On history's trail
Subtitle: speeches and essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012
By: Light Townsend Cummins
Publisher: Texas State Historical Association
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Denton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781625110237
Subjects: History; Biography; Historiography
Work titles: Works
Table of contents: title: Essays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy; title: Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans; title: Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls; title: Audie Murphy's hometown; title: Is Bigfoot a Texan?; title: Herring Coe in bronze and stone; title: Jesus wears cowboy boots; title: Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas; title: My place is at a table; title: The voice in the Big Bend; title: Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde; title: Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio; title: Background to the empresario era in Texas; title: Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation; title: Celebrating San Jacinto; title: The first law school in Texas, 1855; title: The Red River War in historical perspective; title: The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor; title: Sculpting Texas history in bronze; title: Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form; title: Remembering Hugh F. Rankin; title: The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana; title: Talks on Texas politics and public service; title: Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service; title: Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect; title: Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe; title: The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history; title: Historical interpretation and Texas history.