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On History's Trail : Speeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 /
On History's Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins's time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond. The subjects include the set...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Denton :
Texas State Historical Association,
[2014]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Essays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy -- Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans -- Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls -- Audie Murphy's hometown -- Is Bigfoot a Texan? -- Herring Coe in bronze and stone -- Jesus wears cowboy boots -- Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas -- My place is at a table -- The voice in the Big Bend -- Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde -- Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio -- Background to the empresario era in Texas -- Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation -- Celebrating San Jacinto -- The first law school in Texas, 1855 -- The Red River War in historical perspective -- The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor -- Sculpting Texas history in bronze -- Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form -- Remembering Hugh F. Rankin -- The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana -- Talks on Texas politics and public service -- Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service -- Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect -- Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe -- The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history -- Historical interpretation and Texas history. | |
| 520 | |a On History's Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins's time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond. The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the "hometown" of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and. | ||
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