TY  - BOOK
AU  - Harrigan,Stephen
TI  - Big wonderful thing: a history of Texas 
T2  - The Texas bookshelf
SN  - 9780292759510
AV  - F386 .H267 2019
U1  - 976.4 23
PY  - 2019///
CY  - Austin, TX
PB  - University of Texas Press
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - fast
N1  - "The Texas bookshelf"--Title page; Includes bibliographical references (pages 836-890) and index; Castaways -- Golden cities -- Woe to us -- The lady in blue -- Voyageurs -- God's work -- Filibusters -- God speed ye -- The Texas dream -- The consequence of failure -- Come and take it -- The Alamo is ours! -- Vengeance -- Aftermath -- Spartan spirit -- "Savage ware fare" -- The broken flagpole -- Los diablos tejanos -- The crisis of the crisis -- Robbers and lawyers -- Warriors and refugees -- I will never do it -- With throbbing hearts -- Reconstructed -- The end of Comancheria -- Fenced in -- Turn Texas loose -- Bipedal brutes -- Scorpions and horny toads -- A thousand little devils -- Gushers -- Light coming on the plains -- Sediciosos -- Pa -- War at home and abroad -- The blacksnake whip -- Music and mayhem -- The boy from the hill country -- Centennial -- Passionate ones -- Texans at war again -- The show of shows -- A new Texas -- Ye shall know the truth -- The lord takes a
N2  - The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world
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