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Author:
Harrigan, Stephen, 1948- author.
Title:
Big wonderful thing : a history of Texas / Stephen Harrigan.
Edition:
First edition.
Publisher:
University of Texas Press,
Copyright Date:
2019
Description:
925 pages ; 23 cm
Subject:
Texas--History.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Castaways -- Golden cities -- "Woe to us" -- The lady in blue -- Voyageurs -- God's work -- Filibusters -- "God speed ye" -- The Texas dream -- The consequence of failure -- Come and take it -- "The Alamo is ours!" -- Vengeance -- Aftermath -- Spartan spirit -- "Savage ware fare" -- The broken flagpole -- Los diablos tejanos -- The crisis of the crisis -- Robbers and lawyers -- Warriors and refugees -- "I will never do it" -- "With throbbing hearts" -- Reconstructed -- The end of Comancheria -- Fenced in -- The "peril" of legislation -- Bipedal brutes -- Scorpions and horny toads -- A thousand little devils -- Gushers -- Light coming on the plains -- Sediciosos -- Pa -- War at home and abroad -- The blacksnake whip -- Music and mayhem -- The boy from the hill country -- Centennial -- Passionate ones -- Texans at war again -- The show of shows -- A new Texas -- Ye shall know the truth -- The lord takes a sleeping pill -- Giant -- A gamblin' man -- Welcome Mr. Kennedy -- "El deguello" reprise -- The voice of god -- The tower -- Vigil on the pedernales -- A side to belong to -- Don't be so self-righteous -- Baptism of fire -- Texans versus Texans -- Epilogue. Davy Crockett's fairy palace.
Series:
The Texas bookshelf
ISBN:
0292759517
9780292759510 (hardcover)
LCCN:
2018060912
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
TCPG826 -- Bettendorf Public Library Information Center (Bettendorf)
BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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