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Greene, Alvin Carl was born on November 4, 1923 in Abilene, Texas, United States. Son of Alvin Carl and Marie (Cole) Greene.
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This book brings alive what one man feels about his childhood home. The place is West Texas, seen across a long vista in which today’s events and people merge with the author’s boyhood and young manhood. It is a harsh, remote country, where the weather is always very close and the horizon far away. The Brazos country of long-ago Fourth of July fishing expeditions; the grass-grown remains of a way station of the Butterfield Stage Line; the streets of Abilene; the sparse grazing lands under infinite skiesall are made resonant by a native son’s affection and understanding. It is a way of liferesilient and persnicketythat is almost gone. Above all, it is people: the author’s grandmother, who had a mortal fear of bridges and whose premonitions of unnamed calamities (that as often as not happened), both alarmed and pleased the young boy; Uncle Aubrey, who married late”; the blacksmith they awakened in the dead of night; the familiar neighbors; the rare and deliciously mysterious strangers. With humor and strong, unsentimental feeling, A. C. Greene conserves for us the priceless eccentricities of place and person that are being flattened outalmost literally bulldozed awayby the impatient, insatiable onrush of the twentieth century. His West Texas is a very personal country, but what he seeks to share will be familiar to all who take pleasure in the memories that tie them to their own special region of America.
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(A history in words and photos of the early years of the c...)
A history in words and photos of the early years of the city of Dallas, Texas. Published for Sanger-Harris in commemoration of its 100th year in Dallas.
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( Expecting paradise but finding a tourist trap, stodgy 6...)
Expecting paradise but finding a tourist trap, stodgy 62-year-old academic Charles Martyn, author of a dull but ubiquitous book about the American novel, can't help but be disappointed by his return to the Mediterranean island of Ibiza after a 20-year absence. He has come back to Ibiza with his 36-year-old second wife, Susan, to search for his estranged son, Ledyard, who has been eking a living selling paintings to tourists. Ledyard keeps evading them, however, while insecure Charles behaves so boorishly toward the lively, beautiful Susan that their marriage quickly becomes a cringingly painful mystery to the reader.
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Short as the life of the Southern Overland Mail turned out to beless than three years in its spanthe saga of the Butterfield Trail remains a romantic high point in the westward movement, forming familiar elements in historical plots, functioning as a vibrant backdrop against which mythic adventures, western thrillers, movie serials, and television spectacles have raced. A. C. Greene offers a history and guide to retrace that historic and romantic Trail. Today, more than a century and a third after the first Butterfield coaches rolled, we are hard put to imagine how awesome, how fearful was the actual passage along the trail. In 1858 Waterman Lily Ormsby Jr., gave the first account of traveling on the Butterfield Overland Mail coach as a reporter for the New York Herald on a trip from Missouri to San Francisco. In the 1930s Roscoe P. and Margaret B. Conkling drove the route again in their 1930 Buick and published three volumes of their research. Now A. C. and Judy Greene have made a 1990s version of the ride in their own celerity wagon” a Lincoln Mark VII. This is the first book in more than 55 years to trace the actual Butterfield Trail through the heart of the Southwest. Incorporating newly-found documents, and changes in the landscape and its history, it is an updated story of the Butterfield operation and the people and events that have occurred along the route.
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(Illustrated with photos - The Lives of Herman Lehmann, Wh...)
Illustrated with photos - The Lives of Herman Lehmann, Who was taken by the Indians as a boy from his Texas Home & adopted by them; his career as an authentic wild warrior with the apache and Comanche tribes; his subsequent restoration to the bosom of his family and the difficutlies and confusions faced in adjusting his savage training to a civlized society; his experiences carrying him form the time of the scalpin knife to the very threshold of our Atomic Age..."
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( Master storyteller A. C. Greene re-creates one of Ameri...)
Master storyteller A. C. Greene re-creates one of America’s most bizarre holdupsone that began as a lark. On Christmas Eve 1927, four men set off to rob the First National Bank of Cisco, Texas. Soon the lark turned into a tragedyand at times a comedyof errors. The robbers did not realize the car they had stolen for their getaway was running on empty. The leader did not anticipate the attention his disguise would draw, even though it was a bright red Santa Claus suit. And they could not have known that all of Cisco would have guns at hand because the Bankers Association had offered a reward of $5,000 for any dead bank robber, no questions asked. The Santa Claus bank robbery set off a chain of events that would lead to violence and the death of six men and launch the largest manhunt Texas had ever seen. A. C. Greene’s factual account of the unusual crime reads like a novelfast paced, full of unexpected turns, and rich with the flavor of life in Texas at the beginning of the end of the Old West. This new edition contains an Afterword with photographs, some of them never before published, and followup information on the lives of the participants, including the surviving robber, witnesses, and kidnap victims.
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Greene, Alvin Carl was born on November 4, 1923 in Abilene, Texas, United States. Son of Alvin Carl and Marie (Cole) Greene.
Bachelor, Abilene Christian University, 1948. HLD (honorary), Austin College, 1992.
Member staff, Abilene Reporter-News, 1948-1952; book editor, Dallas Times Herald, 1960-1968; editor editorial page, Dallas Times Herald, 1963-1965; staff, University Texas, Austin, 1968-1969, 73; executive editor, Southwestern History Quarterly, 1968-1969; executive producer, Station KERA-television, Dallas, 1970-1971; editorial board, KAAM, KAFM, 1979-1981; narrator A.C. Greene's Historic Moments, Station WFAA, 1982-1983; commentator, MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour, 1983-1989; columnist, Dallas Morning News, since 1983.
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Emeritus director Center for Texas Studies U. North Texas, 1993-1996. With United States Naval Reserve, 1943-1946, PTO, China, Burma, India Theatre of Operations. Fellow Texas Institute Letters (president 1969-1971, award 1964, 73, 88), Texas State History Association.
Member Writers Guild American, National Rlwy. History Association, Salado L.R. Theater.
Married Betty Dozier, 1950 (deceased). Children: Geoffrey, Mark, Eliot, Meredith Elizabeth. Married Judy Dalton Hyland, 1990.