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Item #6095
THE ALAMO CHAIN OF MISSIONS, A History of San Antonio's Five Old Missions
Author: Marion O. Habig. O.F.M.
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BACK IN PRINT. A reprint of a great classic by the prolific Franciscan writer/historian. The missions were San Antonio de Valero, San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Nuestra Senora de la Purisima Concepcion, San Juan Capistrano, and San Francisco de la Espada. Also information on a short-lived mission, San Francisco Xavier de Najera, and on San Fernando Cathedral, burial of the Alamo heroes, the Claretian Fathers, the Villa of San Fernando de Bexar, and the Archdiocese of San Antonio. Livingston, Tx, 3rd Pr., PB, 308 Pgs. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #6931
PASSIONATE NATION, The Epic History of Texas
Author: James L. Haley
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The author offers a comprehensive and definitive history that explains how Texas became Texas, even before it became a central national symbol for America. Haley peers through the lens of the extraordinary "ordinary" men and women who have streamed to Texas from its beginnings, and created it in their own contradictory,uncontrollable image. These are great stories presenting the passion of the people who lived and worried and suffered and laughed. Illustrated. Has remainder mark. New York, 2006 Free Press 1st Ed., 636 Pgs., 6 X 9, HB. Published at $ 35.00. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7003
THE TEXAS RANGERS AND THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION
Author: Charles H. Harris III, et al
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With Louis R. Sadler. The Decade 1910-1920 , the period of the Mexican Revolution, was the bloodiest along the Texas/New Mexico border in the controversial history of the Texas Rangers. Explores the clandestine role of Mexican President Venustiano Carranza and the "Plan of San Diego" Thought to be a plot hatched in South Texas but actually spawned by Carranza in Mexico. This plan called for the execution of all Anglo males sixteen and older and the establihsment of an Hispanic republic, designed to cause a race war with the main intent to end the US support of Pancho Villa. The Texas governor responded by ordering the Rangers to wipe out the insurgency that resulted in over 300 persons killed by Texas Rangers without judge or jury. Albuquerque, NM 2004 University of New Mexico Press 1st Ed., 671 Pgs., 7&1/2 x 10&1/2, HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #10089
TEXAS CEMETERIES
Author: Bill Harvey
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From the simplest slab of weathered stone to the most imposing mausoleum, every marker in a Texas cemetery bears witness to a life that-in small ways or large-helped shape the history and culture of the state. In these pages, for example, you will meet great heroes of the Texas Revolution, one of the great African-American cowboys of the trail driving era (Bose Ikard) and the first Texas woman elected to statewide office (Annie Webb Blanton). The author visited many cemeteries to recount the history of the famous, infamous, or just plain interesting Texans who lie in Texas Cemeteries. The book is organized alphabetically by city for easy reference. For each city Harvey lists one or more cemeteries, giving the location and history, when significant. At the heart of the book are the profiles of noteworthy people buried in each cemetery. Austin, Texas, 2003, 1st Ed., 284 pgs., PB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7109
LORENZO DE ZAVALA, The Pragmatic Idealist
Author: Margaret Swett Henson
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Seen by many Mexican-Americans as a traitor, De Zavala has been praised by some for his efforts to improve the lower classes and create a republic in Mexico. A signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, he was a native of Yucatan, became governor of the state of Mexico and first prime minister to France. In protest against Santa Anna he moved his family to Texas. he became the first vice president of the new Republic of Texas. This work fills a long standing biographical void. Fort Worth, 1996, 1st Ed., HB, 134 Pgs. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #8120
A BORDERLANDS TOWN IN TRANSITION, Laredo, 1755-1870
Author: Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa
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Unlike many other South Texas and Border communities, Laredo has maintained a prominent Mexican-American political and economic elite. Hinojosa shows how large events such as war, economic depression and changes of sovereignty affected the lives of the people of this unique and colorful border town. College Station, TX, 1983, 1st Ed., PB, 148 Pgs. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7047
THE ART OF TOM LEA, A Memorial Edition
Author: Kathleen G. HJerter
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Introduction by William Weber Johnson, Afterword by Becky Duval Reese. Lea died in 2001 after a career as a muralist, painter, book illustrator, World War II artist-correspondent, historian, novelist, and humanist. This volume makes available the full range of his vigorous work: The well-known and the previously unseen. Old Admirers will delight in the presentation and a whole new generation will be awed by his unique contributions. College Station, Texas, 2003 Texas A&M University Press Memorial Ed., 257 Pgs., 12&1/4 x 9&1/2, HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7090
FLORIDA’S FRONTIERS
Author: Paul E. Hoffman
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The author is the acknowledged expert on the Spanish presence in Southeast North America during the colonial period. Hoffman tells the story of the patterns of Native American occupation and the waves of colonization that defined the borders of Florida. In addition to many secondary sources Hoffman has done extensive research in Spanish archival sources of the 16th and 17th centuries and this work is notable in that it expands the knowledge of the Spanish presence in Florida. Perhaps the best and most comprehensive work to come along in recent times covering the Sunshine State. Imagination, greed, missionary zeal, disease, war, & diplomacy shaped its historical boundaries. Bloomington IN, 2002 1st Ed, 470 PGs. HB. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7097
REMEMBER GOLIAD, Their Silent Tents
Author: Clifford Hopewell
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Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836 was one of the most dreadful days in the war for independence between Mexico and Texas. On that fateful day on direct orders of Santa Anna, James Walker Fannin and his men were executed at Presido la Bahia, near the town of Goliad. The author describes the start of hostilities in October, 1835, the two Mexican armies who threatened to overrun Texas, the fall of the Alamo and the attack on Presdio la Bahia which Fannin had named Fort Defiance. Describes garrison life and the battle at Coleto Plains where Fannin's army, without water supply and defenses, surrendered to General Urrea. Austin, 1998, 1st Ed., HB, 192 Pgs. | |  TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS
Item #7092
THE LAST BATTLE OF THE CIVIL WAR, Palmetto Ranch
Author: Jeffrey Wm. Hunt
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The only comprehensive study of this unique event. More than two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 1865, The New York Times reported a surprising bit of news. A battle had been fought on May 12-13 near Brownsville, Texas at Palmetto Ranch between Union and Confederate forces resulting in a Confederate victory. It has become one of the most forgotten and mythologized battles of the Civil War. New archival information including letters and the entire transcript of the court martial of a federal officer, have shed new light on this interesting chapter in Texas history. Contrary to prior belief the Confederates were aware of Lee’s surrender, but in this arena the confederates were not ready to lay down arms. The author also expertly explains why the Rio Grande region was such an important military arena to both armies. The battle did nothing to change the war’s income but it represented a final irony to a conflict replete with ironies, unexpected successes, and lost opportunities. Austin, 2002 1st Ed., 217 Pgs., PB. | |
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