Pioneer Jewish Texans / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern.

• Author: ProQuest (Firm); Ornish, Natalie.
• TeilnehmendeR: Alpern, Sara.; ProQuest (Firm)
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st Texas A&M University Press ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: xii, 362 p. :; ill., ports.

Table of Contents

• Introduction to a people
• The adventurers : conquistadors and the search for freedom
• The soldiers : Jews in the battles for Texas independence
• The colonizers : opening Texas's lands west
• The statesmen : constructing a republic and a nation
• The ranchers : giants of Texas's great cattle herds
• The financiers : new frontiers in banking
• The wildcatters : from pipes to oil leases
• The humanitarian : Galveston and the gateway immigration movement
• The great merchants : some called them princes
• The significant merchants : laying the economic foundation for Texas's future
• The educators : the Paul Reveres of education
• The artists : vanguards in the arts
• The doctors and other healers : from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize
• The lawyers : justice for all.