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The taking of Texas : a documentary history / Franklin Madis.
- Title
- The taking of Texas : a documentary history / Franklin Madis.
- Author
- Madis, Franklin, 1934-
- Publication
- Austin, Tex. : Eakin Press, c2002.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F390 .M18 2002 | Off-site |
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- Description
- vii, 318 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Frank Madis? docudrama combines the best in original Texana since John Jenkins? Papers of the Texas Revolution with the insights of a J. Frank Dobie. Like Dobie in Coronado?s Children, he discovers the ?lost mines and buried treasures? of the Texas past. Madis, however, ?brings ?em back alive? with magnificent translations of heretofore unpublished original sources from his own collection. The reader meets both the heroes and the ?little people,? Tejano and Anglo. [The Taking of Texas] is the most important contribution to Texas history since T. R. Fehrenbach?s Lone Star with the spirit of Larry McMurtry?s Lonesome Dove. . .a five-star must for readers of Texana, scholars, libraries, collectors, and the general public." ?Gilbert M. Cuthbertson, Professor, Department of Political Science, Rice University.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Sources.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 305-308) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- The harsh land -- The spark that started the blaze -- Colonization on a shoestring -- "Under Santa-Anna and moving in the direction of Béjar are ten thousand men!" -- "My spirit is dampened, but my will, never." -- "Under the mask of friendship ..." -- "No telling how we'll get out of this jackpot ..." -- "A tactic unknown anywhere else in the world. My soldiers have learned to not eat ..." -- Retreat through the woods -- "Our band played Hail Columbia and Yankee Doodle ..." -- "The meanest looking set of men to be called soldiers I ever saw ..." -- "Losses upon losses ..." -- "There has been enough blood spilled on both sides to satisfy any one nation ..." -- "War is hell ...".
- ISBN
- 1571686835 (PB)
- 1571685944 (HB)
- LCCN
- ^^2002008203
- OCLC
- 49847902
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library