Ebook: Hill Country Chronicles

Texas Hill Country is a rugged and hilly area of central Texas known for its food, architecture and unique melting pot of Spanish and European settlers. The area's rich history is filled with quirky and fascinating tales about this landscape and the animals and people who have called it home. Clay Coppedge has been gathering Texas stories for over thirty years. This collection of his favorite columns includes his best Texas-sized stories on Hill Country history. From the legend of Llano's Enchanted Rock and the true story of Jim Bowie's famous knife to one rancher's attempt at bringing reindeer to the hottest area of the country and an oilman's search for Bigfoot, Hill Country Chronicles has them all and more.;pt. 1. A forbidding land -- Easter fires -- The scalping of Josiah Wilbarger -- Packsaddle Mountain -- Trail of the Tonkawas -- Enchanted Rock -- Llano gold -- Barringer Hill -- Charcoal burners and cedar choppers -- White gold -- Capitals of Texas -- pt. 2. The good, the bad and the witty -- Wild ram of the mountains -- Blind man's town -- The first war correspondent -- The Steamboat Hotel -- Treu Der Union -- Jim Bowie and his knife -- The name rings a bell -- Jacob Brodbeck takes flight -- Alex Sweet and his siftings -- O. Henry in Texas -- pt. 3. From dinosaurs to polo -- In praise of the unappreciated mule -- Camels for Texas -- First in war, first in polo -- Cowboy king of polo -- Batty in Texas -- The strange saga of Tom Slick -- Plight of the Pleurocoeleus -- Ode to the horny toad -- Home with the armadillo -- A bluebonnet by any other name -- pt. 4. Texas originals -- From sad irons to big dams -- Sharpshooters ad and Plinky Toepperwein -- Old Yeller country -- Roy Bedichek : Texas original -- Everybody's somebody in Luckenbach -- The Bamberger place -- Thanksgiving as a Texas thang -- The reindeer of Texas.