Mary Austin Holley

Author : Rebecca Smith Lee
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292786363

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Mary Austin Holley by Rebecca Smith Lee Pdf

Mary Austin Holley found life challenging and made it interesting for others. As wife and widow of Horace Holley, eminent orator, clergyman, and educator, and as cousin and friend of Stephen F. Austin, founder of the first Texas colony, she formed friendships among important people. From New Haven to New Orleans and Brazoria, Texas, she was beloved. The panorama of her life, described in vivid detail by a former head of the English Department at Texas Christian University, transports the reader to the tempestuous early years of the American Republic and, finally, to Texas during its colonization and early Republic years. Throughout this charming book Mrs. Holley's "intuition for important people" brings the reader into the company of many of America's great and accomplished: Noah Webster, John Quincy Adams, President and Mrs. Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and many others.

Author : Rebecca Smith Lee,Mary Austin HOLLEY
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1962-01-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 029273297X

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Mary Austin Holley by Rebecca Smith Lee,Mary Austin HOLLEY Pdf

Among the early Texas pioneers was Mary Austin Holley, a cousin of Stephen F. Austin and a woman of considerable intelligence, charm, and literary ability. In this biography, Lee traces the events that brought this remarkable woman to Texas.

Author : Mary Austin Holley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017968820

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Texas; Observations, Historical, Geographical and Descriptive by Mary Austin Holley Pdf

Author : Mary Austin Holley
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477304242

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Mary Austin Holley by Mary Austin Holley Pdf

Mary Austin Holley (1784–1846), a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, journeyed to Texas on three separate occasions. Her first visit, in 1831, resulted in the publication of her book, Texas. Her second and third trips, in 1835 and 1837, were depicted in her diary. This witty, observant, and highly perceptive woman captured the infant Texas in her journal—the Mexican state moving toward rebellion and the new Republic, dynamic and struggling with a great destiny. The Holley diary is an important insight into the social and political history of early Texas.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1900
Category : Frontier and pioneer life
ISBN : OCLC:45257493

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Mary Austin Holley by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary Austin 1784-1846 Holley
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1013954319

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Texas by Mary Austin 1784-1846 Holley Pdf

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Author : Mary Austin Holley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1334617679

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Mary Austin Holley : the Texas Diary, 1835-1838 by Mary Austin Holley Pdf

Author : Nina Baym
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252093135

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Women Writers of the American West, 1833-1927 by Nina Baym Pdf

Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 recovers the names and works of hundreds of women who wrote about the American West during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, some of them long forgotten and others better known novelists, poets, memoirists, and historians such as Willa Cather and Mary Austin Holley. Nina Baym mined literary and cultural histories, anthologies, scholarly essays, catalogs, advertisements, and online resources to debunk critical assumptions that women did not publish about the West as much as they did about other regions. Elucidating a substantial body of nearly 650 books of all kinds by more than 300 writers, Baym reveals how the authors showed women making lives for themselves in the West, how they represented the diverse region, and how they represented themselves. Baym accounts for a wide range of genres and geographies, affirming that the literature of the West was always more than cowboy tales and dime novels. Nor did the West consist of a single landscape, as women living in the expanses of Texas saw a different world from that seen by women in gold rush California. Although many women writers of the American West accepted domestic agendas crucial to the development of families, farms, and businesses, they also found ways to be forceful agents of change, whether by taking on political positions, deriding male arrogance, or, as their voluminous published works show, speaking out when they were expected to be silent.

Author : Mary Austin Holley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1933
Category : Texas
ISBN : UOM:39015008715321

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Letters of an Early American Traveller, Mary Austin Holley by Mary Austin Holley Pdf

Author : Mary L. Scheer
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574414691

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Women and the Texas Revolution by Mary L. Scheer Pdf

"Historically, wars and revolutions have offered politically and socially disadvantaged people the opportunity to contribute to the nation (or cause) in exchange for future expanded rights. Although shorter than most conflicts, the Texas Revolution nonetheless profoundly affected not only the leaders and armies, but the survivors, especially women, who endured those tumultuous events and whose lives were altered by the accompanying political, social, and economic changes.

Author : Gregg Cantrell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2001-08-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0300090935

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Stephen F. Austin by Gregg Cantrell Pdf

Stephen F. Austin, the Father of Texas, has long been enshrined as an authentic American hero. This biography brings his private life, motives, personality and character into sharp focus, and examines the skills he employed as a central player in events leading to the Texas Revolution.

Author : Mattie Austin Hatcher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1258134764

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Letters of an Early American Traveler by Mattie Austin Hatcher Pdf

Author : Mary Austin Holley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1833
Category : Texas
ISBN : UOM:69015000005534

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Texas by Mary Austin Holley Pdf

A series of letters, written during a visit to Austin's colony, with a view to a permanent settlement.

Author : James P. Cousins
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813168586

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Horace Holley by James P. Cousins Pdf

Outspoken New England urbanite Horace Holley (1781--1827) was an unlikely choice to become the president of Transylvania University -- the first college established west of the Allegheny Mountains. Many Kentuckians doubted his leadership abilities, some questioned his Unitarian beliefs, and others simply found him arrogant and elitist. Nevertheless, Holley ushered in a period of sustained educational and cultural growth at Transylvania, and the university received national attention for its scientifically progressive and liberal curriculum. The resulting influx of wealthy students and celebrated faculty -- including Constantine Samuel Rafinesque -- lent Lexington, Kentucky, a distinguished atmosphere and gave rise to the city's image as the "Athens of the West." In this definitive biography, James P. Cousins offers fresh perspectives on a seminal yet controversial figure in American religious history and educational life. The son of a prosperous New England merchant family, Holley studied at Yale University before serving as a minister. He achieved national acclaim as an intellectual and self-appointed critic of higher education before accepting the position at Transylvania. His clashes with political and community leaders, however, ultimately led him to resign in 1827, and his untimely death later that year cut short a promising career. Drawing upon a wealth of previously used and newly uncovered primary sources, Cousins analyzes the profound influence of westward expansion on social progress and education that transpired during Holley's tenure. This engaging book not only illuminates the life and work of an important yet overlooked figure, but makes a valuable contribution to the history of education in the early American Republic.

Author : Noah Smithwick
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780292787520

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The Evolution of a State or Recollections of Old Texas Days by Noah Smithwick Pdf

This colorful memoir brings the Texas frontier to life, from smuggling adventures to fighting in the Texas Revolution and serving as a Texas Ranger. Having left Kentucky at nineteen, Noah Smithwick arrived in Texas in 1827 to seek his fortune in a “lazy man’s paradise.” He left in 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. Looking back at that time, blind and nearing ninety, Smithwick recounted the story to his daughter—and so came to be this invaluable memoir of “old Texas days.” A blacksmith and a tobacco smuggler, Smithwick made weapons for—and fought in—the Battle of Concepción. With Hensley's company, he chased the Mexican army south of the Rio Grande after the Battle of San Jacinto. Twice he served with the Texas Rangers. In quieter times, he was a postmaster and justice of the peace in little Webber's Prairie. Eyewitness to so much Texas history, Smithwick recounts his life and adventures in a simple, straightforward style, with a wry sense of humor. His keen memory for detail—what people wore and ate; how they worked and played— vividly evokes life on the frontier.