Full Description
A Lone Star Reader is a Texas state history anthology designed for students and general readers alike. In its pages, readers will find the work of leading academics and lay historians. They will encounter a wide variety of writing styles and a broad range of views. The reader will find that every selection is approachable, engaging, informative, and representative of the best in Texas scholarship.
The new second edition of A Lone Star Reader by Kirk Bane, Charles Swanlund, and Scott Sosebee:
Includes introductions of the topic and author for each selected article.
Integrates work by new co-author Dr. Sosebee - Executive Director of the East Texas Historical Association.
Features new contributions from Lone Star historians Gregory W. Ball, Judy Gentry, Daniel Hickerson, Ken Howell, Diana Compton Fisher, Bradley Folsom, Brandon Franke, Rick Koster, James Smallwood, Leland Turner, and Don Worcester.
Contents
Introduction and Acknowledgments
About the Editors
Article 1 Hasinai-European Interaction, 1694-1715
Daniel A. Hickerson
Article 2 La Salle's Grand Dream
James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner
Article 3 Trinidad de Salcedo: A Forgotten Villa in Colonial Texas, 1806-1813
Bradley Folsom
Article 4 Los Tejanos: Mexican Texans in the Revolution
Paul D. Lack
Article 5 Determined Valor and Desperate Courage
Stephen L. Hardin
Article 6 Once Upon a Time in Matagorda: The Death of Samuel Rhoads Fisher
Diana Compton Fisher
Article 7 A Great Captain and a New Weapon
Charles M. Robinson, III
Article 8 Family, Religion, and Music: "The Strength to Endure"
Randolph B. Campbell
Article 9 Waul's Texas Legion: Towards Vicksburg
Brandon Franke
Article 10 Confederates and Cotton in East Texas
Judy Gentry
Article 11 The Prolonged War: Texans Struggle to Win the Civil War During Reconstruction
Kenneth W. Howell
Article 12 William R. Shafter: Commanding Black Troops in West Texas
Paul H. Carlson
Article 13 Conquered
David La Vere
Article 14 The Trail Towns
Don Worcester
Article 15 A Wild Time in the Old Town Tonight, 1875-1879
Ty Cashion
Article 16 Annie Black and the Soiled Doves of San Angelo
Suzanne Campbell
Article 17 The Livestock Lobby: Murdo Mackenzie, Railroad Reform, Cattlemen's Associations, and Progressive Legislation
Leland Turner
Article 18 The Great Storm
Gary Cartwright
Article 19 The Western Front, October 13-30, 1918
Gregory W. Ball
Article 20 Yet Another Look at the Fergusons of Texas
Jane Bock Guzman
Article 21 Life in the Shadows of Oil Derricks
Ilta S. Hall
Article 22 1920-1929: The Texas League during the Golden Age of Sports
Bill O'Neal
Article 23 Red Burton and the Klan
Ben Procter
Article 24 Dashed Hopes and Gained Opportunities: Mexican American Educational Experiences in Lubbock, Texas, from the 1920s through the 1960s
Scott Sosebee
Article 25 Newspapers and the 1936 Texas Centennial
Patrick Cox
Article 26 Operation Texas: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Jewish Question and the Nazi Holocaust
James Smallwood
Article 27 Sam Rayburn
D. Clayton Brown
Article 28 Racial Politics in Dallas in the Twentieth Century
Theodore M. Lawe
Article 29 Disney Meets Davy
Mark Derr
Article 30 "We Want Aggies, Not Maggies": James Earl Rudder and the Coeducation of Texas A&M University
Christopher Bean
Article 31 Progressive Country and the Austin Spirit
Rick Koster
Article 32 Women in Texas
Cary D. Wintz
