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Best Texas History Books To Dig Deeper

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Best Texas History Books To Dig Deeper

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If you listened to our six-part series on turning-point documents in Texas history, Gene and Scott now lay out a listener-friendly reading list with suggestions on what to pick up when you’re ready for deeper analysis and debate.If you're looking to build your Texas history bookshelf, this episode is for you. We have a list of the books we discuss in the links below, but this is just the starting place. Other books by these authors are also worth reading, and exploring.Subscribe, share the show with a friend who loves history, and leave a review so more people can find us.Books:Donald E. Chipman and Harriet Denise Joseph, Spanish Texas, 1519 - 1821, Revised Alvar Nunez Cabeza De Vaca, Chronicle of the Narvaez Expedition Alex Krieger, We Came Barefoot, Naked and Barefoot, The Journey of Cabeza Devaca across North America Andrés Reséndez, A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de VacaStephen L. Hardin, Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas RevolutionPaul D. Lack, The Texas Revolutionary Experience: A Political and Social History, 1835-1836Sam W. Haynes, Unsettled Land: From Revolution to Republic, the Struggle for TexasH. W. Brands, Lone Star Nation: How a Ragged Army of Volunteers Won the Battle for TexasAndrew Torget's Seeds of Empire, Cotton Slavery and the Transformation of the Texas BorderlandsGreg Cantrell, Stephen F. Austin: Empresario of TexasJames Crisp, Sleuthing the Alamo: Davy Crockett's Last Stand and Other Mysteries of the Texas RevolutionCarl Moneyhon, Texas After the Civil War: The Struggle of ReconstructionRandolph B. Campbell, Grass Roots Reconstruction in Texas, 1865 to 1880.James Smallwood, The Feud That Wasn't: The Taylor Ring, Bill Sutton, John Wesley Hardin, and Violence in TexasBarry Crouch, The Freedmen's Bureau in Black TexasGreg Cantrell, Feeding The Wolf: John B. Rayner and the Politics of Race, 1850 - 1918Lewis Gould, Progressives and Prohibitionists: Texas Democrats in the Wilson EraAlwwn Barr, Reconstruction to Reform: Texas Politics, 1876 to 1906

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