Lone Star:
by Fehrenback, T. R.
Published by : Macmillan Company (New York) Physical details: 761 p. Biblographical notes; Index. Year: 1968| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| 976.4 Dob Cow people | 976.4 Dri Rise Of The Lone Star | 976.4 Duk 6,000 Miles Of Fence: | 976.4 Feh Lone Star: | 976.4 Fra Bowie's Lost mine | 976.4 Fra Texas | 976.4 Gar The Chisholm trail |
Part I: The 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 --
Part II: Blood and soil: The Texans. --
The Anglo-celts --
The way west --
The filibusters --
The empresarios --
The clash of cultures --
Revolution --
Blood and soil --
Part III: Star light, star bright. --
At the San Jacinto --
Aftermath --
The Republic --
The Lone Star State --
Star light, star bright --
Part IV: The Confederacy and the conquered. --
Secession --
The bonny blue flag --
The cavalry of the West --
The conquered --
The carpetbaggers --
The restoration --
Part V: 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 --
Part VI: The Americans: New dreams for old. --
The stubborn soil --
The people's party --
The Twentieth Century --
The lights of San Antonio --
The Americans.
"Lone Star" traces the fabulous history of Texas from the arrival of the earliest Old American race 40,000 years ago through the agonies of the Spanish and French invasions and they heyday of the cotton, cattle, and oil empires of the 19th and 20th centures to the tragic Kennedy assassination in 1963 and its aftermath.
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