The Texas Archive War

Author : Lora-Marie Bernard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2024-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781540260000

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The Texas Archive War by Lora-Marie Bernard Pdf

Often relegated to a footnote, the Archive War almost plunged the Republic of Texas into civil war. Houston's Archive War began with the Texas Revolution, as the spoils of the battlefield gave way to bitter political strife. Sam Houston didn't expect a two-year standoff with Austin residents over the location of the new republic's capital. But if a few things had gone differently, his attempt to shift the seat of government back to the city named after him could have ended with Austin residents in outright rebellion. As it was, the feud between Lamar and Houston over the seat of government escalated into cannon-fire and continued until Texas was a Republic no more. Author Lora-Marie Bernard thumbs through the incendiary files of the Texas Archive War.

Author : Joshua Long
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292778153

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Weird City by Joshua Long Pdf

An examination of Austin’s rapid economic and creative growth and local attitudes toward the Texas capitol’s transformation as an urban center. Austin, Texas, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, is experiencing one of the most dynamic periods in its history. Wedged between homogenizing growth and a long tradition of rebellious nonconformity, many Austinites feel that they are amid a battle for the city’s soul. From this struggle, a movement has emerged as a form of resistance to the rapid urban transformation brought about in recent years: “Keep Austin Weird” originated in 2000 as a grassroots expression of place attachment and anti-commercialization. Its popularity has led to its use as a rallying cry for local business, as a rhetorical tool by city governance, and now as the unofficial civic motto for a city experiencing rapid growth and transformation. By using “Keep Austin Weird” as a central focus, Joshua Long explores the links between sense of place, consumption patterns, sustainable development, and urban politics in Austin. Research on this phenomenon considers the strong influence of the “Creative Class” thesis on Smart Growth strategies, gentrification, income inequality, and social polarization made popular by the works of Richard Florida. This study is highly applicable to several emerging “Creative Cities,” but holds special significance for the city considered the greatest creative success story, Austin.

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Mexican War, 1846-1848
ISBN : UCSD:31822029017811

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Compiled Service Records of Volunteer Soldiers who Served During the Mexican War in Organizations from the State of Texas by United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : David B. Gracy
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292722019

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The State Library and Archives of Texas by David B. Gracy Pdf

The Texas State Library and Archives Commission celebrated its centennial in 2009. To honor that milestone, former State Archivist David Gracy has taken a retrospective look at the agency's colorful and sometimes contentious history as Texas's official information provider and record keeper. In this book, he chronicles more than a century of efforts by dedicated librarians and archivists to deliver the essential, nonpartisan library and archival functions of government within a political environment in which legislators and governors usually agreed that libraries and archives were good and needed—but they disagreed about whatever expenditure was being proposed at the moment. Gracy recounts the stories of persevering, sometimes controversial state librarians and archivists, and commission members, including Ernest Winkler, Elizabeth West (the first female agency head in Texas government), Fannie Wilcox, Virginia Gambrell, and Louis Kemp, who worked to provide Texans the vital services of the state library and archives—developing public library service statewide, maintaining state and federal records for use by the public and lawmakers, running summer reading programs for children, providing services for the visually impaired, and preserving the historically significant records of Texas as a colony, province, republic, and state. Gracy explains how the agency has struggled to balance its differing library and archival functions and, most of all, to be treated as a full-range information provider, and not just as a collection of disparate services.

Author : Darren L. Ivey
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-03-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786456390

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The Texas Rangers by Darren L. Ivey Pdf

The Texas Ranger law enforcement agency features so prominently in Texan and Wild West folklore that its accomplishments have been featured in everything from pulp novels to popular television. After a brief overview of the Texas Rangers’ formation, this book provides an exhaustive account of every known Ranger unit from 1823 to present. Each chapter provides a brief contextual explanation of the time period covered and features entries on each unit’s commanders, periods of service, activities, and supervising authorities. Appendices include an account of the Rangers’ battle record, a history of the illustrious badge, documents relating to the Rangers, and lists of Rangers who have died in service, been inducted into the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame, or received the Texas Department of Public Safety’s Medal of Valor.

Author : Lora-Marie Bernard
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781439668832

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The Yellow Rose of Texas by Lora-Marie Bernard Pdf

A journalist searches for the truth behind the traditional folk song, and a free black woman’s role in the Texas Revolution. The legend of the Yellow Rose of Texas holds an indisputable place in Lone Star culture, tethered to a familiar song that has served as a Civil War marching tune, a pop chart staple, and a halftime anthem. Almost two centuries of Texas mythmaking successfully muddled fact with fable in song, and the true story of Emily D. West remains mired in dispute and unrecognizable beneath the tales that grew up around it. The complete truth may never be recovered, but in this book Lora-Marie Bernard seeks an honest account honoring the grit and determination that brought a free black woman from the abolitionist riots of Connecticut to the thick of a bloody Texas revolution. A Lone Star native who grew up immersed in the Yellow Rose legend, Bernard also traces other stories that legend has obscured, including the connection between Emily D. West and plans for a free black colony in Texas. Includes illustrations

Author : Michael Vinson
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780806166230

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Bluffing Texas Style by Michael Vinson Pdf

