On history's trail : speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 /
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Denton :
Texas State Historical Association,
[2014]
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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.