Austin, an Illustrated History

By David C. Humphrey

Book Overview

A compelling chronicle, this book captures the spirit of the people with an engaging account of how Austin battled to be the capital of the Lone Star state and details all the exciting events of its recent and ongoing growth.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0897811445
• ISBN13: 9780897811446
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Windsor Pubns
• Length: 375 Pages
• Weight: 3.55 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Terrific history with excellent photos and drawings

If you want to see and read about Austin's history, this is the book for you. The book covers Austin's story from its inception in the late 1830s to the mid-1980s. Overall, I learned how Austin evolved into the city it now is.Having just read Steven Saylor's "A Twist at the End" and visited the O. Henry Museum, I was most interested in Austin's history during the last two decades of the 19th century. Readers wanting to know more about other parts of the city's history will find that the text and graphical content puts each stage of Austin's development into a useful perspective.I learned...and thoroughly enjoyed the process.