Texas: A History (States & the Nation) - Softcover

Frantz, Joe Bertram

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9780393301731: Texas: A History (States & the Nation)
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ISBN 10: 0393301737 ISBN 13: 9780393301731
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1984

Synopsis

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and bragging, right?

Right. And also wrong, says the author of this book, Joe B. Frantz.

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.

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About the Authors

Joe Bertram Frantz was a historian and the Prescott Webb Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is a national association that preserves and interprets state and local history.

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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1984
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0393301737
ISBN 13 
9780393301731
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
256
Rating
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