: 1439128103
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Hailed as "toweringly important" (Baltimore Sun), "a work of scrupulous and significant reportage" (E. L. Doctorow), and "an unforgettable historical drama" (Chicago Sun-Times), Big Trouble brings to life the astonishing case that ultimately engaged President Theodore Roosevelt, Supreme Court justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, and the politics and passions of an entire nation at century's turn. After Idaho's former governor is blown up by a bomb at his garden gate at Christmastime 1905, America's most celebrated detective, Pinkerton James McParland, takes over the investigation. His daringly executed plan to kidnap the radical union leader "Big Bill" Haywood from Colorado to stand trial in Idaho sets the stage for a memorable courtroom confrontation between the flamboyant prosecutor, progressive senator William Borah, and the young defender of the dispossessed, Clarence Darrow. Big Trouble captures the tumultuous first decade of the twentieth century, when capital and labor, particularly in the raw, acquisitive West, were pitted against each other in something close to class war. Lukas paints a vivid portrait of a time and place in which actress Ethel Barrymore, baseball phenom Walter Johnson, and editor William Allen White jostled with railroad magnate E. H. Harriman, socialist Eugene V. Debs, gunslinger Charlie Siringo, and Operative 21, the intrepid Pinkerton agent who infiltrated Darrow's defense team. This is a grand narrative of the United States as it charged, full of hope and trepidation, into the twentieth century.
Author: Jim Stedman
Publisher:
Published: 2016-03-04
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9781523701384
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Have you ever watched one of those old 1950s TV shows, like Leave It to Beaver, and wondered what growing up then would have been like? This was a time when most kids lived with two parents, often mom stayed home, before drugs, before quick and easy divorce, literally the last generation raised under those conditions. Well, this book will tell you what it was like, at least what it was like in small town Texas.This collection of memories and stories started as a project dreamed up by Wayne Scott and Jim Stedman with the aim of collecting the recollections of our peers about growing up during the 1940s and 50s. We sent out the call via email lists of classmates, asking for stories and memories about various themes: grade school, high school, sports, life in the country, places, entertainment, the songs, and so on. Very shortly, we had over 1,500 pages of email sent in by the "authors" you will get to know as you read our book.These "authors" were born between 1935 and 1944 when the country was still in the Great Depression and, then, entering WWII. Many of us still have memories of WWII events and the ensuing peacetime of the 1940s. Many of us were raised on farms and attended country schools with several grades in one or two rooms; some rode horses to school. Some experienced discrimination, both in where they attended school and where they could watch a movie. We grew up with few medications and few vaccinations, when the threat of polio was real, and family doctors still made house calls, even out in the country.Some of our stories will make you cringe a little; others will make you laugh. If you are old enough, some will seem similar to your own growing-up experiences. So, we invite you partake of our stories. They have been edited, but only with a light touch, so do not expect smooth prose. They are what they are: memories put down as our "authors" were moved by recall.Jim Stedman, Editor
Author: Charles Alton Turnbo
Publisher: Robertson Plantation LLC
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9780971743915
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A thoroughly researched book about Salado, Texas. Charlie Turnbo researched and interviewed countless books and people to tell the history of Salado.
Author: Penny Wylder
Publisher:
Published: 2017-12
Total Pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781979413350
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →He thinks he's too big for me. I like a challenge.On my 25th birthday, I received a letter. My mother had left me a piece of land in her will-- the farm I grew up on as a child. Her last request was that I restore it... and how could I say no?So I returned to my little town full of big memories. Nothing has changed here.Except for Grant Werther.When we were kids, I barely saw him. Now I can't miss him. The guy is HUGE; all muscle and beard, like some hardened mountain man. He's intimidating... and definitely sexy, in an alpha-male-cowboy kind of way.Turns out his dad owns part of my farm and he's got the papers to prove it. That means I can't do anything without Grant's approval. On top of that, this jerk says I'm too "city girl" to be here.And the way he openly stares at my ass in my cut-off jeans makes it clear what he thinks I'd be good at.He's the biggest man I've ever seen and I admit, I'm curious what he's hiding in his boxers.I didn't know he'd catch me peeking.Now he won't stop teasing me. He keeps saying I could never handle him, that he'd break me in two. I know I don't have to prove him wrong...But I want to.
