Texas: A History

By Joe Bertram Frantz

Book Overview

This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and hyperactive Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to Speaker Sam Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393301737
• ISBN13: 9780393301731
• Release Date: May 1984
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"