Lone Star : a history of Texas and the Texans
Title:
Lone Star : a history of Texas and the Texans
Author:
Fehrenbach, T. R.
Personal Author:
Edition:
1st Da Capo Press ed.
Publication Information:
[Boulder, Colo.] : Da Capo Press, 2000.
Physical Description:
xvi, 767 pages : maps ; 23 cm
Summary:
Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds."
Language:
English
Contents:
Comanches and the King's Mercies -- The Amerinds -- Coronado and Comanches -- Fleur-de-lis on the Frontier -- The Faith and the Failure: The Missions -- The King's Mercies -- Blood and Soil: The Texans -- The Anglo-Celts -- The Way West -- The Filibusters -- The Empresarios -- The Clash of Cultures -- Revolution -- Blood and Soil -- Star Light, Star Bright -- At the San Jacinto -- Aftermath -- The Republic -- The Lone Star State -- Star Light, Star Bright -- The Confederacy and the Conquered -- Secession -- The Bonny Blue Flag -- The Cavalry of the West -- The Conquered -- The Carpetbaggers -- The Restoration -- Until Day Breaks and Darkness Disappears: The Last Frontier -- Red Niggers, Red Vermin -- The Border Breed -- South of the Border -- The Bloody Trail -- War on the Rio Grande -- The Terrible Years -- Until Day Breaks and Darkness Disappears -- The Last Frontier -- Dark of the Moon -- The Americans: New Dreams for Old -- The Stubborn Soil -- The People's Party -- The Twentieth Century -- The Lights of San Antonio -- Plus Ca Change -- The Americans.
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ISBN:
9780306809422
Format :
Book
