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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “ann dunphy becker”
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  • Houston's River Oaks

    by Ann Dunphy Becker ...
    Series series Images of America
    In the early 1920s, when T.W. House Jr., A.C. Guthrie, and Thomas Ball came to the conclusion that Houston needed a new country club, complete with an 18-hole golf course, they formed Country Club Estates. They chose to build on land called the House tract just west of downtown. Very quickly, 300 memberships were sold, with each including one share of stock in the company. Within a year, Will and ... Read more

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  • Houston's River Oaks

    by Charles Dain Becker, Joan Blaffer Johnson ...
    Series series Images of Modern America
    River Oaks is a name that has rung out in Houston, Texas, since its founding in 1923. The neighborhood's uncertain geographical boundaries may be a point of controversy, but the impact River Oaks has had on the city is indisputable. River Oaks has been home to astronauts who have contributed to American space exploration; lawyers who are involved in the interworking of the United States' legal ... Read more

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  • Houston

    1860 to 1900

    by Ann Dunphy Becker ...
    Series series Images of America
    In an area that was little more than a thick forest lining Buffalo Bayou, Houston was founded in 1836 by the Allen brothers and named after the Republic of Texas�s beloved general Sam Houston. By 1860, there were 5,000 residents in Houston, wooden sidewalks, a few shell-paved roads, and five railroads. Out of the mud and mayhem of Houston�s humble frontier beginnings arose men like Thomas W. House ... Read more

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    San Antonio native, military veteran, merchant, and mayor pro tem José Antonio Menchaca (1800–1879) was one of only a few Tejano leaders to leave behind an extensive manuscript of recollections. Portions of the document were published in 1907, followed by a “corrected” edition in 1937, but the complete work could not be published without painstaking reconstruction. At last available in its ... Read more

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  • Sand Springs, Oklahoma

    by Jamye K. Landis, Sand Springs Cultural and Historical Museum Association ...
    Series series Images of America
    One man�s dream burst into reality as Sand Springs,Oklahoma, became the �industrial center of thesouthwest� in the early twentieth century. Self-mademillionaire Charles Page recognized opportunity and quickly bought Native American land allotments as they became available for sale, setting about his vision of creating a planned community for thousands of workers. From feverish growth and economic ... Read more

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  • Evidence of Love

    A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs

    by John Bloom, Jim Atkinson ...
    The "fascinating" true story behind the HBO Max and Hulu series about Texas housewife Candy Montgomery and the bizarre murder that shocked a community ( Los Angeles Times Book Review ).Candy Montgomery and Betty Gore had a lot in common: They sang together in the Methodist church choir, their daughters were best friends, and their husbands had good jobs working for technology companies in the ... Read more

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  • The Five Civilized Tribes

    by Grant Foreman ...
    Series series The Civilization of the American Indian Series
    Side by side with the westward drift of white Americans in the 1830's was the forced migration of the Five Civilized Tribes from Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. Both groups were deployed against the tribes of the prairies, both breaking the soil of the undeveloped hinterland. Both were striving in the years before the Civil War to found schools, churches, and towns, as well as to ... Read more

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  • The Land of Little Rain

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    by Mary Austin, Sabrina Hendricks ...
    Mary Austin's "The Land of Little Rain" is a lyrical exploration of the natural beauty and stark realities of the high desert of California. Through a series of evocative essays, Austin masterfully intertwines the landscape's physicality with its cultural and spiritual significance to native peoples and settlers alike. Her keen observations render the region's flora and fauna not merely as ... Read more

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  • Shadows at Dawn

    An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

    by Karl Jacoby ...
    A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American historyIn April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack, which came to be known as the Camp Grant Massacre, has largely faded from memory. Now, drawing on oral ... Read more

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  • My Boys and Girls Are in There

    The 1937 New London School Explosion

    by Ron Rozelle ...
    On March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a vast pool of natural gas that had collected beneath the school building in New London, a tiny community in East Texas. The resulting explosion leveled the four-year-old structure and resulted in a death toll of more than three hundred—most of them children. To this day, it is the worst school disaster in the history of the United States. The tragedy and its ... Read more

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  • The Beast

    Riding the Rails and Dodging Narcos on the Migrant Trail

    by Oscar Martinez ...
    Translated by Daniela Maria Ugaz, John Washington ...
    An Economist and Financial Times “Best Book of the Year”“Harrowing” true stories from two years of immersion reporting on the migrant trail from Chiapas to Arizona—an “honorable successor to enduring works like George Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier” (New York Times)One day a few years ago, 300 migrants were kidnapped between the remote desert towns of Altar, Mexico, and Sasabe, Arizona. A local ... Read more

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  • Uprooting Community

    Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by Selfa A. Chew ...
    Joining the U.S.’ war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese Mexicans as an internal racial enemy. In spite of the broad resistance presented by the ... Read more

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