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The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom is a self-help book by the author Don Miguel Ruiz. The book outlines a code of conduct (supposedly) based on Toltec teachings that purport to improve one’s life. The book was originally published in 1997 by Amber-Allen publishing in San Rafael, California. An illustrated edition was ...
The Texan is a Western television series starring film and television actor Rory Calhoun, which aired on the CBS television network from 1958 to 1960. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Calhoun as Bill Longley ( circa 1960)
The book was the result of a collaboration between Dobie and Young, a former open-range vaquero who had fought against the encroachment of barbed wire on southwest Texas's rangelands. Young had written Dobie for help in writing his autobiography, saying that he intended to use the profits from the book to build a hotel for cattlemen in San Antonio.
Nuclear Furniture is the eighth album by American rock band Jefferson Starship, released in June 1984 through Grunt Records. [1] It was the final album by the band before the departure of leader Paul Kantner and the eventual transition of the remaining members of the group to become Starship.
Harrigan at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2019. Harrigan's novel, The Gates of the Alamo, published in 2000, was a New York Times bestseller and the recipient of a number of awards, including the TCU Texas Book Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West from the Western Writers of America.
Caballero was written in a decade marked by heated debate about the Mexican-American's place in United States society. [8] The 1930s saw the birth of the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) and other organizations that promoted the cultural assimilation of peoples of Latin American heritage into mainstream United States culture. [9]
It is rare to see a book about the Alamo or the Texas Revolution which does not quote the letter, either in full or part. [29] The letter also appears in full in most Texas history textbooks geared towards elementary and middle school children. [4] The postscripts, however, have rarely been printed. [29]
General Antonio López de Santa Anna was a proponent of governmental federalism when he helped oust Mexican President Anastasio Bustamante in December 1832. Upon his election as president in April 1833, [4] Santa Anna switched his political ideology and began implementing centralist policies that increased the authoritarian powers of his office. [5]