Texas - A History

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.

About the author

Joe Bertram Frantz was a historian and the Prescott Webb Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Product details

• Authors: Joe B. Frantz, Joe Bertram Frantz
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.05.1984
• EAN: 9780393301731
• ISBN: 978-0-393-30173-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 366 g
• Series: States & the Nation
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous