Book Description
From 23 poorly defined territories called municipalities that existed in 1836, the state of Texas evolved to its present form of 254 organized bodies known as Counties.
Author : Luke Gournay
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,63 MB
Release : 2002-02
Category : Counties
ISBN : 9781585442034
From 23 poorly defined territories called municipalities that existed in 1836, the state of Texas evolved to its present form of 254 organized bodies known as Counties.
Author : Bill Hubbard
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2008-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226355934
For anyone who has looked at a map of the United States and wondered how Texas and Oklahoma got their Panhandles, or flown over the American heartland and marveled at the vast grid spreading out in all directions below, American Boundaries will yield a welcome treasure trove of insight. The first book to chart the country’s growth using the boundary as a political and cultural focus, Bill Hubbard’s masterly narrative begins by explaining how the original thirteen colonies organized their borders and decided that unsettled lands should be held in trust for the common benefit of the people. Hubbard goes on to show—with the help of photographs, diagrams, and hundreds of maps—how the notion evolved that unsettled land should be divided into rectangles and sold to individual farmers, and how this rectangular survey spread outward from its origins in Ohio, with surveyors drawing straight lines across the face of the continent. Mapping how each state came to have its current shape, and how the nation itself formed within its present borders, American Boundaries will provide historians, geographers, and general readers alike with the fascinating story behind those fifty distinctive jigsaw-puzzle pieces that together form the United States.
Author : Marcus Baker
Publisher :
Page : 66 pages
File Size : 13,18 MB
Release : 1902
Category : Indian Territory
ISBN :
Contains map of the United States and Texas boundary line and adjacent territory determined and surveyed in 1857-8-9-60 by J.H. Clark, U.S. Commissioner under the direction of the Department of the interior.
Author : Texas. Congress. House of Representatives. Select Committee on Boundaries
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,6 MB
Release : 1842
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Michael Corcoran
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 26,20 MB
Release : 2005-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
From country and blues to rap and punk, Texas music is all over the map, figuratively and literally. Texas musicians have pioneered new musical genres, instruments, and playing styles, proving themselves to be daring innovators who often call the tune for musicians around the country and even abroad. To introduce some of these trailblazing Texas musicians to a wider audience and pay tribute to their accomplishments, Michael Corcoran profiles thirty-two of them in All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music. Corcoran covers musicians who work in a wide range of musical genres, including blues, gospel, country, rap, indie rock, pop, Cajun, Tejano, conjunto, funk, honky-tonk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and Western swing. His focus is on underappreciated artists, pioneers who haven't fully received their due. He also includes well-known musicians who've been underrated, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Selena, and invites us to take a closer look at the unique talents of these artists. Corcoran's profiles come from articles he wrote for the Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Houston Press, and other publications, which have been expanded and updated for this volume. His musical detective work even uncovers a case of mistaken identity (Washington Phillips) and corrects much misinformation on Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes. Corcoran closes the book with lively pieces on the Austin music scene and its most famous, if no longer extant, clubs, as well as his personal lists of the forty greatest Texas songs of all time and the twenty-five essential CDs for Texas music fans.
Author : Larry Hodge
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 26,42 MB
Release : 2000-04-01
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1461661692
This new edition takes you off the major highways to discover the sights, scenes, history, and places that make the Lone Star State unique.
Author : C. A. Wilkinson
Publisher :
Page : 72 pages
File Size : 11,53 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Texas
ISBN :
Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN : 9780890966648
Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 1476 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Government publications
ISBN :
Author : United States. Department of State
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,6 MB
Release : 1845
Category : France
ISBN :