Texas : a history
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Texas : a history
（The States and the Nation series）
W.W. Norton , American Association for State and Local History, c1984
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Previous ed. has subtitle: A bicentennial history
Bibliography: p. 213-216
Includes index
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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.
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