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Texas Mass Graves : Burial Grounds of Atrocity, Massacre and Battle.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benjamin, Kathy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- History.
- Historic sites.
- Mass burials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Arcadia Publishing Inc., 2022.
- Summary:
- Every mass grave in Texas offers morbid proof that at one time, in that place, something went very, very wrong.Texans have resorted to mass graves out of necessity, desperation and appalling indifference. These sites mark natural disasters or hide unnatural crimes that tested the limits of human endurance and empathy. Because of this, memorializing those who lie in mass graves can be controversial. Not everyone wants to dig up the darkness of the past, much less admit that the dirt is still fresh. Nevertheless, to honor those whose bones lie mixed with others, their stories must be told. In so doing, Kathy Benjamin exhumes essential shards of Lone Star history, from the Alamo to the present day.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. DISEASES AND NATURAL DISASTERS
- 1. Yellow Fever
- Houston, 1839 and 1867
- Sabine Pass, 1862
- La Grange, 1867
- 2. Cholera
- San Antonio, 1849
- Port Lavaca, 1849
- Victoria, 1846
- San Antonio, 1866
- Fredericksburg, 1846
- New Braunfels, 1845-46
- 3. Influenza
- Waco, 1918
- 4. Tornadoes
- The 1902 Goliad Tornado
- The 1927 Rocksprings Tornado
- The 1927 Garland Tornado
- 5. Hurricanes
- The 1900 Galveston Hurricane
- The Hurricane of 1919
- II. THIS LAND IS MY LAND
- 6. Fort St. Louis, 1688
- Fort Parker, 1836
- The Gotier Family Massacre, circa 1837
- The Surveyors' Fight, 1838
- Milam Park, 1838
- Bird Creek, 1839
- The Webster Massacre, 1839
- The Ripley Massacre, 1841
- Proffitt, 1867
- Bickel-Spangenberg, 1868
- Long Mountain Massacre, 1870
- Brit Johnson, 1871
- The Salt Creek Massacre, 1871
- Tenth Cavalry Creek, circa 1875
- III. WAR
- 7. The Mexican War of Independence
- The Battle of Medina, 1813
- 8. The Texas Revolution
- The Battle of the Alamo, 1836
- The Battle of Refugio, 1836
- The Battle of Coleto (Goliad), 1836
- The Dawson Massacre, 1842
- The Black Bean Death Lottery, 1843
- 9. The Mexican-American War
- Resaca de la Palma, 1846
- 10. The Civil War
- Dead Man's Hole, Marble Falls, circa 1861
- Dead Men's Hole, Gillespie County, 1862
- The Nueces Massacre, 1862
- The Great Hanging at Gainesville, 1862
- The Hanging Tree, 1863
- Dove Creek, 1865
- IV. EXTRAJUDICIAL KILLINGS, LYNCHINGS AND MURDERS
- 11. Kentuckytown Hanging, 1864
- Belton Jail Murders, 1874
- The Hassell Murders, 1926
- The Slocum Massacre, 1910
- The Porvenir Massacre, 1918
- V. THE UNKNOWN DEAD
- 12. The Truly Unknown
- Rockport
- Concordia Cemetery, El Paso
- Emigrant Crossing
- Gonzales
- Turkey Creek.
- San Jose Cemetery I and II, Austin
- 13. The Disinterred or Disregarded
- Cedar Grove Cemetery, Sanderson
- San Antonio National Cemetery
- Poor Farms
- Phillips Memorial Cemetery, Texas City
- Holy Cross Cemetery, San Antonio
- 14. Industrial Accidents and the Toll of Neglect
- Penwell, 1881
- Emporia, 1906
- The Texas City Disaster, 1947
- The Gulf Hotel Fire, Houston, 1943
- Sugar Land
- Migrants, 2014
- Author's Note
- Notes
- About the Author.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Benjamin, Kathy Texas Mass Graves
- ISBN:
- 9781439676387
- OCLC:
- 1347027876
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