Texas History Stories: The Alamo, the Goliad Massacre, San Jacinto and Biographies of Sam Houston, David Crockett, Dick Dowling and Other Her, Paperba

Reducere. This collection of Texas stories includes the famous defense of the Alamo, great battles such as San Jacinto, plus biographies of famous people lik...

Reducere. The Alamo Eighteen Pounder. Come and Take It. Phrases without context to outsiders, but not to Texans. These revered, iconic cannons played an outs...

DescriptionThe heart-stopping story of the fight for Texas by The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Je...

Reducere. Silver Medal winner for "Military Non-Fiction" category Military Writers Society of America 2008 AwardsThe Sons of the Republic of Texas Presidio L...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Guadalupe San MiguelStrikes, boycotts, rallies, negotiations, and litigation marked the efforts of Mexican-origin community...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Davy Crockett, then keep reading...If, as historian Thomas Carlyle said, the history of the worl...

If you want to discover the captivating history of Davy Crockett, then keep reading...If, as historian Thomas Carlyle said, the history of the worl...

Reducere. This is the stuff of which legend is made, this story of the making of Texas, and Houston is one with those semilegendary characters--with Daniel B...

Publisher: HeadpressAuthor(s): Martin HarrisIllustration(s): 1 Illustrations, unspecifiedNumber of pages: 248Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 126 ...

Reducere. Bob Denhardt first "penned up" The Quarter Horse and had it printed in Houston in 1941. It was the first book ever published about this then-new br...

Reducere. In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Per...

Reducere. This handy paperback in the Savas "Facts About" series covers all aspects of the famous campaign in surprising detail, with much hard-to-find infor...

Reducere. Jeff Hamilton, only thirteen when purchased in 1853 by Sam Houston at a slave auction in Huntsville, Texas, was Houston's personal body servant dur...

All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodi...

Reducere. In late July 1910, a shocking number of African Americans in Texas were slaughtered by white mobs in the Slocum area of Anderson County and the Per...

Reducere. First published in 1834, "A Narrative of the Life of David Crockett" is the autobiography of the famous American folk hero Davy Crockett, often ref...

Reducere. The twentieth century has seen two great waves of African American migration from rural areas into the city, changing not only the country's demogr...

Reducere. Award NameIndieFab awardsAward categoryRegional BookThe long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering ...

Reducere. The long-intertwined communities of the Oglala Lakota Pine Ridge Reservation and the bordering towns in Sheridan County, Nebraska, mark their histo...

Reducere. A tragic - and largely forgotten - event following the liberation of Korea occurred on Jeju Island in 1948. An event now called "The Jeju Massacre"...

Reducere. DescriptionWhen Tobe Hooper's low-budget slasher film, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, opened in theaters in 1974, it was met in equal measure with di...

Reducere. Even as a pup, Davy Crockett -always delighted to be in the very thickest of danger.- In his own inimitable style, he describes his earliest days i...

Reducere. *Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the fighting *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading When various revolutions mo...

Reducere. With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of deba...

Reducere. If you want to explore the shocking history of the Native Americans then keep reading..."History is written by the victors, " said the victor Winst...

Reducere. Anne Frank takes young readers back to the dark days of World War II through the story of the famous young diarist. Like teenagers everywhere, Anne...

"Lively and absorbing. . . -- The New York Times Book Review Engrossing. --Wall Street Journal "Entertaining and well-researched . . . " --Houston ...

DescriptionA young readers edition of the New York Times bestseller The Disappearing Spoon, chronicling the extraordinary stories behind one of the...

Reducere. Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga. Autho...

Reducere. This literary adventure takes place in nineteenth-century Texas and follows the story of a Tejana lesbian cowgirl after the fall of the Alamo. Mica...

Reducere. David "Davy" Crockett (August 17, 1786 - March 6, 1836) was a 19th-century American folk hero, frontiersman, soldier, and politician. He is commonl...

Reducere. In thirteen chapters, Lon Tinkle tells the day-by-day story of how 182 men fought a losing battle but won for their cause an almost unparalleled me...

Reducere. When the gun smoke cleared, four men were found dead at the hardware store in a rural East Texas town. But this December 1934 shootout was no anoma...

Reducere. DescriptionAs Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was ...

Reducere. In highly-segregated Tulsa, Oklahoma in June, 1921, a white mob attacked the mostly Black neighborhood of Greenwood. Hundreds of people were killed...

Reducere. Complex, controversial, and prolific, Howard Barnstone was a central figure in the world of twentieth-century modern architecture. Recognized as Ho...

Reducere. DescriptionFrom New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, finance, mythology, the arts, medicine, an...

Reducere. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is ...

Reducere. The Oatman massacre is among the most famous and dramatic captivity stories in the history of the Southwest. In this riveting account, Brian McGint...

Reducere. On December 17, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge, more than eighty unarmedAmerican soldiers were shot down after having surrendered to an SS ta...

Reducere. In the beginning was Jamestown.... This is the wondrous story of the genesis of America told through this cradle to the grave account of the life o...