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On history's trail : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012
- Title
- On history's trail : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 / Light Townsend Cummins ; foreword by Larry McNeill.
- Author
- Cummins, Light Townsend
- Publication
- Denton : Texas State Historical Association, 2014.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | ITR 15-98 | Schwarzman Building - Milstein Division Room 121 |
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- Description
- xiii, 225 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subjects
- Contents
- Essays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy -- Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans -- Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls -- Audie Murphy's hometown -- Is Bigfoot a Texan? -- Herring Coe in bronze and stone -- Jesus wears cowboy boots -- Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas -- My place is at a table -- The voice in the Big Bend -- Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde -- Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio -- Background to the empresario era in Texas -- Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation -- Celebrating San Jacinto -- The first law school in Texas, 1855 -- The Red River War in historical perspective -- The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor -- Sculpting Texas history in bronze -- Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form -- Remembering Hugh F. Rankin -- The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana -- Talks on Texas politics and public service -- Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service -- Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect -- Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe -- The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history -- Historical interpretation and Texas history.
- Call Number
- ITR 15-98
- ISBN
- 9781625110237
- 1625110235
- LCCN
- 2014030645
- OCLC
- 881030107
- Author
- Cummins, Light Townsend, author.
- Title
- On history's trail : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 / Light Townsend Cummins ; foreword by Larry McNeill.
- Publisher
- Denton : Texas State Historical Association, 2014.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- ITR 15-98