The Texas Legacy Project: Stories of Courage and Conservation
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (543 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1603442006 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 296 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
To find and preserve these stories of courage and perseverance, the Conservation History Association of Texas launched the Texas Legacy Project in 1998, traveling thousands of miles to conduct hundreds of interviews with people from all over the state. Records of the archive are available at the Briscoe Center for American History at the University of Texas at Austin.Five dollars of the cost of this book goes to environmentally friendly materials and processes.. This book holds stories from more than sixty people who represent a variety of causes, communities, and walks of life—from a West Texas grocer fighting nuclear waste to an Austin lobbyist pressing for green energy. A c
“No student should graduate from a Texas High School without reading this book or even memorizing it.”—Bill Moyers, host, Bill Moyers Journal
"Great stories told by citizens who cared and dared" according to mollycoxe. The title of this book may be drier than the west Texas desert, but the contents are juicier than a rib eye (substitute grapefruit, if you're a vegetarian). Open to a random page, as I've been doing every morning this week at breakfast, and you'll find a first person narrative by a remarkable, and often quite colorful, human being. There's the game warden who used to be outlaw hunter, an unorthodox environmental lawyer who won a suit against Champion Paper in the 1970's resulting in a penal