HAUNTED
LUBBOCK
In 2013 the author asked the citizens of
Lubbock, Texas to share their personal stories of ghosts in
and around the Hub City. The only stipulation was that they
be true stories... things that had happened to them
personally, or to someone close to them . . .
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Death on the Lonely Llano Estacado: The
Assassination of J. W. Jarrott, a Forgotten Hero
by Bill Neal
In the winter of 1901, James W. Jarrott led a
band of twenty-five homesteader families toward the Llano
Estacado in far West Texas, newly opened for settlement by a
populist Texas legislature. But frontier cattlemen who had
been pasturing their herds on the unfenced prairie land were
enraged by the encroachment of these “nesters.” In August
1902 a famous hired assassin, Jim Miller, ambushed and
murdered J. W. Jarrott near Lubbock Texas. Who hired
Miller? This crime has never been solved, until now . . .
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Tragedy
and Triumph on the Texas Plains: Curious
Historic Chronicles from Murders to Movies
by Chuck Lanehart
Out on the Texas Plains,
wrangling with history resembles taking in the
sunset--a stampede of splendor and shadow all at
once. Roam an Ohio-sized patch of prairie and
take stock of the heroic tasks and moral
dilemmas facing the unforgettable characters who
called West Texas home. Ben Hogan sinks a putt
with the focus of the Clovis man who hunted
mammoth in the same spot thousands of years
before. Lubbock's largest lawsuit runs its
interminable course. And a starving Roy Rogers
makes a quick meal of jackrabbit on the Llano
Estacado. Chuck Lanehart gathers statesmen and
journalists, outlaws and entertainers, in these
profiles of the Texas Plains ..."
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Eternity
at the End of a Rope: Executions, Lynchings and
Vigilante Justice in Texas, 1819-1923
Since 1819 over 3,000 souls found
their personal ''eternity at the end of a rope''
in Texas. Some earned their way. Others were the
victim of mistaken identity, or an act of
vigilante justice. Deserved or not, when the
hangman's knot is pulled up tight and the black
cap snugged down over your head it is too late
to plead your case. This remarkable story begins
in 1819 with the first legal hanging in Texas.
By 1835 accounts of lynching dotted the records.
Although by 1923 legal execution by hanging was
discontinued in favor of the electric chair,
vigilante justice remained a favorite pastime
for some... Read about the lynching of
Juan Telles in Lubbock County April 26 1886 .
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Equal
Opportunity Hero: T. J. Patterson’s Service to West Texas
On April 7, 1984, T. J. Patterson became the
first African American elected to the Lubbock City Council,
winning handily over his four opponents. It was a position
he would go on to hold for more than twenty years, and his
natural leadership would lead him to state and national
recognition. Patterson grew up during a time of American
social unrest, protest, and upheaval, and he recounts
memorable instances of segregation and integration in West
Texas. As a two-year-old, he survived polio when African
Americans were excluded from "whites only" hospitals. When
he attempted to enroll at Texas Tech after graduating from
all-black Bishop College..."
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Black Texans in
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Dream
No Little Dreams
Explaining the clash of cultures against the
backdrop of such a seemingly barren canvas to those not
familiar with Lubbock, Texas and the South Plains is
difficult to do.
The city’s traditional foundation is weakened from a
constant barrage of sledgehammer swings from talented
natives that the city would love to claim as its own. But
that’s what makes it so interesting–the underlying tension
that few can see and understand is always there, simmering .
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Broke,
Not Broken: Homer Maxey's Texas Bank War
Homer Maxey was a war hero, multimillionaire,
and pillar of the Lubbock, Texas, community. During the
post-World War II boom, he filled the West Texas horizon
with new apartment complexes, government buildings, hotels,
banks, shopping centers, and subdivisions. On the afternoon
of February 16, 1966, executives of Citizens National Bank
of Lubbock met to launch foreclosure proceedings against
Maxey. In a secret sale, more than 35,000 acres of ranch
land and other holdings were divided up and sold for pennies
on the dollar. By closing time, Maxey was . . .
