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Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm

Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm

Jan Reid

Texas Tornado is the first biography of this national music legend. Jan Reid traces the whole arc of Sahm's incredibly versatile musical career, as well as the manic energy that drove his sometimes turbulent personal life and loves.
The Bullet Meant for Me

The Bullet Meant for Me

Jan Reid

He meditates on male friendship as he tells the story of his close relationship with Chavez, whose career and personal travails Reid details with empathy and insight.
Rio Grande

Rio Grande

Jan Reid

Reid has assembled writings by an astonishing array of leading authors--Larry McMurtry, Woody Guthrie, and more--to explore the politicization, culture, history, and ecology of the vital river.
The Brontës in Context

The Brontës in Context

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25 T. Wemyss Reid, Charlotte Bronte: A Monograph (New York: Scribner, Armstrong, 86 Co., 1877). 26 T. Wemyss Reid, Memoirs of Sir Thomas Wemyss Reid, 1842—I885, ed. Stuart J. Reid (London: Cassell, 1905), pp. 234, 235. 27 Wemyss ...
The Navy List

The Navy List

Great Britain. Admiralty

1 Jan cumbert Everard Brmey John Robert Davison (tompy) 1 Jan 1 (MW) -- ._ . .. 1 Jan William Geoffrey. Moore 1 Jan ' _ E'iz'rjgy) Stewart CUP?! 1 Jan George Hancock Rad 1 Jan i Bernard Cyril Windeler Thomas Vaughan Lister 1 Jan 1 ...
The Wine family in America: the descendants of Daniel Wine ...

The Wine family in America: the descendants of Daniel Wine ...

Dennis Hosten Wine

Nannie and her sister Lesia married Fridley brothers. 2804. William Oliver Fridley , Jr., b. Dec 5, 1980 1484 LESIA DENISE REID, dau. of Virgil G. Reid #720 and Gladys Knick; b. Jan 12, 1958; m. Gordon Lewis Fridley; b. Nov 26, 1954; res.
Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842-1885

Memoirs of Sir Wemyss Reid, 1842-1885

Thomas Wemyss Reid

Thomas Wemyss Reid Stuart Johnson Reid. Mr. Bryce, Mr. J. A. Spender, and Mr. Herbert Paul. Literary criticism, economic questions, and other phases of public affairs, were handled by Sir Alfred Lyall, Mr. Birrell, Mr. Frederic Harrison, Mr.
Mafia

Mafia

Ed Reid

Ed Reid .1 THIRD PRINTING COPYRIGHT, 1952, BY ED REID ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UNDER INTERNATIONAL AND PAN-AMERICAN COPYRIGHT CONVENTIONS. PUBLISHED IN NEW YORK BY RANDOM HOUSE, INC., AND ...
Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

Bill Reid: The Making of an Indian

Maria Tippett

By asking difficult questions about Reid’s life and work, and by analyzing the works of other Native artists since the beginning of the twentieth century, Tippet gives the reader the defining portrait of Bill Reid -- one of Canada’s ...
Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid

Big-time Football at Harvard, 1905: The Diary of Coach Bill Reid

Bill Reid

With the intent of providing a how-to manual for future coaches, Reid set down day by day an account of his activities on and off the field.
Alan the Red Fox Reid: Pressman Par Excellence

Alan the Red Fox Reid: Pressman Par Excellence

Ross Fitzgerald

Demonstrating how Reid not only reported the news but shaped it due to his connections with Labor Prime Ministers Ben Chifley and John Curtin, this volume covers a number of momentous events in Reid’s career--including his early ...
Morris

Morris

Jan Reid

Children all over the world will be able to identify with Morris, the teddy bear; a most special friend of childhood.
Emily

Emily

Jan Reid

What do you see when you gaze into a mirror? Your own reflection or something extraordinary? Giggle along with Emily as she takes you to the moon and back.
Two Witnesses at Gettysburg: The Personal Accounts of ...

Two Witnesses at Gettysburg: The Personal Accounts of ...

