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Author : William F. Gray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (829 download)
Download or read book From Virginia to Texas, 1835 written by William F. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Gray
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ISBN 13 : 9780898960365
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (63 download)
Download or read book Diary of Colonel William Fairfax Gray written by William F. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1982-06-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Fairfax Gray
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Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (733 download)
Download or read book Diary of Col. Wm. Fairfax Gray from Virginia to Texas, 1835-1836 written by William Fairfax Gray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Gray
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book From Virginia to Texas, 1835 written by William F. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wm. F. Gray
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Diary of Col. Wm. Fairfax Gray written by Wm. F. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : WM. FAIRFAX GRAY (COL.)
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book From Virginia to Texas 1835 written by WM. FAIRFAX GRAY (COL.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Fairfax Gray
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Diary of Col. Wm F. Gray written by William Fairfax Gray and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Gray
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (693 download)
Download or read book From Virginia to Texas, 1835 written by William F. Gray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William Fairfax Gray
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Diary of Col. William F. Gray written by William Fairfax Gray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : William F. Gray (Col.)
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Diary of Col. William F. Gray, from Viginia to Texas, 1835 written by William F. Gray (Col.) and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Siegel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774982
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845 written by Stanley Siegel and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is unique among the histories of the Texas Republic: it is the first to examine the fledgling nation from the point of view of its dynamic political life. Policies with far-reaching results were formulated in the nine years of Texas' independence, and the author clearly presents the many thorny issues that were to plague Texas for generations. The political history of the Republic is one of strong figures vying with each other for popular support of their divergent policies. The author details the personal feuds and animosities that resulted and shows the effects of these differences on the governing of the nation. Thoughtful use of diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources gives the reader an excellent understanding of the sense of personal concern the citizens of the Republic felt toward the political issues of the day.
Author : William Fairfax Gray
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Total Pages : 230 pages
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Download or read book Diary of Co. Wm. F. Gray written by William Fairfax Gray and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephen L. Hardin
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292792522
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Texian Iliad written by Stephen L. Hardin and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-03-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hardly were the last shots fired at the Alamo before the Texas Revolution entered the realm of myth and controversy. French visitor Frederic Gaillardet called it a "Texian Iliad" in 1839, while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque." In this highly readable history, Stephen L. Hardin discovers more than a little truth in both of those views. Drawing on many original Texan and Mexican sources and on-site inspections of almost every battlefield, he offers the first complete military history of the Revolution. From the war's opening in the "Come and Take It" incident at Gonzales to the capture of General Santa Anna at San Jacinto, Hardin clearly describes the strategy and tactics of each side. His research yields new knowledge of the actions of famous Texan and Mexican leaders, as well as fascinating descriptions of battle and camp life from the ordinary soldier's point of view. This award-winning book belongs on the bookshelf of everyone interested in Texas or military history.
Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 1477320040
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (773 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: "Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful Thing is] as good a state history as has ever been written and a must-read for Texas aficionados.”—Kirkus, Starred Review 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 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 : Ron J. Jackson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 0806149590
Total Pages : 426 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (61 download)
Download or read book Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend written by Ron J. Jackson and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2015-03-02 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If we do in fact “remember the Alamo,” it is largely thanks to one person who witnessed the final assault and survived: the commanding officer’s slave, a young man known simply as Joe. What Joe saw as the Alamo fell, recounted days later to the Texas Cabinet, has come down to us in records and newspaper reports. But who Joe was, where he came from, and what happened to him have all remained mysterious until now. In a remarkable feat of historical detective work, authors Ron J. Jackson, Jr., and Lee Spencer White have fully restored this pivotal yet elusive figure to his place in the American story. The twenty-year-old Joe stood with his master, Lieutenant Colonel Travis, against the Mexican army in the early hours of March 6, 1836. After Travis fell, Joe watched the battle’s last moments from a hiding place. He was later taken first to Bexar and questioned by Santa Anna about the Texan army, and then to the revolutionary capitol, where he gave his testimony with evident candor. With these few facts in hand, Jackson and White searched through plantation ledgers, journals, memoirs, slave narratives, ship logs, newspapers, letters, and court documents. Their decades-long effort has revealed the outline of Joe’s biography, alongside some startling facts: most notably, that Joe was the younger brother of the famous escaped slave and abolitionist narrator William Wells Brown, as well as the grandson of legendary trailblazer Daniel Boone. This book traces Joe’s story from his birth in Kentucky through his life in slavery—which, in a grotesque irony, resumed after he took part in the Texans’ battle for independence—to his eventual escape and disappearance into the shadows of history. Joe, the Slave Who Became an Alamo Legend recovers a true American character from obscurity and expands our view of events central to the emergence of Texas.
Author : Patricia Cline Cohen
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0679740759
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (797 download)
Download or read book The Murder of Helen Jewett written by Patricia Cline Cohen and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1999-06-29 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1836, the murder of a young prostitute made headlines in New York City and around the country, inaugurating a sex-and-death sensationalism in news reporting that haunts us today. Patricia Cline Cohen goes behind these first lurid accounts to reconstruct the story of the mysterious victim, Helen Jewett. From her beginnings as a servant girl in Maine, Helen Jewett refashioned herself, using four successive aliases, into a highly paid courtesan. She invented life stories for herself that helped her build a sympathetic clientele among New York City's elite, and she further captivated her customers through her seductive letters, which mixed elements of traditional feminine demureness with sexual boldness. But she was to meet her match--and her nemesis--in a youth called Richard Robinson. He was one of an unprecedented number of young men who flooded into America's burgeoning cities in the 1830s to satisfy the new business society's seemingly infinite need for clerks. The son of an established Connecticut family, he was intense, arrogant, and given to posturing. He became Helen Jewett's lover in a tempestuous affair and ten months later was arrested for her murder. He stood trial in a five-day courtroom drama that ended with his acquittal amid the cheers of hundreds of fellow clerks and other spectators. With no conviction for murder, nor closure of any sort, the case continued to tantalize the public, even though Richard Robinson disappeared from view. Through the Erie Canal, down the Ohio and the Mississippi, and by way of New Orleans, he reached the wilds of Texas and a new life under a new name. Through her meticulous and ingenious research, Patricia Cline Cohen traces his life there and the many twists and turns of the lingering mystery of the murder. Her stunning portrayals of Helen Jewett, Robinson, and their raffish, colorful nineteenth-century world make vivid a frenetic city life and sexual morality whose complexities, contradictions, and concerns resonate with those of our own time.
Author : Thomas Ricks Lindley
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1556229836
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (562 download)
Download or read book Alamo Traces written by Thomas Ricks Lindley and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2003-02-28 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Never wavering in its search for the bedrock of fact, this book is a methodical, piece-by-piece dismantling of what we thought we knew and a convincing speculation about what might have really happened during that courageous fight for independence.
