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Index Absalom, Absalom, 67, 79, 190 Adolphus, Jim, 192 Adams, Marjorie: Fort Bend slavery and postReconstruction , 182,189; Kendleton, 86–87; murder, lynchings, disappearance, 91, 104, 109; Turkey Creek Feud, 100–101, 105 African Americans: banished, 97,99; Basilian priests and, 12; descriptive, 55; disposable, 155; freedmen, 155; intimacy, 6; political leaders, 99; post-slavery, 4; prison population, 177, 183; school principal, 55; soft hair, 171; voting power, 92 After San Jacinto, 125 ajeno, 18 agricultural worker, 18 Aguilar, Hector, 114–15 Ahuitzotl, 112–13 Alamo: Austin letters, 41; battle of, 37; docents, story of, 114–15; Latino history, 115; mythology , 185; national monument, 115; “Remember the,” 115; Santa Ana, Antonio Lopez de, 113–15; space, 37; story of Texas, 48; Texas Mexicans, 114 Albert and Mamie George Building, 180 Alford, Harold Jr., 133 Allen brothers, 48 Allen, A. C., 48, 91 amalgamation, 77 American: invasion, 39; South, (see South, American ); America’s national sin, 62 amo, 18–19 “Amor Indio,” 110–11 Anda, Judge James de, 127, 132, 162–63 Anderson, Benedict, 61 Andrews, William, 49 Anglos, (see also whites/Anglos): affluence, 10; taking land, 112; settlers, first colony of, 15, 20, 41; sources, history, 123 Annual Texian Market Days, 106 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 148–49 archives, reliability of, 11, 31, 88, 106–109, 119, 124–25, 134, 141, 182, 193 “Arcy Makes Room for Judith Martin,” 106 Armstrong, Robert, 24, 56, 61, 75 Arizpe, Miguel Ramos, 44 Arkansas Gazette, 46 Ashbel Smith Papers, 125 Asian, 1, 2 Austin, Moses, 38–39, 49 Austin, Stephen F., 36; business practices, 47; land owned, 15, 36–37, 56; Mexican constitution, 44; Mexican politics, 44–45; Mexico’s political elite, 41; New Orleans, 39; plan for Mexico’s federal government, 44; relationship with Lorenzo de Zavala, 40, 42, 45; statue, 168; Sugar Land, 169, 174 Austin’s Colony, 36, 46, 49, 108, 116, 188; business practices, 47; “dregs of the land,” 47, 50; lack of civilization, 50; Oz as metaphor for, 166–69, 173–74; slaves, 47–49; stories of, 45 Aztecs, 110–12, 127, 141 Bachelard, Gaston, 30 Baker and Botts, 54, 76 Baker, Houston Jr., 2–3, 5, 9, 166, 190 Baker, James, 54 bandits, Anglo and Mexican,118 banishment, 9, 45, 97, 99, 155, 169, 171, 175 232 index Baron de Bastrop, 39 Barthes, Roland, 13, 104–105 Basilian priests, 11–12, 117 Baum, L. Frank, 165–66, 168, 173–74 Baxter, Clifford, 1 Baytown, Texas, 176 Bearfield, Jim, 95, 99 Belasco, Mr., 28 Belles Lettres, 176 Beloved, 176 Benjamin, Walter, 119, 122 Bentham, Jeremy, 179 Berlin’s Silver Bear Award, 111 Bexar County, 125 B. F. Terry High School, 54–55, 59 Billy Rose Theatre Collection, 134 Bingham, Mary, 61, 65 Bingham (Bigham/Biggam), Francis, 61–62 Blake, Robert B., 123 blacks: cemetery, (see cemetery, black); female, oversexualization of, 189; mammy, 60, 67; wealth and affluence, 1, 10 Blakely and Snyder, 148 Blue, Carroll, 161–62 Blum, Roberto, 42, 52–53 Bodame, 144 bodies, buried, 14 Bögel, Philip (see also Baron de Bastrop) bondage, (see also slavery): acceptable solution, 41; impact of, 4 book, electronic, 42 Border Wars of Texas, 123 borderlands, 10 Borderlands/La Frontera, 148 Bourke, John, 118 Bowie, James, 170 Bowman, Bob, 122 Brazoria County: Gonzalez, Simon, 119–21; San Point Cemetery, 62; Terry, Benjamin Franklin, birthplace of, 56; Varner, Martin, 119–21 Brazos Bottoms: area, 1; cemeteries, 61; fertility, 80, 85, 169, 178; terror in the, 89 Brazos River (see also Brazos Bottoms): area, 1; Austin, Stephen F., 37; Brazos de Dios, 85; Hellhole of the, 20, 86, 109; Macario Garcia, 131; slave smuggling, 47; stories of, 87, 91; Sugar Land Town Center, 168 Brewer, John Mason, 169 bridge to San Isidro Cemetery, 85; access to 145–46; cemetery; deterioration, 145, 147, 149; funeral, 26; history of, 23, 25; no longer there, 27 Brown vs. Board of Education, 10 Buck-Morss, Susan, 188 Bugbee, Leroy, 37 buildings, historic (see historic buildings) Bull Run, Battle of (see First Manassas), 57–58 Burchfield, John, 149–50, 152, 154 Burnett, Frances Hodgson, 30 Bustamante, Anastacio, 40 Caldwell, William, 47–48, 91–93; little pieces of rope, 90–91 Canalizo, General Valentin, 124 cannibals, 48, 82–83 Cantrell, Gregg, 38, 41, 44, 46, 191 capitalism, late, metanarrative of, 5 Caro, Robert, 37 Carrier Grundy, Naomi, 105–109 Cash, W. J., 5, 46–47, 49, 189 caskets (see also coffins), 23 castas, 40 Castillo, Enrique, 134, 143 Catholic Church, 41 Catholic Diocese...

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