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I
Could See Nothing: Settling West Texas
by Mary Lou Crump Koehler
Mary Lou Crump Koehler
grew up in Shallowater Texas. "This story starts back in 1886, in
Henrietta, Texas. My name is Bob and I was six years old back then…" Thus speaks
Bob Crump, the author's father, as he begins to describe the family's move to
settle Lubbock County on the High Plains of Texas in 1890 . . .
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Ripped
from the Headlines!: The Shocking True Stories
Behind the Movies' Most Memorable Crimes
Found inside: "On the evening of
December 29, 1950, not far from Lubbock,
Texas, a fifty-six-year-old mechanic named
Lee Archer offered the hitchhiking Cook a ride.
They had traveled for several hours and were
nearing Oklahoma City, when Cook drew his gun
and ordered the startled driver to pull off the
road. After relieving Archer of all the money in
his wallet, Cook . . . "
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Lubbock
(Postcard History)
The city of Lubbock began as a compromise
between two smaller settlements known as Lubbock and
Monterey. These settlements agreed to combine on December
19, 1890, and by 1891, the combined settlement was elected
the new county seat as farmers, ranchers, and settlers began
to arrive. In 1909, Lubbock incorporated as a city, and the
Santa Fe Railroad sent its first train south from Plainview.
The Texas legislature authorized the establishment of Texas
Technological College in 1923, and Lubbock won the regional
contest for the new university's location . . .
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Prairie
Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country
Music in West Texas
Born David Pinkston on November
11, 1913 in Post, Texas, David Sloan grew up
loving country music through the phonograph
records of his parents, friends, and relatives.
While David was still very young, the Pinkston
family moved to Slaton. After graduating from
Slaton High School, David spent time as a
journalism major at Texas Tech in Lubbock . . .
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Fatal
Exam: Solving Lubbock's Greatest Murder Mystery
"On Monday, December 4, 1967, a body was
discovered in the Science Building of the largest university in
West Texas. The next day, citizens of Lubbock gathered for the
Carol of Lights, an event typically the centerpiece of the
holidays for the quiet college town. But in 1967, the normal
festive excitement and anticipation were swiftly shattered by
the harrowing events that had occurred just twenty-four hours
earlier...For the first time, the account of this shocking
murder has been painstakingly reconstructed by Alan Burton and
Chuck Lanehart. Piecing together timelines based on
interviews..." Read more |
Spirits
of the Border V: The History and Mystery of the Lone Star State
HAUNTED PLACES IN LUBBOCK
Broadway Avenue, Haunted Television Station, Texas
Tech University, Beta Theta Pi Fraternity House, Geosciences
Building, Horn/Kapp Dining Hall, Ranching Heritage Center, Thompson
Hall, The Water Tower, Holden Hall, Museum of Texas Tech University
and the Banshee that haunts Shallowater
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Ghost
Stories from Lubbock, Texas
Lubbock's been around for well over a century
now. It's risen from a dusty little farm town to a thriving
metropolis. It's seen its share of death, and it's been said
many of the departed didn't want to leave. Or perhaps they
had no choice. There is much we don't know about death and
dying, for those who experience it firsthand aren't able to
share those experiences. Many people are skeptical about the
existence of ghosts and spirits. However, that's only
because . . . Read more |
The
Lonesome Plains: Death and Revival on an
American Frontier
"Elizabeth Ann Spikes, born in
1878, moved to the plains, when she was a young
girl. Following her marriage to Temple Ellis, the
couple settled on a remote and lonely South Plains ranch
near Lubbock, and she later became one of
the first public school teachers in West Texas.
