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Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Release : 2005-02
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 334/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Devils River by : Louis F. Aulbach
Download or read book Devils River written by Louis F. Aulbach. This book was released on 2005-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Patrick Dearen
Release : 2022-08-16
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 509/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Devils River by : Patrick Dearen
Download or read book Devils River written by Patrick Dearen. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his newest book, Devils River, Patrick Dearen traces the 400-year history of the notorious river from the time of the first Spanish explorers to the modernization of southwestern Texas and the coming of the railroad. He vividly retells stories of Indian encounters, train robberies, and other horrific events that prove just how the name “Devils River” was coined. With his inimitable style, the author weaves together a variety of themes--military events, including the Civil War and stories about the Texas Rangers; the development of the first mail lines; and the introduction of cattle and sheep raising--into a comprehensive account of the violence and bloodshed surrounding the Devils River. The nature of the river’s history is such that very few anecdotes have happy endings, but Devils River contains stories of triumphs as well as disasters. Although this is an excellent account for historians studying the west, it is also very accessible to others with little or no background in early western history.
Author : Walter Block
Release : 2012-08-07
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 240/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Devils River Country by : Walter Block
Download or read book Devils River Country written by Walter Block. This book was released on 2012-08-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Del Rio. Val Verde. By the river. The Green Valley. The great grand parents and their kin came. By horse . . . wagon . . . stage coach . . . foot back. They settled the village. Helped name it Del Rio. Assisted in forming Val Verde County. Grandparents told stories: of their coming to live in the wonderful country where Devils River, the Pecos, and the Rio Grande meet . . . of early times in the boundary area where the Chihuahuan Desert from the west meets hills of the Edwards Plateau to the north and merges with Tamaulipas brush land from the south and the east. Times change. Winter-time tale-tellings before the fireplace on grand-dad’s knee . . . warm-weather story-sharings on the back porch in grand-ma’s lap . . . wisps of Prince Albert pipe smoke . . .twinkings of twilight fire-flies . . . all eroded away by movies, television, and cell phones. But there are still stories to tell. Tales to pass on. Things we want children – grandchildren – those still to come – to remember – in times yet to be. This book is a gathering of happenings – remembrances of events – glimpses of parenting – thoughts of yesteryear. It tells of: Horses and windmills and tarantulas . . . a wrong-way bus trip . . . a hidden wedding ring . . . sycamore trees . . . a lost bath and football shack showers . . . lions and toads and tin soldiers . . . a picket fence . . . old telephones . . . poison pig weed . . . a crusty old red rooster . . . building boats and reviving old cars . . . holiday traditions . . . hunting experiences . . . sailing fiascos . . . and more.
Author : John Sinton
Release : 2018-09
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Book Rating : 654/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Devil's Den to Linkingwater by : John Sinton
Download or read book Devil's Den to Linkingwater written by John Sinton. This book was released on 2018-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Devil's Den to Lickingwater tells the multifaceted tale of the Mill River in Western Massachusetts, from its emergence after the glaciers 20,000 years ago to the present. This is in fact the story of New England, and indeed much of America, as told by environmental historian John Sinton (co-author of Water, Earth and Fire: The New Jersey Pine Barrens and The Connecticut River Boating Guide). Little escapes Sinton's voracious historical appetite - the creation of the landscape, the disappearance and reappearance of native fish and animals, the Mill River as a Native American crossroads, the contrast between English and Native ways of managing the land, the transformations wrought by war, floods and industrial disasters, the extraordinary role of the Mill River in the U.S. Industrial Revolution, the exceptional personalities, from Sachem Umanchala to Calvin Coolidge. All this is told through the arc of the Mill River's history-beloved, abused, diverted, and ultimately reclaimed as an integral part of the landscape.
Author : Louis F. Aulbach
Release : 2012
Genre : Canoes and canoeing
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Book Rating : 759/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Devils River by : Louis F. Aulbach
Download or read book The Devils River written by Louis F. Aulbach. This book was released on 2012. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
