Browser's Book of Texas History

By Steven A. Jent

Book Overview

If you love history and want to amaze your family and colleagues with your prodigious knowledge of Lone Star lore, this book is just what you need.

A Browser's Book of Texas History is a day-by-day collection of more than 500 incident-some famous, some obscure-that have made Texas the most remarkable state in the Union. Even if you're a dedicated historian or an old-time Texan, you're likely to find something surprising, amusing, thought provoking, or just plain odd.

With this book you can start every day of the year with a concise entry from the chronicles of this unique state, which just seems to naturally breed colorful people and bigger-than-life events.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556226985
• ISBN13: 9781556226984
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

History Can Be Fun!

What fun it is to check each morning to see what happened that day in history! Well researched and well written, it's fun for Texans of all ages!

Texas frontier history at its very best!

Steven Jent's A Browser's Book Of Texas History is a compilation of more than 500 incidents Texas history arranged in a day-by-day format. Some of these doings are famous, others obscure, but all have combined to make Texas the most remarkable state in the American Union. A Browser's Book Of Texas History can be read from cover to cover in an afternoon, or one day at a time browsing as we are introduced to larger-than-life events and the colorful personalities responsible for them. A Browser's Book Of Texas History is a "must" for all students of the American frontier in general and Texas history in particular.