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Author : Charles Merritt Barnes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes written by Charles Merritt Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Merritt Barnes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes written by Charles Merritt Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charles Merritt Barnes
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Combats and Conquests of Immortal Heroes, Sung in Song and Told in Story written by Charles Merritt Barnes and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy M. Matovina
Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
ISBN 13 : 0292759894
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book The Alamo Remembered written by Timothy M. Matovina and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2013-12-06 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo. As Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio’s Tejano population was caught in the crossfire, both literally and symbolically. Though their origins were in Mexico, the Tejanos had put down lasting roots in Texas and did not automatically identify with the Mexican cause. Indeed, as the accounts in this new collection demonstrate, their strongest allegiance was to their fellow San Antonians, with whom they shared a common history and a common plight as war raged in their hometown. Timothy M. Matovina here gathers all known Tejano accounts of the Battle of the Alamo. These accounts consist of first reports of the battle, including Juan N. Seguín’s funeral oration at the interment ceremony of the Alamo defenders, conversations with local Tejanos, unpublished petitions and depositions, and published accounts from newspapers and other sources. This communal response to the legendary battle deepens our understanding of the formation of Mexican American consciousness and identity. “A fascinating and much needed anthology of Tejano accounts of America's most storied battle. . . . There are no books like it in the field, despite considerable publishing on the Alamo and the Texas revolt.” —Paul Hutton, Executive Director, Western History Association “The first full-scale collection offers a rich insight into the formation of Mexican American identity in San Antonio. . . . [The book] speaks eloquently to a general audience trying to gain a more balanced perspective of the storied conflict [at the Alamo].” —Review of Texas Books “Matovina’s message is that historians who concentrate on the question of which side [Tejanos] joined or did not join miss the larger point: for the Tejanos themselves, the choice of sides during the revolt was not the overriding issue of their lives, nor was it the touchstone of their identity. What the Tejano accounts of the Alamo show, Matovina argues, is that the divisions engendered by the revolution failed to destroy what remained “an amazingly cohesive community” in which families, friends, and neighbors split apart by the war reunited in harmony in its aftermath.” —Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Author : Carl Coke Rister
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786251205
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book Robert E. Lee In Texas written by Carl Coke Rister and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert E. Lee In Texas introduces a little known phase of the great General’s career—his service in Texas during the four turbulent years just preceding the Civil War—at Camp Cooper, watching the federal government’s “humanizing” experiment with the wild Comanches; at San Antonio, commanding the Department of Texas; and at Fort Mason, headquarters of the Second United States Cavalry. In this account Carl Coke Rister, a leading historian of the West, takes us with Lee to his lonely posts on the border, and we share with him the hazardous and often fruitless chases after renegade Indians and Mexican bandits. We see through the eyes of the “Academy man” the raw life on the frontier and hear from his lips his impressions of the country and people. These were critical years for the nation and for the future military leader of the Confederacy. When Lieutenant Colonel Robert Edward Lee was transferred from the superintendency of West Point to Camp Cooper on an Indian frontier, where isolation, rawness, inconvenience, deprivation, and even death were commonplace, it seemed to him and to some of his friends that his military career was coming to a dead end. Nevertheless, while he was “lost on the frontier,” he gained strength, wisdom, and maturity. He worked with, and for the most part commanded, the famous Second Cavalry, many of the officers of which became either Northern or Southern field commanders in the Civil War. To know these officers, their points of strength and weakness, their whims and caprices, and their likes and dislikes served him well later in military crises. When in 1861 Lee came from the Texas wilderness to report to General Winfield Scott in Washington, he was prepared to assume the role of the South’s peerless leader—to justify General Scott’s Mexican War characterization of him as “America’s very best soldier.”
Author : Judith Berg-Sobré
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781585442225
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book San Antonio on Parade written by Judith Berg-Sobré and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recounts the events of six historic festivals in San Antonio, Texas, at the end of the nineteenth century, describing each event's pageantry, parades, competitions, and participants.
Author : Texas. Governor (1911-1915 : Colquitt)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Message of Governor O. B. Colquitt to the Thirty-third Legislature written by Texas. Governor (1911-1915 : Colquitt) and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elaine A. Peña
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477321462
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 download)
Download or read book Viva George! written by Elaine A. Peña and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 Jim Parish Award for Documentation and Publication of Local and Regional History, Webb County Heritage Foundation Since 1898, residents of Laredo, Texas, and Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, have reached across the US-Mexico border to celebrate George Washington's birthday. The celebration can last a whole month, with parade goers reveling in American and Mexican symbols; George Washington saluting; and “Pocahontas” riding on horseback. An international bridge ceremony, the heart and soul of the festivities, features children from both sides of the border marching toward each other to link the cities with an embrace. ¡Viva George! offers an ethnography and a history of this celebration, which emerges as both symbol and substance of cross-border community life. Anthropologist and Laredo native Elaine A. Peña shows how generations of border officials, civil society organizers, and everyday people have used the bridge ritual to protect shared economic and security interests as well as negotiate tensions amid natural disasters, drug-war violence, and immigration debates. Drawing on previously unknown sources and extensive fieldwork, Peña finds that border enactments like Washington's birthday are more than goodwill gestures. From the Rio Grande to the 38th Parallel, they do the meaningful political work that partisan polemics cannot.
