Texas : A Compact History

by McDonald, Archie P.

• ISBN13: 9781933337159
• ISBN10: 193333715X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-02-28
• Publisher: TEXAS A & M UNIVERSITY PRESS

Summary

Texas "a whole other country," a slogan that promotes tourism as much within the Lone Star State as elsewhere, is familiar to native Texans and those adopted sons and daughters who "got here just as quickly as they could." Texas is as varied as East Texas timberland, hundreds of miles of seashore, prairies of the Central and High Plains, and the dry desert of far West Texas. When traveling abroad and asked, "Where are you from?" residents of forty-nine of the United States usually respond, "the USA." Nearly every citizen of the Lone Star State will answer "Texas!" The world encourages such chauvinism. Mass media celebrates and exploits Texas and Texans in television and motion pictures about the Alamo, Texas Rangers, the oil industry, and athletics, to name only a few genre.

Table of Contents

A Whole Other Country	p. 9
Indians in Texas	p. 19
Spain and Texas	p. 25
Colonial Texas	p. 40
Texas Revolution	p. 53
Republic of Texas	p. 71
Statehood	p. 86
Civil War	p. 101
Reconstruction and Indian Wars	p. 116
Economical and Social Changes	p. 136
The New Century	p. 154
Depression and War	p. 173
Texas at Mid-Century	p. 189
Political Shift	p. 208
Modern Texas	p. 225
Index	p. 231
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