Whitelaw Reid

and other testimony from eyewitnesses – testimony that included accounts by Whitelaw Reid and Arthur James Lyon Fremantle. Reid wrote from a northern perspective and is little remembered; his newspaper article, which never mentions ...
Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Latina Legacies: Identity, Biography, and Community

Vicki L. Ruiz

VICTORIA REID AND THE POLITICS OF IDENTITY María Raquel Casas Madame looks like a rose from Castile. Hugo Reid Sometime in September 1836, the widow Victoria Bartolomea married Hugo Reid at the San Gabriel mission, located ...
Sins of the Younger Sons: A Novel

Sins of the Younger Sons: A Novel

Jan Reid

Luke Burgoa is an ex-Marine on a solitary covert mission to infiltrate the Basque separatist organization ETA in Spain and help bring down its military commander, Peru Madariaga.
Austin Fire Dept. 1916-2006

Austin Fire Dept. 1916-2006

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KENNEDY CHARLIE J 17-Mar-85 25 10 21 KEY JIM THOMAS 20-Apr-02 29 10 8 KIEKE JOHN H 04-Jan-87 2<) 0 1 ... 26 5 6 LANE WILLIAM 05-Jan-74 4S 1 13 LANG LESTER 30-Jan-77 34 8 13 LANGE ROBERT II 03-Jan-86 25 2 6 ...
Comanche Sundown: A Novel

Comanche Sundown: A Novel

Jan Reid

Comanche Sundown is the story of the great war chief Quanah Parker, a freed slave and cowboy named Bose Ikard, and the women they love.
A Mountain of Many Treasures: Prose Pieces by John Howard Reid

A Mountain of Many Treasures: Prose Pieces by John Howard Reid

John Howard Reid

A mixed bag of prose pieces by "the charismatic John Howard Reid", this collection includes short stories, essays, a novelette, and even a First Prize-winning humorous piece and a one-act stage play.
Cass County

Cass County

Cass County Historical Society

From left to right are Mina Harris, Sarrie Reid, Bill Harris, T. B., Beryl Judy, Helen Reid, Mrs. Judy holding Edith Judy, and Lizzie Reid. Glenn Judy was the government farmer for the Shippewa Indians at Sugar Point. Ray Malmquist (left) and ...
Saturday matinee movies

Saturday matinee movies

John Howard Reid

This is the 14th volume in Reid's Film Index and deals with the movies shown across Australia on Saturdays.
The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition

The Improbable Rise of Redneck Rock: New Edition

Jan Reid

In Bobby Bridger's story, Jim Bridger was driven by the humiliation of that day to strive to be the one out front, the one who volunteered for the most dangerous assignments. Because of that, the researcher continued, Jim Bridger was the first  ...
Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations

Paris Sewers and Sewermen: Realities and Representations

Donald Reid

Reid (history, U. of NC Chapel Hill) emphasizes the human story of sewers--politics, sanitation, labor.
Midnight Sun: A Novel

Midnight Sun: A Novel

Elwood Reid

Jack, the gritty narrator of this dark, gripping novel by Elwood Reid, is a journeyman carpenter in his late twenties whose travels have led him to Alaska.
The raven steals the light

The raven steals the light

William Reid

The collection includes, says Reid, "a good selection of bestiality, adultery, violence, thievery and assault, for those who like that sort of thing."
The Potters of Orange: 100 Years of Pottery-making in ...

The Potters of Orange: 100 Years of Pottery-making in ...

Jim McFarland

Features the work of: E. L. STORK, EARL STORK, J. P. REID, HOMER BURNS, BELLE REID, J. R. COOPER, and JAY BENZEL
Charlotte BrontÔ: A Monograph

Charlotte BrontÔ: A Monograph

T. Wemyss Reid

T. Wemyss Reid. XII. POSTHUMOUS. HONOURS. There is a deeper truth in the maxim which bids us judge no man happy tillhis deaththanmostofusareapttoperceive. For sometimes the happiness ofalifeiscrownedby death itself; and that ...
Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards

Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards

Jan Reid

He tells the full, inside story of Richards's rise from county office and the state treasurer's office to the governorship, where she championed gun control, prison reform, environmental protection, and school finance reform, and he ...
Shark!: Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths

Shark!: Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths

H C Stuart Professor Emeritus Robert Reid

Killer Tales from the Dangerous Depths H C Stuart Professor Emeritus Robert Reid, Robert Reid. hysteria that followed. Local authorities and hotel owners installed wire netting enclosures in a bid to stem the flood of holidaymakers who were ...

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