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More zeal than discretion : the westward adventures of Walter P. Lane

Title
More zeal than discretion : the westward adventures of Walter P. Lane / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
Author
Bryan, Jimmy L.
Publication
College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2008], ©2008.

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Description
xii, 249 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.
Summary
"Walter P. Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. What drove this man, who in many ways typifies the adventurers who contributed to the westward expansion in the United States during the early nineteenth century? As Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. reveals in this superbly researched and nuanced work, Walter P. Lane, like many men of his generation, was driven in part by his ideals of gender, ethnicity, and nationality. In this first full-length biography of Lane, Bryan has exhaustively mined personal papers, memoirs, contemporary sources, and archived collections to produce a portrait, not only of an individual who exemplifies "the proud military tradition of Texas," but also of the times in which Lane lived and the principles that fired his imagination and stoked his ambition."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 31
Uniform Title
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 31.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. The Road to San Jacinto, 1817-36 -- 2. Los Piratas de Tejas, 1836-37 -- 3. Red Lander, 1837-44 -- 4. Storming Monterrey, 1844-46 -- 5. The Fault of All Texans, 1846-48 -- 6. By Flood and Field, 1848-58 -- 7. Family, Community, and Secession, 1858-61 -- 8. The Marshal Ney of Texas, 1861-62 -- 9. Partisan Ranger, 1862-65 -- 10. Citizen Lane, 1865-87 -- 11. Recollections, 1874-91.
ISBN
  • 9781603440707 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1603440704 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2008010755
  • 40015952258
OCLC
  • 213408555
  • ocn213408555
  • SCSB-5435632
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries