The Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War
The Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War

Author: Paul Calore

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2014-04-28

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 078647940X

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This narrative history describes the events preceding, and the prosecution of, the Texas Revolution and the U.S.-Mexican War. It begins with the introduction of the empresario system in Mexico in 1823, a system of land distribution to American farmers and ranchers in an attempt to strengthen the postwar economy following Mexico's independence from Spain. Once welcomed as fellow countrymen, the new settlers, homesteading on land destined to be called Texas, were viewed as enemies when in 1835 they revolted against the government's harsh Centralist rulings. Winning independence from Mexico and recognition from the United States as the independent Republic of Texas only intensified the Mexican refusal to accept their loss of Texas as legitimate. The final straw for both sides came when Texas was granted U.S. statehood and 11 American soldiers were ambushed and murdered. As a result, Congress declared war on Mexico, a bloody conflict that resulted in the U.S. gain of 525,000 square miles.

The Texas Rangers
The Texas Rangers

Author: Walter Prescott Webb

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 1965

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 0292781105

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The Texas Rangers presents one of the most picturesque phases of Texas history, capturing the spirit of a fabled institution.

Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas
Early Settlers and Indian Fighters of Southwest Texas

Author: Andrew Jackson Sowell

Publisher:

Published: 1900

Total Pages: 884

ISBN-13:

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This edition is abridged and annotated with updated information.A judge from Prussia. A French Texas Ranger. Emigrants from all over the U.S.Their names and stories are mostly now forgotten but were recorded in this 1900 volume by Andrew Jackson Sowell. They were mostly young, hardy, and looking for new opportunities in land they felt was wide open but, in fact, was inhabited by Native Americans. The lives of these early pioneers is part of the history of the American West.The original bound edition of this book ran over 1100 pages and most of that content is here. It's the story of an incredibly violent and adventurous time that was lived by the people whose stories you find here. Sowell talked to them all and created one of the most interesting collections of personal histories of the wild West.

The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War [3 volumes]
The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War [3 volumes]

Author: Spencer C. Tucker

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2012-10-09

Total Pages: 1159

ISBN-13: 1851098542

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This user-friendly encyclopedia comprises a wide array of accessible yet detailed entries that address the military, social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of the Mexican-American War. The Encyclopedia of the Mexican-American War: A Political, Social, and Military History provides an in-depth examination of not only the military conflict itself, but also the impact of the war on both nations; and how this conflict was the first waged by Americans on foreign soil and served to establish critical U.S. military, political, and foreign policy precedents. The entries analyze the Mexican-American War from both the American and Mexican perspectives, in equal measure. In addition to discussing the various campaigns, battles, weapons systems, and other aspects of military history, the three-volume work also contextualizes the conflict within its social, cultural, political, and economic milieu, and places the Mexican-American War into its proper historical and historiographical contexts by covering the eras both before and after the war. This information is particularly critical for students of American history because the conflict fomented sectional conflict in the United States, which resulted in the U.S. Civil War.