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Big wonderful thing : a history of Texas / Stephen Harrigan.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780292759510
- ISBN: 0292759517
- Physical Description: 925 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
| General Note: | "The Texas bookshelf." |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 836-890) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Castaways -- Golden cities -- Woe to us -- The lady in blue -- Voyageurs -- God's work -- Filibusters -- God speed ye -- The Texas dream -- The consequence of failure -- Come and take it -- The Alamo is ours! -- Vengeance -- Aftermath -- Spartan spirit -- "Savage ware fare" -- The broken flagpole -- Los diablos tejanos -- The crisis of the crisis -- Robbers and lawyers -- Warriors and refugees -- I will never do it -- With throbbing hearts -- Reconstructed -- The end of Comancheria -- Fenced in -- Turn Texas loose -- Bipedal brutes -- Scorpions and horny toads -- A thousand little devils -- Gushers -- Light coming on the plains -- Sediciosos -- Pa -- War at home and abroad -- The blacksnake whip -- Music and mayhem -- The boy from the hill country -- Centennial -- Passionate ones -- Texans at war again -- The show of shows -- A new Texas -- Ye shall know the truth -- The lord takes a sleeping pill -- Giant -- A gamblin' man -- Welcome Mr. Kennedy -- El degüello reprise -- The voice of God -- The tower -- Vigil on the pedernales -- A side to belong to -- Don't be so self-righteous -- Baptism of fire -- Texans versus Texans -- Epilogue. Davy Crockett's fairy palace. |
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| Subject: | Texas > History. Texas. |
| Genre: | History. |
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| 520 | . | ‡aThe story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. | |
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