My Eighty Years in Texas: Personal Narratives of the West
Autor William Physick Zuber Editat de Janis Boyle Mayfield Introducere de Llerena Frienden Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 iun 1971
In 1910, at the age of ninety, Zuber began the enormous task of transcribing his diaries and his memories for publication. After his death in 1913, the handwritten manuscript, 1, was placed in the Texas State Archives, where it was used as a reference source by students and scholars of Texas history. Over a half century after Zuber’s death, Janis Boyle Mayfield finally brought his publication plans to fruition.
Zuber details his early zest for learning and his laborious methods of self-education. He tells of the trials of organizing and teaching schools in the sparsely populated plains. He recalls the day-by-day happenings of a private soldier in the Texas army of 1836, the Texas Militia, and the Confederate army—including the mishaps of army life and the encounters with enemies from San Jacinto to Cape Girardeau. After the Civil War, his interest turns to the politics of Reconstruction, the veterans’ pension, and the founding of the Texas Veterans Association.
This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.
Included as an appendix is “An Escape from the Alamo,” the account of Moses Rose for which Zuber, who was a prolific writer, was best known. A historiography of the Rose story, a bibliography of Zuber’s published and unpublished writings, annotation, and an introduction are provided by Llerena Friend.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292750227
ISBN-10: 0292750226
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Personal Narratives of the West
ISBN-10: 0292750226
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Seria Personal Narratives of the West
Notă biografică
Janis Boyle Mayfield, of Houston and Shiro, Texas, was Zuber’s grandniece by marriage. She attended the University of Houston. Llerena Friend was a noted Texas historian who served as the director of the Barker Texas History Center (now the Center for American History) at the University of Texas at Austin.
Cuprins
- Editor’s Foreword
- Introduction
- The End Came Too Soon
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Ancestry
- Chapter 2. Childhood and Youth
- Chapter 3. Fighting for Texas Independence
- Chapter 4. Defending the Republic
- Chapter 5. Politics, Religion, and Learning
- Chapter 6. Campaigning in Arkansas and Missouri
- Chapter 7. Campaigning in Louisiana
- Chapter 8. Back Home Again
- Appendix A. An Escape from the Alamo
- Appendix B. Historiography of the Account of Moses Rose and the Line that Travis Drew
- Bibliography
- Index
Descriere
This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.