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- Author: Joe Bertram Frantz
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1984
- Pages: 256
- ISBN: 9780393348699
- ISBN-10: 0393348695
- ISBN-13: 9780393348699
- Format: ePub
- Language: English
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This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and "hyperactive" Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to "Speaker Sam" Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences.
- Author: Joe Bertram Frantz
- Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
- Year: 1984
- Pages: 256
- ISBN: 9780393348699
- ISBN-10: 0393348695
- ISBN-13: 9780393348699
- Format: ePub
- Language: English English
This is the story of how a myth began, with the Texas Revolution against Mexico, cattle drives, and "hyperactive" Texas Rangers, and became embodied in larger-than-life figures, from Sam Houston to "Speaker Sam" Rayburn, from the explorer La Salle to L. B. J. It is also the story of a state larger than its myth, a Confederate state that contained enclaves of pro-Union German-Americans, a football-loving state that produced musicians of the sensitivity of Scott Joplin and Van Cliburn, a western state that also is Southern, Mexican, and Spanish in its influences.
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