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- On History's Trail: Speeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012
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- 2014
- Published by: Texas State Historical Association
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On History’s Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins’s time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond.
The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the “hometown” of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and humanity that is Cummins’s hallmark.
The most important point of On History’s Trail, though, is the most valuable lesson Cummins learned while State Historian: The history of Texas is alive and well today. There are more people reading and researching the history of the state than ever before. The range of topics in this volume shows the viability, breadth, and range of the state’s remarkable history.
The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the “hometown” of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and humanity that is Cummins’s hallmark.
The most important point of On History’s Trail, though, is the most valuable lesson Cummins learned while State Historian: The history of Texas is alive and well today. There are more people reading and researching the history of the state than ever before. The range of topics in this volume shows the viability, breadth, and range of the state’s remarkable history.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. 1-14
- Part One. Essays about Historical Personalities and Places, Famous and Obscure
- Audie Murphy’s Hometown: Fall 2010
- pp. 26-28
- Is Bigfoot a Texan? Fall 2009
- pp. 29-30
- My Place Is at a Table: Summer 2012
- pp. 37-39
- Part Two. Speeches about Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Texas
- Part Three. The Texas Centennial of 1936
- Part Four. Far Afield for the Texas State Historian
- Part Five. Talks on Texas Politics and Public Service
- Part Six. The Nature of Texas History
- Myth and Texas History: November 3, 2009
- pp. 186-200
- Acknowledgements
- pp. 211-212
Additional Information
ISBN
9781625110299
Related ISBN(s)
9781625110237
MARC Record
OCLC
897070016
Pages
300
Launched on MUSE
2015-01-17
Language
English
Open Access
No