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Dog Ghosts and The Word on the Brazos
Language: en
Pages: 272
Authors: J. Mason Brewer
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-06-28 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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This book contains two volumes of African American folk tales collected by J. Mason Brewer. The stories included in Dog Ghosts are as varied as the Texas landsc
Unruly Waters
Language: en
Pages: 288
Authors: Kenna Lang Archer
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: University of New Mexico Press

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This environmental history of the Brazos traces the techniques that engineers and politicians have repeatedly used to try to manage its flow.
Lone Star Travel Guide to Central Texas
Language: en
Pages: 425
Authors: Richard Zelade
Categories: Travel
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-05-16 - Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications

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Formerly a part of the popular Lone Star Guide to the Texas Hill Country, Central Texas now gets its own treatment in this up-to-date guide that includes histor
The African Texans
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Alwyn Barr
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-02-19 - Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

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Immigrants of African descent have come to Texas in waves—first as free blacks seeking economic and social opportunity under the Spanish and Mexican governmen
Folktales of Newfoundland (RLE Folklore)
Language: en
Pages: 1276
Authors: Herbert Halpert
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-02-20 - Publisher: Routledge

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This collection of Newfoundland folk narratives, first published in 1996, grew out of extensive fieldwork in folk culture in the province. The intention was to