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- Passionate Nation: The Epic History of Texas
- Book
- 2022
- Published by: University of North Texas Press
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Utilizing many sources new to publication, James L. Haley delivers a most readable and enjoyable narrative history of Texas, told through stories—the words and recollections of Texans who actually lived the state’s spectacular history. From Jim Bowie’s and Davy Crockett’s myth-enshrouded stand at the Alamo, to the Mexican-American War, and to Sam Houston’s heroic failed effort to keep Texas in the Union during the Civil War, the transitions in Texas history have often been as painful and tense as the “normal” periods in between. Here, in all of its epic grandeur, is the story of Texas as its own passionate nation. “Texas native Haley does an outstanding job of narrating the outsized and dramatic history of the Lone Star State. John Steinbeck observed, ‘Like most passionate nations, Texas has its own private history based on, but not limited by, facts.’ Cognizant of this, Haley takes pains to separate folklore from fact. He's a good storyteller, but then it's hard to go wrong with the colorful characters he has to work with: pioneer nationalists Sam Houston and Davy Crockett, Quaker abolitionist Benjamin Lundy, a wagonload of liquored-up turn-of-the-century oilmen and such latter-day heroes as Lyndon Johnson, John Connally and Janis Joplin.”—Publishers Weekly Starred Review
Table of Contents
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- Table of Contents
- pp. vii-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Book One: Gold and Souls
- 1: Smiling Captors
- pp. 1-10
- 2: The Cities of Gold
- pp. 11-16
- 3: So Beset with Hardships
- pp. 17-22
- 4: Imperial Competition
- pp. 23-31
- 5: Souls Without Gold
- pp. 32-35
- 6: Love and Booty
- pp. 36-39
- 7: The Empty Quarter
- pp. 40-46
- 8: Mission Life
- pp. 47-50
- 9: Americans
- pp. 51-54
- 10: Green Flag, Red Blood
- pp. 55-59
- 11: Strange Bedfellows
- pp. 60-64
- Book Two: From Empresarios to Independence
- 13: The Young Empresario
- pp. 73-78
- 14: Pelts Passed Current
- pp. 79-86
- 15: Gone to Texas
- pp. 87-94
- 16: A Finger in the Dike
- pp. 95-97
- 17: Almost a Black Colony
- pp. 98-101
- 18: Flashpoint Doused
- pp. 102-106
- 19: Sam Houston, Late of Tennessee
- pp. 107-112
- 20: The Quiet Before the Storm
- pp. 113-117
- 21: Come and Take It
- pp. 118-125
- 22: Who Will Go with Old Ben Milam?
- pp. 126-133
- 23: Pretended Government
- pp. 134-141
- 24: I Am Determined to Die Like a Soldier
- pp. 142-147
- 25: The New Nation
- pp. 148-153
- 26: Brilliant, Pointless, Pyrrhic
- pp. 154-161
- 27: How Did Davy Die?
- pp. 162-167
- 28: The Ill-Fated Fannin
- pp. 168-177
- 29: You Must Fight Them
- pp. 178-184
- 30: The Battle of San Jacinto
- pp. 185-194
- Book Three: From Nation to State
- 31: Independence and the Southern Conspiracy
- pp. 195-205
- 32: A New Country, a New City
- pp. 206-216
- 33: Poet and President
- pp. 217-222
- 34: The Sanguinary Savage
- pp. 223-232
- 35: Retrenchment
- pp. 233-242
- 36: The Annexation Quickstep
- pp. 243-251
- 37: Nothing Wanting, Nothing Too Much
- pp. 252-260
- 38: The State of Texas
- pp. 261-270
- 39: Life in the Lone Star State
- pp. 271-281
- 40: Still More Fighting
- pp. 282-287
- 41: Slavery and Secession
- pp. 288-295
- 42: A Little Terror
- pp. 296-302
- 43: The War in Texas
- pp. 303-314
- 44: Forty Acres and a Mule
- pp. 315-324
- 45: Scalawags and Carpetbaggers
- pp. 325-336
- Book Four: Cattle Empire
- 46: Clearing the Plains
- pp. 337-349
- 47: Buffalo Days
- pp. 350-358
- 48: The Red River War
- pp. 359-369
- 49: Cattle Empire
- pp. 370-382
- 50: The Populist Movement
- pp. 383-392
- 51: Life by Mail Order
- pp. 393-398
- 52: Final Raids
- pp. 399-404
- 53: Fort Davis: Western Anchor
- pp. 405-410
- 54: Law vs. Outlaw
- pp. 411-418
- 55: Political Evolution
- pp. 419-424
- 56: God Goes Primitive
- pp. 425-432
- 57: Gaining Culture
- pp. 433-440
- Book Five: Oil Empire
- 58: Early Gushers
- pp. 441-447
- 59: A New Century
- pp. 448-454
- 60: Valley of the Shadow
- pp. 455-461
- 62: Flappers and Fergusonism
- pp. 472-486
- 63: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You
- pp. 487-492
- 64: More Fergusons, and Worse
- pp. 493-503
- 65: Texas at War, Again
- pp. 504-518
- 66: Climbing jacob's Ladder
- pp. 519-529
- 67: A Flowering of Texas Letters
- pp. 530-534
- 68: Assassination, War, and Antiwar
- pp. 535-545
- 69: Changes, Faster and Faster
- pp. 546-554
- Selected Sources and Further Reading
- pp. 561-588
Additional Information
ISBN
9781574418682
Related ISBN(s)
9781574418576
MARC Record
OCLC
1331669307
Pages
672
Launched on MUSE
2022-06-24
Language
English
Open Access
No