![]() ![]() But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans “have been made different by the crucible of history they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds. In the twentieth century oil would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. ![]() He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state’s readmission to the Union after the War. Its all here-the original peoples, the Spanish explorers, the Mexican. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. Lone Star is seven hundred sixty-seven pages of fascinating stories about Texas. Never before has the story been told with more vitality and immediacy. ![]() Here is an up-to-the-moment history of the Lone Star State, together with an insider’s look at the people, politics, and events that have shaped Texas from the beginning right up to our days. An insider’s history of Texas that examines the people, politics, and events which have shaped the Lone Star State, from prehistory to the modern day ![]()
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