Author : Donna Ingham
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 27,17 MB
Release : 2010-08-03
Category : History
ISBN : 0762766689
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
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 14,85 MB
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1493026135
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 : Sam Lowe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 21,68 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1461747341
Mysteries and Legends of Arizona explores unusual phenomena, strange events, and mysteries in Arizona’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 Arizona history.
Author : Shelly Tucker
Publisher : CreateSpace
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 27,14 MB
Release : 2014-07-22
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781500190026
Any town that boasts a grave on the courthouse lawn ought to have a ghost or two. Denton, Texas has many! Ghosts, that is. Author Shelly Tucker claims, "People come to Denton and never want to leave...ever!" This book contains a fraction of the ghost stories told in the area. Established in 1857, this frontier town was wild and rambunctious. Denton has been home to some colorful and quirky characters over the years, and legends claim that some remain in the afterlife. Within the covers of this book, you will find tales of the Goat Man at Old Alton Bridge, a ghostly hooligan, and a librarian who never "checked out." There is the tale of the sheriff who protects and serves the community from beyond the grave, and of the outlaw Sam Bass, whose spirit still roams the streets. Find stories of Nurse Betty tending patients from the afterlife, a theater manager who can't leave his job, a Texas hero (who survived The Massacre at Goliad to die in a Denton fire) still searching for his gold, and the spirit of John Denton protecting the town that bears his name Read the stories with an open mind. They are interwoven with the fascinating history of this small Texas town. After reading it, Denton will never look the same in the daylight.
Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : august house
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 19,14 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780874831788
Collects legends of buried treasure in Texas, including the gold of Haystack Mountain, a missing Incan hoard, and the Deer Island shipwrecks
Author : Johnny Hughes
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 15,57 MB
Release : 2012-08-21
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781475942170
You have a great writing style, very credible, and entertaining. Those were dangerous times. Almost all of the guys are gone. A great book!... Doyle Brunson, Poker Hall of Fame, author. Hes as good a writer as he is a player. When it comes to poker tales...Johnny Hughes is your man.... Anthony Holden, London, President of the International Federation of Poker, author ... a captivating raconteur and avid historian...brings them to life with a unique flair and panache...(He) paints word pictures with witty, lush brush strokes reminiscent of Tom Wolfe... Paul Dr. Pauly McGuire, author ..the William Manchester of poker historians...a Hughes narrative is like lighting a lantern into the darkest recess of pokers subculture...provides the very best portrait of these unique real-life characters of anyone on record... Nolan Dalla, Media Director. World Series of Poker, author. ...the true story...of the beginnings of the phenomenon that poker has become... Crandell Addington, Poker Hall of Fame. Reading...is only paralleled by listening to him tell those stories in real time...like putting yourself in the same room as it all unfolded...when the mob ruled Las Vegas...the real stories... Ryan Sayer, OnTilt Radio, C.O.O.,and Host. www.JohnnyHughes.com
Author : Bradley T. Turner
Publisher : Tstc Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,14 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Folklore
ISBN : 9781936603077
Skeletal specters. A red-eyed wild man. Devilish witches. Ghost stories abound in almost every town, and Texas towns are no exception. Cotton Bales, Goatmen & Witches: Legends from the Heart of Texas put vivid photographs with the region's old ghost stories into a beautiful 146-page hardcover coffee table book. These legends and myths, compiled by Bradley T. Turner and accompanied by photographs from Mark Burdine, bring to life the whispered stories and forgotten secrets that illuminate the darkest recesses of the Texas psyche from the distant past to the present day.
Author : Brenda Newby
Publisher : Brenda-Newby
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 11,45 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781733741002
Strange orbs, ghostly apparitions, unsettling noises from invisible sources... all of the things you want in a great ghost story. Allegedly, true paranormal events by those that shared them with us (and some experienced by us first hand). A collection of spooky, eerie stories that seem to be abundant in and around this little town's small business district. Ghost stories for adults that will leave you with chills but appropriate enough to tell the kids by the campfire.
Author : Ken Gerhard
Publisher :
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,47 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781905723577
Texas - or the Lone Star State, as it is affectionately and widely known - is the second largest U.S. state in both area and population, and contains both colorful and majestic landscapes that range from desert to plains, and forest to wild canyons. But that is not all: all across Texas there lurks a wide array of monsters, mysterious beasts and diabolical creatures that science tells us do not exist - but that a significant percentage of the good folk of Texas certainly know otherwise.
Author : Bert Wall
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 29,28 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
This book contains stories of the supernatural occurrences which took place on or near Devil's backbone in the Texas Hill Country.
