Undertold Texas Volume 1 - Softcover

Vance, Mike

Softcover

ISBN 13: 9798987943267

Verlag: Mike Vance, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Travel Texas history in the shoes of lesser-known people who illuminate big stories in our Lone Star past. This curated journey through an eclectic collection of Texas history ranges across five centuries. Find captivating stories in Texas politics, arts, labor, literature, agriculture, oil, ranching, sports, and civil rights. There are heartrending struggles and inspiring triumphs of will. Rousing successes and crying shames. From the high school gridiron to armed uprisings, from the strains of early Texas blues to gushers of black gold, these tales bring something entertaining for Texans new and old. Undertold Texas addresses some common Texas myths and reveals some largely obscured truths from our rich Lone Story history. Experience Texas as never before.

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Mike Vance is the author of fourteen non-fiction books on Texas history, sports, and comedy, and four historical fiction novels. He has written, produced and directed eight feature length Texas history documentaries and over 150 short educational Texas history films. He also does the wildly irreverent American history podcast Prick the Balloon. Before his writing career, Vance spent 20 years as a professional stand-up comedian and musician before working on-air in radio and television. Mike has taught Houston and Texas history at Rice University's Glasscock School of Continuing Studies for more than a decade. He serves on the Astros Hall of Fame Committee.

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• Verlag: Mike Vance
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2024
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 13: 9798987943267
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 303
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