Stray Tales of the Big Bend
Title | Stray Tales of the Big Bend PDF eBook |
Author | Elton Miles |
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Total Pages | |
Release | |
Genre | Big Bend Region (Texas)--History |
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Stray Tales of the Big Bend
Title | Stray Tales of the Big Bend PDF eBook |
Author | Elton Miles |
Publisher | Centennial Series of the Assoc |
Total Pages | 186 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780890965429 |
"Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 46." A collection of tall tales and legends of the Big Bend Region of Texas.
Stray Tales of the Big Bend
Title | Stray Tales of the Big Bend PDF eBook |
Author | Elton Miles |
Publisher | Centennial the Association of |
Total Pages | 200 |
Release | 1993 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
"Centennial series of the Association of Former Students, Texas A & M University ; no. 46." A collection of tall tales and legends of the Big Bend Region of Texas.
Naturalist's Big Bend
Title | Naturalist's Big Bend PDF eBook |
Author | Roland H. Wauer |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 212 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 9781585441563 |
Given in honor of District Governor Hugh Summers and Mrs. Ahnise Summers by the Rotary Club of Aggieland with matching support from the Sara and John H. Lindsey '44 Fund, Texas A & M University Press, 2004.
Exploring the Big Bend Country
Title | Exploring the Big Bend Country PDF eBook |
Author | Peter Koch |
Publisher | Univ of TX + ORM |
Total Pages | 285 |
Release | 2009-02-17 |
Genre | Nature |
ISBN | 0292794959 |
This collection of writings and images by the legendary Big Bend photographer offers adventure, history, personal musings, and natural beauty. Photographer-naturalist Peter Koch first visited Big Bend National Park in February, 1945, on assignment to take promotional pictures for the National Park Service. He planned to spend a couple of weeks, and ended up staying for the rest of his life. Koch’s magnificent photographs and documentary films introduced the park to people across the United States and remain an invaluable visual record of the first four decades of Big Bend National Park. In this book, Koch’s daughter June Cooper Price draws on her father’s photographs, newspaper columns, and journal entries, as well as short pieces by other family members, to present his vision and many experiences of the Big Bend. The adventure begins with a six-day photographic trip through Santa Elena Canyon on a raft made from agave flower stalks. Koch also describes hiking on mountain trails and driving the scenic loop around Fort Davis; “wax smuggling” and other ways of making a living on the Mexican border; ranching in the Big Bend; collaborating with botanist Barton Warnock; and the history and beauty of Presidio County, the Rio Grande, and the Chihuahuan Desert.
Black Cowboys Of Texas
Title | Black Cowboys Of Texas PDF eBook |
Author | Sara R. Massey |
Publisher | Texas A&M University Press |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781585444434 |
Offers twenty-four essays about African American men and women who worked in the Texas cattle industry from the slave days of the mid-19th century through the early 20th century.
Tenderfoot Teacher
Title | Tenderfoot Teacher PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen Kilgore Henderson |
Publisher | TCU Press |
Total Pages | 180 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780875652641 |
In January 1952, Aileen Kilgore was teaching forty-three fourth graders at a public school in Northport, Alabama. Her life, filled with lesson preparations, in-service meetings, countywide meetings, and special projects, seemed grim, and she resolved to change it. Remembering tales she'd heard of the Big Bend region in Texas, she wrote to the school board at Alpine, applying for a position. To her surprise an offer came back to teach at a new school within the Big Bend National Park. She accepted. The young schoolteacher was at first overwhelmed by Big Bend--the wildness, the limitless space, the isolation, and the exuberant Texas children. But she soon came to love the area and the people. During her first year at Panther Junction, she met one special ranger named Art Henderson. When he was transferred to the Blue Ridge Parkway that summer, there was a hole in her life. During her two years at Panther Junction, Aileen wrote long and frequent letters--to her father working for the railroad at Boligee, Alabama, to her mother and sister living in Brookwood, Alabama, to her sisters in Tuscaloosa and San Diego, and finally, the second year, to Art Henderson. Those edited letters make up this book.