| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 435 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 424-435). |
| Contents |
TABLE OF CONTENTS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; PRE-COLUMBIAN HISTORY; SPANISH TEXAS; FRAY MARCOS OF NIZA, 1539; QUIVIRA; FRENCH AND SPANISH INTERESTS; LA SALLE; FRENCH PRESENCE; SPANISH AND FRENCH -- ESTABLISHMENT OF MISSIONS; THE FRENCH AT RED ROVER; MISSIONS ATTACKED BY COMANCHES AND ALLIES; MEXICAN WAR OF INDEPENDENCE; ANGLO-AMERICAN COLONIZATION; PROPOSED COLONIZATION OF TEXAS; FORT ANAHUAC; FORT LIPANTITLAN; FORT TENOXTITLAN; FORT TERAN; OLD STONE FORT; THE ALAMO; HENRY PERRY -- FILIBUSTER; HISTORY OF THE STATE OF TEXAS; EARLY EUROPEAN EXPLORATION; FRENCH COLONIZATION OF TEXAS, 1684-1689. |
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SPANISH TEXAS, 1690-1821ESTABLISHMENT OF THE MISSIONS, 1718-1719; MEXICAN CONTROL OF TEXAS, 1821-1836; ANGLO-AMERICAN IMMIGRATION -- RESTRICTIONS; THE PRECURSOR TO REVOLT; INSURRECTION OF 1832; TEXAS WAR OF INDEPENDENCE; THE TEXAS REVOLUTION; THE TEXAS OFFENSIVE; THE BRIEF BATTLE OF LIPANTITLAN; SIEGE OF BEXAR; SANTA ANNA'S OFFENSIVE; GOLIAD CAMPAIGN; TEXAN FORCE AND THE BATTLE OF REFUGIO; BATTLE OF COLETO; THE GOLIAD MASSACRE; SURVIVORS ACCOUNTS OF GOLIAD; THE ANGEL OF GOLIAD -- FRANCITA ALAVEZ; REMINISCENCES OF ANDREW BOYLE; DILLARD COOPER'S REMEMBRANCES OF THE FANNIN MASSACRE. |
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NICHOLAS W. EASTLAND AND CAPT. HORTON'S TROOPWILLIAM LOCKHART HUNTER; THE ESCAPE OF KENTUCK; AN ACCOUNT OF THE GOLIAD MASSACRE, BY MAJOR MILLER'S SECRETARY; FANNIN'S RETREAT AND THE BATTLE OF COLETO (AN ACCOUNT BY MS. CASH); FANNIN AND HIS COMMAND; THE ALAMO; THE APACHE WARS; EL PASO -- LOCAL HISTORY, 1540 -1821; EARLY TIMES IN TEXAS, OR THE ADVENTURES OF JACK DOBELL; EDWARD BURLESON; STEPHEN FULLER AUSTIN; MIRABEAU BUONAPARTE LAMAR; DAVID (DAVY) CROCKETT; JAMES (JIM) BOWIE; 'BIG FOOT' WALLACE; CYNTHIA ANN PARKER -- INDIAN CAPTIVE; REBECCA JANE GILLILAND FISHER -- INDIAN CAPTIVE. |
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MATILDA LOCKHART -- INDIAN CAPTIVEBUFFALO HUMP; PETA NOCONA; JOSE MARIA (ANDARKO); BOWL; TEXAS JACK; JOSEFA RODRIGUEZ (CHIPITA); FAMOUS TEXANS; APPENDIX; HISPANIC TEXIAN PATRIOTS; PUBLIC OPINION IN TEXAS PRECEDING THE REVOLUTION; COLUMBIA RESOLUTIONS 23RD JUNE 1835; THE REPUBLIC OF THE RIO GRANDE IN 1840; MIER AND SOMERVELL EXPEDITIONS IN 1842; PRESIDIO LA BAHIA (SITE OF THE GOLIAD MASSACRE); SOURCES. |
| Summary |
This book affords the reader an in-depth history of Texas from the earliest Paleographical era, providing details of the occupation of Texas by Spain, France and Mexico, and gives the reader contemporary accounts of battles and incursions leading up to th. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Texas -- History -- To 1846.
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Texas. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
To 1846 |
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Pioneers -- Texas -- Biography.
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Pioneers. |
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Biographies.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Morritt, Robert D. Lure of Texas. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, ©2011 1443827134 (OCoLC)697774492 |
| ISBN |
9781443827737 (electronic book) |
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1443827738 (electronic book) |
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1283142252 |
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9781283142250 |
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1443827134 |
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9781443827133 |
| Standard No. |
9786613142252 |
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