Research Catalog

Title

On history's trail : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 / Light Townsend Cummins.

Author

Cummins, Light Townsend

Publication

• Denton : Texas State Historical Association, [2014]
• ©2014

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Holdings

Details

Description

xiii, 225 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subject

• Historiography
• Texas > History
• Texas > Biography

Genre/Form

Essays.

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.

ISBN

• 9781625110237
• 1625110235

LCCN

• 2014030645
• 40024436452

OCLC

• ocn881030107
• SCSB-1825350

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library