James J. (Jefferson?) Ross and Applications for Historical Markers for the Ross House and Ross Prairie in Fayette County, Texas
Author: O. G. McClain
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Published: 1982
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Author: O. G. McClain
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Published: 1982
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Published: 1981
Total Pages: 104
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Published: 1835
Total Pages: 55
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: John Henry Brown
Publisher: Jazzybee Verlag
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 812
ISBN-13: 3849674452
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book leads the reader through the past to the present and here leaves him amid active and progressive men who are advancing, along with him, toward the future. Including, as it does, lives of men now living, it constitutes a connecting link between what has gone before and what is to come after. It is therefore fitting that it should be dedicated to a prominent man of our day in preference to one of former times. The matter presented, in the nature of things, is largely biographical. There can be no foundation for history without biography. History is a generalization of particulars. It presents wide extended views. To use a paradox, history gives us but a part of history. That other part which it does not give us, the part which introduces us to the thoughts, aspirations and daily life of a people, is supplied by biography. The men whose deeds are recorded in this book were or are deeply identified with Texas, and the preservation in this volume in enduring form of some remembrance of them—their names, who and what they were—has been a pleasant task to one who feels a deep interest and pride in Texas—its past history, its heroes and future destiny.
Author: Madison, James H.
Publisher: Indiana Historical Society
Published: 2014-10
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 0871953633
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA supplemental textbook for middle and high school students, Hoosiers and the American Story provides intimate views of individuals and places in Indiana set within themes from American history. During the frontier days when Americans battled with and exiled native peoples from the East, Indiana was on the leading edge of America’s westward expansion. As waves of immigrants swept across the Appalachians and eastern waterways, Indiana became established as both a crossroads and as a vital part of Middle America. Indiana’s stories illuminate the history of American agriculture, wars, industrialization, ethnic conflicts, technological improvements, political battles, transportation networks, economic shifts, social welfare initiatives, and more. In so doing, they elucidate large national issues so that students can relate personally to the ideas and events that comprise American history. At the same time, the stories shed light on what it means to be a Hoosier, today and in the past.
Author: Sharon Bracken
Publisher: HPN Books
Published: 2010
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 1935377221
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Published: 1902
Total Pages: 454
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Published: 1917
Total Pages: 530
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 856
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes names from the States of Alabama, Arkansas, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia, and Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands.
Author: Sam W. Haynes
Publisher: Univ of TX + ORM
Published: 2010-07-22
Total Pages: 451
ISBN-13: 0292762607
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis historical study offers “a new understanding of the human cost of the [Republic of Texas’s] vainglorious attempt to attack Mexico” (Western Historical Quarterly). The Somervell and Mier Expeditions of 1842, culminating in the famous "black bean episode" in which Texas prisoners drew white or black beans to determine who would be executed by their Mexican captors, still capture the public imagination in Texas. But were the Texans really martyrs in a glorious cause, or undisciplined soldiers defying their own government? How did the Mier Expedition affect the border disputes between the Texas Republic and Mexico? What role did Texas President Sam Houston play? In Soldiers of Misfortune, Sam W. Haynes addresses this and other important historical questions. Expertly researched yet accessible and engaging, Haynes’s narrative includes many dramatic excerpts from the diaries and letters of expedition participants./DIV