The Big Thicket Guidebook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Big Thicket Guidebook write by Lorraine G. Bonney. This book was released on 2011. The Big Thicket Guidebook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates as you explore this diverse area. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, travel along fifteen tours, with maps included.
Reflections on the Neches
Reflections on the Neches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reflections on the Neches write by Geraldine Ellis Watson. This book was released on 2003. Reflections on the Neches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annotation Having been a plant ecologist and park ranger for the US National Park Service, Watson has now returned to her native east Texas and settled in her private nature preserve. She documents a voyage (accompanied by her old blind dog) down the river Neches River, called Snow River by natives. Annotation (c)2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).
Big Thicket Legacy
Big Thicket Legacy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Big Thicket Legacy write by Campbell Loughmiller. This book was released on 2002. Big Thicket Legacy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Big Thicket Legacy, Campbell and Lynn Loughmiller present the stories of people living in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Many of the storytellers were close to one hundred years old when interviewed, with some being the great-grandchildren of the first settlers. Here are tales about robbing a bee tree, hunting wild boar, plowing all day and dancing all night, wading five miles to church through a cypress brake, and making soap using hickory ashes.
Tales from the Big Thicket
Tales from the Big Thicket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tales from the Big Thicket write by Francis Edward Abernethy. This book was released on 2002. Tales from the Big Thicket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Abernethy presents the history and folklore of the Big Thicket and its people, including a collection of Alabama-Coushatta tales, a search for hidden Jayhawkers during the Civil War, a nineteenth-century travel account, and a family history of the legendary Hooks.
Nature Lover's Guide to the Big Thicket
Nature Lover's Guide to the Big Thicket - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nature Lover's Guide to the Big Thicket write by Howard H. Peacock. This book was released on 1994. Nature Lover's Guide to the Big Thicket available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Whether this is your first trip to the Big Thicket or your five hundredth, this handy guide will lead you down paths and waterways that are a nature lover's dream. America's first designated national preserve, the Big Thicket in Southeast Texas harbors at least a thousand species of flowering plants, two hundred species of birds, fifty kinds of reptiles, twenty species of mammals, two hundred species of wild trees and shrubs, and even four kinds of carnivorous (meat-eating) plants. The ten different ecosystems that support this unique diversity range from arid sandylands to cypress sloughs, from lordly upland forests to mud-crusted flats dappled by palmetto fronds. Small wonder, as popular nature writer Howard Peacock tells us, that the region has been called the "Biological Crossroads of North America" or even, as conservation efforts have focused on it, "America's Ark." Nature Lover's Guide to the Big Thicket offers tips on identifying plants and animals residing in the area, suggestions on trails to follow, and descriptions of sights to see and recreational opportunities to enjoy. It provides photographs to help plan your visit and checklists to record it. It's a book for the hip pocket, the car seat, the table by a reading chair. Let it lead you now in a leisurely tour--or many such tours--of this special 95,000-acre spot of earth.