Ellis described the grandeur of the sunrise as a
picture beyond compare, It left her with a
feeling that she had arrived in a land of make-
believe where . . . "
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Slaton
(Images of America)
by Cathy Whitten
Slaton, Texas, has a very rich and
interesting history. The journey began in 1911 with the
clickety-clack of the railroad track of the Santa Fe
Railroad. Slaton was named after local rancher and banker
O.L. Slaton on May 11, 1911. It was nicknamed "Tent City" in
the beginning, because the first citizens lived in tents
while construction began on small framed houses and
buildings. June 15, 1911, was the official opening day of
the city as people came . . .
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Blood
and Money: The Classic True Story of Murder,
Passion, and Power
New York Times Bestseller: The
“gripping” true story of a beautiful Texas
socialite, her ambitious husband, and a string
of mysterious deaths.
Found Inside: "For a time Marcia
worked the "spots" in West Texas, staying a day
or so in San Angelo, moving on to Lubbock
or Odessa. Then she telephoned home and her
mother had disturbing news. The Texas Ranger had
come looking for her, and the Houston homicide
detectives had called to warn that Marcia was in
danger of being killed by "characters" unless
she contacted them ... "
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The
Flatlanders: Now It's Now Again
"“A group of three friends who
made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas,
recorded an album that wasn’t released and went
their separate ways into solo careers. That
group became a legend and then—twenty years
later—a band. The Flatlanders—Joe Ely, Jimmie
Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—are icons in
American music, with songs blending country,
folk, and rock that have influenced a long list
of performers, including Robert Earl Keen, the
Cowboy Junkies, Ryan Bingham, Terry Allen ..."
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Marvels
of the Texas Plains: Historic Chronicles from the Courthouse
to the Caprock
by Chuck Lanehart
Many thousands of years ago, Clovis Man hunted huge mammoths
here. More recently, Waylon Jennings drew his musical
inspiration here. In the intervening time, the Texas prairie
has been the backdrop for the wildest of Wild West
shootouts, landmark legal battles and epic achievements in
sports, music and medicine. Familiar icons like Roy Orbison
and Dan Blocker, as well as forgotten characters like
Charlie "Squirrel-Eye" Emory and John "the Catfish Kid"
Gough all helped shape the colorful history of the Texas
Plains. Who shot the sheriff? Who was the earliest American?
Who invented the slam dunk? Author Chuck Lanehart answers
these questions and many more in a wide-ranging collection
of stories . . . Read more
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Señor
Sack: The Life of Gabe Rivera
Gabriel “Gabe” Rivera was one of the greatest players
in the history of Texas Tech football.... "Sports historian Jorge Iber’s newest book chronicles this Mexican American athlete’s rise
to prominence and later life. Beginning with the Rivera family in Crystal City, Texas, a hotbed of Chicano activism in the late
1960s, Señor Sack seeks to understand how athletic success impacted
the Rivera family’s most famous son on his route to stardom.
Football provided this family with opportunities that were not often
available to other Mexican Americans during the 1940s and 1950s ...
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Eyewitnesses
to the Indian Wars, 1865-1890
"The command left Fort Concho immediately, moving
in the direction of what was then called Canon Blanco, but is now known
as Yellow House Canyon. The supply trains accompanied by four
companies of infantry from Fort Concho, followed. After several
days' marching, we reached this canyon. Rain fell in torrents that
night, and a "norther" blew up" . . . . . .
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Silent
Silhouette ... Who killed Deborah Sue and why?
Deborah Sue Williamson was a newly married
young woman living in Lubbock Texas on Aug. 24, 1975.
One night while her husband was away at work, she was
brutally stabbed 17 times in the carport of their home. Many
suspects were investigated, but no one was charged. The case
went cold until the mid-1980s when Henry Lee Lucas, a man
notorious for admitting to murders he didn't commit
confessed to her murder. It was profiled in the Netflix doc
series The Confession Killer. There was only one problem. He
didn't kill her . . . Read
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Remembering
Slaton, Texas: Centennial Stories, 1911-2011
Retrace Slaton's history with local author
James Villanueva as he profiles one hundred years of the
town's stories and its people. From its founding in 1911,
through the Roaring Twenties, the turbulent 1960s and into
today, Remembering Slaton, Texas, is a look at the rich
history of this charming Texas town. Sometimes haunting and
sometimes inspiring but always entertaining, these are the
tales and legends that made Slaton what it is today . . .
