Full name: Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

Author: T. R. Fehrenbach Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780306809422 0306809427

An insider's history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider's look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history; they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds." Similar books: The Texas Rangers by Walter Prescott Webb Lone Star Justice by Robert M. Utley The Blood of Heroes by Jim Donovan Three Roads to the Alamo by William C. Davis Texian Iliad by Stephen L. Hardin The Cycles of American History by Arthur Meier Schlesinger Legends, Lies, and Cherished Myths of American History by Richard Shenkman Sam Houston and the Alamo Avengers by Brian Kilmeade I Wish I'd Been There by Byron Hollinshead Unlikely Allies by Joel Richard Paul That's Not in My American History Book by Thomas Ayres Unsolved Mysteries of American History by Paul Aron A Short History of the United States by Robert V. Remini If You Lived 100 Years Ago by Ann McGovern Don't Know Much About History by Kenneth C. Davis