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Author : William C. Davis
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0684865106
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (848 download)
Download or read book Lone Star Rising written by William C. Davis and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published: New York: Free Press, 2004.
Author : William Fairfax Gray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781941324776
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (247 download)
Download or read book At the Birth of Texas written by William Fairfax Gray and published by . This book was released on 2018-12-12 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The diary of William Fairfax Gray, who was present for the pivotal events leading to the Texas Revolution.
Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292759517
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Big Wonderful Thing written by Stephen Harrigan and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2019-10-01 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.
Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1176 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Handbook of Texas written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.
Author : J. M. Morphis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 620 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book History of Texas written by J. M. Morphis and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1497609704
Total Pages : 949 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (976 download)
Download or read book Lone Star written by T. R. Fehrenbach and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 949 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.
Author : José Enrique de la Peña
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603449337
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
Download or read book With Santa Anna in Texas written by José Enrique de la Peña and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The discovery of an additional week's worth of entries in the diary of José Enrique de la Peña has opened another chapter in the longstanding controversy over the authenticity of the Mexican officer’s account of the Battle of the Alamo. In this expanded edition of With Santa Anna in Texas, Texas Revolution scholar James E. Crisp, who discovered the new diary entries in an untranslated manuscript version of the journal, discusses the history of the de la Peña diary controversy and presents new evidence in the matter. With the “missing week” and the perspective Crisp provides, the diary should prompt a new round of debate over what really happened at the Alamo. When it was first translated and published in English in 1975 by Carmen Perry, With Santa Anna in Texas unleashed a fury of emotion and an enduring chasm between some scholars and Texans. The journal of de la Peña, an officer on Santa Anna's staff, reported the capture and execution of Davy Crockett and several others and also stated the reason behind Santa Anna's order to make the final assault on Travis and his men. Whether or not scholars agree with de la Peña's assertions, his journal remains one of the most revealing accounts of the Texas Revolution ever to come to light.
Author : Louis J. Wortham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book A History of Texas written by Louis J. Wortham and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frank White Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 702 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A History of Texas and Texans written by Frank White Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. l and 3 are books; vols. 2, 4, 5 are microfiche.
Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525520112
Total Pages : 307 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)
Download or read book God Save Texas written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 307 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower—and a Texas native—takes us on a journey through the most controversial state in America. • “Beautifully written…. Essential reading [for] anyone who wants to understand how one state changed the trajectory of the country.” —NPR Texas is a red state, but the cities are blue and among the most diverse in the nation. Oil is still king, but Texas now leads California in technology exports. Low taxes and minimal regulation have produced extraordinary growth, but also striking income disparities. Texas looks a lot like the America that Donald Trump wants to create. Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may become—and shows how the battle for Texas’s soul encompasses us all.
Author : Don Graham
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1118039807
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (18 download)
Download or read book Kings of Texas written by Don Graham and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2010-12-22 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS "Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience." -Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove "This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, peace, love, betrayal, birth, and death in the region where the Texas-Mexico border blurs in the haze of the Wild Horse Desert, it is also an intriguing detective story with links to the present-and a first-rate read." -H.W. Brands, author of The Age of Gold and the bestselling Pulitzer Prize finalist The First American
Author : Gregg Cantrell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1625110391
Total Pages : 640 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (251 download)
Download or read book Stephen F. Austin written by Gregg Cantrell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Texas State Historical Association is pleased to offer a reprint edition of Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of Texas, Gregg Cantrell’s path-breaking biography of the founder of Anglo Texas. Cantrell’s portrait goes beyond the traditional interpretation of Austin as the man who spearheaded American Manifest Destiny. Cantrell portrays Austin as a borderlands figure who could navigate the complex cultural landscape of 1820s Texas, then a portion of Mexico. His command of the Spanish language, respect for the Mexican people, and ability to navigate the shoals of Mexican politics made him the perfect advocate for his colonists and often for all of Texas. Yet when conflicts between Anglo colonists and Mexican authorities turned violent, Austin’s accomodationist stance became outdated. Overshadowed by the military hero Sam Houston, he died at the age of forty-three, just six months after Texas independence. Decades after his death, Austin’s reputation was resurrected and he became known as the “Father of Texas.” More than just an icon, Stephen F. Austin emerges from these pages as a shrewd, complicated, and sometimes conflicted figure.
Author : Jr. Roy S. Newsom
Publisher : Ideas Into Books Westview
ISBN 13 : 9781937763756
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (637 download)
Download or read book Too Good to Be True written by Jr. Roy S. Newsom and published by Ideas Into Books Westview. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What can a 14-year-old boy do when his father dies and leaves seven children and a widow in her late 50s? As the oldest male in the family, he knows his future could be bleak. This is the true story of James CollinsworthNhis highest highs and lowest lows, his friends and adversaries, his successes and failures.
Author : Homer S. Thrall
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 888 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Pictorial History of Texas written by Homer S. Thrall and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alice L Baumgartner
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 1541617770
Total Pages : 362 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (416 download)
Download or read book South to Freedom written by Alice L Baumgartner and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2020-11-10 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant and surprising account of the coming of the American Civil War, showing the crucial role of slaves who escaped to Mexico. The Underground Railroad to the North promised salvation to many American slaves before the Civil War. But thousands of people in the south-central United States escaped slavery not by heading north but by crossing the southern border into Mexico, where slavery was abolished in 1837. In South to Freedom, historianAlice L. Baumgartner tells the story of why Mexico abolished slavery and how its increasingly radical antislavery policies fueled the sectional crisis in the United States. Southerners hoped that annexing Texas and invading Mexico in the 1840s would stop runaways and secure slavery's future. Instead, the seizure of Alta California and Nuevo México upset the delicate political balance between free and slave states. This is a revelatory and essential new perspective on antebellum America and the causes of the Civil War.
Author : Hollace Ava Weiner
Publisher : UPNE
ISBN 13 : 1584656220
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (846 download)
Download or read book Lone Stars of David written by Hollace Ava Weiner and published by UPNE. This book was released on 2007 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An essay collection of lively written, lavishly illustrated, and well-documented narratives on the history and culture of Texas Jews.
Author : Francis White Johnson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015734234
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (342 download)
Download or read book A History of Texas and Texans; Volume 1 written by Francis White Johnson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