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Unspoken
Words: (of Unheard of Thoughts)
Devlynn E. Javon was born in Plainview, Texas, and
raised in Lubbock. He started writing poetry at the age of
fourteen and got his idea for this book while enlisted in the U.S.
Army. "There are no more lies, just the honest truth. Author Devlynn
E. Javon is exposed—there are no more secrets to hide. In his poetry
collection, Unspoken Words (Unheard-of Thoughts), readers can take
away a feeling of hope and understanding, through the words of the
life of a young man." Read more
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The
Adventures of Eddie Fung: Chinatown Kid, Texas Cowboy, Prisoner of
War
"I signed up in May, but I didn't move to Lubbock
until June. I went back to make sure it was okay for me to leave ...
It just so happened the the National Guard in Lubbock was a firing
battery, so we were basically an artillery unit assigned to provide
protection the the infantry. Most of the sergeants at Lubbock had
gone to college at Texas Tech, so they were a fairly well-educated
bunch. . . . " Read more
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The
Trail Drivers of Texas: Interesting Sketches of
Early Cowboys
These are the chronicles of the
trail drivers of Texas those rugged men and,
sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up
the trails from Texas to northern markets in the
late 1800s.
"When we reached the Colorado
river that stream was very low. Here I saw my
first buffalo, but it was a tame animal and was
branded a long S on each side. Ed Hagerman of
Kimble County was ahead of us with a herd
of the Half Circle L C cattle. After a great
deal of hard luck and trouble we reached Yellow
Horse Draw about ten miles from Lubbock
where we encountered a heavy hailstorm. We had
lost a great many of our cattle on the trip, and
the sudden change chilled a number of others to
death as well as five horses." . . .
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Manifesto
by William Shirley Carr
This book contains many stories
about my life, from when I was born at home near
Girard, Texas, to the present time. Almost
everyone around Girard, including my family, was
very poor when I was born and many years
thereafter. It was not easy growing up in the
late 1930s, 1940s, and early to the middle
1950s. It is also about my family, schoolmates,
friends, army reserve time, and coworkers. After
graduating from high school, moving to Lubbock, and getting my first job (not
counting pulling and hoeing cotton, which I did
from when I was about eleven or twelve years old
until graduation), things improved considerably
for me ...
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Fire
in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music
Christopher J. Oglesby grew up in Lubbock's Tech
Terrace neighborhood (former home of Buddy Holly, Joe Ely, and
Angela Strehli, among others), where he spent years listening to and
watching the artists featured in this book. In this book he
interviews twenty-five musicians and artists with ties to Lubbock
to discover what it is about this community and West Texas in
general that feeds the creative spirit. Their answers are revealing
. . .
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Texas
Obscurities: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional &
Nefarious
Some of these quirky true stories might
surprise even the most proud Texan. In Slaton in 1922,
German priest Joseph M. Keller was kidnapped, tarred and
feathered amid anti-German fervor following World War I.
