Texas: A History

by Joe Bertram Frantz, American Association for State and Local History (Editor)

Overview

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and bragging, right?

Right. And also wrong, says the author of this book, Joe B. Frantz.

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780393348699
Publisher:	Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Publication date:	12/20/2013
Series:	States and the Nation
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	256
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Joe Bertram Frantz was a historian and the Prescott Webb Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.
The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is a national association that preserves and interprets state and local history.