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Sacred Memories - The Civil War Monument Movement In Texas

by Kelly Mcmichael

13,18€ + 10% CARD

 Presents the story of Civil War monuments in Texas. This book explores Texans' motivations for erecting Civil War memorials, which the author views as attempts during a period of turmoil and uncertainty - to preserve the memory of the Confederate dead.
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Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca - The 'Great Pedestrian' Of North And South America

by Donald E Chipman

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 Examines the two great 'journeys' of Cabeza de Vacahis. His travels are amazing in themselves, but during them he transformed from a proud Spanish don to lay advocate of Indian rights on both American continents. That journey is as remarkable as his travels.
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Galveston - A History And A Guide

by David Mccomb

13,18€ + 10% CARD

 This history of Galveston provides on overview of the city's past and provides readers, researchers, and tourists with information about today's historical points of interest.
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Fort Concho - A History And A Guide

by James T. Matthews

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 In the fall of 1867 the United States Army established a permanent camp on the plateau where the North and Middle Concho rivers join. The establishment of Fort Concho provided a vital link in the line of frontier defense and led to the development of the town of San Angelo across the North Concho River. This book presents a history of Fort concho.
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Austin - A History Of The Capital City

by David C. Humphrey

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 <DIV>State capital and home of the University of Texas, Austin is the one city that belongs to all Texans. This finely written book, illustrated with historic photographs, tells the story of Austin’s transformation from an "Indian haunted" frontier village into a residential mecca and high-tech hot spot.<br><br>Called by Sam Houston at its founding the "most unfortunate site upon earth for the seat of government," the infant community struggled for three decades against political enemies and competing towns before winning recognition as the permanent capital. The founding of the University of Texas turned the seat of politics into the seat of education, but Austin’s nineteenth-century dreams of becoming a river port and a factory town came to naught.<br><br>A slave city in a slave state, Austin cast its lot with the Confederacy. Retaining a frontier flavor into the 1890s, post-Civil War Austin became the headquarters of the Texas gambling fraternity and a magnet for cowmen seeking "booze and women of the night."<br><br>Turning the nineteenth-century frontier town into an appealing twentieth-century residential community taxed the energies of civic leaders for several decades. Virtually parkless and with no paved streets in 1900, Austin by the 1940s boasted tree-lined boulevards, a cornucopia of parks and pools, and a leisurely lifestyle. But for African American residents these were years of oppressive segregation. Mexicans encountered similar treatment as Austin became a tri-ethnic community during the 1920s and 1930s.<br><br>Segregation gradually gave way in a divisive but nonviolent struggle. While adjusting to this, Austin experienced eye-popping expansion. Fearful that Austin would become "another Houston," residents sought to preserve the lifestyle that had made the capital city such an attractive place to live.</div>
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Busy Week In Texas - Ulysses S. Grant'S 1880 Visit To The Lone Star State

by Edward T. Cotham

21,20€ + 10% CARD

 In the spring of 1880, Ulysses S. Grant, former general-in-chief and two-term president of the United States, stepped ashore at Galveston and began what turned out to be a seven-day whirlwind visit to Texas. This book tells the story of Grant's busy week in Texas, allowing the reader to see Texas the way Grant experienced it.
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Texas And World War I

by Gregory W. Ball

26,50€ + 10% CARD

 On November 11, 1918, what was then called "the Great War" ended. The consequences of four years of warfare in Europe reverberated throughout the world, leaving few places untouched. Even though it was far from the scenes of conflict, Texas was forever changed, as historian Gregory W. Ball details in Texas and World War I.
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San Antonio - A Tricentennial History

by Char Miller

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 Presents a general history of San Antonio. Its past is complex and ranges across 300 years, from its origins as a tiny Spanish frontier town to its contemporary status as an American mega-city. This study weaves together the environmental, social, political, and cultural pressures that have shaped life in the city over the last three centuries.
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Civil War Texas

by Ralph A. Wooster

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 Describes Texas's role in the civil war and notes the location of historical markers, statues, monuments, battle sites, buildings, and museums in Texas that may be visited by those interested in learning more about the war.
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Remember Goliad! - A History Of La Bahia