Austin sat the first all-woman state supreme court in the
nation in 1925. A utopian colony thrived in Kristenstad
during the Great Depression. Bats taken from the Bracken and
Ney Caves and Devil's Sinkhole were developed as a secret
weapon that vied with the Manhattan Project to shorten World
War II . . . Look inside
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The
Captured: A True Story of Abduction by Indians on the Texas Frontier
"The buffalo hunters' guide accurately predicted the Comanches would be camped in Yellow House Canyon, near present-day
Lubbock,
Texas. The canyon was just a small depression on the grassy plain, but the
dense cover of trees and cactus gave the Indians a natural hiding place. On the
bank of a small stream , the Comanches had camped with some apaches who were
trading with them . . . Read more Look Inside
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Historic
Tales of the Llano Estacado
The distinctive high mesa straddling West Texas and
Eastern New Mexico creates a vista that is equal parts sprawling
lore and big blue sky. From Lubbock, the area's informal
capital, to the farthest reaches of the staked plains known as the
Llano Estacado, the land and its inhabitants trace a tradition of
tenacity through numberless cycles of dust storms and drought. In
1887, a bison hunter . . . Read
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Almost Like a Professional: My life and career as a West Texas
Musician
The story of West Texas musician, songwriter and
educator, Cary C Banks. From his upbringing in the rigidly
fundamentalist Church of Christ, to his glorious discovery of devil
rock and roll and the Beatles, Cary Banks traces his long journey
down the lost highway of the music business with stories that are
often funny but many times poignant. From the stinging lows of
endless rejection of his songs to the exhilarating highs of being
inducted into the West Texas Walk of Fame as a member of the Maines
Brothers Band, he gives the reader an authentic, tell it like it is
look at the life of a musician. |
Texas
Ranger Tales: Stories That Need Telling
"John Wood met the Ranger captain when Wood came to
the Lubbock area as a rookie Highway Patrolman in 1942. Being
a young officer, Wood had only occasional encounters with Gault.
Still, Wood was around the captain enough to form an opinion of him.
There was a cattle theft west of Brownfield, where I was stationed,
and the captain sent two Rangers down there . . . "
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My
Second Wind: A novel of murder, mystery & love. Set on the campus of
Texas Tech University.
Jeanne S. Guerra
Nobody
moves to Lubbock on purpose. Except Maggie Grant. Widowed after a
30-year traditional marriage in Dallas, Maggie moves to West Texas
for a new job as director of communications and marketing at her
beloved alma mater, Texas Tech University. Her life becomes one
adventure, one crisis after another as she faces an unscrupulous
boss who appears to be deliberately sabotaging her work. Mix in
suspicious and deadly fires at the university, murder and mystery
that she alone can solve . . .
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Daughters of the Pioneers Autobiographies: Lubbock and the
Plains
A collection of the history and
autobiographies of the daughters of the original Pioneers,
including Lubbock Texas and the Plains area pioneers. |
Land of the Underground Rain: Irrigation on the Texas High Plains,
1910-1970
by Donald E Green
The
scarcity of surface water which has so marked the Great Plains is
even more characteristic of its subdivision, the Texas High Plains.
Settlers on the plateau were forced to use pump technology to tap
the vast ground water resources—the underground rain—beneath its
flat surface . . . Read more |
Pieces
Of Me: A Collection of Poems
Billy G. Ryan was born in
Andrews, Texas lived and raised in Seminole,
Texas. He lives with his family in Lubbock,
Texas. A love of books and films has
inspired him to write his own stories and poems
to share with everyone around the world. Pieces
of Me is a collection of poems is the debut
title of the American-born writer, Billy Ryan,
and is a collection of poems dealing with loss,
love, pain, happiness, depression and
abandonment . . .
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Confessions
of a Bible Salesman
by Kelley Litsch
"It
was 1981, during his junior year at college, Kelley Litsch was
about to go on an adventure of a lifetime. Starting with a
prayer at the side of his bed of his dorm room in April, he gave
God complete control over his summer. Within minutes of the
prayer, God started moving and did not stop. This adventure
involved the occupation as a door-to-door bible salesman, but
life-long lessons emerged. . . . " Kelly and his wife Lisa
live outside of
Lubbock, Texas and have two children and two
grandchildren. Read more |
Dust
Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s
In the mid 1930s, North America's Great Plains faced one of the
worst man-made environmental disasters in world history.
