History ahead : stories beyond the Texas roadside markers /
In History Ahead, Utley and Beeman introduce readers to the famous (Charles Lindbergh, Will Rogers, The Big Bopper and jazz great Charlie Christian) and the not-so-famous (Elmer "Lumpy" Kleb, Don Pedro Jaramillo and Carl Morene, the "music man" of Schulenburg) who have left their...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[College Station] :
Texas A & M University Press,
©2010.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | TAM travel guides.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- A Texas sense of place
- Saving Elmer's woods
- Roberts Cemetery
- "While you are hesitating others are buying--act to-day!"
- George H. Paul, South Texas land promoter
- A crop of suckers
- A plan for the coming season
- George Sessions Perry
- Robert S. Munger
- The healer of Los Olmos
- Dobie's Los Olmos
- Too many barrels of oil
- Santa Rita smiled
- "We shall come rejoicing"
- Waugh campground
- Zephyr Gospel Tabernacle
- The music man of Schulenburg
- "Shorthorns forever"
- Passing through Texas
- Lindbergh landed here
- Lindbergh historical markers
- Pyramids on the road to Monte Ne
- The Nat
- A gathering in the woods
- Texas Forestry Association
- Ghosts at Mitchell Flat
- Fort D.A. Russell
- Chasing the next frontier
- Wiley Hardeman Post
- Alien city in a strange land
- Kenedy Alien Detention Camp Cemetery
- Texans on the national stage
- Fighting every step of the way
- Minnie Fish
- Companion courthouses
- Crossing the great divide
- Charlie's unmarked friends
- Harvest of the devoted heart
- Wyatt C. Hedrick
- Queen of the air
- The flying Stinsons
- "Hellooo, baby!"
- Jefferson Theatre
- City of Lubbock Cemetery
- The theater of tomorrow today
- Stoneleigh Hotel
- Sherman Little Theater.