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Pioneers, poke sallet & politics, all things historical (from the newspapers of East Texas), Bob Bowman, Archie McDonald

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Pioneers, poke sallet & politics, all things historical (from the newspapers of East Texas), Bob Bowman, Archie McDonald

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Pioneers, poke sallet & politics

Oclc number

751310

Responsibility statement

Bob Bowman, Archie McDonald

Sub title

all things historical (from the newspapers of East Texas)

Summary

A collection of 70 columns written by Bowman and McDonald between 1999 and 2001 for 'All Things Historical,' a weekly history-based column sponsored by the East Texas Historical Association

Table Of Contents

Introd. -- A few bad guys. John Wesley Hardin ; Jay Gould ; Bonnie and Clyde ; Kaiser's burnout ; Quantrill -- Oil and railroads. Teneha, Timpson, Bobo, and Blair ; Spindletop's gusher ; Dad Joiner's gamble ; Texas' first oil well ; The Texas State Railroad ; A short, short line ; Saratoga ; Hell either way taken ; Rabbit -- Politics. Governor George T. Wood ; Politics and pie suppers ; Mister Ben ; Governor Allan Shivers ; Mister Sam ; Senator Ralph Yarborough ; Governor James Stephen Hogg -- Our heroes. A ranger's ranger ; Samuel Bell Maxey ; Brickmaker Bryce ; Ike of Texas ; A journalist's hero ; Blind Lemon ; A tough ol' pioneer ; Adolpus Sterne ; Gospel classic ; Jack Johnson ; Red River's Alamo men ; Charles D. Morse -- Our earliest East Texans. The Caddo mounds ; Fray Margil ; Mission Tejas ; Mission Delores ; The Malakoff man -- Landmarks. Starr Mansion ; Two old reds ; Castle builder ; The Old Stone House ; A pioneer hotel ; Marshall, Texas ; Grand Saline's salt ; Camp Ford ; Harmon Hospital ; New London -- From the forests. Sawyers & Flatheads ; The pioneer paper mill ; The turpentiners ; Pine resin recipes ; Who? Hoo hoo! ; Commissary stores ; Ghost Road -- Wars and battles. Sabine Pass ; Camp Fannin ; Audie Murphy ; The Regulators and Moderators ; Civil War battles ; The Alamo coward ; The Alamo rifleman ; Battleship Texas ; Battle of Neches ; Fort Parker -- Ordinary folks. Mark Twain of East Texas ; The bootblack king ; A pioneer's letter ; Radio days ; The Masons -- Growing and blowing. Grandma's lillies ; Thergood's pine ; The Galveston storm -- Ghosts and graves. Graveyard of locomotives ; New Birmingham ; Our celebrities ; East Texas ghosts ; The wrong grave ; Moses' bones -- This and that. Wonder why? ; Mad stones ; Ugly sayings ; Old steer ; Trivia: here and there ; Where is East Texas? ; Dealing with warts ; The Lone Star brand -- East Texas menu. Chili ; The East Texas plate lunch ; Poke sallet

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All things historicalVignettes of East Texas life, history and folklore

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