As they tee up, make their approach shots, or line up their putts, few Texan golfers likely realize that the familiar landscapes of tee boxes, fairways, and greens can obscure stories from the past that played out on those same grounds. Such little-known links to the past include prehistoric campsites, a Spanish presidio, and a prairie where the Rough Riders trained, as well as courses constructed by New Deal agencies in the Great Depression or military personnel in times of war. Links to the Past: The Hidden History on Texas Golf Courses takes readers on a tour of eighteen Texas golf courses with surprising connections to history. On the “front nine,” points of interest include encounters with dinosaur fossils near Austin, a Comanche raid on a Spanish frontier presidio near Menard, and a battle between Anglo buffalo hunters and Native Americans near Lubbock. The “back nine” explores reminders of the East Texas lumber industry near Diboll, a training ground for the Rough Riders outside downtown San Antonio, and a race riot near Houston in 1917, to name a few. In addition, Dan K. Utley with Stanley O' Graves provide full histories of the courses themselves, detailing their design and evolution and explaining how they came to be constructed at these historically significant sites. Fun, compelling, and enlightening, this book is a reminder that history has occurred all around us, not just in historic districts, state parks, or even where official state markers might be found. Featuring “scorecards” for each course that include location, historical facts, and a “signature hole of history,” as well as historical and contemporary photographs and informative sidebars, Links to the Past is sure to entertain. Golfers, history buffs, and heritage tourists will want to toss this handy and engaging book in the front seat of the car—or zip it into the side pocket of their golf bags.
By looking on the bright side, the author attempts to explain how such things as Kamikaze Banty roosters or the purchase of your first used car can have a humorous slant. Starting from the time of babysitting chickens during forced labor on a small farm to coping with traveling in foreign lands, the author shows how everyday experiences can leave a lifelong impression, much like stepping on a rusty nail. From grade school through high school and on to higher planes of endeavor, the reader will inevitably find something he or she can relate to. Sweaty palms on a first date to frog anatomy in Biology 101 illustrates how life can be funnier than a stand-up comedian.
Two graves occupy a corner of the lawn on the old Rakestraw home place. The family believes their shameful secret is buried forever, but a curious descendant keeps searching and asking questions until he uncovers the truth. What he discovers is not a shame, but an ancestral legacy of strong, honest people who changed a nation. Deep inside this old story, theres a life so wonderful and a love so tragic that it must be told. Emotional courage is required if you are willing to find the end of this familys story. It grabs you up by the collar and jerks into the middle of the Rakestraw family tree. By the time you turn the last page, not a skeleton in your closet will ever dare to rattle its bones again. But if it does, youll be able to answer quietly, I know and I understand.
Do your eyes glaze over at the mention of history? Not with this book. The Archbishop Who Killed a Man and Other Anecdotes from Christian History has gathered under one cover some of the most intriguing, moving, faith-filled, and downright funny stories to be found in all of Christian history. Where would the devil go to get a new tail? Why would a Dad drive his beloved and obedient daughter out of his house? This is a collection for bedtime, for the pulpit, or for that hard to please friend or mate. Illustrated. Order your copy today.
The man who designed the grotesque virus was a genius: twisted, but brilliant. He had contrived a disease that would infect its victims from rift. No wonder the medical world had been baffled. Stan began to discern the pattern. The best simile he could find for what he saw was hooks and eyes. There were thousands of tiny latches. Pain beating at him until he feared he must faint, he looked for a swift way to unzip them. There was none. Each rift-latch had to be undone singly. There was nothing for it but to begin separating them one by one." In the 31st-century, Stan's defiance has landed him on a renegade planet, fighting for his own life and the lives of others. He braves deadly planets, a dire disease, and a crushing addiction in an effort to solve the riddle of the riftstones before ruthless enemies destroy him. The Riftstones is compelling science fiction with a non-stop plot, quirky characters, new technology, space travel, and mysteries of science and the human spirit.
Imagine yourself lifted at eight years old from the heart of a large American city and dropped into a stone age culture. That is what happens to Dan Graves in this autobiography. Within a span of four months he goes from Oklahoma City to a restricted valley in the Papuan highlands. For the next eight years he grows up in a land of exotic beauty—one foot in the 20th-century, the other in a primitive past, among peoples who live in daily terror of demons. Join him and feel your ears pop on your first airplane ride, watch jungle trees slide below like brocolli stalks, then smell the jungle humus as you walk between the those same trees, now towering above your head, your feet blistering when you make your first trek. Taste strange foods, hear the roar of great rivers, and touch human bones with your hands. All the while, exciting and sometimes terrifying events will unfold around you, raising questions of what life is all about.
Black Mask, the greatest American detective magazine of all time, is back with another issue featuring five all-new stories, plus vintage hard-boiled classics from the pulp era of the 1930s-40s. And it includes a never-before published cover by James Lunnon, painted for Black Mask in 1940.
Broadway musicals of the 1900s saw the emergence of George M. Cohan and his quintessentially American musical comedies which featured contemporary American stories, ragtime-flavored songs, and a tongue-in-cheek approach to musical comedy conventions. But when the Austrian import The Merry Widow opened in 1907, waltz-driven operettas became all the rage. In The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals, Dan Dietz surveys every single book musical that opened during the decade. Each musical has its own entry which features the following: Plot summary Cast members Creative team Song lists Opening and closing dates Number of performances Critical commentary Film adaptations, recordings, and published scripts, when applicable Numerous appendixes include a chronology of book musicals by season; chronology of revues; chronology of revivals of Gilbert and Sullivan operettas; a selected discography; filmography; published scripts; Black musicals; long and short runs; and musicals based on comic strips. The most comprehensive reference work on Broadway musicals of the 1900s, this book is an invaluable and significant resource for all scholars, historians, and fans of Broadway musicals.
Scottsboro tells the riveting story of one of this country's most famous and controversial court cases and a tragic and revealing chapter in the history of the American South. In 1931, two white girls claimed they were savagely raped by nine young black men aboard a freight train moving across northeastern Alabama. The young men-ranging in age from twelve to nineteen-were quickly tried, and eight were sentenced to death. The age of the defendants, the stunning rapidity of their trials, and the harsh sentences they received sparked waves of protest and attracted national attention during the 1930s. Originally published in 1970,Scottsboro triggered a new interest in the case, sparking two film documentaries, several Hollywood docudramas, two autobiographies, and numerous popular and scholarly articles on the case. In his new introduction, Dan T. Carter looks back more than thirty-five years after he first wrote about the case, asking what we have learned that is new about it and what relevance the story of Scottsboro still has in the twenty-first century.
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