| Texas: A History Contributor(s): Frantz, Joe B. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0393301737 ISBN-13: 9780393301731 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $21.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 1984 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - Southwest (az, Nm, Ok, Tx) |
| Dewey: 976.4 |
| LCCN: 83025466 |
| Series: States & the Nation |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.72 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Texas |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and hyperactive Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to Speaker Sam Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences. |