Tennessee Tales
Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Hugh Walker
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 35,91 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
Author : Michael Shoulders
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,27 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Counting
ISBN : 9781585361311
This fun colorful, and superbly informative book teaches children about numbers using recognizable places, events, and facts from the state of Tennessee.
Author : Marvin West
Publisher : Sports Publishing LLC
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 22,93 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Football
ISBN : 1582618895
Tennessee football is hundreds of victories, the giant stadium, passionate fans, sensational statistics, unforgettable plays, unbelievable stories--Jack Reynolds hacksawing his Jeep in half, Richmond Flowers racing a quarter-horse, Peyton Manning dropping his drawers. Tennessee football is the checkerboard end zone and the Pride of the Southland band and nicknames like Bad News and Wild Bull and Swamp Rat. It is that 1928 con job and the stunning triumph over Alabama. It is the series of miracles that produced the national championship of 1998. Tennessee football is long runs and long passes and long punts and 161 extra points in a row. It is a million memories of pancake blocks, knockout tackles, impossible interceptions, missed calls and fumbles lost and found. Tennessee football is fantastic comebacks and horrendous upsets and the wonderful, awful difference in winning and losing. What is Tennessee football? It's really the men who put on the pads, pull on the jersey and fasten the chin strap. Their names are carved in marble on the Tennessee wall of fame. The are unforgettable. A chosen few are bigger than life. They are the legends. It's easier to be a Tennessee legend if you could get your hands on the football--Johnny Majors, Hank Lauricella, Willie Gault. If you didn't run with it or throw it or catch it, next best thing was to chase it--Doug Atkins, Steve Kiner, Reggie White. The deck is stacked against offensive linemen. To qualify, they must be extra legendary. Generally speaking, legends, like good wine and cheese, need a little age. It is often said that the best football players get better and better at Tennessee, beginning about 10 years after eligibility expires. Thatsaid, three are in this book as young legends, so ordained without benefit of gray beards or rocking chairs. There hasn't been and may never be a more memorable quarterback than Peyton Manning. Al Wilson was the heart and soul of the national championship team of 1998. John Henderson was America's best defensive lineman in 2000. Three cheers for the legendary Volunteers, hip, hip, hooray...
Author : Charles Edwin Price
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 40,17 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780932807823
The monster fish sighted in Watauga and Boone Lakes, the so-called Wampas Cat, and a witchy horse that found a little lost girl wandering on Embreeville Mountain—these are but a few of the stories retold in this book of East Tennessee tales. Other stories include the Cherokee legends of creation and fire, a witch who drove people mad, a personal account of a miraculous cure, lost civilizations in the middle of Cherokee National Forest, and a host of death and burial superstitions.
Author : Charles K. Wolfe
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 32,13 MB
Release : 1977
Category : History
ISBN : 9780870492242
Country music grew up in Tennessee, drawing from sources in the white rural music of East and Middle Tennessee, from the church music of country singing conventions, and from the black music of the Memphis area. The author traces the vital role played by Tennessee and its musicians in the development of this unique American art form.
Author : Christopher K. Coleman
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,8 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9781558536616
Perhaps it is the abundance of decaying mansions that harbor dark and sinister secrets, or perhaps it is Tennessee's tragic heritage of war and defeat, or it may just be the love of a good story that accounts for the fact that Tennessee is steeped in strange tales.
Author : Jennie Ivey
Publisher : The Overmountain Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 29,54 MB
Release : 2002-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781570722356
Beginning with the legend of how a young Cherokee boy earned the name Dragging Canoe and weaving its way through three centuries, this book treats history not as a collection of names and dates, but as real-life drama filled with strong characters and vivid emotions.
Author : Shane S. Simmons
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 50,72 MB
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1439657319
Author Shane Simmons explores tales of bravery, lore and bizarre customs within the East Tennessee region. The mountains of East Tennessee are chock full of unique folklore passed down through generations. Locals spin age-old yarns of legends like Davy Crockett, Daniel Boone and Dragging Canoe. Stories of snake-handling churches and the myths behind the death crown superstitions dot the landscape. The mysteries surrounding the Sensabaugh Tunnel still haunt residents.
Author : Charles Edwin Price
Publisher : John F. Blair, Publisher
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 25,20 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9780895870933
Author : James Ewing
Publisher : Thomas Nelson
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9781558534513
In A Treasury of Tennessee Tales you'll discover: Who painted 'See Rock City' signs on barns? What man, born in Nashville, became president of Nicaragua? What were the best excuses moonshiners gave to the 'revenoors' when their stills were discovered. How Nathan Bedford Forrest won a naval battle in Tennessee during the Civil War.