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10/1998. x, 158 pages.
0896723933
$17.95 paper
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A Texas Sampler: Historical Recollections Edited by Lisa Waller Rogers
In both words and images, A Texas Sampler is a tribute to the multicultural heritage of Texas. Thirty-two historically important pieces of art are integrated with thirty-two primary source documents. Together with the art, the excerpts from diaries, memoirs, letters, and tales preserve the pre-Civil War history of Texas and the diverse population that settled it. Among the voices included are: a German housewife, a slave, a Comanche chief, a pioneer mother of ten, a blacksmith, a mustanger, as well as historical figures such as Davy Crockett and William Barrett Travis. Art by Frederic Remington, George Catlin, George Caleb Bingham, William Henry Huddle, and William Tylee Ranney are among the pieces that illustrate historical events.
The collection is arranged chronologically beginning with Cabaza de Vaca's encounter with the Karankawas and ending with Governor Sam Houston's refusal to swear allegiance to the Confederacy.
The Weepers and the Wailers
The Mission San Saba
The Ghost of Jean Lafitte
Black Pelican Soup
The Garden Spot of the World
The Weak Never Started
The Jolly Flatboatmen
The Murders of Haggett and Williams
Victory or Death!
The Runaway Scrape
The Battle of Plum Creek
The Black Bean Lottery
A Comanche Village
A Tonkawa Feast
Lipan Grove
The Street Life of Old San Antone
Frontier Cuisine
Woman's Work
Home Alone
Going Visting
The Fiddler
The Fandango
Brit Bailey
Stagecoach Inn
The Extraordinary Texas Horny Toad
Hog-Killing Time
Two Boys and a Panther
Mustang Catching
Cynthia Ann Parker
The Hanging of Bob Augustin
My Slave Days
A Man with a Conscience
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