Legends of Dublin: Personalities of the Irish Capital of Texas

ISBN-13: 9781439236420 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 304 str.

Jon A. Awbrey

Opis

Over the span of 150 years, a small Texas town served as home to a number of great heroes, men and women unparalleled in their chosen professions. That town is Dublin, Texas, and in Legends of Dublin the stories of those men and women are told in detail. Among the biographies presented in this book are those of the peerless golfer Ben Hogan, country crooner Johnny Duncan, Medal of Honor winner Lt. Col. George Davis, Texas Supreme Court Chief Justice John E. Hickman, Texas founding father William Carroll Crawford, Dr Pepper distributor Sam Prim, rodeo promoter Everett Colborn, Baptist crusader Mina Everett, the entrepreneurial Higginbotham brothers, and dozens of other tales of outlaws and Indians, soldiers, physicians, preachers and pioneers.