On history's trail : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cummins, Light Townsend (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Denton : Texas State Historical Association, [2014]
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Essays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy
  • Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans
  • Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls
  • Audie Murphy's hometown
  • Is Bigfoot a Texan?
  • Herring Coe in bronze and stone
  • Jesus wears cowboy boots
  • Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas
  • My place is at a table
  • The voice in the Big Bend
  • Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde
  • Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio
  • Background to the empresario era in Texas
  • Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation
  • Celebrating San Jacinto
  • The first law school in Texas, 1855
  • The Red River War in historical perspective
  • The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor
  • Sculpting Texas history in bronze
  • Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form
  • Remembering Hugh F. Rankin
  • The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana
  • Talks on Texas politics and public service
  • Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service
  • Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect
  • Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe
  • The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history
  • Historical interpretation and Texas history.