- Description
- 1 online resource (xiii, 225 pages) : illustrations.
- Uniform Title
- Works. Selections (Online)
- Alternative Title
- Works.
- Subject
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- LCCN
- 2014030645
- OCLC
- ssj0001381694
- Author
Cummins, Light Townsend.
- Title
On history's trail [electronic resource] : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 / Light Townsend Cummins.
- Imprint
Denton : Texas State Historical Association, 2014.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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