Texas flags / Robert Maberry, Jr. ; foreword by Peter C. Marzio.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maberry, Robert, 1949-

Contributor:

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Flags--Texas.

Flags.

Texas.

Physical Description:

xxv, 198 pages : illustrations (some color), color maps ; 25 x 31 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press ; Houston : In association with the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, [2001]

Summary:

The Lone Star State takes its name from the icon on its famous flag, a flag whose story adds a unique dimension to the dramatic history of Texas. This beautiful book vividly portrays the significance of the red, white, and blue standard with its single five-point star, the visual distillation of more than a hundred years of history. In the flag's early incarnations, homespun cotton, ladies' silk dresses, and various other goods provided the materials used for banners to lead Texans in battle and in nation-building. Historian Robert Maberry, Jr., skillfully traces the use of the lone star symbol in the nineteenth century and describes in detail the various Texas flags that have either incorporated it or used other symbols allogether.

Texas' now-famous flag, Maberry has discovered, was not always a common sight in the state. Though it had been the national flag during the last six years of the Republic (1859-45), the original lone star flag was disearded in favor of the Stars and Stripes upon annexation in 1845. Indeed, by 1860 few Texans knew what their former national standard had looked like. During the years of secession and Civil War. Texans became reacquainted with the old flag, but they made relatively few copies of it, using instead the lone star emblem on the battle flags of the various units. When officials of the Confederacy mandated new "national" flags. Texans often modified them to reflect their own independent heritage. The Texas flags pictured and described in this book are historical objects of considerable artistry and, in many cases, ingenuity on the part of their makers in times of searcity. Some of these historic flags still exist and remain sources of inspiration. Their stories, and those of other banners that have long since disappeared, reveal much about the cultural and aesthetic preferences of the age in which they were fashioned and about the political winds in which they were unfurled.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Tricolor y Tejas 3

Chapter 2. Lone Stars and Stripes 19

Chapter 3. Republic of the Lone Star 39

Chapter 4. Secession's Lone Star 53

Chapter 5. Texas Star in Virginia 70

Chapter 6. Stars of Heartland and Home 84

Chapter 7. Lost Cause and Lone Star 102

Chapter 8. Patriots' Stars 115

Exhibition Catalog 135.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-189) and index.

ISBN:

1585441511

158544166X

OCLC:

46472018