Author: Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603443692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Texas flags
Author: Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781603443692
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Flags of Texas
Author: Charles E. Gilbert, Jr.Publisher: Pelican Publishing
ISBN: 9781455604388
Category : Flags
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
"The tumultuous history of Texas is told through the flags that have flown over the state since the days of the first explorers. Carefully researched full-color illustrations bring to life more than thirty flags from Texas history, including the stately banners of France and Spain, the dramatic and colorful pennants of the Texans seeking independence, and the famous Lone Star flag."--BOOK COVER
Battle Flags of Texans in the Confederacy
Author: Alan K. SumrallPublisher:
ISBN: 9780890159835
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The wide diversity of battle flag designs used by Texans in the Confederacy defies any conventional means of organization. Therefore, the flags are shown in loose chronological format, with considerable and unavoidable overlaps. The organization of the book is intended to give the reader an idea not only of the general evolution of Confederate flag design and usgae but also to illustrate the true decentralization of teh Confederate military.
Sarah's Flag for Texas
Author: Jane Alexander KnapikPublisher: Eakin Press
ISBN: 9781681790817
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
Many Texans give Sarah Bradley Dodson credit for having made the first Lone Star flag. Of all the early Texas flags, her creation most closely resembles the official Lone Star flag that has flown proudly in Texas since 1839. Most of the people named in this book actually lived in early Texas and experienced the historical events related here.
Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags
Author: Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr.Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039151086
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Texans are fiercely proud of their “Lone Star” flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a history of Texas. Throughout each chapter, the author provides a story taken from history texts, research and anecdotes collected during his teaching and travels, which took fifteen years. This unique history of Texas will captivate the reader from the first Spanish flag through revolutions and pirates, to the “Bonnie Blue Flag” of the Civil War.
The Texanist
Author: David CourtneyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477312978
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Seventh Flag
Author: Sid Balman, Jr.Publisher: SparkPress
ISBN: 1684630150
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 234
Book Description
The US and Europe have unraveled since World War II and radicalism has metastasized into every community, tearing away the decency, optimism, and security that shaped those robust democracies for more than eight decades. No place is immune, including the small West Texas town of Dell City, where four generations of an iconic American family and a Syrian Muslim family carve a farming empire out of the unforgiving high desert. These families’ partnership is as unlikely as the idea of a United States, and their powerful friendship can be traced back to a bloody knife fight in a Juarez cantina just after World War II. The bond forged that night between Jack Laws, an Irish American who staked his claim in West Texas after the war, and Ali Zarkan, whose great-grandfather sailed from the Middle East to Texas in the mid-1800s as part of President Franklin Pierce’s attempt to create the US Army Camel Corps, shapes each generation of the families as they come of age and adapt to shifting paradigms of gender, commerce, patriotism, loyalty, religion, and sexuality. From the beaches of the Western Pacific to the battlefields of the Middle East and from the lawless streets of Juarez to the darkest corners of the Internet, the two families fight real and perceived enemies—journeying, as they do, through the football fields of Texas and West Point, the hippie playgrounds of Asia, the music halls of Austin, the terrorist cells of Europe and the political backrooms where fortunes are gained or lost over the rights to Western water. Underlying their experiences is the basic question of what constitutes identity and citizenship in America, or in Texas, a land over which six flags have flown. The seventh flag, ultimately, is not one of a state or a nation, but of a mosaic of cultures, religions, and people from every corner of the world—all struggling to define what it means to be unified under an ambiguous banner.
Flags in the History of Texas
Author: Steve VeazeyPublisher: Hendrick Long Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780937460733
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Texas has on of the richest and most varied histories of any area in the world. As events have transpired, men and nations have unfurled countless flags and banners that are now part of the history of Texas. This is an attempt to depict these flags not as a concise history, but simply as a visual guide through this vivid story.
Under Six Flags: The Story of Texas
Author: M.E.M. DavisPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368901478
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 142
Book Description
Reproduction of the original.
Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags
Author: Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr.Publisher: FriesenPress
ISBN: 1039151078
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Texans are fiercely proud of their “Lone Star” flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a history of Texas. Throughout each chapter, the author provides a story taken from history texts, research and anecdotes collected during his teaching and travels, which took fifteen years. This unique history of Texas will captivate the reader from the first Spanish flag through revolutions and pirates, to the “Bonnie Blue Flag” of the Civil War.