A Lone Star Reader

by Chuck Swanlund, Kirk Bane, Scott Sosebee

Overview

A Lone Star Reader is a Texas state history anthology designed for students and general readers alike. In its pages, readers will find the work of leading academics and lay historians. They will encounter a wide variety of writing styles and a broad range of views. The reader will find that every selection is approachable, engaging, informative, and representative of the best in Texas scholarship.

The NEW second edition of A Lone Star Reader by Kirk Bane, Charles Swanlund, and Scott Sosebee:

• Includes introductions of the topic and author for each selected article.
• Integrates work by new co-author Dr. Sosebee - Executive Director of the East Texas Historical Association.
• Features new contributions from Lone Star historians Gregory W. Ball, Judy Gentry, Daniel Hickerson, Ken Howell, Diana Compton Fisher, Bradley Folsom, Brandon Franke, Rick Koster, James Smallwood, Leland Turner, and Don Worcester.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781465277442
Publisher:	Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company
Publication date:	08/13/2015
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	428
Product dimensions:	7.50(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction and Acknowledgments

About the Editors

Article 1 Hasinai–European Interaction, 1694–1715

Daniel A. Hickerson

Article 2 La Salle’s Grand Dream

James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner

Article 3 Trinidad de Salcedo: A Forgotten Villa in Colonial Texas, 1806–1813

Bradley Folsom

Article 4 Los Tejanos: Mexican Texans in the Revolution

Paul D. Lack

Article 5 Determined Valor and Desperate Courage

Stephen L. Hardin

Article 6 Once Upon a Time in Matagorda: The Death of Samuel Rhoads Fisher

Diana Compton Fisher

Article 7 A Great Captain and a New Weapon

Charles M. Robinson, III

Article 8 Family, Religion, and Music: “The Strength to Endure”

Randolph B. Campbell

Article 9 Waul’s Texas Legion: Towards Vicksburg

Brandon Franke

Article 10 Confederates and Cotton in East Texas

Judy Gentry

Article 11 The Prolonged War: Texans Struggle to Win the Civil War During Reconstruction

Kenneth W. Howell

Article 12 William R. Shafter: Commanding Black Troops in West Texas

Paul H. Carlson

Article 13 Conquered

David La Vere

Article 14 The Trail Towns

Don Worcester

Article 15 A Wild Time in the Old Town Tonight, 1875–1879

Ty Cashion

Article 16 Annie Black and the Soiled Doves of San Angelo

Suzanne Campbell

Article 17 The Livestock Lobby: Murdo Mackenzie, Railroad Reform, Cattlemen’s Associations, and Progressive Legislation

Leland Turner

Article 18 The Great Storm

Gary Cartwright

Article 19 The Western Front, October 13–30, 1918

Gregory W. Ball

Article 20 Yet Another Look at the Fergusons of Texas

Jane Bock Guzman

Article 21 Life in the Shadows of Oil Derricks

Ilta S. Hall

Article 22 1920–1929: The Texas League during the Golden Age of Sports

Bill O’Neal

Article 23 Red Burton and the Klan

Ben Procter

Article 24 Dashed Hopes and Gained Opportunities: Mexican American Educational Experiences in Lubbock, Texas, from the 1920s through the 1960s

Scott Sosebee

Article 25 Newspapers and the 1936 Texas Centennial

Patrick Cox

Article 26 Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Jewish Question and the Nazi Holocaust

James Smallwood

Article 27 Sam Rayburn

D. Clayton Brown

Article 28 Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century

Theodore M. Lawe

Article 29 Disney Meets Davy

Mark Derr

Article 30 “We Want Aggies, Not Maggies”: James Earl Rudder and the Coeducation of Texas A&M University

Christopher Bean

Article 31 Progressive Country and the Austin Spirit

Rick Koster

Article 32 Women in Texas

Cary D. Wintz