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1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Mary L. Scheer, editor -- "The earth had chills and fever": the New Madrid earthquakes and Caddo Lake, 1811-1812 / Victoria H. Cummins -- A fly on Stephen F. Austin's shoulder in Mexico, 1822-1823 / Carolina Castillo Crimm -- The fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 / Watson Arnold -- "I was there": the abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker, December 19, 1860 / Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum -- "Margaret, Texas is lost": Sam Houston refuses to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy, March 16, 1861 / Mary L. Scheer -- "And then the ball opened": a violent incident at Scabtown, Menard County, Texas, on New Year's Eve, 1877 / Chuck Parsons -- With the Yalies in the deep woods, May 10-13, 1909 / Dan K. Utley -- "So long, it's been good to know you"?: Black Sunday, April 14, 1935 / Heather Green Wooten -- "The game of the century," November 30, 1935 / Bill O'Neal -- The firing of Homer Price Rainey, November 1, 1944 / Light T. Cummins -- "Harry, the President is dead": Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Vice President Harry Truman, and Congressman Lyndon Johnson at the Board of Education on April 12, 1945 / Patrick Cox -- The establishment of Texas Southern University, 1947 / Merline Pitre -- "The loneliest job in the world": the day Lyndon Johnson became President, November 22, 1963 / Michael Collins -- "I remember it well. I lived it": Louise Ballerstedt Raggio and the passage of The marital property act of 1967 / Nancy E. Baker. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Texas -- History.
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Texas. |
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History. |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Scheer, Mary L., 1949- editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Scheer, Mary L. Eavesdropping on Texas History. Denton, TX : University of North Texas Press, ©2017 9781574416756 |
| ISBN |
9781574416879 (electronic book) |
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1574416871 (electronic book) |
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9781574416756 |
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1574416758 |
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