Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas

Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas
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Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : IND:30000112233667
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Synopsis Reminiscences of Fifty Years in Texas by : John Joseph Linn

Recollections of Early Texas

Recollections of Early Texas
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Publisher : Univ of TX + ORM
Total Pages : 325
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ISBN-10 : 9780292749375
ISBN-13 : 0292749376
Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Recollections of Early Texas by : John Holmes Jenkins

“[A] firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it . . . Invaluable . . . Well documented.” —Library Journal As a teenager in the 1950s, John Holmes Jenkins set to work on collecting and editing his great-great-grandfather’s writings about his experiences on the Texas frontier. John Holland Jenkins joined General Sam Houston’s army at age thirteen after losing his stepfather at the Alamo. In addition to fighting the Mexicans, he faced peril from Indian warriors as well as the everyday difficulties of pioneer life. His reports on the events of the time were included in newspapers with very small readerships—and, his descendant would discover, were sometimes used word-for-word in respected history textbooks without any credit given to the source. This volume includes these memoirs of the Texas Republic and early statehood, along with illustrations, notes, biographical sketches, a bibliography, and an index. “Fascinating . . . A commendable job.” —The New York Times “[These reminiscences] light up for whoever will read the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas.” —J. Frank Dobie, from the foreword

Recollections of a Tejano Life

Recollections of a Tejano Life
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Publisher : University of Texas Press
Total Pages : 203
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ISBN-10 : 9780292748651
ISBN-13 : 0292748655
Rating : 4/5 (51 Downloads)

Synopsis Recollections of a Tejano Life by : Antonio Menchaca

San Antonio native, military veteran, merchant, and mayor pro tem José Antonio Menchaca (1800–1879) was one of only a few Tejano leaders to leave behind an extensive manuscript of recollections. Portions of the document were published in 1907, followed by a “corrected” edition in 1937, but the complete work could not be published without painstaking reconstruction. At last available in its entirety, Menchaca’s book of reminiscences captures the social life, people, and events that shaped the history of Texas’s tumultuous transformation during his lifetime. Highlighting not only Menchaca’s acclaimed military service but also his vigorous defense of Tejanos’ rights, dignity, and heritage, Recollections of a Tejano Life charts a remarkable legacy while incorporating scholarly commentary to separate fact from fiction. Revealing how Tejanos perceived themselves and the revolutionary events that defined them, this wonderfully edited volume presents Menchaca’s remembrances of such diverse figures as Antonio López de Santa Anna, Jim Bowie, Davy Crockett, Sam Houston, General Adrián Woll, Comanche chief “Casamiro,” and Texas Ranger Jack Hays. Menchaca and his fellow Tejanos were actively engaged in local struggles as Mexico won her independence from Spain; later many joined the fight to establish the Republic of Texas, only to see it annexed to the United States nine years after the Battle of San Jacinto. This first-person account corrects important misconceptions and brings previously unspoken truths vividly to life.

Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel

Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel
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Total Pages : 392
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ISBN-10 : UCSC:32106001272894
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Rating : 4/5 (94 Downloads)

Synopsis Reminiscences of Friedrich Froebel by : Bertha Maria freifrau von Marenholtz-Bülow

Guillaume de Greef

Guillaume de Greef
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Total Pages : 642
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ISBN-10 : STANFORD:36105211458596
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Rating : 4/5 (96 Downloads)

Synopsis Guillaume de Greef by : Dorothy Wolff Douglas

We Pointed Them North

We Pointed Them North
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Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780806186801
ISBN-13 : 0806186801
Rating : 4/5 (01 Downloads)

Synopsis We Pointed Them North by : E.C. "Teddy Blue" Abbott

E. C. Abbott was a cowboy in the great days of the 1870's and 1880's. He came up the trail to Montana from Texas with the long-horned herds which were to stock the northern ranges; he punched cows in Montana when there wasn't a fence in the territory; and he married a daughter of Granville Stuart, the famous early-day stockman and Montana pioneer. For more than fifty years he was known to cowmen from Texas to Alberta as "Teddy Blue." This is his story, as told to Helena Huntington Smith, who says that the book is "all Teddy Blue. My part was to keep out of the way and not mess it up by being literary.... Because the cowboy flourished in the middle of the Victorian age, which is certainly a funny paradox, no realistic picture of him was ever drawn in his own day. Here is a self-portrait by a cowboy which is full and honest." And Teddy Blue himself says, "Other old-timers have told all about stampedes and swimming rivers and what a terrible time we had, but they never put in any of the fun, and fun was at least half of it." So here it is—the cowboy classic, with the "terrible" times and the "fun" which have entertained readers everywhere. First published in 1939, We Pointed Them North has been brought back into print by the University of Oklahoma Press in completely new format, with drawings by Nick Eggenhofer, and with the full, original text.

José María de Jesús Carvajal

José María de Jesús Carvajal
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Publisher : Trinity University Press
Total Pages : 296
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ISBN-10 : 9781595341235
ISBN-13 : 1595341234
Rating : 4/5 (35 Downloads)

Synopsis José María de Jesús Carvajal by : Joseph E. Chance

José María de Jesús Carvajalis both a biography of a Mexican postrevolutionary and a study of the development of a new border between Mexico and the United States during the crucial decades of the early to mid–nineteenth century. The work examines the challenges faced by Carvajal, a bilingual, bicultural character in confusing times, against the historical backdrop of the history of colonial Texas and northern Mexico. Chance has chosen to focus on a political-military figure whose career stretches from the Texas Revolution to the French Intervention. Carvajal played a key role in the violent struggle between the liberal and conservative political factions that vied for control of the Republic of Mexico from 1830 to 1874. He was the leader of a mercenary army that invaded Mexico from the United States in 1851 in an unsuccessful attempt for the creation of the so-called independent Republic of the Sierra Madre. In addition, he played significant roles in the struggle for Texas Independence and formation of the ill-fated Republic of the Rio Grande; and he opposed the American occupation of northern Mexico during the Mexican-American War, the War of Reform that solidified liberal control of Mexico under the leadership of Benito Juarez, and the French Intervention into Mexico. Carvajal’s life and exploits have been largely overlooked by contemporary historians. This work sheds new light on several important chapters in the history of Texas and northern Mexico.

Education Series

Education Series
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Total Pages : 1284
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ISBN-10 : HARVARD:32044030269575
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

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HSA Texana Auction Catalog #6003

HSA Texana Auction Catalog #6003
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Publisher : Heritage Capital Corporation
Total Pages : 244
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ISBN-10 : 1599672650
ISBN-13 : 9781599672656
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis HSA Texana Auction Catalog #6003 by : Sandra Palomino