"... encouraged
farmers in the 1930s to invest thousands of dollars to tap the aquifer, at first
in the most southerly portion of the Bowl around Lubbock and Plainview, Texas,
where water-bearing strata are not so deep. Then, in the late fifties and the
sixties, following another drought, underground water became the newest bonanza
resource . . .
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Some
Babies Grow Up to be Cowboys: A Collection of Articles and Essays
by John R Erickson
"The Shermans ranched
in Lubbock County for fifteen years, and during that time
their family grew to seven children, Mabel being the oldest. But by
1905 Joe Sherman had begun losing cattle to rustlers who were
changing his M Cross brand into an MB, and he decided to move his
operations to a ranch in Gaines County. . .
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The
Adventure of Bob Wire and The King of The Double T Ranch
Bob goes over a bunch of West Texas towns to
get to a big ranch on the edge of Lubbock, Texas. He meets
some very special people. One of them is riding a black
horse and wears a mask. Who they are, what he learns, what
kind of cowboy Bob is, and more are revealed in this
adventurous tale . . . Look inside |
Dynasty on the Texas Plains:
Short Stories of Life and Customs on the Plains of
Texas
by Bonnie Faye James
Gaston
Bonnie Gaston grew up
during the Depression six miles south of Littlefield Texas. As an adult she was
an award-winning elementary school teacher in Plainview. This is her joyful story of
growing up in Littlefield, Shallowater, Anton . . .
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One
Ranger: A Memoir
"My mother had enrolled me in Texas Tech, but without the
athletic program a college education seemed of little value... to be a fighter
pilot, and I took the first steps toward achieving that goal by apply with the
navy recruiter in Lubbock" . . .
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Take
Two Aspirins, But Don't Call Me in the Morning
In response to the stifling socialism of the Canadian health care
system and the intolerably long Canadian winters, Dr. Mel Genraich made a
life-altering decision: leave Toronto for good, and seek his fortune in Texas.
"I've been fortunate (and conniving) enough to have lived in some great homes in
such great cities as Toronto, Houston, Lubbock, Oklahoma City, Odessa,
Monahans, Levelland, and now back in Lubbock . . .
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The
Buffalo Soldier Tragedy of 1877
In the middle of the arid summer of 1877, a
drought year in West Texas, a troop of some forty buffalo
soldiers (African American cavalry led by white officers)
struck out into the Llano Estacado from Double Lakes, south
of modern Lubbock, pursuing a band of Kwahada
Comanches who had been raiding homesteads and hunting
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Buffalo
Days: Stories from J. Wright Mooar
J. Wright Mooar tells the story of the buffalo hunter, from the
hunter's perspective, in this first-person account published more than seventy
years ago.
"James Winford Hunt
moved with his parents to the Texas Panhandle in 1881. He worked on a ranch
until he could save enough money to purchase printing equipment. When he did, he
started the Press Leader in Lubbock. He then moved his publishing venture
to Plainview, establishing the Texan Press . . . "
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Delbert
McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few
This book chronicles McClinton’s
path through a free-range childhood in Lubbock and Fort Worth; an early career in
the desegregated roadhouses along Fort Worth’s
Jacksboro Highway, where he led the house bands
for Jimmy Reed, Muddy Waters, Bo Diddley, and
others while making a name for himself as a
regional player in the birth of rock and roll;
headlining shows in England with a little-known
Liverpool quartet called The Beatles; and
heading back to Texas in time for the
progressive movement, kicking off Austin’s
burgeoning role in American music history . . .
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Spirits
of the Border: School Spirits
In this newest installment of this award winning series, the
authors look at what they like to call School Spirits! Find Haunted Texas
schools in . . .Huntsville, Iowa Park, Irving, Jacksonville, Junction,
Kerrville, Kilgore, Kingsville, La Feria, La Grange, Laredo, League City,
Levelland, Lindale, Littlefield, Lubbock, Luther, Mcallen, Mesquite,
Mission, Monahans, Moody, Nacogdoches, Odessa, Pasadena, Pearsall, Plainview . .
