Texian Stomping Grounds
Author : J. Frank Dobie
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : J. Frank Dobie
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 31,93 MB
Release : 1941
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Author : J. Frank Dobie
Publisher : Southern Methodist University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 40,84 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780870740480
Author : James Frank Dobie (ed)
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 10,13 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : James Frank Dobie
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Page : 162 pages
File Size : 47,17 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : J. Frank Dobie
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 15,44 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780929398426
This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.
Author : Teresa Palomo Acosta
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 42,61 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292784481
Winner, Texas Reference Source Award, Reference Round Table, Texas Library Association, 2003 T.R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission, 2004 Since the early 1700s, women of Spanish/Mexican origin or descent have played a central, if often unacknowledged, role in Texas history. Tejanas have been community builders, political and religious leaders, founders of organizations, committed trade unionists, innovative educators, astute businesswomen, experienced professionals, and highly original artists. Giving their achievements the recognition they have long deserved, this groundbreaking book is at once a general history and a celebration of Tejanas' contributions to Texas over three centuries. The authors have gathered and distilled a wide range of information to create this important resource. They offer one of the first detailed accounts of Tejanas' lives in the colonial period and from the Republic of Texas up to 1900. Drawing on the fuller documentation that exists for the twentieth century, they also examine many aspects of the modern Tejana experience, including Tejanas' contributions to education, business and the professions, faith and community, politics, and the arts. A large selection of photographs, a historical timeline, and profiles of fifty notable Tejanas complete the volume and assure its usefulness for a broad general audience, as well as for educators and historians.
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 22,9 MB
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 9780929398785
This is a society that you join because you want to. The purpose of the society is to collect and make known to he public sons and ballads, superstitions, games, plays, and proverbs.
Author : Ken Roberts
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 19,88 MB
Release : 2018-04-12
Category : History
ISBN : 162349608X
At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first encounter with cedar choppers. On his way to the bridge for a leisurely afternoon of fishing, he suddenly found himself facing a group of boys who clearly came from a different place and culture than the middle-class, suburban community he was accustomed to. Rather, “. . . they looked hard—tanned, skinny, dirty. These were not kids you would see in Austin.” When Roberts’s fishing companion curtly refused the strangers’ offer to sell them a stringer of bluegills, the three boys went away, only to reappear moments later, one of them carrying a club. Roberts and his friend made a hasty retreat. This encounter provoked in the author the question, “Who are these people?” The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing is his thoughtful, entertaining, and informative answer. Based on oral history interviews with several generations of cedar choppers and those who knew them, this book weaves together the lively, gritty story of these largely Scots-Irish migrants with roots in Appalachia who settled on the west side of the Balcones Fault during the mid-nineteenth century, subsisting mainly on hunting, trapping, moonshining, and, by the early twentieth century, cutting, transporting, and selling cedar fence posts and charcoal. The emergence of Austin as a major metropolitan area, especially after the 1950s, soon brought the cedar choppers and their hillbilly lifestyle into direct confrontation with the gentrified urban population east of the Balcones Fault. This clash of cultures, which provided the setting for Roberts’s encounter as a young boy, propels this first book-length treatment of the cedar choppers, their clans, their culture and mores, and their longing for a way of life that is rapidly disappearing.
Author : Francis Edward Abernethy
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 29,45 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN : 9781574410372
Folk toys are made with available materials by amateurs in the tradition of the area's culture. Folk games are the traditional games passed along in the playground. This delightful illustrated volume combines how-to descriptions and personal reminiscences contributed by people across the state of Texas. Paper edition (unseen), $14.95. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR