Explorers and Indians. Soldiers and generals. Oil barons and ranchers. Outlaws, gunslingers, war heroes, and even journalists. All are bound together by a single common denominator--Texas. This delightful romp through the history of the Lone Star state begins 317 years before the first white European male washed ashore near Galveston Island, and winds up with the settlement of the High Plains. Within these pages are little-known stories not only involving well-known heroes, but unknown players who contributed to and changed the history of Texas.
Explorers and Indians. Soldiers and generals. Oil barons and ranchers. Outlaws, gunslingers, war heroes, and even journalists. All are bound together by a single common denominator--Texas. This delightful romp through the history of the Lone Star state begins 317 years before the first white European male washed ashore near Galveston Island, and winds up with the settlement of the High Plains. Within these pages are little-known stories not only involving well-known heroes, but unknown players who contributed to and changed the history of Texas.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jimmy Paul McLaughlin was born in 1936, in a one-room, dirt-floored farm worker's shack in Lubbock County, Texas. His parents had been on their way to California, but when Jimmy was followed by a brother and sister, his family abandoned their dreams of the "land of milk and honey" and instead built their lives in the hard, dry dirt of the Texas Panhandle. So far as Jim McLaughlin is concerned, it was the generous, kindly hand of fate that kept them in Lubbock. There was no better place to live, nor a better time to grow up than Lubbock than in the 1940s and 1950s. He graduated from Lubbock High School in 1955 and attended Texas Tech, off and on, for the next seven years. Although encouraged by many of his teachers to write, his heart wasn't in it, and he took time off from college to join the Marine Corps before dropping out of school entirely. After working for a year in Las Vegas, he moved back to Texas, eventually settling in Houston where he began his career in construction.After retiring and resettling in the Texas Hill Country, he traveled extensively for business and for pleasure and developed close friendships with many interesting people. He still considers his best friends the guys he ran around with in high school--the Lubbock Boys with whom he grew up have stayed in touch and remain close friends.
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