But Texas would remain unmistakably Texas, because Texans "have been made different by the crucible of history they think and act in different ways, according to the history that shaped their hearts and minds. Read more would emerge as an important economic resource and social change would come. The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. He dramatically describes the emergence of Texas as a republic, the vote for secession before the Civil War, and the state's readmission to the Union after the War. Fehrenbach re-creates the Texas saga from prehistory to the Spanish and French invasions to the heyday of the cotton and cattle empires. Fehrenbach and a great selection of similar New, Used and Collectible Books available now at great prices.
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