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Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle-South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth. Shunned by settlers for decades because of its popular but forbidding image as a desert filled with desperados, savage Indians, and solitary ranchers, the region was seen...
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"As in the original 1973 publication, the revised edition of The Texas Panhandle Frontier departs from the premise that the Panhandle frontier is but a brush stroke on the larger canvas of previous frontier histories as Rathjen places the events of Panhandle regional history firmly within a broad national context."--BOOK JACKET.
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"The vast, open plains of the Texas Panhandle appear deceptively void of bird life, but subtle regional variations provide a rich array of avifauna. Of the approximately six hundred species of birds sighted in Texas, more than two-thirds have been confirmed in the Texas Panhandle." "The wooded waterways of the eastern Panhandle attract such eastern nesting species as the red-headed woodpecker and Carolina chickadee. The terrain of the High Plains...
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"Here, for the first time ever, are the early Panhandle ranches -- in one book! All the familiar brands -- and many not so well-known -- carefully investigated and written up for you ... enhanced by abundant illustrations. Background material about the frontier Panhandle, before railroads came to it, sets the stage for detailed accounts of the ranches, one by one."--provided by publisher.
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The isolated Canadian River in the Texas Panhandle stretched before John Erickson and Bill Ellzey as they began a journey through time and what the locals call "the valley." They went on horseback, as they might have traveled it a century before. Everywhere they went they talked, worked, and swapped stories with the people of the valley, piecing together a picture of what life has been like there for a hundred years. Through Time and the Valley is...
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In 1881, a Chicago-based businessman secured interest in a sprawling ranch in the heart of Texas' great Panhandle. The celebrated Frying Pan Ranch spread across two counties and bordered what later became Amarillo, a raw frontier settlement. The land's unlikely new owner from the North, William Henry Bush - clothing wholesaler, real estate developer, philanthropist, and fledgling cattleman - represented a new figure at the beginning of the boom era...
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