[PDF] A Description Of Texas eBook

Author : Oran Milo Roberts
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 12,8 MB
Release : 2024-02-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3368856049

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Author : Kenneth Wayne Howell
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1574412590

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On February 1, 1861, delegates at the Texas Secession Convention elected to leave the Union. The people of Texas supported the actions of the convention in a statewide referendum, paving the way for the state to secede and to officially become the seventh state in the Confederacy. Soon the Texans found themselves engaged in a bloody and prolonged civil war against their northern brethren. During the curse of this war, the lives of thousands of Texans, both young and old, were changed forever. This new anthology, edited by Kenneth W. Howell, incorporates the latest scholarly research on how Texans experienced the war. Eighteen contributors take us from the battlefront to the home front, ranging from inside the walls of a Confederate prison to inside the homes of women and children left to fend for themselves while their husbands and fathers were away on distant battlefields, and from the halls of the governor’s mansion to the halls of the county commissioner’s court in Colorado County. Also explored are well-known battles that took place in or near Texas, such as the Battle of Galveston, the Battle of Nueces, the Battle of Sabine Pass, and the Red River Campaign. Finally, the social and cultural aspects of the war receive new analysis, including the experiences of women, African Americans, Union prisoners of war, and noncombatants.

Author : Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher :
Page : 1176 pages
File Size : 41,90 MB
Release : 1952
Category : Texas
ISBN :

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Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292759517

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The 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 of 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. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 25,74 MB
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1497609704

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The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.

Author : Ralph A. Wooster
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 46,51 MB
Release : 2014-01-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1625110170

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Written by one of the deans of Texas history, Civil War Texas provides an authoritative, comprehensive description of Texas during the Civil War as well as a guide for those who wish to visit sites in Texas associated with the war. In one compact volume, the reader or tourist is led on an exciting historical journey through Civil War Texas. Because most of the great battles of the Civil War were fought east of the Mississippi River, it is often forgotten that Texas made major contributions to the war effort in terms of men and supplies. Over 70,000 Texans served in the Confederate army during the war and fought in almost every major battle. Ordnance works, shops, and depots were established for the manufacture and repair of weapons of war, and Texas cotton shipped through Mexico was exchanged for weapons and ammunition. The state itself was the target of the Union army and navy. Galveston, the principal seaport, was occupied by Federal forces for three months and blockaded by the Union navy for four years. Brownsville, Port Lavaca, and Indianola were captured, and Sabine Pass, Corpus Christi, and Laredo were all under enemy attack. A major Federal attempt to invade East Texas by way of Louisiana was stopped only a few miles from the Texas border. The Civil War had significant impact upon life within the state. The naval blockade created shortages requiring Texans to find substitutes for various commodities such as coffee, salt, ink, pins, and needles. The war affected Texas women, many of whom were now required to operate farms and plantations in the absence of their soldier husbands. As the author points out in the narrative, not all Texans supported the Confederacy. Many Texans, especially in the Hill Country and North Texas, opposed secession and attempted either to remain neutral or work for a Union victory. Over two thousand Texans, led by future governor Edmund J. Davis, joined the Union army. In this carefully researched work, Ralph A. Wooster describes Texas's role in the war. He also notes the location of historical markers, statues, monuments, battle sites, buildings, and museums in Texas which may be visited by those interested in learning more about the war. Photographs, maps, chronology, end notes, and bibliography provide additional information on Civil War Texas.

Author : O. M. Roberts
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 31,99 MB
Release : 2018-01-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780428355531

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Excerpt from A Description of Texas, Its Advantages and Resources: With Some Account of Their Development, Past, Present and Future At that early day there was much - much in the character and habits of the people of all classes and occupations; much in the varied characteristics of the country, then seen al most in a state of Nature, being occupied only by villages and farms, small and far between each other, - much in the varied productions to the extent then exhibited, - much in the history and institutions of the country to arrest the attention and excite the investigations of an inquiring mind. The lawyers with whom I associated were, for the most part, men of great intellectual vigor, and Of distinctive characters, no two Of them being alike in their leading attributes. SO with other citizens, a strong individuality and a general intelligence in common sense matters characterized them. Men of no class seemed to be built on any common pattern in anything, but each stood out for himself, a unit in the association of people here thrown together from different localities. There were men who had settled in the country as far back as 1822, and had passed through and participated in all Of the revolutions that had transpired, some Of them as Officers in the army, and others as officers In civil life. Most Of them were familiar with the stirring events of the past, and had leisure and will ingness to freely communicate them. The old settlers knew each other Often for hundreds of miles distant. Thus the Op portunity was furnished to learn much Of the past history, the institutions and the men of Texas. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.