by Craig H. Roell

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 <DIV>When Sam Houston''s revolutionary soldiers won the Battle of San Jacinto and secured independence for Texas, their battle cry was "Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad!" Everyone knows about the Alamo, but far fewer know about the stirring events at Goliad. <br><br>Craig Roell''s lively new study of Goliad brings to life this most important Texas community. <br><br>Though its population has never exceeded two thousand, Goliad has been an important site of Texas history since Spanish colonial days. It is the largest town in the county of the same name, which was one of the original counties of Texas created in 1836 and was named for the vast territory that was governed as the municipality of Goliad under the Republic of Mexico.<br><br>Goliad offers one of the most complete examples of early Texas courthouse squares, and has been listed as a historic preservation district on the National Register. But the sites that forever etched this sleepy Texas town into historical consciousness are those made infamous by two of the most controversial episodes of the entire Texas Revolution—the Fannin Battleground at nearby Coleto Creek, and Nuestra Señora de Loreto (popularly called Presidio La Bahía), site of the Goliad Massacre on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. <br><br>This book tells the sad tale of James Fannin and his men who fought the Mexican forces, surrendered with the understanding that they would be treated as prisoners of war, and then under orders from Santa Anna were massacred. Like the men who died for Texas independence at the Alamo, the nearly 350 men who died at Goliad became a rallying cry. Both tragic stories became part of the air Texans breathe, but the same process that elevated Crockett, Bowie, Travis, and their Alamo comrades to heroic proportions has clouded Fannin in mystery and shadow.<br><br>In <i>Remember Goliad!,</i> Craig Roell tells the history of the region and the famous battle there with clarity and precision. This exciting story is handsomely illustrated in a popular edition that will be of interest to scholars, students, and teachers.</div>
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History Of The French Legation In Texas

by Kenneth Hafertepe

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 This readable and thoroughly documented volume relates the fascinating story of the French Legation in Austin. The oldest house in the city, it was built in 1840 -- 1841 as the residence of the French charge d'affaires to the fledgling Republic of Texas.
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Mckinney Falls - The Ranch Home Of Thomas F. Mckinney, Pioneer Texas Entrepreneur

by Margaret Swett Henson

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 This history tells the life story of an influential frontiersman and entrepreneur.
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Washington On The Brazos - Cradle Of The Texas Republic

by Richard B. Mccaslin

17,21€ + 10% CARD

 Historian Richard B. McCaslin recovers the history of an iconic Texas town. The story of the Texas Republic begins and ends at Washington, but the town's history extends much further.
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Old Red - Pioneering Medical Education In Texas

by Heather Green Wooten

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 <DIV><p>Tucked away in a corner of the University of Texas Medical Branch campus stands a majestic relic of an era long past. Constructed of red pressed brick, sandstone, and ruddy Texas granite, the Ashbel Smith Building, fondly known as Old Red, represents a fascinating page in Galveston and Texas history. It has been more than a century since Old Red welcomed the first group of visionary faculty and students inside its halls. For decades, the medical school building existed at the heart of UTMB campus life, even through periods of dramatic growth and change. In time, however, the building lost much of its original function to larger, more contemporary facilities. Today, as the oldest medical school building west of the Mississippi River, the intricately ornate Old Red sits in sharp contrast to its sleeker neighbors. </p><p><I>Old Red: Pioneering Medical Education in Texas </I>examines the life and legacy of the Ashbel Smith Building from its beginnings through modern-day efforts to preserve it. Chapters explore the nascence of medical education in Texas; the supreme talent and genius of Old Red architect, Nicholas J. Clayton; and the lives of faculty and students as they labored and learned in the midst of budget crises, classroom and fraternity antics, death-rendering storms, and threats of closure. The education of the state’s first professional female and minority physicians and the nationally acclaimed work of physician-scientists and researchers are also highlighted. Most of all, the reader is invited to step inside Old Red and mingle with ghosts of the past—to ascend the magnificent cedar staircase, wander the long, paneled hallways, and take a seat in the tiered amphitheater as pigeons fly in and out of windows overhead. </p></div>
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Battle Of The Alamo

by Ben H. Procter

7,94€ + 10% CARD

 <DIV><p>The dramatic story of one of the most famous events in Texas history is told by Ben H. Procter. Procter describes in colorful detail the background, character, and motives of the prominent figures at the Alamo—Bowie, Travis, and Crockett—and the course and outcome of the battle itself. This concise and engaging account of a turning point in Texas history will appeal to students, teachers, historians, and general readers alike.</p></DIV>
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Battle Of San Jacinto

