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Texas History
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By William H. (William Harris) Wharton
Public Domain Books
Released: 2005-01-01
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By T.R. Fehrenbach
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Released: 2000-04-04
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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." |
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By Randolph B. Campbell
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Gone to Texas engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, the book offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and always in a struggle with the land, created a history and an idea of Texas.
Striking a balance between revisionist and traditional approaches to history, author Randolph B. Campbell tells the stories of the colorful individuals and events that shaped the history of Texas, giving equal treatment to the lives of men like Sam Houston and to women and minorities in Texas's history. He addresses the fact that Texas is widely regarded as a special state-a place with a story that appeals to millions of people, many of whom have never even been there-and examines what created this idea of Texan distinctiveness. Organized chronologically, the text focuses on five main themes: Texas as a "forgotten" province of the Spanish empire that was only protected when some other nation threatened to occupy it; the interpretation of the Texas Revolution as a clash between two disparate cultures rather than as a deliberate, pre-conceived plan by the U.S. to steal the province from Mexico; the identification of Texas as a Southern rather than Western state in terms of its demographic, cultural, economic, and political influences and development; Texas's distinction not as a "unique" state but rather as the exaggerated embodiment of traditional American ideals and emotions such as individualism, personal liberty, and violence; and the two-hundred-year-old history of Texas as a destination for immigrants seeking new opportunities.
Vividly capturing the adventure and conflict of this state's legendary past, Gone to Texas is ideal for undergraduate courses in Texas history. |
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By Jefferson Morgenthaler
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Released: 2011-02-17
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Great Texas Books offers low-cost downloads of Texas histories, memoirs, biographies, journals, and reports in e-book formats. Our editions are superior to similar texts available elsewhere because we meticulously convert, proof, edit, and design each book. Our books are not mere facsimiles of the original text; they are entirely new editions designed for the 21st century reader of e-books.
The Texas Hill Country is the sweet spot of Texas. Rolling hills covered with oak and cedar enclose flat, green bottoms coursed by prolific spring-fed creeks and rivers. Deer, wild turkey and fox inhabit the forests and venture into the fields at dusk. Four distinct but moderate seasons reinforce the cycles of life.
Geographically, the Hill Country is the rippling eastern portion of the Edwards Plateau. It is bordered to the west by less convoluted stretches of the plateau, to the south by the Balcones Escarpment, and to the north by rolling plains and prairies that extend to the base of the Llano Estacado. The Colorado River, curving from the west to the south and draining to the Gulf, is a reasonable but inexact definition of the eastern boundary.
The Hill Country is not especially high: its maximum elevation is around fifteen hundred feet above the sea and much of it lies below one thousand feet. Like the remainder of the Edwards Plateau, the Hill Country has a thin layer of soil over Comanchean limestone. This same limestone underpins the High Plains of Texas; despite the ripples in the Hill Country, the plateau is considered the southernmost unit of the Great Plains.
Cotton and other crops have been raised in the Hill Country, but the scant local soil lends itself more to grazing. Cattle do well where soils are deepest and forage is greatest. Sheep are the livestock of choice as soils and flora thin; goats are the best alternative as hillsides become rockier and grasses turn into browse.
It may be limestone that most characterizes the Hill Country. Subsurface aquifers flow through limestone, making the waters exceptionally hard. Houses are built of limestone blocks. Long limestone fences divide fields. They’ve been quarrying limestone out of the face of the Balcones Escarpment for more than a century and, while the resulting scars are far from attractive, they’ve barely made a dent in the supply of stone. Limestone makes the spring-fed creeks and rivers of the Hill Country run clear and cool. The most beautiful streams—the Guadalupe River and Cibolo Creek, for example—are lined with towering cypress trees that thrust immense roots into the cool current.
During the decades of Spanish Texas, Mexican Texas and the Republic of Texas, the Hill Country was unsettled; it was too remote, and too thoroughly in control of Lipan Apaches, and later Peneteka Comanches. The Spanish attempted to establish the Presidio de San Luis de las Amarillas and the Mission Santa Cruz de San Saba (near today’s Menard) in 1757, but the mission was abandoned within two years and the presidio within fifteen. Between that time and the mid-nineteenth century, only bold explorers and military expeditions penetrated north of the Balcones Escarpment.
