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Influenced by the historical fiction of Sir Walter Scott, by far the best-selling author in the United States before the Civil War, Newell's readers expected as much from their historians as from a novelist. Scott heightened the effect ...
The Annexation of Texas
The era of Anglo-American colonization, while brief, had a great impact on the development of Texas and the United States.
Publication of this book is generously supported by a memorial gift in honor of Mary Frances "Chan" Driscoll, a founding member of the Advisory Council of Texas A&M University Press, by her sons Henry B. Paup '70 and T. Edgar Paup '74.
John Gast's 1872 painting , American Progress , represented the American ideal of Manifest Destiny . It shows an angel named Liberty traveling west with American settlers , stringing a telegraph wire behind them .
Organized chronologically, the text focuses on five main themes: Texas as a "forgotten" province of the Spanish empire that was only protected when some other nation threatened to occupy it; the interpretation of the Texas Revolution as a ...
The cities of Dallas , Waco , Austin , and San Antonio boost the population of the Blackland Prairie region . The upward movement of the tectonic plates helped to push up the central part of Texas . The uplifted part split from the ...
Bringing together the historical and the contemporary, the political and the personal, Texas native Lawrence Wright gives us a colorful, wide-ranging portrait of a state that not only reflects our country as it is, but as it may ...
The first volume in a trilogy follows the lives and adventures of the Mordecai Lewis family from 1816 through the era of the Alamo and Texas Independence under Sam Houston.
Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The 1860 Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2010. Crum, Tom. “Folklorization of the Battle of Pease River.” West Texas Historical Association Year Book 72 (1996): 69-85.