LINKS FOR FAMOUS TEXANS

Some of these articles are long. Look for what you want or need, and take notes of what you think is important. Practice finding the main ideas!

LANCE ARMSTRONG

http://www.askmen.com/men/sports/40_lance_armstrong.html
http://www.peoplespot.com/people/lancearmstrong.htm
http://www.lancearmstrong.com/

JAMES BOWIE

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/bowie.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bowie

STEPHEN F. AUSTIN

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/austin.htm
http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/a_c/austin.htm
http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/sfaustin.htm

STEVE AUSTIN

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_Cold_Steve_Austin
http://www.accelerator3359.com/Wrestling/bios/austin.html

GEORGE H. BUSH

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/gb41.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760625.html

GEORGE W. BUSH

http://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_W._Bush

EARL CAMPBELL

http://www.earlcampbell.com/index2.html
http://espn.go.com/classic/s/Where_now_campbell_earl.html

HENRY CISNEROS

http://www.gale.com/free_resources/chh/bio/cisneros_h.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/cisneros/

DAVY CROCKETT

http://www.americanwest.com/pages/davycroc.htm
http://www.lsjunction.com/people/crockett.htm

WALTER CRONKITE

http://www.famoustexans.com/waltercronkite.htm

LORENZO DE ZAVALA

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/zavala.htm
http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/zavala/
http://www.buscabiografias.com/cgi-bin/verbio.cgi?id=9004 (in Spanish)

SUSANNA DICKINSON

http://www.tamu.edu/ccbn/dewitt/sdickinson.htm
http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0886854.html

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/de34.html
http://www.infoplease.com/ipa/A0760618.html

SAM HOUSTON

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/houston.htm
http://www.carpenoctem.tv/military/houston.html

QUANAH PARKER

http://www.lone-star.net/mall/texasinfo/quanah.htm
http://www.famoustexans.com/quanahparker.htm

SELENA QUINTANILLA PEREZ

http://www.selena.tvheaven.com/timeline.htm
http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/QQ/fquxg.html
http://www.chron.com/content/chronicle/metropolitan/selena/95/05/21/legend.html

NOLAN RYAN

http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/R/Ryan_Nolan.stm
http://www.famoustexans.com/nolanryan.htm

JUAN SEGUIN

http://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/people/s_z/seguin.htm

WILLIAM BARRETT TRAVIS

http://www.lsjunction.com/people/travis.htm

MORE FAMOUS TEXANS

Red Adair - fireman, oil well fires, Houston
Alvin Ailey - choreographer, Rogers
Mary Kay Ash - cosmetics entrepreneur, Hot Wells
Gene Autry, singer, actor, Tioga
Clyde Barrow - outlaw, Telico
Bonnie Parker - outlaw, Rowena
Carol Burnett - comedienne, San Antonio
Denton Cooley - heart surgeon, Houston
Joan Crawford - actress, San Antonio
Robert Dennard - inventor, Terrel
A. J. Foyt - auto racer, Houston
Larry Hagman - actor, Fort Worth
Buddy Holly - musician, Lubbock
Howard Hughes - industrialist, film producer, Houston
Lyndon B. Johnson - U. S. President, Stonewall
Tommy Lee Jones - actor, San Saba
Willie Nelson - singer, Abbot
Chester Nimitz - admiral, Fredericksburg
Sandra Day O'Connor - Supreme Court jurist, El Paso
H. Ross Perot - philanthropist, Texarkana
Wiley Post - aviator, Grand Saline
Dan Rather - TV newscaster, Wharton
Robert Rauschenberg - Painter, Port Arthur
Gene Roddenberry - Science Fiction author, screenwriter, El Paso


OTHER BIOGRAPHIES – RESOURCES

http://www.lsjunction.com/

http://www.famoustexans.com

http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/index.html

http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/biographies/

http://www.factmonster.com/people.html?link=fmhpn

http://www.buscabiografias.com/

http://www.americanwest.com/

 

 

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