Taming Texas' Frontier
Author : Jerry Lackey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
Category :
ISBN : 9781792345784
Author : Jerry Lackey
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 39,25 MB
Release : 2020-07-24
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ISBN : 9781792345784
Author : C. Herndon Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 29,95 MB
Release : 2023-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1439677190
In the 1820s, Texas was a wilderness. Settlers thought it was uninhabited although rich with wild game. But many Native American tribes lived in Texas and were at war with the Spanish in Mexico. Mexico ignored Texas and did not try to inhabit this wilderness. Finally, in the late 1820s and early 1830s Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring in three hundred Anglo settlers and Texas began to be civilized. But to start there was only one town, no roads, no bridges, no planted fields. Texas was starting from ground zero but started fast. They tamed the wilderness and fought the Indians. They got their independence from Mexico and became a Republic, soon a U S state. They established a stable government similar to the one in the US and developed the infrastructure for business and international commerce. In less than eighty years Texas had tamed the wild frontier and became a modern state in the United States. C. Herndon Williams has found forty-two stories that chart this progress.
Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher : Savage Frontier
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,74 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574412932
An account of the formative years of the legendary Texas Rangers. Through extensive use of primary military documents and first-person accounts, Moore provides a clear view of life as a frontier fighter in the Republic of Texas. The reader will find herein numerous and painstakingly recreated muster rolls, as well as a complete list of Texan casualties of the frontier Indian wars from 1835 through 1839. For the exacting historian or genealogist of early Texas, the "Savage Frontier "series will be an indispensable resource on early nineteenth-century Texas frontier violence.
Author : William Banta
Publisher :
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,43 MB
Release : 1933
Category : Comanche Indians
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Author : W. John L. Sullivan
Publisher :
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 25,68 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
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Author : Ty Cashion
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806127910
diversification to form a ranching-based social and economic way of life. The process turned a largely southern people into westerners. Others helped shape the history of the Clear Fork country as well. Notable among them were Anglo men and women - some of them earnest settlers, others unscrupulous opportunists - who followed the first pioneers; Indians of various tribes who claimed the land as their own or who were forcibly settled there by the white government; and.
Author : Edgar Rye
Publisher :
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 21,9 MB
Release : 1909
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN :
Author : C. Herndon Williams
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2013-05-07
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1625841671
For eight centuries, the Texas frontier has seen conquest, exploration, immigration, revolution and innovation, leaving to history a cast of fascinating characters and captivating tales. Its historic period began in 1519 with Spanish exploration, but there was a prehistory long before, nearly fifteen thousand years earlier, with the arrival of people to Texas. Each story pulls a new perspective from this long history by examining nearly all angles--from archaeology to ethnography, astronomy, agriculture and more. These true stories prove to be unexpected, sometimes contrarian and occasionally funny but always fascinating. Join author and historian C. Herndon Williams as he recounts his exploration of nearly a millennium of the Texas frontier.
Author : J. Evetts Haley
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 26,85 MB
Release : 2018-02-27
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1789120217
This book, which was first published in 1952, first began as a history of San Angelo and the adjacent region drained by the Conchos rivers. It grew, in writing, into a history of West Texas. It embodies author J. Evetts Haley’s unequaled knowledge of the country from the Rio Grande to the Canadian, from San Antonio and Austin to the border of New Mexico. It could have been written only by a man familiar by personal acquaintance with the location of every water hole and spring, the exploration of every trail from Coronado’s to the Overland Mail, the great cattle drives of the seventies and eighties, the establishment of every military post, and the shifting Indian policies of the United States from the annexation of Texas to the final retirement of the Comanches to the Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Haley has an intimate knowledge of hundreds of salty characters who played their picturesque roles in transforming the land from nature to civilization. Haley possesses all this equipment—gained from intensive study, personal experience, and thoughtful reflection—for writing a vivid story. Five previous books and unnumbered articles on phases of the region contribute to the facility with which he tells this stirring tale and account of its comprehensiveness. It is no less than a history of West Texas in its heroic age.
Author : Stephen L. Moore
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 26,74 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781880510681
Profiles one of the leading pioneers of nineteenth-century Texas, who served in the Cherokee War and the Civil War and helped tame the frontier.