The first significant influx of settlers into the Hill Country began in 1845, when German immigrants founded the town of New Braunfels, then moved north to establish Fredericksburg. These immigrants arrived under the auspices of a quasi-charitable organization known as the Adelsverein. Even today it is not uncommon to come across someone in the Hill Country whose ancestors arrived in Texas aboard ships chartered in Germany by the Adelsverein. The impact of organized German colonization has lingered in the Hill Country for more than 150 years. |
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By H.W. Brands
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Released: 2005-02-08
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In Lone Star Nation, Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands demythologizes Texas’s journey to statehood and restores the genuinely heroic spirit to a pivotal chapter in American history.
From Stephen Austin, Texas’s reluctant founder, to the alcoholic Sam Houston, who came to lead the Texas army in its hour of crisis and glory, to President Andrew Jackson, whose expansionist aspirations loomed large in the background, here is the story of Texas and the outsize figures who shaped its turbulent history. Beginning with its early colonization in the 1820s and taking in the shocking massacres of Texas loyalists at the Alamo and Goliad, its rough-and-tumble years as a land overrun by the Comanches, and its day of liberation as an upstart republic, Brands’ lively history draws on contemporary accounts, diaries, and letters to animate a diverse cast of characters whose adventures, exploits, and ambitions live on in the very fabric of our nation. |
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By Mary Dodson Wade
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Who were the European explorers and settlers of Texas and why did they come to Texas? How did Mexico's independence from Spain affect the development of Texas? What events led to the creation of the Republic of Texas and Texas's annexation to the United States? Find these answers along with all kinds of fascinating, historical facts that tell the story of the state of Texas. In this book, you'll find information about the first American settlers in Texas and what drove them to declare their independence from Mexico. You will learn about Texas's role in the Mexican War and the Civil War. And, you'll learn how cowboys and oil wells came to shape the economy and image of the Lone Star state. |
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By Scott Zesch
St. Martin's Griffin
Released: 2005-12-27
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On New Year's Day in 1870, ten-year-old Adolph Korn was kidnapped by an Apache raiding party. Traded to Comaches, he thrived in the rough, nomadic existence, quickly becoming one of the tribe's fiercest warriors. Forcibly returned to his parents after three years, Korn never adjusted to life in white society. He spent his last years in a cave, all but forgotten by his family.
That is, until Scott Zesch stumbled over his own great-great-great uncle's grave. Determined to understand how such a "good boy" could have become Indianized so completely, Zesch travels across the west, digging through archives, speaking with Comanche elders, and tracking eight other child captives from the region with hauntingly similar experiences. With a historians rigor and a novelists eye, Zesch paints a vivid portrait of life on the Texas frontier, offering a rare account of captivity.
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By Archie P. McDonald
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Texas "a whole other country"-a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State as elsewhere-is familiar to native Texans and those adopted sons and daughters who "got here just as quickly as they could." Texas is as varied as East Texas timberland, hundreds of miles of seashore, prairies of the Central and High Plains, and the dry desert of far West Texas. When traveling abroad and asked, "Where are you from?" residents of forty-nine of the United States usually respond, "the USA." Nearly every citizen of the Lone Star State will answer "Texas!" The world encourages such chauvinism. Mass media celebrates and exploits Texas and Texans in television and motion pictures about the Alamo, Texas Rangers, the oil industry, and athletics, to name only a few genre. Texans' pride in their distinctiveness increases when their state is paraded-or satired-and they consciously "pass it on" to succeeding generations. But what does it mean to be a Texan? How did Texas come to be as it is? Texas: A Compact History provides answers to such questions about Texans and Texas. It tells the story of Texas history and provides thoughtful interpretations about the state's development, all with the general reader in mind-in a brief, easily read narrative. ARCHIE P. McDONALD is the author of numerous books dealing with various aspects of Texas history, including Back Then: Simple Pleasures and Everyday Heroes (State House Press, 2005) |
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By John Edward Weems
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By: John Edward Weems Illustrated by: Tom Jones Texas from pre-history, when it lay uninhabited and half-submerged, through the arrival of the first inhabitants and on to the space age. Special emphasis on the Texas Revolution. Fully illustrated. |
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By Stephen L. Hardin
University of Texas Press
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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. |
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