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Author_Joe Bertram Frantz
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Product details
- ISBN 9780393301731
- Weight: 331g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 29 Aug 1984
- Publisher: WW Norton & Co
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and "hyperactive" Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to "Speaker Sam" Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences.
Joe Bertram Frantz was a historian and the Prescott Webb Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin. The American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) is a national association that preserves and interprets state and local history.
