From Notrees to Pine Island, from Scotland to Moscow, from Dickens to Tennyson, from Spur to Lariat, from Buck Naked to Bald Prairie--Texans are unsurpassed for the imaginative names they give their towns and cities. Fred Tarpley has chosen 1001 of the most unusual and interesting of the 75,000 place names that dot the Texas map.
The names of Texas communities and places can be traced to a number of basic sources, including people; landscapes; the Bible; literature and mythology; misunderstandings and errors; backward spellings and blends; and anecdotes and events. Each entry in...
From Notrees to Pine Island, from Scotland to Moscow, from Dickens to Tennyson, from Spur to Lariat, from Buck Naked to Bald Prairie--Texans are un...
September 1939, Miss Joan Lambert, a stylish young college teacher from Texas, moves among anxious passengers boarding the Lorraine at Le Havre. Her first trip to France has been interrupted by German aggression and angry clouds of international war Relieved by her good fortune in obtaining passage on one of the last passenger ships to leave France as military mobilization begins, she finds that her eight-day voyage to New York is soon fraught with unsettling dangers. To avoid German warships, the Lorraine zigzags off course across the North Atlantic, creating an eerie atmosphere aboard with...
September 1939, Miss Joan Lambert, a stylish young college teacher from Texas, moves among anxious passengers boarding the Lorraine at Le Havre. Her f...
