Author: Louis Wiltz KempPublisher: Martino Fine Books
ISBN: 9781578988112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Previously published: Salado, Tex.: Anson Jones Press, 1959.
The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence
Author: Louis Wiltz KempPublisher: Martino Fine Books
ISBN: 9781578988112
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Previously published: Salado, Tex.: Anson Jones Press, 1959.
Tejano Patriot
Author: Art Martínez de VaraPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1625110596
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
Art Martínez de Vara’s Tejano Patriot: The Revolutionary Life of José Francisco Ruiz, 1783–1840 is the first full-length biography of this important figure in Texas history. Best known as one of two Texas-born signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence, Ruiz’s significance extends far beyond that single event. Born in San Antonio de Béxar into an upwardly mobile family, during the war for Mexican independence Ruiz underwent a dramatic transformation from a conservative royalist to one of the staunchest liberals of his era. Steeped in the Spanish American liberal tradition, his revolutionary activity included participating in three uprisings, suppressing two others, and enduring extreme personal sacrifice for the liberal republican cause. He was widely respected as an intermediary between Tejanos and American Indians, especially the Comanches. As a diplomat, he negotiated nearly a dozen peace treaties for Spain, Mexico, and the Republic of Texas, and he traveled to the Imperial Court of Mexico as an agent of the Comanches to secure peace on the northern frontier. When Anglo settlers came by the thousands to Texas after 1820, he continued to be a cultural intermediary, forging a friendship with Stephen F. Austin, but he always put the interests of Béxar and his fellow Tejanos first. Ruiz had a notable career as a military leader, diplomat, revolutionary, educator, attorney, arms dealer, author, ethnographer, politician, Indian agent, Texas ranger, city attorney, and Texas senator. He was a central figure in the saga that shaped Texas from a remote borderland on New Spain’s northern frontier to an independent republic.
The Signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence
Author: Louis Wiltz KempPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Texas
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
The Men who Made Texas Free
Author: Sam Houston DixonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
The Texanist
Author: David CourtneyPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477312978
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things as: Is it wrong to wear your football team's jersey to church? When out at a dancehall, do you need to stick with the one that brung ya? Is it real Tex-Mex if it's served with a side of black beans? Can one have too many Texas-themed tattoos?"--Amazon.com.
Rip Ford's Texas
Author: John Salmon FordPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292789203
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 745
Book Description
An original source history detailing the years of Texas’s independence and annexation from a nineteenth-century Texas Ranger and politician. The Republic of Texas was still in its first exultation over independence when John Salmon “Rip” Ford arrived from South Carolina in June of 1836. Ford stayed to participate in virtually every major event in Texas history during the next sixty years. Doctor, lawyer, surveyor, newspaper reporter, elected representative, and above all, soldier and Indian fighter, Ford sat down in his old age to record the events of the turbulent years through which he had lived. Stephen Oates has edited Ford’s memoirs to produce a clear and vigorous personal history of Texas.
Lorenzo de Zavala
Author: Margaret Swett HensonPublisher: TCU Press
ISBN: 9780875651507
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 172
Book Description
Anglo historians have generally ignored Zavala except for brief references. A few contemporary Texans admired his political talents, but most suspected his motives.
Matthew Thornton of New Hampshire
Author: Charles Thornton ADAMSPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New Hampshire
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Growing Up in the Lone Star State
Author: Gaylon Finklea HeckerPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 099973184X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 463
Book Description
A fascinating collection of oral history interviews details Texas in the early twentieth century and how life in the Lone Star State helped the interviewees achieve success.
The Declaration of Independence
Author: Carl Lotus BeckerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Natural law
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description