Eavesdropping on Texas history
By: edited by Mary L. Scheer
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Denton, Texas
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9781574416756; 9781574416879
Subjects: History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Mary L. Scheer, editor; title: "The earth had chills and fever": the New Madrid earthquakes and Caddo Lake, 1811-1812 / Victoria H. Cummins; title: A fly on Stephen F. Austin's shoulder in Mexico, 1822-1823 / Carolina Castillo Crimm; title: The fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 / Watson Arnold; title: "I was there": the abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker, December 19, 1860 / Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum; title: "Margaret, Texas is lost": Sam Houston refuses to take a loyalty oath to the Confederacy, March 16, 1861 / Mary L. Scheer; title: "And then the ball opened": a violent incident at Scabtown, Menard County, Texas, on New Year's Eve, 1877 / Chuck Parsons; title: With the Yalies in the deep woods, May 10-13, 1909 / Dan K. Utley; title: "So long, it's been good to know you"?: Black Sunday, April 14, 1935 / Heather Green Wooten; title: "The game of the century," November 30, 1935 / Bill O'Neal; title: The firing of Homer Price Rainey, November 1, 1944 / Light T. Cummins; title: "Harry, the President is dead": Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Vice President Harry Truman, and Congressman Lyndon Johnson at the Board of Education on April 12, 1945 / Patrick Cox; title: The establishment of Texas Southern University, 1947 / Merline Pitre; title: "The loneliest job in the world": the day Lyndon Johnson became President, November 22, 1963 / Michael Collins; title: "I remember it well. I lived it": Louise Ballerstedt Raggio and the passage of The marital property act of 1967 / Nancy E. Baker.