Texas: A History

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.

• | Author: Joe B. Frantz
• | Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• | Publication Date: May 01, 1984
• | Number of Pages: 256 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0393301737
• | ISBN-13: 9780393301731