Violence in the Hill Country : : The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era / / Nicholas Keefauver Roland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2021 English
• VerfasserIn: Roland, Nicholas Keefauver,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (288 p.)

In the nineteenth century, Texas’s advancing western frontier was the site of one of America’s longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the Eve of the Civil War
• Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum Politics and the Secession Crisis
• Chapter Three. From Secession to the Nueces River
• Chapter Four. Indians, Inflation, and Bushwhackers
• Chapter Five. Civil War and Political Violence
• Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the Incorporation of the Texas Frontier
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• Appendix A Indian Raiding Deaths during the Civil War
• Appendix B Casualties of Civil War Violence, 1862–1865
• Appendix C Indian Raiding Deaths after the Civil War
• Notes
• Index