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1st Texas A&M University Press ed.

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011

1 online resource (xii, 362 p.) : ill., ports

ISBN 1603444335 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9781603444330 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 1603444238 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9781603444231

Includes bibliographical references and index

Introduction to a people -- The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers : opening Texas’s lands west -- The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers : giants of Texas’s great cattle herds -- The financiers : new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants : some called them princes -- The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas’s future -- The educators : the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists : vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers : justice for all.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)759158575