In 1989 a woman fishing in Texas on a quiet stretch of the Colorado River snagged a body. Her “catch” was the corpse of Johnny Jenkins, shot in the head. His death was as dramatic as the rare book dealer’s life, which read, as the Austin American-Statesman declared, “like a bestseller.” In 1975 Jenkins had staged the largest rare book coup of the twentieth century—the purchase, for more than two million dollars, of the legendary Eberstadt inventory of rare Americana, a feat noted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. His undercover work for the FBI, recovering rare books stolen by mafia figures, had also earned him headlines coast to coast, as had his exploits as “Austin Squatty,” playing high stakes poker in Las Vegas. But beneath such public triumphs lay darker secrets. At the time of his death, Jenkins was about to be indicted by the ATF for the arson of his rare books, warehouse, and offices. Another investigation implicated Jenkins in forgeries of historical documents, including the Texas Declaration of Independence. Rumors of million-dollar gambling debts at mob-connected casinos circulated, along with the rumblings of irate mafia figures he’d fingered and eccentric Texas collectors he’d cheated. Had he been murdered? Or was his death a suicide, staged to look like a murder? How Jenkins, a onetime president of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America, came to such an unseemly end is one of the mysteries Michael Vinson pursues in this spirited account of a tragic American life. Entrepreneur, con man, connoisseur, forger, and self-made hero, Jenkins was a Texan who knew how to bluff but not when to fold.

Author : Elena Huegel
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9798369405345

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The Sunshine Special by Elena Huegel Pdf

Alleen DeGaris, a native of Missouri who lived most of her adult life in Mexico, travels for three days on the Sunshine Special, a train operated in the early years of the twentieth century by the Missouri Pacific Lines. While the train progresses through the different cities of northern México and the southern United States, it travels into a liminal space where that which was is no longer but what is to come has not yet arrived. As this remarkable woman weaves her story of grief and hope, faith and family, it becomes clear that she, too, like the name of the train on which she rides, is the Sunshine Special.

Author : Jeffrey Dixon Murrah
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Texas
ISBN : 9781257979103

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Texans Always Move Them: by Jeffrey Dixon Murrah Pdf

Author : Ernst Posner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : MINN:31951000482920L

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American State Archives by Ernst Posner Pdf

Evolution of archives administration in the United States and present methods and achievements of the state agencies described by a past president of the Society of American Archivists.

Author : Paul N. Spellman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0890968969

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Forgotten Texas Leader by Paul N. Spellman Pdf

He fought at the Battle of the Neches, wrote the official report of the Council House Fight, helped spur Galveston's growth into a city, and at the time of his death was next in line to command the Confederate regiment that became known as Hood's Brigade."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Stanley Siegel
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292774988

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A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845 by Stanley Siegel Pdf

This book is unique among the histories of the Texas Republic: it is the first to examine the fledgling nation from the point of view of its dynamic political life. Policies with far-reaching results were formulated in the nine years of Texas' independence, and the author clearly presents the many thorny issues that were to plague Texas for generations. The political history of the Republic is one of strong figures vying with each other for popular support of their divergent policies. The author details the personal feuds and animosities that resulted and shows the effects of these differences on the governing of the nation. Thoughtful use of diaries, memoirs, and other contemporary sources gives the reader an excellent understanding of the sense of personal concern the citizens of the Republic felt toward the political issues of the day.

Author : De Witt Clinton Baker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 724 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Texas
ISBN : WISC:89077899474

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A Texas Scrap-book by De Witt Clinton Baker Pdf

Author : United States. National Archives and Records Service
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Archives
ISBN : UOM:39015026924574

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The Administration of Modern Archives by United States. National Archives and Records Service Pdf

Author : A. Ray Stephens
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2014-10-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780806186474

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Texas by A. Ray Stephens Pdf

For twenty years the Historical Atlas of Texas stood as a trusted resource for students and aficionados of the state. Now this key reference has been thoroughly updated and expanded—and even rechristened. Texas: A Historical Atlas more accurately reflects the Lone Star State at the dawn of the twenty-first century. Its 86 entries feature 175 newly designed maps—more than twice the number in the original volume—illustrating the most significant aspects of the state’s history, geography, and current affairs. The heart of the book is its wealth of historical information. Sections devoted to indigenous peoples of Texas and its exploration and settlement offer more than 45 entries with visual depictions of everything from the routes of Spanish explorers to empresario grants to cattle trails. In another 31 articles, coverage of modern and contemporary Texas takes in hurricanes and highways, power plants and population trends. Practically everything about this atlas is new. All of the essays have been updated to reflect recent scholarship, while more than 30 appear for the first time, addressing such subjects as the Texas Declaration of Independence, early roads, slavery, the Civil War and Reconstruction, Texas-Oklahoma boundary disputes, and the tideland oil controversy. A dozen new entries for “Contemporary Texas” alone chart aspects of industry, agriculture, and minority demographics. Nearly all of the expanded essays are accompanied by multiple maps—everyone in full color. The most comprehensive, state-of-the-art work of its kind, Texas: A Historical Atlas is more than just a reference. It is a striking visual introduction to the Lone Star State.