Big wonderful thing : a history of Texas / Stephen Harrigan.

The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Texas bookshelf.
Main Author: Harrigan, Stephen, 1948- (Author)
Language:English
Published: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Texas bookshelf.
Subjects:
Texas > History.
Texas.
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:925 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Format: Government Document Book
Contents:
  • Castaways
  • Golden cities
  • Woe to us
  • The lady in blue
  • Voyageurs
  • God's work
  • Filibusters
  • God speed ye
  • The Texas dream
  • The consequence of failure
  • Come and take it
  • The Alamo is ours!
  • Vengeance
  • Aftermath
  • Spartan spirit
  • "Savage ware fare"
  • The broken flagpole
  • Los diablos tejanos
  • The crisis of the crisis
  • Robbers and lawyers
  • Warriors and refugees
  • I will never do it
  • With throbbing hearts
  • Reconstructed
  • The end of Comancheria
  • Fenced in
  • Turn Texas loose
  • Bipedal brutes
  • Scorpions and horny toads
  • A thousand little devils
  • Gushers
  • Light coming on the plains
  • Sediciosos
  • Pa
  • War at home and abroad
  • The blacksnake whip
  • Music and mayhem
  • The boy from the hill country
  • Centennial
  • Passionate ones
  • Texans at war again
  • The show of shows
  • A new Texas
  • Ye shall know the truth
  • The lord takes a sleeping pill
  • Giant
  • A gamblin' man
  • Welcome Mr. Kennedy
  • El degüello reprise
  • The voice of God
  • The tower
  • Vigil on the pedernales
  • A side to belong to
  • Don't be so self-righteous
  • Baptism of fire
  • Texans versus Texans
  • Epilogue. Davy Crockett's fairy palace.