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The History of Texas is fully revised and updated in this fifth edition to reflect the latest scholarship in its coverage of Texas history from the pre-Columbian era to the present. * Fully revised to reflect the most recent scholarly findings * Offers extensive coverage of twentieth-century Texas history * Includes an overview of Texas history up to the Election of 2012 * Provides online resources for students and instructors, including a test bank, maps, presentation slides, and more

The History of Texas

List of Maps vi

Preface and Acknowledgments vii

Timeline x

Chapter 1 Contact of Civilizations, 1521-1721 1

Chapter 2 Spaniards in a Far Northern Frontera, 1721-1821 27

Chapter 3 Mexican Texas, 1821-1836 54

Chapter 4 Launching a Nation, 1836-1848 83

Chapter 5 Statehood, Secession, and Civil War, 1848-1865 111

Chapter 6 The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1876 142

Chapter 7 A Frontier Society in Transition, 1876-1886 181

Chapter 8 Texas in the Age of Agrarian Discontent, 1886-1900 213

Chapter 9 Texas in the Progressive Era, 1900-1929 237


Chapter 10 Texas and the Great Depression, 1929-1941 289

Chapter 11 War, Prosperity, and Modernization, 1941-1960 328

Chapter 12 Texas in Transition, 1960-1986 375

Chapter 13 A New Texas? 1986-2001 406

Chapter 14 Into the New Millennium, 2001-2012 439

Appendix 469

Index 474