Big Wonderful Thing : : A History of Texas / / Stephen Harrigan.
"Harrigan, surveying thousands of years of history that lead to the banh mi restaurants of Houston and the juke joints of Austin, remembering the forgotten as well as the famous, delivers an exhilarating blend of the base and the ignoble, a very human story indeed. [ Big Wonderful Thing is] as...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2019 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Texas Bookshelf
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (944 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- Prologue. Big Tex
- PART ONE. They Came from the Sky
- 1 CASTAWAYS
- 2 GOLDEN CITIES
- 3 WOE TO US
- 4 THE LADY IN BLUE
- 5 VOYAGEURS
- 6 GOD’S WORK
- PART TWO. The Ripe Peach
- 7 FILIBUSTERS
- 8 GOD SPEED YE
- 9 THE TEXAS DREAM
- 10 THE CONSEQUENCE OF FAILURE
- 11 COME AND TAKE IT
- 12 THE ALAMO IS OURS!
- 13 VENGEANCE
- PART THREE. The People Want Excitement
- 14 AFTERMATH
- 15 SPARTAN SPIRIT
- 16 “SAVAGE WARE FARE”
- 17 THE BROKEN FLAGPOLE
- 18 LOS DIABLOS TEJANOS
- 19 THE CRISIS OF THE CRISIS
- 20 ROBBERS AND LAWYERS
- 21 WARRIORS AND REFUGEES
- 22 I WILL NEVER DO IT
- 23 WITH THROBBING HEARTS
- 24 RECONSTRUCTED
- 25 THE END OF COMANCHERÍA
- 26 FENCED IN
- 27 TURN TEXAS LOOSE
- 28 BIPEDAL BRUTES
- 29 SCORPIONS AND HORNY TOADS
- PART FOUR. While Old Rip Slept
- 30 A THOUSAND LITTLE DEVILS
- 31 GUSHERS
- 32 LIGHT COMING ON THE PLAINS
- 33 SEDICIOSOS
- 34 PA
- 35 WAR AT HOME AND ABROAD
- 36 THE BLACKSNAKE WHIP
- PART FIVE. The Empire of Texas
- 37 MUSIC AND MAYHEM
- 38 THE BOY FROM THE HILL COUNTRY
- 39 CENTENNIAL
- 40 PASSIONATE ONES
- 41 TEXANS AT WAR AGAIN
- 42 THE SHOW OF SHOWS
- 43 A NEW TEXAS
- 44 YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH
- 45 THE LORD TAKES A SLEEPING PILL
- 46 GIANT
- 47 A GAMBLIN’ MAN
- 48 WELCOME MR. KENNEDY
- 49 EL DEGÜELLO REPRISE
- 50 THE VOICE OF GOD
- 51 THE TOWER
- 52 VIGIL ON THE PEDERNALES
- 53 A SIDE TO BELONG TO
- 54 DON’T BE SO SELF-RIGHTEOUS
- 55 BAPTISM OF FIRE
- 56 TEXANS VERSUS TEXANS
- Epilogue. DAVY CROCKETT’S FAIRY PALACE
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ILLUSTRATION CREDITS
- INDEX