On History's Trail [electronic resource] : Speeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009–2012 / Light Townsend Cummins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cummins, Light Townsend, author.

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Historiography.

Texas--Biography.

Texas.

Texas--History.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Denton : Texas State Historical Association, [2014]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On History's Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins's time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond.The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the "hometown" of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and

Contents:

Essays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy

Mystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans

Edna Trigg and the tomato club girls

Audie Murphy's hometown

Is Bigfoot a Texan?

Herring Coe in bronze and stone

Jesus wears cowboy boots

Going to the Ivy Leagues in Texas

My place is at a table

The voice in the Big Bend

Lee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde

Speeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio

Background to the empresario era in Texas

Emily Austin of Peach Point Plantation

Celebrating San Jacinto

The first law school in Texas, 1855

The Red River War in historical perspective

The Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor

Sculpting Texas history in bronze

Far afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form

Remembering Hugh F. Rankin

The Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana

Talks on Texas politics and public service

Sam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service

Roscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect

Remembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe

The nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history

Historical interpretation and Texas history.

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62511-029-4

OCLC:

897070016