The Texas Senate
The Texas Senate

Author: Patsy McDonald Spaw

Publisher: Texas A&M University Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780890964422

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The Senate, to a greater extent than the House of Representatives, can take the long view. Its members are more insulated from the turning electoral tides. They represnet a broader-based constituency. Rules are less important than consensus.

Anson Jones
Anson Jones

Author: Herbert Gambrell

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-06-28

Total Pages: 557

ISBN-13: 0292789084

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This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood. Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was successfully practicing medicine, acquiring land, and resolving to avoid politics; but then the Revolution erupted and Jones became a private in the Texas Army, doubling as surgeon at San Jacinto. Military duty done, he resumed medical practice but some acts of the First Congress so irked him that he became a member of the Second and began a political career that lasted from 1837 to 1846 during which he served successively as congressman, minister to the United States, Texas senator, secretary of state, and president of the Republic of Texas. Anson Jones took his own life on January 9, 1858. Told with imagination and insight, Herbert Gambrell's account of the life of Anson Jones is also a colorful and concurrent biography of Texas and its people.

Edward Burleson
Edward Burleson

Author: John Holmes Jenkins

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13:

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The life of Edward Burleson and all of his accomplishments that influenced Texas history.

The Indians of Texas
The Indians of Texas

Author: Michael L. Tate

Publisher: Native American Bibliography Series

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 552

ISBN-13:

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Until their final military defeat in the Red River War of 1874 and subsequent removal to western Oklahoma reservations, Indian peoples played a major role in all phases of southern Plains history, yet no systematic bibliographical tool has ever been compiled to identify the diverse published source materials about their cultures and histories. This bibliography, including 3,791 entries, not only lists the monographic and journal citations but also assesses the quality and reliability of most of these sources. Furthermore, it includes tribes ranging from the well-known Comanche, Kiowa, Caddo, and Wichita to the smaller, more obscure indigenous groups such as the Tonkawa, Karankawa, Jumano, Coahuiltecan, and Atakapa. The author also includes citations relevant to the Texas experiences of 'eastern removed tribes' such as the Cherokee, Alabama, Coushatta, Seminole, and Kickapoo.

Anson Jones
Anson Jones

Author: Herbert Pickens Gambrell

Publisher:

Published: 1948

Total Pages: 490

ISBN-13:

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Biography of doctor, farmer, and politician Anson Jones, who served as the last president of the Republic of Texas and was instrumental in bringing Texas into the union.