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Early Lubbock: A Cultural View
From an isolated, windswept crossroads store
to a booming metropolis on the South Plains. Lubbock, Texas,
has been one of the success stories of the westward
migration. Founded in 1891 with barely 100 residents,
Lubbock's settlers were drawn by fertile land. Hardy folk,
they were determined to create a town on the grassy plain,
and a town meant not only agriculture and commerce, but also
culture. It's the story of a rural West Texas town's
struggle for a cultural identity during its early years,
from 1891 to WWI. It tracks the efforts of pioneering
citizens to plant and nurture cultural roots deep in the
rich soil that brought them to West Texas . . .
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200
Texas Outlaws and Lawmen
"In 1904, "Deacon" Jim Miller assassinated defense
attorney James Jarrott near town after Jarrott successfully defended
small ranchers derisively called "Nesters" by larger ranching
interests . . ." Read more Look
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From
the Cotton Fields to a College Professor: My Life's Experience
by
Dr Joe H. Alcorta
Dr. Joe H. Alcorta
grew up speaking Spanish. He was born in Novice, Texas, and at the age of two
months, his parents took him to Monterrey, Mexico. For seven years, he lived in
Mexico. Upon his return, he graduated from Olton High School, and then he
received his bachelor's degree from Hardin-Simmons University. He obtained his
master's degree from Howard Payne University and earned his PhD degree from
Texas Tech in Lubbock, Texas . . . Read
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Evolution
of a university: Texas Tech's first fifty years
TEXAS TECHNOLOGICAL COLLEGE, beginning its
rise among the sage brush and tumble weeds on 2,000 dusty
acres at Lubbock's far outskirts in the mid 1920's, looked
like an impossible dream. Its birth had come from a
political storm that involved a governor's impeachment, the
Ku Klux Klan, and the hopes of West Texans for an
institution of higher learning that would serve the region's
peculiar needs. Much of its life has been marked by
political maneuvering and sectional power struggles as West
Texas fought to overcome a seeming sectional prejudice by
the rest of the state and struggled with its own feelings of
. . .
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Tall
Enough to Coach: Elements of Leadership of Coaching and Life
Marsha Sharp was the
coach of the Texas Tech Lady Raiders basketball team for over twenty years. This
book traces Sharp's basketball journey from her beginnings in Tulia, Plainview,
Lockney and Canyon Texas through her twenty-third season with the Lady
Raiders. A 2003 inductee into the national Women's Basketball Hall of Fame . . .
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A
Boyhood Dream Realized: Half a Century of Texas Culture, One
Newspaper Column at a Time
This collection
of columns from the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal is Texas
Folklore Society Extra Book #27. The editorial columns
included herein tell stories, and tell about telling
stories. They also reflect boyhood dreams . . . and
foolishness, fears, beliefs, customs, traditions, and
sometimes things that are no longer part of our culture but
we wish were. All reflect what was—and for many, still
is—important. If “the traditional knowledge of a culture” is
how we define what . . .
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Eye
Soar's Trials... Tribulations... & Blessed Treasures
by David L. Slaughter II
Having been inspired
by dreams, ideas, entertainment, history, fiction and non-fiction, and so much
more in life, Eye Soars Trials... Tribulations... & Blessed Treasures is a
culmination of poems that have been written over a number of years by David L.
Slaughter II. "... After the breakfast, the pastor took me from Shallowater
to Lubbock. I viewed the once known city and was reminded how much I had
loved it I had been here years ago" . . . Read
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The
Great Plains during World War II
Emphasizing the region’s social and economic history,
The Great Plains during World War II is the first book to examine
the effects of the war on the region and the responses of its
residents.
