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Book Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 698 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Hawkins Ranch in Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Margaret Lewis Furse
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2014-04-08
  • ISBN : 162349110X
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Hawkins Ranch in Texas written by Margaret Lewis Furse and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1846, James Boyd Hawkins, his wife Ariella, and their young children left North Carolina to establish a sugar plantation in Matagorda County, in the Texas coastal bend. In The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present, Margaret Lewis Furse, a great-granddaughter of James B. and Ariella Hawkins and an active partner in today’s Hawkins Ranch, has mined public records, family archives, and her own childhood memories to compose this sweeping portrait of more than 160 years of plantation, ranch, and small-town life. Letters sent by the Hawkinses from the Texas plantation to their North Carolina family in the mid-nineteenth century describe sugar making, the perils of cholera and fevers, the activities of children, and the “management” of slaves. Public records and personal papers reveal the experience of the Hawkins family during the Civil War, when J. B. Hawkins sold goods to the Confederacy and helped with Confederate coastal defenses near his plantation. In the 1930s, the death of their parents left the ranch in the hands of four sisters, at a time when few women owned and ran cattle operations. The Hawkins Ranch in Texas: From Plantation Times to the Present offers a panoramic view of agrarian lifeways and how they must adapt to changing times.

Book A History of Texas Baptists

Download or read book A History of Texas Baptists written by James Milton Carroll and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 1138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Frontier Times

Download or read book Frontier Times written by and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 674 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book From A Watery Grave

Download or read book From A Watery Grave written by James E. Bruseth and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On a frigid, stormy day in February of 1686, a small French sailing ship lost control and ran aground in Matagorda Bay. More than 300 years later, Texas Historical Commission archeologists discovered La Belle's resting place. This title tells a tale of nautical adventure in the seventeenth century.

Book Recollections of Early Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Holmes Jenkins, III
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 1987
  • ISBN : 9780292770379
  • Pages : 364 pages

Download or read book Recollections of Early Texas written by John Holmes Jenkins, III and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 1987 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "John Holland Jenkins was thirteen and a half years old when the Alamo fell in 1836 and he became a soldier of the Texas Republic under General Sam Houston.... [But] it was not until 1884, when he was past sixty years old, that he began writing down...the reminiscences that, as now put into book form, light up for whoever will read [them] the earliest days of early English-speaking Texas." —from the Foreword by J. Frank Dobie "This is the firsthand account by one who measured up to the demands of danger and hardships and lived to write about it for others. For, here is history in the making—Indian raids and Mexican forays were daily menaces and brought massacres, capture and torture to these first settlers. These reminiscences...are invaluable for their recordings of early frontier times and for their presentation of such historic happenings as the Mier and Santa Fe expeditions. The original flavor of the writing has been beautifully retained and the entire account is well documented." —Library Journal

Book Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America

Download or read book Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America written by Robin C. Sager and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2016-07-06 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Marital Cruelty in Antebellum America, Robin C. Sager probes the struggles of aggrieved spouses shedding light on the nature of marriage and violence in the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Analyzing over 1,500 divorce records that reveal intimate details of marriages in conflict in Virginia, Texas, and Wisconsin from 1840--1860, Sager offers a rare glimpse into the private lives of ordinary Americans shaken by accusations of cruelty. At a time when the standard for an ideal marriage held that both partners adequately perform their respective duties, hostility often arose from ongoing domestic struggles for power. Despite a rise in the then novel expectation of marriage as a companionate relationship, and even in the face of liberalized divorce grounds, marital conflicts often focused on violations of duty, not lack of love. Sager describes how, in this environment, cruelty was understood as a failure to fulfill expectations and as a weapon to brutally enforce more traditional interpretations of marital duty. Sager's findings also challenge historical literature's assumptions about the regional influences on violence, showing that married southerners were no more or less violent than their midwestern counterparts. Her work reveals how definitions and perceptions of cruelty varied according to the gender of victim and perpetrator. Correcting historical mischaracterizations of women's violence as trivial, rare, or defensive, Sager finds antebellum wives both capable and willing to commit a wide variety of cruelties within their marriages. Her research provides details about the reality of nineteenth-century conjugal unions, including the deep unhappiness buried within them.

Book Alumni History of the University of North Carolina

Download or read book Alumni History of the University of North Carolina written by University of North Carolina (1793-1962) and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 992 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Alamo Reader

    Book Details:
  • Author : Todd Hansen
  • Publisher : Stackpole Books
  • Release : 2003
  • ISBN : 9780811700603
  • Pages : 876 pages

Download or read book The Alamo Reader written by Todd Hansen and published by Stackpole Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If everyone was killed inside the Alamo, how do we know what happened? This surprisingly simple question was the genesis for Todd Hansen's compendium of source material on the subject, "The Alamo Reader". Utilising obscure and rare sources along with key documents never before published, Hansen carefully balances the accounts against one another, culminating in the definitive resource for Alamo history.

Book Journal of the Graduate Research Center

Download or read book Journal of the Graduate Research Center written by Graduate Research Center, Dallas and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of the North Mexican States and Texas   History of the north Mexican states and Texas   1801 1889

Download or read book History of the North Mexican States and Texas History of the north Mexican states and Texas 1801 1889 written by Hubert Howe Bancroft and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Texas Almanac  2000 2001  Millennium Edition

Download or read book Texas Almanac 2000 2001 Millennium Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Austin Papers

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  • Author : Moses Austin
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 1204 pages

Download or read book The Austin Papers written by Moses Austin and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book America  History and Life

Download or read book America History and Life written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Article abstracts and citations of reviews and dissertations covering the United States and Canada.