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Pioneer Jewish Texans /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ornish, Natalie
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011.
Edition:1st Texas A&M University Press ed.
Subjects:
Jews > Texas > Biography.
Texas > Biography.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction to a people
  • The adventurers: conquistadors and the search for freedom
  • The soldiers: Jews in the battles for Texas independence
  • The colonizers: opening Texas's lands west
  • The statesmen: constructing a republic and a nation
  • The ranchers: giants of Texas's great cattle herds
  • The financiers: new frontiers in banking
  • The wildcatters: from pipes to oil leases
  • The humanitarian: Galveston and the gateway immigration movement
  • The great merchants: some called them princes
  • The significant merchants: laying the economic foundation for Texas's future
  • The educators: the Paul Reveres of education
  • The artists: vanguards in the arts
  • The doctors and other healers: from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize
  • The lawyers: justice for all.