Sword Of San Jacinto

Author : Marshall De Bruhl
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sword of San Jacinto written by Marshall De Bruhl and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1993 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using new material, the author re-creates Houston as a frontiersman, soldier, and politician, plus his tumultuous personal life.

Author : Marshall De Bruno
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517164181
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sword of San Jacinto written by Marshall De Bruno and published by . This book was released on 1995-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Turner Publishing
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1563116030
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sons of the Republic of Texas written by Turner Publishing and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2001 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sons of the Republic of Texas tells the story of the Republic of Texas beginning with its birth on April 21, 1836. Includes a brief history of the Sons of the Republic of Texas from 1893 to the present. The text is complemented by over 100 pages of family and ancestral biographies of members of the Sons of the Republic of Texas past and present. Indexed

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476613281
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Emily D. West and the "Yellow Rose of Texas" Myth written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-02-07 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the true story of "The Yellow Rose of Texas" is told in full, revealing a host of new insights and perspectives on one of America's most popular stories. For generations, the Yellow Rose of Texas has been one of America's most popular western myths, growing larger over time and little resembling the truth of what happened on April 21, 1836, at the battle of San Jacinto, where a new Texas Republic won its independence. The woman who has been popularly connected to the story was an ordinary but also quite remarkable free black woman from the North, Emily D. West. This work reconstructs her experience, places it in full context and explores the evolution of a most fanciful myth.

Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781589070097
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eighteen Minutes written by Stephen L. Moore and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book follows General Sam Houston as he takes command of the Texas Volunteers to lead them to victory six weeks after the fall of the Alamo.

Author : Christopher J. Ryan
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498567738
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar written by Christopher J. Ryan and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a rhetorical study of the writings of Republic of Texas presidents Sam Houston and Mirabeau Lamar. The author analyzes the frames applied in Houston and Lamar’s writings to define Native Americans. This book highlights the implications of such rhetorical framing historically and through the modern day for a wide array of social groups.

Author : Phillip Thomas Tucker
Publisher : Casemate
ISBN 13 : 1935149520
Total Pages : 433 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exodus from the Alamo written by Phillip Thomas Tucker and published by Casemate. This book was released on 2010-03-15 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The award-winning historian provides a provocative new analysis of the Battle of the Alamo—including new information on the fate of Davy Crockett. Contrary to legend, we now know that the defenders of the Alamo during the Texan Revolution died in a merciless predawn attack by Mexican soldiers. With extensive research into recently discovered Mexican accounts, as well as forensic evidence, historian Phillip Tucker sheds new light on the famous battle, contending that the traditional myth is even more off-base than we thought. In a startling revelation, Tucker uncovers that the primary fights took place on the plain outside the fort. While a number of the Alamo’s defenders hung on inside, most died while attempting to escape. Capt. Dickinson, with cannon atop the chapel, fired repeatedly into the throng of enemy cavalry until he was finally cut down. The controversy surrounding Davy Crockett still remains, though the recently authenticated diary of the Mexican Col. José Enrique de la Peña offers evidence that he surrendered. Notoriously, Mexican Pres. Gen. Antonio López de Santa Anna burned the bodies of the Texans who had dared stand against him. As this book proves in thorough detail, the funeral pyres were well outside the fort—that is, where the two separate groups of escapees fell on the plain, rather than in the Alamo itself.

Author : Ron Rozelle
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623495873
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exiled written by Ron Rozelle and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-01 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After an undisputed record of political achievement—leading the decisive battle for Texas independence at San Jacinto, serving twice as president of the Republic of Texas, twice again as a United States senator after annexation, and finally as governor of Texas—Sam Houston found himself in the winter of his life in a self-imposed exile among the pines of East Texas. Houston was often a bundle of complicated contradictions. He was a spirited advocate for public education but had little formal education himself. He was very much “a Jackson man” but disagreed with his mentor on the treatment of Native Americans. He was a slaveholder who opposed abolition but scuttled his own political reputation by resisting the South’s move toward secession. After refusing to take an oath of loyalty to the Confederacy in 1861, Houston was swiftly evicted from the governor’s office. “Let me tell you what is coming,” he later said from a window at the Tremont Hotel in Galveston. “After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives, you may win Southern independence if God be not against you, but I doubt it.” Houston died just two years later, and the nation was indeed fractured. Ron Rozelle’s masterful biographical portrait here lingers on Houston’s final years, especially as lived out in Huntsville, when so much of his life’s work seemed on the verge of coming undone. Artfully written for the general reader, Exiled: The Last Days of Sam Houston is a compelling look at Sam Houston’s legacy and twilight years.

Author : Brian Kilmeade
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0525540563
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers written by Brian Kilmeade and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestseller now in paperback with a new epilogue. In March 1836, the Mexican army led by General Santa Anna massacred more than two hundred Texians who had been trapped in the Alamo. After thirteen days of fighting, American legends Jim Bowie and Davey Crockett died there, along with other Americans who had moved to Texas looking for a fresh start. It was a crushing blow to Texas’s fight for freedom. But the story doesn’t end there. The defeat galvanized the Texian settlers, and under General Sam Houston’s leadership they rallied. Six weeks after the Alamo, Houston and his band of settlers defeated Santa Anna’s army in a shocking victory, winning the independence for which so many had died. Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers recaptures this pivotal war that changed America forever, and sheds light on the tightrope all war heroes walk between courage and calculation. Thanks to Kilmeade’s storytelling, a new generation of readers will remember the Alamo—and recognize the lesser known heroes who snatched victory from the jaws of defeat.

Author : A. Ray Stephens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
ISBN 13 : 080618647X
Total Pages : 439 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Texas written by A. Ray Stephens and published by University of Oklahoma Press. This book was released on 2014-10-22 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has been thoroughly updated and expanded—and even rechristened. Texas: A Historical Atlas more accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its 86 entries feature 175 newly designed maps—more than twice the number in the original volume—illustrating the most significant aspects of the state’s history, geography, and current affairs. The heart of the book is its wealth of historical information. Sections devoted to indigenous peoples of Texas and its exploration and settlement offer more than 45 entries with visual depictions of everything from the routes of Spanish explorers to empresario grants to cattle trails. In another 31 articles, coverage of modern and contemporary Texas takes in hurricanes and highways, power plants and population trends. Practically everything about this atlas is new. All of the essays have been updated to reflect recent scholarship, while more than 30 appear for the first time, addressing such subjects as the Texas Declaration of Independence, early roads, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Texas-Oklahoma boundary disputes, and the tideland oil controversy. A dozen new entries for “Contemporary Texas” alone chart aspects of industry, agriculture, and minority demographics. Nearly all of the expanded essays are accompanied by multiple maps—everyone in full color. The most comprehensive, state-of-the-art work of its kind, Texas: A Historical Atlas is more than just a reference. It is a striking visual introduction to the Lone Star State.