My Eighty Years in Texas / / William Physick Zuber; ed. by Janis Boyle Mayfield.
Almost a century and a half went into the making of My Eighty Years in Texas. It began as a diary, kept by fifteen-year-old William Physick Zuber after he joined Sam Houston’s Texas army in 1836, hoping he could emulate the heroism of American Revolutionary patriots. Although his hopes were never re...
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Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©1971 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Personal Narratives of the West
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Editor's Foreword
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- The End Came Too Soon
- Preface
- CHAPTER 1 Ancestry
- CHAPTER 2 Childhood and Youth
- CHAPTER 3 Fighting for Texas Independence
- CHAPTER 4 Defending the Republic
- CHAPTER 5 Politics, Religion, and Learning
- CHAPTER 6 Campaigning in Arkansas and Missouri
- CHAPTER 7 Campaigning in Louisiana
- CHAPTER 8 Back Home Again
- Appendix A An Escape from the Alamo
- Appendix B Historiography of the Account of Moses Rose and the Line that Travis Drew
- Bibliography
- Index