Gone to Texas

Regents' Professor of History at the University of North Texas (Ph. D. at the University of Virginia); specializes in Early US National period and the History of Texas. Books include: Wealth and Power in Antebellum Texas (Texas A&M U Press, 1977); Sam Houston and the American Southwest (HarperCollins, 1993); and An Empire for Slavery (LSU Press, 1989).

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Preface
Acknowledgment

1. The First Texans
2. Exploration and Adventure, 1519-1689
3. Spanish Texas, 1690-1779
4. Spanish Texas in the Age of Revolutions, 1779-1821
5. Mexican Texas, 1821-1835
6. The Texas Revolution, 1835-1836
7. The Republic of Texas, 1836-1846
8. Frontier Texas, 1846-1861
9. Empire State of the South, 1846-1861
10. The Civil War, 1861-1865
11. Reconstruction, 1865-1876
12. The Old West, 1877-1900
13. The New South and the Populist Revolt, 1877-1900
14. The Progressive Era, 1901-1920
15. The "Prosperity Decade," 1921-1929
16. The Great Depression and World War II, 1929-1945
17. The Rise of Modern Texas, 1945-1971
18. Modern Texas, 1971-2000
19. Texas in the New Millennium, 2001-2016
20. The Texas Mystique in the Twenty-First Century

Appendix 1
Appendix 2
Select Bibliography
Index