Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick (Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Paperback)) - Softcover

Marks, Paula Mitchell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1585440817 ISBN 13: 9781585440818

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press, 2000

Synopsis

From Sam Maverick’s arrival in Texas to his death in 1870, he participated in many of the most momentous events of the state’s early history, including the Siege of Bexar and the defense of the Alamo. He accumulated a fabled land empire and inspired the term “maverick” to denote an unbranded calf or an independent person. Sam’s wife, Mary—by some accounts the first AngloAmerican woman to settle in San Antonio—lived through the stresses and tragedies of pioneer family life, chronicling them with emotional intensity and immediacy of detail. Together Sam and Mary founded a Texas family dynasty and contributed immeasurably to the cultural development of San Antonio.

Using a profusion of letters, journals, and business materials as well as Mary Maverick’s published Memoirs, the author culls the dramatic story of these two Texas forebears, whose public and private lives were played out against the backdrop of the Mexican nation, the Republic, and early statehood.

About this title

About the Author:

Paula Mitchell Marks is assistant professor in the New College Program at St. Edwards University in Austin. She is the author of several history articles and has recently completed a second book of frontier history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 1585440817
• ISBN 13: 9781585440818
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 344