"In
Lubbock, Texas, a group known as the "Hub-ettes," composed of "young
ladies of the community," organized to provide wholesome recreation
at dances and other social functions for the soldiers at the nearby
army air base. The young women would be under the supervision of the
Coed Committee of the Lubbock Defense Recreation Council. They
called themselves "Hub-ettes" because " . . .
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EXECUTIVE
ONE: A John McNeill Adventure
by Neal Constable
John
McNeill is a retired rancher and lawman who finds himself
unexpectedly transporting the President of the United States out of
harm's way in McNeill's personal aircraft. John must dodge missile
attacks and mid-air ramming attempts in order to successfully
complete his mission by delivering POTUS safely to Washington, D.C.
from Lubbock, Texas against all odds. This is a story of
bravery and heroism by ordinary people --patriots. It is about
the communities of Lubbock and Paducah, Texas; Clovis, New
Mexico; and Altus, Oklahoma. . . .
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The
Lubbock lights
Evidence pro and con about UFO sightings,
cattle mutilations & contact with aliens in the vicinity of
Lubbock, Texas. |
The
First Baptist Church of Lubbock, Texas: A Centennial
History: 1891-1991
Not to write the History of the First Baptist
Church of Lubbock would be unthinkable. To see more
long-time members disappear from the scene without recording
memorable accounts of their lives in the church would be a
tragedy. To allow more of our rich heritage to fade into
limbo . . .
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Texas Church History |
Lubbock
Stories: Personal Remembrances from the Hub City
It's said that one can leave Lubbock, but that you'll
eventually come back. That's not true in every case, of
course, but it's true a surprising percentage of the time.
Or perhaps it's not so surprising. Lubbock is a vibrant city
with something for everyone, and a reason for each of us to
return. Our roots run deep; our heartstrings are strong.
Even those of us who leave forever leave a piece of
ourselves behind, and everyone has a special memory or two
of the Hub City. These are a few such memories, told by the
Lubbockites who lived them . . .
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Letters
to My Patients: A Guide to Healthy & Happy Living
by Harlan O. Wright
Dr. Harlan
O. L. Wright is an Osteopathic Physician, specializing
in nutritional medicine. He has practiced for more than
forty-three years, thirty-seven of them in Lubbock, Texas.
He has seen first-hand the effects that poor
nutritional and lifestyle habits can have on the body.
Because Dr. Wright felt that the time spent with a patient
during an appointment was not always enough to effectively
teach the true road to health, he began writing monthly
"Letters to My Patients." Filled with practical, nutritional
advice and sound philosophy, his letters received an
overwhelmingly positive response. The information from these
popular monthly letters has been compiled to produce this
best selling book . . . Read more |
Tejano
West Texas Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De León
shows that people of Spanish-Mexican descent were not passive players in or,
worse, absent from West Texas history but instead were active agents at the
center of it . . .
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SWC
Cartoon Book:
Over 25 Years of Cartoon History of Red Raider and SWC
(Southwest Conference) Football. Plus a Nostalgic Look at
Life in Raiderland By Cartoonist Dirk West Lubbock, Texas .
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Lubbock
(Images of America)
For 12 millennia, people were drawn to a
water source located in the region Spanish conquistadores
named the Llano Estacado, a vast plateau 3,000 feet above
sea level and 300 miles long and wide. Near this site in
1890, settlers combined two fledgling communities to create
the town of Lubbock. Finally incorporated in 1909 and soon
promoted as the "Hub City," Lubbock doubled its original
population of 1,900 in each of its first six decades,
nurturing growth through civic cooperation, small business
enterprise . . . Read more |
A
place set apart: The history of Ransom Canyon
Magically out of place on the stark flatland
of West Texas, the initial glimpse of the new-in-time oasis
of Ransom Canyon strikes with a sudden impact. With an eye
for beauty and a sense of value, two entrepreneurs set out
in 1960 to place a jewel in the rough of nature, to
transform a rugged and undisturbed portion of canyonlands
into a town with some of the most unexpectedly beautiful and
natural landscaping . . . Read more |
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