The Texan Scouts

The Texan Scouts
Author: Joseph A. Altsheler
Publisher: DigiCat
Total Pages: 279
Release: 2022-11-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The Texan Scouts by Joseph A. Altsheler is the story of the Battle at the Alamo. Altsheler's cow rancher hero Ned must survive and watch as his town crumbles at the hands of war. Excerpt: "The horseman rode slowly toward the west, stopping once or twice to examine the wide circle of the horizon with eyes that were trained to note every aspect of the wilderness. On his right, the plains melted away in gentle swell after swell, until they met the horizon. Their brown surface was broken only by the spiked and thorny cactus and stray bits of chaparral. On his left was the wide bed of a river that flowed through the sand, breaking here and there into several streams, and then reuniting, only to scatter its volume a hundred yards further into three or four channels. A bird of prey flew on strong wings over the water, dipped, and then rose again, but there was no other sign of life. Beyond, the country southward rolled away, gray and bare, sterile and desolate."

The Texan Star & The Texan Scouts

The Texan Star & The Texan Scouts
Author: Joseph Alexander Altsheler
Publisher: e-artnow
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2019-06-03
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN:

The story is set in the early stages of the Texas revolution. Stephen Austin and his young friend Ned begin the adventure of traveling back to Texas to warn the others of Santa Anna's plan to take his army north. Along the way they will have encounters with the Mexican army, the Native Americans and the Texan cowboys…

Inside the Texas Revolution

Inside the Texas Revolution
Author: James E. Crisp
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2021-07-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 1625110634

Herman Ehrenberg wrote the longest, most complete, and most vivid memoir of any soldier in the Texan revolutionary army. His narrative was published in Germany in 1843, but it was little used by Texas historians until the twentieth century, when the first—and very problematic—attempts at translation into English were made. Inside the Texas Revolution: The Enigmatic Memoir of Herman Ehrenberg is a product of the translation skills of the late Louis E. Brister with the assistance of James C. Kearney, both noted specialists on Germans in Texas. The volume’s editor, James E. Crisp, has spent much of the last 27 years solving many of the mysteries that still surrounded Ehrenberg’s life. It was Crisp who discovered that Ehrenberg lived in the Texas Republic until at least 1840, and spent the spring of that year as ranger on the frontier. Ehrenberg was not a historian, but an ordinary citizen whose narrative of the Texas Revolution contains both spectacular eyewitness accounts of action and almost mythologized versions of major events that he did not witness himself. This volume points out where Ehrenberg is lying or embellishing, explains why he is doing so, and narrates the actual relevant facts as far as they can be determined. Ehrenberg’s book is both a testament by a young Texan “everyman” who presents a laudatory paean to the Texan cause, and a German’s explanation of Texas and its “fight for freedom” against Mexico to his fellow Germans—with a powerful subtext that patriotic Germans should aspire to a similar struggle, and a similar outcome: a free, democratic republic.

When the Texans Came

When the Texans Came
Author: John Philip Wilson
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 474
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826322906

Newly-available records from the Civil War in the Southwest, drawn from both Union and Confederate sources, give a much-improved understanding of that period through the words of those who shaped and participated in events at that time.

A sixth reader

A sixth reader
Author: William Iler Crane
Publisher:
Total Pages: 408
Release: 1919
Genre: Readers
ISBN:

A School History of Texas

A School History of Texas
Author: John Henry Brown
Publisher:
Total Pages: 318
Release: 1894
Genre: Texas
ISBN:

Details Texas history for use in teaching the topic in schools.

Tamers of the Texas Frontier

Tamers of the Texas Frontier
Author: C. Herndon Williams
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2023-02-06
Genre: History
ISBN: 1439677190

In the 1820s, Texas was a wilderness. Settlers thought it was uninhabited although rich with wild game. But many Native American tribes lived in Texas and were at war with the Spanish in Mexico. Mexico ignored Texas and did not try to inhabit this wilderness. Finally, in the late 1820s and early 1830s Stephen F. Austin was allowed to bring in three hundred Anglo settlers and Texas began to be civilized. But to start there was only one town, no roads, no bridges, no planted fields. Texas was starting from ground zero but started fast. They tamed the wilderness and fought the Indians. They got their independence from Mexico and became a Republic, soon a U S state. They established a stable government similar to the one in the US and developed the infrastructure for business and international commerce. In less than eighty years Texas had tamed the wild frontier and became a modern state in the United States. C. Herndon Williams has found forty-two stories that chart this progress.

The Texans

The Texans
Author: Time-Life Books
Publisher: Time Life Medical
Total Pages: 248
Release: 1975
Genre: Social Science
ISBN:

Text and numerous illustrations trace the history of Texas during the nineteenth century.