Texas South Plains War Stories: Interviews with Veterans from World War II to Afghanistan, Katherine McLamore, Larry A. Williams
Автор: M. Scott Sosebee, Wyman Meinzer Название: More Than Running Cattle: The Mallet Ranch of the South Plains ISBN: 1682831477 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682831472 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 3756.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Mallet Ranch, from its founding to the present, has followed the arc of most Texas ranches. It has experienced booms and busts, and its owners have fretted over droughts and floods as well as fights in courtrooms. Despite hardships that may have outnumbered successes, the Mallet, headquartered in Hockley County, Texas, perseveres to this day.
But More Than Running Cattle is more than just a ranch tale. It is the story of a family both unique and conventional among Texas stock raisers. David M. DeVitt, like many before him, was not "born" to be a Texas cattleman. DeVitt began his career as a reporter in Brooklyn, New York, before he decided to leave that path behind to try his luck on the wide-open ranges of West Texas.
David DeVitt passed down his hardy, independent spirit to his two daughters. Although Christine and Helen were raised in Fort Worth, both from a young age learned the lesson that the West Texas land—and the Mallet Ranch—were part of their souls. When their father died, the two sisters fought to retain control of the Mallet for the family.
The discovery in 1938 of oil on the ranch, and the subsequent drilling of more than a thousand oil wells over the next few decades, transformed the Mallet from a struggling enterprise into one of the most profitable such entities in the nation. From that financial windfall sprung from the land, Christine and Helen generously reinvested back into the region. The two non-profit organizations founded by the DeVitt sisters have distributed more than $200 million.
The story of the Mallet Ranch told within these pages illuminates and delves into this remarkable story of a family, their operation, and the land that made it all possible.
Автор: Alice Randall, Andrew Maraniss, Ann Patchett, Arna Bontemps, Charles Fountain, David Halberstam, David Maraniss, Dori Sanders, Doris Kearns Goodwin, J Название: A Word on Words: The Best of John Seigenthaler`s Interviews ISBN: 0826505732 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780826505736 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 4851.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: For years the legendary John Seigenthaler hosted A Word on Words on Nashville's public television station, WNPT. During the show’s four-decade run (1972 to 2013), he interviewed some of the most interesting and most important writers of our time. These in-depth exchanges revealed much about the writers who appeared on his show and gave a glimpse into their creative processes. Seigenthaler was a deeply engaged reader and a generous interviewer, a true craftsman. Frye Gaillard and Pat Toomay have collected and transcribed some of the iconic interactions from the show.
Featuring interviews with: Arna Bontemps • Marshall Chapman • Pat Conroy • Rodney Crowell • John Egerton • Jesse Hill Ford • Charles Fountain • William Price Fox • Kinky Friedman • Frye Gaillard • Nikki Giovanni • Doris Kearns Goodwin • David Halberstam • Waylon Jennings • John Lewis • David Maraniss • William Marshall • Jon Meacham • Ann Patchett • Alice Randall • Dori Sanders • John Seigenthaler Sr. • Marty Stuart • Pat Toomay
Описание: Based largely on Civil War veterans` own words, this book documents how many of these men survived the extraordinary horrors and hardships of war with surprising resilience and went on to become productive members of their communities in their post-war lives.
Автор: Raymond James Raymond Название: Elite Souls: Portraits of Valor in Iraq and Afghanistan ISBN: 1682477134 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781682477137 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 8593.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
Описание: The great nineteenth century French military thinker, Ardant du Picq, argued that selfless courage is rooted in a higher moral purpose, and is found among `Elite Souls`. This is a book about five such `Elite Souls`, all highly decorated young West Point graduates and recipients of the USMA`s Ninninger Medal.
Автор: Holyfield, Lori Название: Veterans` Journeys Home ISBN: 1612050522 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781612050522 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5664.00 р. Наличие на складе: Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Frederick R. Gabriel graduated from medical school in 1940, entered the US Army, and was assigned to the newly-created 39th Station Hospital. His letters from the Pacific theater - especially from Guadalcanal, Angaur, and Saipan - capture the everyday life of a soldier physician. His son, Michael P. Gabriel, a professional historian, has faithfully preserved, edited, and annotated that correspondence to add a new dimension to our understanding of the social history of World War II, which he presents here in Physician Soldier: The South Pacific Letters of Captain Fred Gabriel from the 39th Station Hospital. Like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital was positioned in a rear area and saw limited direct action. And like most wartime hospitals, the 39th Station Hospital spent each day confronting the injuries and casualties of frontline combat. Gabriel supervised a ward and oversaw the unit's laboratory, serving a hospital that provided care to four hundred patients at a time.Gabriel's letters home capture this experience and more, providing a revealing look into day-to-day life in the Pacific theater. He discusses the training of medical officers and female nurses, recreational activities such as Bob Hope's USO show, and even his thoughts on the death of FDR, the end of the war in Europe, and ultimately the horrors of the atomic bomb.
Описание: From Dallas-Fort Worth to El Paso, Goodnight to Marfa to Langtry, and scores of places in between, the second of two towering volumes assembled by Gerald Moorhead and a team of dedicated authors offers readers a definitive guide to the architecture of the Lone Star State.
Автор: Flores Daniel Название: South of Heaven: My Year in Afghanistan ISBN: 1462024378 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781462024377 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 3442.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Eyre, Vincent Название: Journal of an Afghanistan Prisoner ISBN: 036726563X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780367265632 Издательство: Taylor&Francis Рейтинг: Цена: 5358.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The destruction of the British army while retreating from Afghanistan in 1842 is one of the most dramatic episodes in British imperial history. This book, first published in 1843 and reissued in 1976, is Eyre`s account of the events leading up to the retreat, the disastrous withdrawal itself, and his time spent in captivity.
Описание: When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South Texas. In Henry C. 'Hank' Smith and the Cross B Ranch, historian M. Scott Sosebee tells the story of one pioneer settler's small but significant ranch in West Texas. The Cross B Ranch of Blanco Canyon struggled but endured to become quite successful, even while surrounded by big ranching empires. Founder Hank Smith went on to become one of the region's most prominent, civic-minded citizens.Born in Bavaria, Smith left Germany in 1851 at the age of fourteen and traveled to Ohio to live with a sister. Less than two years later, he left Ohio to seek better opportunities in the American West. In the course of his westering life he worked as a teamster on the Santa Fe Trail, searched for gold in Arizona and New Mexico, served in both the Confederate and Union armies during the Civil War, operated a freighting business, owned a hotel, and eventually moved to Blanco Canyon and became a stock raiser. Although he did raise cattle, for most of his life as a stockman he raised twice as many sheep as he did cows, yet was one of the first in West Texas to upgrade his cattle stock with purebred bloodlines.In Henry C. 'Hank' Smith and the Cross B Ranch, M. Scott Sosebee enriches our understanding of western heritage and ranching in America through a compelling and lively biography set on the small stage of an unassuming but important ranch.
Описание: Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle-South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth.
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