The History of Texas. Robert A. Calvert
Population The Modern Texas Economy The Changing Face of Urban Texas Texas Politics in the Twenty‐First Century Current Issues, Future Challenges Conclusion Readings
19 Appendix Spanish Governors of Texas Provincial Governors of Texas Governors of Coahuila y Texas Presidents of Texas Governors of Texas United States Senators
20 Index
List of Tables
1 Chapter 5Table 5.1 Origins of the Texas population, 1850.
2 Chapter 6Table 6.1 Phases of Reconstruction.
3 Chapter 7Table 7.1 Makeup of the Texas population.Table 7.2 Dollar value of Texas crops.
4 Chapter 9Table 9.1 Ranking of Texas crops by acreage, 1909–1929.
List of Illustrations
1 Chapter 1Figure 1.1 White Shaman. Cave art of the prehistoric inhabitants of the Peco...Figure 1.2 Over 1,200 years ago, a group of Caddo Indians known as the Hasin...Figure 1.3 This famous panther is an outstanding example of the prehistoric ...Figure 1.4 Early Spanish exploration.Figure 1.5 Coronado on the High Plains by Frederic Remington.Figure 1.6 Mission San José, San Antonio.
2 Chapter 2Figure 2.1 Frontier institutions in Texas.Figure 2.2 The pobladores turned to the environment for materials with which...Figure 2.3 The funeral of an “angel” or baptized infant. Infant mortality ra...Figure 2.4 Indian tribes of Colonial Texas.Figure 2.5 Buffalo Hump, Comanche Indian.Figure 2.6 The marketplace was the center of life in frontier towns.Figure 2.7 Corrida de la Sandía (Watermelon Race) by Theodore Gentilz. ...
3 Chapter 3Figure 3.1 Stephen F. Austin. CN 01436, The Dolph Briscoe Center for America...Figure 3.2 Empresario contracts.Figure 3.3 José Antonio Navarro. Painting by Dee Hernández. University of Te...Figure 3.4 Lorenzo de Zavala. University of Texas at San Antonio Libraries S...Figure 3.5 Ethnic settlements, 1836. Terry G. Jordan, “A Century and a Half ...Figure 3.6 Dawn at the Alamo. This romantic painting is exhibited at the Tex...Figure 3.7 The Battle of San Jacinto.
4 Chapter 4Figure 4.1 The Republic of Texas and boundary claims.Figure 4.2 Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar.Figure 4.3 Towns of the Republic of Texas, 1836–1845.Figure 4.4 Six o’ clock a.m., Military Plaza, San Antonio.Figure 4.5 Shooting of the 17 decimated Texians at El Salada, Mexico.Figure 4.6 The Republic of Texas is no more–President Anson Jones conducts t...Figure 4.7 William A. “Big Foot” Wallace in San Antonio.
5 Chapter 5Figure 5.1 Land forms of Texas.Figure 5.2 Ethnic settlements, 1850.Figure 5.3 Leñeros, Tejano wood haulers with their donkeys.Figure 5.4 Military posts.Figure 5.5 Batting cotton. Frontier women were responsible for every step of...Figure 5.6 Sam Houston in the latter years of the 1850s. Elected governor in...Figure 5.7 The Confederates evacuating Brownsville, Texas. Sketched by an En...Figure 5.8 Union soldiers on Elizabeth Street in Brownsville. Drawing from a...Figure 5.9 Albert Sidney Johnston. From a painting by E.F. Andrews. Exhibite...
6 Chapter 6Figure 6.1 Andrew Jackson Hamilton.Figure 6.2 James W. Throckmorton, governor, 1866–67.Figure 6.3 Elisha M. Pease.Figure 6.4 George T. Ruby, Republican senator from Galveston and president o...Figure 6.5 Watercolor of Matt Gaines and G. T. Ruby in the Senate Chambers, ...Figure 6.6 Portrait of Edmund J. Davis. Exhibited in the Texas State Capitol...Figure 6.7 “Uncle” George Glenn, an honored life member of the Trail Drivers...Figure 6.8 The 9th Cavalry at Fort Davis.Figure 6.9 West Texas forts and the Comanche Range, 1866 to 1880s.Figure 6.10 Satanta, Kiowa Chief.Figure 6.11 Quanah Parker–Comanche Chief.Figure 6.12 Quanah Parker as whites perceived him in highly stylized dress....Figure 6.13 Cattle trails.Figure 6.14 Richard Coke, Democratic governor of Texas, 1874.
7 Chapter 7Figure 7.1 Angora Goats on Pig Foot Ranch.Figure 7.2 Five captains and one major of the Texas Rangers. Among them (low...Figure 7.3 Major Texas railroads to 1900.Figure 7.4 Kansas City Southern Passenger Depot, Port Arthur, Texas.Figure 7.5 Cotton bale at Galveston before compression.Figure 7.6 Stagecoach at Concho Mail Station, Tom Green County, 1879.Figure 7.7 Mail station in Concho Country, West Texas, ca. 1870s.Figure 7.8 Prisoners, mostly black, at the stone dressing area of the quarry...Figure 7.9 Norris Wright Cuney (R).Figure 7.10 George W. “Wash” Jones (Grnbk).
8 Chapter 8Figure 8.1 Jesse Boyd plowing Charlie Swenson’s farm in the late 1890s or ea...Figure 8.2 Freed slaves celebrate Juneteenth.Figure 8.3 Ethnic settlements 1880.Figure 8.4 Suffragist Frances E. Willard.Figure 8.5 James S. Hogg family portrait, ca. 1890.Figure 8.6 Populist political leader Thomas Lewis Nugent.
9 Chapter 9Figure 9.1 Oil fields of Texas and date of discovery 1894–1918.Figure 9.2 Texas City oil refineries, 1911.Figure 9.3 Desdemona, Texas, ca. 1920.Figure 9.4 Boulevard and bath houses, Galveston, Texas.Figure 9.5 Percentage of cotton grown in each state, crop of 1933.Figure 9.6 A group of dogs on a car at the Fords Lake Lumber Co. An African ...Figure 9.7 This photograph of fig‐shipping employees in the early twentieth ...Figure 9.8 The burning and mutilation of the body of Jesse Washington follow...Figure 9.9 Tillie Brackenridge in San