Author : Bill Cannon
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,52 MB
Release : 2003-09-16
Category : Humor
ISBN : 0585257256
Author Bill Cannon has been collecting jokes and humorous stories about the antics of fellow Texans for literally years. Once he began this book people started sending him their own special favorites. This delightfully funny book covers every facet of Texas humor from life on the range to church, politics, Texas women, history, and hysterics. And it's a book your kids can read.
Author : Bill Cannon
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 28,39 MB
Release : 2000-12-07
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1461712998
Humor and trivia author Bill Cannon discovered there really was a Toadsuck, Texas, and he has collected a series of delightfully funny stories about folks he imagined might have lived in a town with such a comical name.
Author : Bill Cannon
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781556229497
There is a myriad of little known, often forgotten, and sometimes unbelievable events, places and people that make up the warp and woof of the Texas mystique. This book consists of intriguing facts taken from age-old legends about the people who developed and settled the state. A section called Truth is Stranger than Fiction will defy imagination. The Texas history buff is sure to enjoy Forgotten Footnotes to Texas History. Have You Ever Wondered? will supply answers to questions about certain Texas legends and folklore. Texas: Land of Legend and Lore presents the Texas of fact and fantasy that so captivates the imaginations of Texans and non-Texans alike.
Author : Jim Gramon
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2000-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1461720877
Jim Gramon, a native Texas storyteller, introduces you to some of his friends: John Henry Faulk, Cactus Pryor, Allen Damron, Mason Brewer, Mody Boatright, and Ben King Green. And he shares funny Texas stories from all over the state, from the Oil Patch to the Panhandle, from the Big Bend to the Piney Woods; big towns and small (Dallas, Houston, Austin, El Paso, Terlingua, Manchaca, Cumby, Sulfur Springs, Commerce).
Author : Michael Norman
Publisher : Atriad Press LLC
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 21,97 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780974039404
Collected writings dealing with supernatural encounters or experiences.
Author : Gary Brown
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,45 MB
Release : 2001-01-25
Category : History
ISBN : 1461625629
Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years. T
Author : Del Cain
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 41,32 MB
Release : 2001-01-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1556228341
The lawmen in this book were serious offenders against the laws they had at one time sworn to uphold. Their skills were honed in range wars and family feuds and polished along the cattle trails, in the saloons and banks, and on the trains of the West. More than one kicked out their lives at the end of ropes strung up by citizens who were outraged by their abuse of the trust that went along with the badge they wore. These are their stories.
Author : Mamie Yeary
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 33,43 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Soldiers
ISBN : 1556227779
Presents a collection of fascinating remembrances of those who were there. Sometimes humorous and sometimes heart breaking, the experiences of the Texas War Veterans.
Author : Tom Dodge
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 44,27 MB
Release : 2000-04-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1461662273
Tom Dodge is at his best when he talks about Texas. This collection of writings over the past decade includes his most poignant and provocative National Public Radio vignettes as well as longer pieces from newspapers and magazines. Here are the wry, sometimes ironic, observations on all things Texas his listeners are used to. His insights include a unique analysis of junkyards, railroads, bookstores, horned toads, sandy-land farms, and his grandmother's homemade grape jelly.
Author : Jim Harris
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 25,69 MB
Release : 2000-03-17
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0585262683
There's more than one kind of Texas native-we share our magnificent state with numerous other species some with four legs or more and some with no legs at all. Naturalist Jim Harris has studied most of them, and in Lone Star Menagerie he shares some little-known facts, fascinating tales, and amusing personal experiences with these creatures that we live alongside.
