Central Texas Tales, Paperback - Mike Cox

Reducere. Central Texas is an area as diverse culturally as it is geographically. Bordered by Hill Country in the west, green farmland in the east and Waco a...

Historian Mike Cox has been writing about Texas history for four decades, sharing tales that have been overlooked or forgotten through the years. T...

Reducere. Since the late 1870's Texans have been reporting UFO sightings in the sky...and as recently as 2008, a wave of UFO reports around Stephenville stir...

Reducere. DescriptionThe history of law enforcement in the Lone Star State goes back well before photography, dating to Texas's days as part of the Spanish e...

Reducere. DescriptionOn January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hu...

Reducere. Since colonizer Stephen F. Austin proposed hiring ten rangers "for the common defense" in 1823, the Texas Rangers have protected the Lone Star Stat...

Reducere. DescriptionOn September 15, 1896, Crush boasted the highest population in Texas. Built near Waco, the town provided the staging ground for a public...

Reducere. From its beginning as one of the most ambitious construction projects west of the Mississippi, the imposing red granite Lone Star statehouse loomed...

A nostalgic journey into the past exploring the historic sights of Newark's most interesting buildings, now lost from the local landscape.Publisher...

Reducere. Texas writer-historian Mike Cox explores the origin and rise of the famed Texas Rangers. Starting in 1821 with just a handful of men, the Rangers' ...

Reducere. A modern-day explorer's guide to the Old West From the famed Oregon Trail to the boardwalks of Dodge City to the great trading posts on the Missour...

Reducere. A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas, an area roughly the region of...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Judy LiddellIllustration(s): 41 colour photographs, 11 mapsNumber of pages: 192Publication date: ...

Reducere. The Big Bend, the Big Country, the Big Empty. The High Plains, the Permian and the Panhandle. Cowboys, Cowtown and the curl of a killer tornado. A ...

Reducere. To Rory Yates being a Texas Ranger is about justice, but all of that changes when he is brought to a small southern town to help uncover the myster...

Traditional tales retold by a professional storyteller

Reducere. It is for good reason that J. Frank Dobie is known as the Southwest's master storyteller. With his eye for color and detail, his ear for the rhythm...

Reducere. DescriptionOn May 27, 1997, an F5 tornado ground its way through the Double Creek Subdivision in Jarrell, Texas, a community of about 400 people ju...

Publisher: Random House USA IncAuthor(s): Lynne CoxNumber of pages: 224Publication date: 2022Dimensions: 153 x 219 x 28Cover type: HardbackRedescop...

Reducere. I have been a Bigfoot researcher in the state of Minnesota for over 30 years, dedicated to the pursuit of a giant hairy upright walking manlike or ...

These children's folk tales from Cornwall as selected by a professional storyteller cover the spectrums of fantasy, adventure and humour, depicting...

Reducere. It may be a "best-kept secret, " but central Texas has some of the best fly fishing in America. With Texas native and fly fishing expert Aaron Reed...

Reducere. Most Texas game wardens work alone much of the time in very rural out of the way and unnamed places. It is not uncommon for wardens to find themsel...

A collection of Jan Neruda's intimated, wry, bitter-sweet stories of life among the inhabitants of Mala Strana, the Little Quarter of nineteenth ce...

Reducere. Now in its sixth printing, the first of Elton Miles's folklore collections tells stories as inseparable from the region as the Rio Grande itself. T...

Reducere. Renowned storyteller Docia Williams gathers a medley of some of the best haunting stories from her four previous books-Spirits of San Antonio and S...

Reducere. DescriptionNo story in United States history is more compelling than the exploration and settlement of the American West, and the tales of those wh...

With laugh-out-loud funny parenting observations, the New York Times bestselling author and award-winning comedian delivers a book that is perfect ...

Reducere. 100 Tales of Texas History contains100 hard-to-find old history stories selected for their interest to Texas and Texans. These tales come from 100 ...

Reducere. DescriptionIRONMAN is a sports phenomenon that has come to symbolize the very best of human striving, achievement and excellence. And race announce...

Cornish folk talesPublisher: The History Press LtdAuthor(s): Mike O'ConnorNumber of pages: 192Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 15Cover...

Reducere. In this hilarious and inspirational memoir, Ross Mathews-best known as ``Ross the Intern`` from The Tonight Show with Jay Leno-chronicles his life ...

Reducere. CENTRAL FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL takes you off the Interstate Highways and onto the quieter roads that defined this region in earlier years. Millio...

Even before its immense population surge, Arlington never dreamed small. In the 1930s, Arlington Downs attracted thousands to its state-of-the-art ...

Takes readers on the full journey of the Sea Cloud, from its postwar ownership by Rafael Trujillo, to its use as a commercial cruise ship in Panama...

Reducere. NORTH CENTRAL FLORIDA BACKROADS TRAVEL takes you off the Interstate Highways and onto the quieter roads that defined this region in earlier years. ...

Reducere. In 1899, the United Fruit Company (UFCO) was officially incorporated in Boston, Massachusetts, beginning an era of economic, diplomatic, and milita...

These stories with a twist have been chosen to motivate all Key Stage 3 students - especially boys. Including stories by well-known and popular aut...

Humanity has moved on after the Benson Disaster. In the decades following the loss of the space station along with almost its entire crew a new kin...

Reducere. From his days at Bill Graham's Fillmore East, through seeking rock stardom with London Records, running the Lone Star Cafe and Blue Note Jazz Club ...

Reducere. People may associate Texas with cattle drives and oil derricks, but the sea has shaped the state's history as dramatically as it has delineated its...

Reducere. DescriptionIRONMAN is a sports phenomenon that has come to symbolize the very best of human striving, achievement and excellence. And race announce...

'Even though they're gone from the world, they're never gone from me.'The Doctor is many things - curious, funny, brave, protective of her friends....

Publisher: Dark Horse Comics, U.S.Author(s): Mike MignolaIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 144Publication date: 2022Dim...

Between horror and fantasy lies a world in which the inexplicable remains unsolved and the rational mind is assailed by impossible questions. Welco...

Publisher: HarperCollinsAuthor(s): Mike BrowneNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 165 x 229 x 31Cover type: PaperbackRedescopera ...