Hill Country chronicles
By: Clay Coppedge
Publisher: History Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9781596299801
Subjects: Social life and customs; Local History; Biography; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [119]-122) and index.
Table of contents: title: pt. 1. A forbidding land; title: Easter fires; title: The scalping of Josiah Wilbarger; title: Packsaddle Mountain; title: Trail of the Tonkawa; title: Enchanted Rock; title: Llano gold; title: Barringer Hill; title: Charcoal burners and cedar choppers; title: White gold; title: Capitals of Texas; title: pt. 2. The good, the bad, and the witty; title: Wild ram of the mountains; title: Blind man's town; title: The first war correspondent; title: The Steamboat Hotel; title: Treu Der Union; title: Jim Bowie and his knife; title: The name rings a bell; title: Jacob Brodbeck takes flight; title: Alex Sweet and his siftings; title: O. Henry in Texas; title: pt. 3. From dinosaurs to polo; title: In praise of the unappreciated mule; title: Camels for Texas; title: First in war, first in polo; title: Cowboy king of polo; title: Batty in Texas; title: The strange saga of Tom Slick; title: Plight of the Pleurocoeleus; title: Ode to the horny toad; title: Home with the armadillo; title: A bluebonnet by any other name; title: pt. 4. Texas originals; title: From sad Irons to big dams; title: Sharpshooters ad and Plinky Toepperwein; title: Old Yeller country; title: Roy Bedichek : Texas original; title: Everybody's somebody in Luckenbach; title: The Bamberger place; title: Thanksgiving as a Texas thang; title: The reindeer of Texas.