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Unforgettable Texans by Bartee Haile
History books burst at the seams with stories about Houston, Travis, Crockett and other icons of Texas history. Yet many of the Lone Star State's fascinating figures--well known in life but forgotten in death--remain obscure by omission. This scintillating company includes a World War I spy who became a movie star, the first gringo matador, a West Texas tent showman and the husband-and-wife trick-shot act that amazed audiences for forty years. Some characters cut across the common narrative, like the admiral whose advice might have prevented the attack on Pearl Harbor, the one and only Republican congressman in the first half of the twentieth century, the Klansman Texans elected to the U.S. Senate and the businessman who wrote the longest English-language novel in complete secrecy. Popular columnist and author Bartee Haile brings to life some of the most intriguing Texans who ever slipped through the cracks of history.
Haile, Bartee: - Bartee Haile began writing This Week in Texas History in 1983 for small-town and suburban newspapers across the Lone Star State. Thirty-five years and more than 1,800 columns later, it is the most widely read and longest-running feature of its kind ever. Texas Entertainers: Lone Stars in Profile is his fifth book for The History Press. The master storyteller's earlier titles are Texas Depression-Era Desperadoes, Murder Most Texan, Texas Boomtowns: A History of Blood and Oil and Unforgettable Texans--all fascinating page-turners. A fourth- or fifth-generation Texan (like most Texans, he can't say for sure), Bartee Haile lives in the Houston area with his wife, Gerri.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781467137737 |
| ISBN 10 | 1467137731 |
| Titel | Unforgettable Texans |
| Autor | Haile Bartee |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Paperback |
| Verlag | The History Press |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2017-07-24 |
| Seitenanzahl | 128 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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