LEADER 03444oam 22005294a 450 001 9910788084303321 005 20170822110255.0 010 $a1-62511-029-4 035 $a(CKB)2670000000577708 035 $a(EBL)1865298 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001381694 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12454584 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001381694 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11394941 035 $a(PQKB)10334703 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1865298 035 $a(OCoLC)897070016 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse42859 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000577708 100 $a20140801d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aOn History's Trail$b[electronic resource] $eSpeeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009?2012 /$fLight Townsend Cummins 210 1$aDenton :$cTexas State Historical Association,$d[2014] 210 4$dİ2014 215 $a1 online resource (240 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-62511-023-5 311 $a1-322-33175-8 327 $aEssays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy -- Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans -- Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls -- Audie Murphy's hometown -- Is Bigfoot a Texan? -- Herring Coe in bronze and stone -- Jesus wears cowboy boots -- Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas -- My place is at a table -- The voice in the Big Bend -- Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde -- Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio -- Background to the empresario era in Texas -- Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation -- Celebrating San Jacinto -- The first law school in Texas, 1855 -- The Red River War in historical perspective -- The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor -- Sculpting Texas history in bronze -- Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form -- Remembering Hugh F. Rankin -- The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana -- Talks on Texas politics and public service -- Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service -- Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect -- Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe -- The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history -- Historical interpretation and Texas history. 330 $aOn History's Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins's time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond.The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the "hometown" of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and 606 $aHistoriography 607 $aTexas$xBiography 607 $aTexas$xHistory 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aHistoriography. 676 $a976.400496073 700 $aCummins$b Light Townsend$01478364 801 0$bMdBmJHUP 801 1$bMdBmJHUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788084303321 996 $aOn History's Trail$93783175 997 $aUNINA