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It Happened in Texas: Stories of Events and People That Shaped Lone Star State History

By James A. Crutchfield

Book information

Publisher
Globe Pequot
Year
2020
ISBN
9781493039708, 2019950282, 9781493039692
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1768018 bytes)
Series
It Happened in the West
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-01 19:56:20
HIS036130HistoryNonfiction

Description

From the murder of French explorer La Salle to the impressive career of the state's first female black senator, It Happened in Texas looks at intriguing people and episodes from the history of the Lone Star State. Discover why a group of migrant farm workers marched nearly 500 miles in sweltering summer heat to meet with Texas's governor. Find out how the annexation of Texas into the United States led to the first war Americans ever fought on foreign soil. Learn what prompted ranchers of South Texas to bombard the sky for hours with hundreds of explosives one starry night in the fall of 1891. And relive the last days of outlaw couple Bonnie and Clyde, from an endearing family reunion to their violent deaths in an unrelenting hail of gunfire.

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