Eavesdropping on Texas History [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Mary L. Scheer

• Pubblicazione: Denton, Texas : , : University of North Texas Press, , 2017; ©2017
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 976.4
• Soggetto geografico: Texas History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): ScheerMary L. <1949->
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction / Mary L. Scheer, editor -- "The earth had chills and fever": the New Madrid earthquakes and Caddo Lake, 1811-1812 / Victoria H. Cummins -- A fly on Stephen F. Austin's shoulder in Mexico, 1822-1823 / Carolina Castillo Crimm -- The fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 / Watson Arnold -- "I was there": the abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker, December 19, 1860 / Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum -- "Margaret, Texas is lost": Sam Houston refuses to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy, March 16, 1861 / Mary L. Scheer -- "And then the ball opened": a violent incident at Scabtown, Menard County, Texas, on New Year's Eve, 1877 / Chuck Parsons -- With the Yalies in the deep woods, May 10-13, 1909 / Dan K. Utley -- "So long, it's been good to know you"?: Black Sunday, April 14, 1935 / Heather Green Wooten -- "The game of the century," November 30, 1935 / Bill O'Neal -- The firing of Homer Price Rainey, November 1, 1944 / Light T. Cummins -- "Harry, the President is dead": Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Vice President Harry Truman, and Congressman Lyndon Johnson at the Board of Education on April 12, 1945 / Patrick Cox -- The establishment of Texas Southern University, 1947 / Merline Pitre -- "The loneliest job in the world": the day Lyndon Johnson became President, November 22, 1963 / Michael Collins -- "I remember it well. I lived it": Louise Ballerstedt Raggio and the passage of The marital property act of 1967 / Nancy E. Baker.
• Titolo autorizzato: Eavesdropping on Texas History
• ISBN: 1-57441-687-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910165040203321
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