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Pioneers, Poke Sallet & Politics
All Things Historical (from the Newspapers of East Texas)
2001·196 pages·en
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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 [sic] Sterne ; Gospel classic ; Jack Johnson ; Red River's Alamo men ; Charles D. Morse -- Our earliest Texans. The Caddo mounds ; Fray Margil ; Mission Tejas ; Mission Delores [sic] ; 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.