Author : Ione William Tanner Wright ("Mrs. S. J. Wright")
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book San Antonio de Béxar written by Ione William Tanner Wright ("Mrs. S. J. Wright") and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alexaner Edwin Sweet
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786956
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Alex Sweet's Texas written by Alexaner Edwin Sweet and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Edwin Sweet (1841-1901) is Texas's own "Sifter," whose humorous columns appeared in the Galveston Daily News in the late 1870s and early 1880s. In his wickedly funny, tongue-in-cheek sketches, readers learned of an astonishing variety of frontier phenomena, some familiar, others downright odd. For example, there was the typical nineteenth-century custom of New Year's Day receptions for bachelor guests only, with refreshments consisting largely of strong drink and equally strong fruitcake. Imbibing a bit more cheer at each stop, according to Sweet, the bachelors brought the last prospective sweethearts they visited New Year's greetings as incoherent as they were heartfelt. At times Sweet parodied the Yankee image of the typical Texan, whom he described as "half alligator, half human," eating raw buffalo and toting an arsenal of weaponry like a "perambulating gun-rack." But he also did as much as any writer to establish and enlarge upon the national image of Texas and Texans. Even the irascible red ant and the other "critters" in Sweet's column were Texas big and Texas-fabulous! In 1881 Sweet co-founded Texas Siftings, a humor magazine that moved from Austin to New York to become one of the most popular periodicals of its kind in the United States. From Texas Siftings, from Sweet's two published books (one called by John Jenkins in Basic Texas Books the "best volume of 19th century Texas humor"), and from many never-before-collected newspaper columns, editor Virginia Eisenhour has assembled an Alex Sweet sampler that presents the very best of the timeless humorist's work. The result—Alex Sweet's Texas—clearly demonstrates why the New York Journal pronounced Sweet "second to no living writer in freshness, originality, sparkling wit, and refined humor." A century later, that wit still sparkles and is guaranteed to delight Texans present as it once did Texans past.
Author : Todd Hansen
Publisher : Stackpole Books
ISBN 13 : 9780811700603
Total Pages : 876 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book The Alamo Reader written by Todd Hansen and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (41 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 1238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amelia W. Williams
Publisher : Copano Bay Press
ISBN 13 : 0982246773
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)
Download or read book The Alamo Defenders written by Amelia W. Williams and published by Copano Bay Press. This book was released on 2010-02 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1931, this book is the culmination of almost a decade worth of Alamo research, and the foundation for most later works on the subject of who occupied the Alamo during the siege. Omitting much of the romance, legend and myth associated with the storied fortress, The Alamo Defenders calls forth the facts, letters and primary documents that bring us closer to those who served with Travis. While much new information regarding the siege and subsequent events has come to light since this data was compiled over 75 years ago, it remains a valuable research tool and starting point for Alamo research. Includes brief history of the Republic of Texas, the run-up to the siege and data on 187 Alamo defenders & messengers.
Author : L. Lloyd MacDonald
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1455615080
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (556 download)
Download or read book Tejanos in the 1835 Texas Revolution written by L. Lloyd MacDonald and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2012-09-06 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Texas historian presents a vividly detailed account of the 1835–36 battle for independence, shining new light on the experiences of Tejano rebels. In the 1820s and ‘30s, thousands of settlers from the United States migrated to Mexican Texas, lured by Mexico’s promise of freedom. But when President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna came to power, he discarded the constitution and established a new centralized government. In 1835 and ‘36, Mexican-born Tejanos and Anglo-born Texans fought side by side to defend their rights against this authoritarian power grab. After Santa Anna silenced decent across Mexico, Texas emerged as the lone province to gain independence. Offering a unique study of the role the Mexican-born revolutionaries played in Texas’s battle for independence, this account examines Mexico from the fifteenth century through the birth of the sovereign nation of Texas in 1836. Drawing heavily on first-person accounts, this detailed history sheds light on the stories and experiences of Tejanos and Texans who endured the fight for liberty. Enhanced by maps and illustrations handcrafted by the author, this volume contributes an important perspective to the ongoing scholarship and debate surrounding the Alamo generation of the 1830s.
Author : Timothy Matovina
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801879593
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (795 download)
Download or read book Guadalupe and Her Faithful written by Timothy Matovina and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description.
Author : Timothy M. Matovina
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292761597
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Tejano Religion and Ethnicity written by Timothy M. Matovina and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-02-04 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the flags of Spain, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, and the United States successively flew over San Antonio, its Tejano community (Texans of Spanish or Mexican descent) formed a distinct ethnic identity that persisted despite rapid social and cultural changes. In this pioneering study, Timothy Matovina explores the central role of Tejano Catholicism in forging this unique identity and in binding the community together. The first book-length treatment of the historical role of religion in a Mexican-origin community in the United States, this study covers three distinct periods in the emergence of Tejano religious and ethnic identity: the Mexican period (1821-1836), the Texas Republic (1836-1845), and the first decade and a half after annexation into the United States (1845-1860). Matovina's research demonstrates how theories of unilateral assimilation are inadequate for understanding the Tejano community, especially in comparison with the experiences of European immigrants to the United States. As residents of the southwestern United States continue to sort out the legacy of U.S. territorial expansion in the nineteenth century, studies like this one offer crucial understanding of the survival and resilience of Latino cultures in the United States. Tejano Religion and Ethnicity will be of interest to a broad popular and scholarly audience.
Author : Ferdinand B. Baillio
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book History of the Texas Press Association written by Ferdinand B. Baillio and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