by James W. Pohl

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 <DIV><p>Part of the inscription on the base of the San Jacinto Monument reads: "Measured by its results, San Jacinto was one of the decisive battles of the world." James W. Pohl, a noted military historian, tells the exciting story of the pivotal battle of the Texas Revolution.</p></DIV>
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Matamoros And The Texas Revolution

by Craig H. Roell

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 <DIV><p>The traditional story of the Texas Revolution remembers the Alamo and Goliad but has forgotten Matamoros, the strategic Mexican port city on the turbulent lower Rio Grande. In this provocative book, Craig Roell restores the centrality of Matamoros by showing the genuine economic, geographic, social, and military value of the city to Mexican and Texas history. </p><p>Given that Matamoros served the Mexican states of Tamaulipas, Coahuila and Texas, Nuevo León, San Luis Potosi, Zacatecas, Chihuahua, and Durango, the city’s strategic location and considerable trade revenues were crucial. Roell provides a refreshing reinterpretation of the revolutionary conflict in Texas from a Mexican point of view, essentially turning the traditional story on its head. Readers will learn how Matamoros figured in the Mexican government''s grand designs not only for national prosperity, but also to preserve Texas from threatened American encroachment. Ironically, Matamoros became closely linked to the United States through trade, and foreign intriguers who sought to detach Texas from Mexico found a home in the city. </p><p>Roell’s account culminates in the controversial Texan Matamoros expedition, which was composed mostly of American volunteers and paralyzed the Texas provisional government, divided military leaders, and helped lead to the tragic defeats at the Alamo, San Patricio, Agua Dulce Creek, Refugio, and Coleto (Goliad). Indeed, Sam Houston denounced the expedition as "the author of all our misfortunes." In stark contrast, the brilliant and triumphant Matamoros campaign of Mexican General José de Urrea united his countrymen, defeated these revolutionaries, and occupied the coastal plain from Matamoros to Brazoria. Urrea''s victory ensured that Matamoros would remain a part of Mexico, but Matamorenses also fought to preserve their own freedom from the centralizing policies of Mexican President Santa Anna, showing the streak of independence that characterizes Mexico''s northern borderlands to this day. </p></div>
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Under The Double Eagle - Under The Double Eagle: Citizen Employees Of The U.S. Army On The Texas Frontier, 1846-1899

by Thomas Ty Smith

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 In the first detailed study of its kind, Col. (Ret.) Thomas T. 'Ty' Smith, known for his extensive research and writing on the US Army in Texas, presents an in-depth examination of the civilian employees of the US Army in the nineteenth century.
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Beasley'S Vaqueros - The Memoirs, Art, And Poems Of Ricardo M. Beasley

by Ron C. Tyler

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 Presents the life and work of South Texas artist Ricardo Beasley. Between roughly 1940 and 1980, Beasley produced dozens of pen-and-ink drawings of working vaqueros, the Tejano cowboys of South Texas. His vibrant, action-packed scenes capture the dangers as well as the joys of working with cattle, horses, and an often unforgiving landscape.
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Celtic Prayers For The Rhythm Of Each Day

by Ray Simpson

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Inside The Texas Revolution - The Enigmatic Memoir Of Herman Ehrenberg

by James C. Kearney

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 Herman Ehrenberg wrote the longest, most complete, and most vivid memoir of any soldier in the Texan revolutionary army. Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg is a product of the translation skills of the late Louis E. Brister with the assistance of James C. Kearney, both noted specialists on Germans in Texas.
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The Old Army In Texas - A Research Guide To The U.S. Army In Nineteenth Century Texas

by Thomas Ty Smith

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 A classic work in Texas military, The Old Army in Texas is now available in paperback with a new foreword by Robert Wooster. US Army officer and historian Thomas 'Ty' Smith presents a comprehensive and authoritative single-source reference for the activities of the regular army in the Lone Star State during the nineteenth century.
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Tejano Patriot - The Revolutionary Life Of Jose Francisco Ruiz, 1783-1840

by Art Martinez De Vara

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 Presents the first full-length biography of Jose Francisco Ruiz, an important figure in Texas history. Ruiz had a notable career as a military leader, diplomat, revolutionary, educator, attorney, arms dealer, author, ethnographer, politician, Indian agent, Texas ranger, city attorney, and Texas senator.
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Texas Almanac 2020-2021

32,13€

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 The 70th edition in this long-running reference guide is filled to the brim with maps, statistics, full-color photographs, and fascinating information. You'll buy a piece of Texas history in every Texas Almanac in your collection.
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