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List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Alexander Mendoza and Charles David Grear PART I. Texans Fighting through Time: Thematic Topics 1. The Indian Wars of Texas: A Lipan Apache Perspective 17 Thomas A. Britten 2. Tejanos at War: A History of Mexican Texans in American Wars 38 Alexander Mendoza 3. Texas Women at War 69 Melanie A. Kirkland 4. The Influence of War and Military Service on African Texans 97 Alwyn Barr 5. The Patriot-Warrior Mystique: John S. Brooks, Walter P. Lane, Samuel H. Walker, and the Adventurous Quest for Renown 113 Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. 6. “All Eyes of Texas Are on Comal County”: German Texans’ Loyalty during the Civil War and World War I 133 Charles David Grear CONTENTS viii CONTENTS PART II. Wars in Texas History: Chronological Conflicts 7. Between Imperial Warfare: Crossing of the Smuggling Frontier and Transatlantic Commerce on the Louisiana-Texas Borderlands, 1754–1785 157 Francis X. Galán 8. The Mexican-American War: Reflections on an Overlooked Conflict 178 Kendall Milton 9. The Prolonged War: Texans Struggle to Win the Civil War during Reconstruction 196 Kenneth W. Howell 10. The Texas Immunes in the Spanish-American War 213 James M. McCaffrey 11. Surveillance on the Border: American Intelligence and the Tejano Community during World War I 227 José A. Ramírez 12. Texan Prisoners of the Japanese: A Study in Survival 248 Kelly E. Crager 13. Lyndon B. Johnson’s “Bitch of a War”: An Antiwar Essay 269 James M. Smallwood 14. Black Paradox in the Age of Terrorism: Military Patriotism or Higher Education? 283 Ronald E. Goodwin Contributors 301 Index 305 ...

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