Texas in Color (Profiles of America Series)

Oppenheimer, Evelyn

Travel

Hastings House Pub

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Oral Book Reviewing to Stimulate Reading

Reference

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

Scarecrow Press

Heroes of Texas

Biographies & Memoirs

Reference & Collections

Texian Pr

Gilbert Onderdonk traveled to Texas in 1851 as a twenty-two-year-old invalid in search of health. By the time of his death in 1920 at the robust age of ninety-one, he had been a pioneer botanist and horticulturist, a rancher, a Confederate soldier, a traveler throughout Mexico for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a prolific letter writer and essayist, a travel writer for newspapers, and a man of family, property, international recognition, and fame among horticultural experts in Europe for his work in South Texas. It was Gilbert Onderdonk who began and developed production of fruit in Texas and contributed much to the knowledge and later work of Luther Burbank in California. Onderdonk literally planted the foundation of the vast production of Texas fruit today. From Onderdonk’s letters and travelogues, Oppenheimer weaves a biography that tells of roping wild mustangs, of growing and shipping fruits and seedlings to growers as far distant as France, and of writing the first popular travel reports on Mexico. The earliest catalogs from the nursery business that Onderdonk had begun in 1870 are most striking for his sparkling writing and drawings, as well as his astute forecasts of agriculture in the state. His 1888 catalogue is reproduced in the book.

Gilbert Onderdonk: The Nurseryman of Mission Valley, Pioneer Horticulturist (On the Edge: New Women's Fiction; 2)

Business & Money

University of North Texas Press

A Book Lover in Texas

A personal and professional memoir of a major literary catalyst in the state—on radio and the lecture platform, as author, agent, teacher, and book collector. Her review broadcasts hold the national record for fifty years on the air. Oppenheimer pulls no punches in her evaluation of books, writers, and the society and organizations related to them, including anecdotes about such literary and artistic stars as Irving Stone, Willie Morris, Peter Hurd, Agatha Christie, Herman Wouk, Leon Uris, James Michener, Jacqueline Susann, and Alistair Cooke. She also tells of her own life and that of a grander and more elegant generation of Dallasites.

History

Americas

Tilli, a Blue Spruce tree from Canada, relates her experiences after she arrives in Texas to be a Christmas tree.

Tilli Comes to Texas

Children's Books

Action & Adventure

Hendrick-Long Pub. Co

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