| Item #6862 GIFT OF THE RIO TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Author: Valley By-liners
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A great collection of 28 articles about the Rio Grande Valley, each by a differt author. The articles are about Place Names, Early History, History of Raymondville and Willacy County, Six Mission Descendants of Land Grantees,Two Vela's, Old Plantations, Cattle, Paso Real, Border Forts, Indians, Colonizers of the Delta,Bandits,The Oblate Trial, Cooking, Folklore,Wildlife,Padre Island and much more. Illustrated and inside cover has a great map of the History Trail. Book VG but Dust Jacket cihipped and patched. Mission, TX 1975 Border Kingdom Press, 1st Ed., 5&1/2 x 8&1/2, 271 Pgs., HB. |
| Item #7077 GONE TO TEXAS, A History of the Lone Star State. TEXANA & THE AMERICAN BORDERLANDS Author: Randolph P. Campbell
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The author presents the epic tales of Texas history in a new light, offering revisionist history in the best sense-broadening and deepening the traditional story, without ignoring the heroes of the past. The scope is impressive beginning with the archaeological record of the Native Americans to the rise of the oil industry and ultimately the modernization of Texas. Swift moving accounts are included of the Mexican revolution against Spain, the arrival of the settlers from the United States, the lasting Spanish legacy (from cattle ranching, to place names and civil law), the Anglo-Texan revolution, the decade of the Republic of Texas and annexation by the United States. Offers a fresh understanding of why Texas continues to be seen as a state unlike any other, a place that distills the essence of what it means to be an American. New York, 2003, 1st Ed., Second pr., 500 Pgs., HB. |
