Texas a bicentennial history
by Joe B. Frantz
- New York W.W. Norton & Company Inc 1976
- 222 pages
- The State and the Nations series .
Includes Index
Invitation tot he reader -- Preface -- A creature called Texan -- The first indians -- Sailore, soldiers, and pedestrians -- The thorn in the heart of America -- Three girls and a dog named Galveston -- Mexican Texas: Epiloque of the American revolution -- Revolution -- Of myths and a republic -- Struggling statehood -- A tagalong confederate -- More Resurrection than reconstruction -- The circumstance of an unfenced world -- Exit frontier, Enter hogg -- Sometimes progressive, sometimes timid -- Intimations of Maturity -- Texas now -- Suggestions for further reading -- Index
Traces the history and development of Texas and discusses the state and its people today.