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Violence in the Hill Country : The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era /

In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, d...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roland, Nicholas Keefauver (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2022]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the Eve of the Civil War
  • Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum Politics and the Secession Crisis
  • Chapter Three. From Secession to the Nueces River
  • Chapter Four. Indians, Inflation, and Bushwhackers
  • Chapter Five. Civil War and Political Violence
  • Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the Incorporation of the Texas Frontier
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix A Indian Raiding Deaths during the Civil War
  • Appendix B Casualties of Civil War Violence, 1862-1865
  • Appendix C Indian Raiding Deaths after the Civil War
  • Notes
  • Index