Tolbert's Texas - 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 Tolbert's Texas write by Frank X. Tolbert. This book was released on 1983. Tolbert's Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. For over thirty years, Frank Tolbert - storyteller, collector of tall tales, friend of everyone from cowboys to drifters to millionaire oilmen - has written his popular column, "Tolbert's Texas", for the Dallas News. And now, in typical Texas style, Tolbert has gathered the best yarns about the Lone Star State into one humdinger of a book.
Tolbert of Texas
Tolbert of Texas - 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 Tolbert of Texas write by Frank X. Tolbert. This book was released on 1986. Tolbert of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. No writer of Texas lore is better known than Frank X. Tolbert. He wrote of the Texas that he loved and shared enough for us to feel the same way.
A Bowl of Red
A Bowl of Red - 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 A Bowl of Red write by Frank X. Tolbert. This book was released on 2002-01-02. A Bowl of Red available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Big Bend resident rancher Hallie Stillwell has added her voice and favorite chili recipe to her friend Frank X. Tolbert's classic book, A Bowl of Red. Written by the late Dallas newspaper columnist and author, A Bowl of Red is an entertaining history of the peppery cowboy cuisine. This new printing of the book is based on Tolbert's 1972 revised edition, in which he describes the founding of the World Championship Chili Cookoff, now held annually in the ghost town of Terlingua, Texas. Hallie Stillwell was one of the three judges at the first Terlingua cookoff, held in 1967. "We were blindfolded to sample the chili," the ninety-six-year-old writer/rancher says in her foreword. She voted for one of the milder concoctions; another judge cast his vote for a hotter version. The third judge, who was mayor of Terlingua, sampled each pot but then pronounced his taste buds paralyzed and declared the contest a tie. There's been a "rematch" in Terlingua every November since then. "I have never failed to attend," Stillwell says. Stillwell's recipe for lean venison chili is her favorite, one she prepared in large quantities for the hungry hands at the Stillwell Ranch in the Big Bend. This new printing of the classic also features an index to other recipes in the book, such as "Beto's prison chili" and chili verde con carne (green chili). The book also includes Tolbert's tales of searching out the best cooks of Southwestern specialties like rattlesnake "stew" and jalapeño corn bread.
Exploring the Edges of Texas
Exploring the Edges of Texas - 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 Exploring the Edges of Texas write by Walt Davis. This book was released on 2010-01-18. Exploring the Edges of Texas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1955, Frank X. Tolbert, a well-known columnist for the Dallas Morning News, circumnavigated Texas with his nine-year-old-son in a Willis Jeep. The column he phoned in to the newspaper about his adventures, "Tolbert's Texas," was a staple of Walt Davis's childhood. Fifty years later, Walt and his wife, Isabel, have re-explored portions of Tolbert’s trek along the boundaries of Texas. The border of Texas is longer than the Amazon River, running through ten distinct ecological zones as it outlines one of the most familiar shapes in geography. According to the Davises, "Driving its every twist and turn would be like driving from Miami to Los Angeles by way of New York." Each of this book’s sixteen chapters opens with an original drawing by Walt, representing a segment of the Texas border where the authors selected a special place—a national park, a stretch of river, a mountain range, or an archeological site. Using a firsthand account of that place written by a previous visitor (artist, explorer, naturalist, or archeologist), they then identified a contemporary voice (whether biologist, rancher, river-runner, or paleontologist) to serve as a modern-day guide for their journey of rediscovery. This dual perspective allows the authors to attach personal stories to the places they visited, to connect the past with the present, and to compare Texas then with Texas now. Whether retracing botanist Charles Wright's 600-mile walk to El Paso in 1849 or paddling Houston's Buffalo Bayou, where John James Audubon saw ivory-billed woodpeckers in 1837, the Davises seek to remind readers that passionate and determined people wrote the state's natural history. Anyone interested in Texas or its rich natural heritage will find deep enjoyment in Exploring the Edges of Texas. Publication of this book is generously supported by a memorial gift in honor of Mary Frances "Chan" Driscoll, a founding member of the Advisory Council of Texas A&M University Press, by her sons Henry B. Paup '70 and T. Edgar Paup '74.
Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass
Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass - 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 Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass write by Frank X. Tolbert. This book was released on 1962. Dick Dowling at Sabine Pass available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Account of a significant Union defeat in the Civil War.
