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The evolution of a state, or, Recollections of old Texas days / Noah Smithwick ; compiled by Nanna Smithwick Donaldson ; foreword by L. Tuffey Ellis ; illustrations by Charles Shaw.
LIBRA F389 .S66 1983
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899.
- Series:
- Barker Texas History Center series ; no. 5.
- Barker Texas History Center series ; no. 5
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smithwick, Noah, 1808-1899.
- Frontier and pioneer life--Texas.
- Frontier and pioneer life.
- Texas.
- Pioneers--Texas--Biography.
- Pioneers.
- Texas--History--To 1846.
- History.
- Texas--Biography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- First University of Texas Press edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Austin : University of Texas Press, 1983.
- Summary:
- Noah Smithwick was an old man, blind and near his ninetieth year, when his daughter recorded these words. He had stayed on in 'paradise'--Texas--from 1827 to 1861, when his opposition to secession took him to California. The Evolution of a State is his story of these 'old Texas days.'
- ISBN:
- 0292720432
- OCLC:
- 9815494
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