Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor
Subtitle: James Webb Throckmorton
By: Kenneth Wayne Howell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Sam Rayburn series on rural life -- no. 17
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9781603440400
Subjects: Throckmorton, J. W. -- 1825-1894; Governors -- Texas -- Biography; Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Texas; Texas -- Politics and government -- 19th century; Texas -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Genres: Biography.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics; title: The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50; title: Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57; title: The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61; title: The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65; title: Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66; title: "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866; title: An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867; title: Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73; title: The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.