The Other Texas Frontier
Autor Harry Huntt Ransom Editat de Hazel H. Ransom Introducere de John Gravesen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 1984
The reflections of Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) in The Other Texas Frontier present an alternative to the stereotypical picture of the brash, blustery heroes of the Texas frontier. Here, in six highly readable essays, Ransom posits a thesis of the counterfrontier: a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens who, he says, were the other Texans—the Texans without guns. Three of the essays are profiles of gifted men from Texas’ nineteenth century: Ashbel Smith, physician, diplomat, and first president of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas; Sherman Goodwin, physician, horticulturalist, bibliophile (and Ransom’s own grandfather); and Swante Palm, Swedish immigrant, bibliographer, and generous patron of the University of Texas libraries.
Harry Huntt Ransom, one of Texas’ most accomplished men of letters and for forty-one years an integral part of the University of Texas System as professor, dean, president, and chancellor, leaves an extraordinary legacy to Texas for both his educational and literary service. Though educated out of state, he returned to his native Texas after completion of his PhD at Yale to teach, research, and write in the fields of copyright law, literary history, and bibliography. As founder of the Humanities Research Center, he was squarely in the tradition of the men he was writing about.
Compiled and edited after Ransom’s death by his wife, Hazel H. Ransom, the literary sketches of The Other Texas Frontier form a book that Ransom himself had outlined but had not completed.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780292771284
ISBN-10: 0292771282
Pagini: 74
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
ISBN-10: 0292771282
Pagini: 74
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.12 kg
Editura: University of Texas Press
Colecția University of Texas Press
Notă biografică
Harry Huntt Ransom (1908–1976) was a professor at the University of Texas at Austin and Chancellor of the University of Texas System.
Cuprins
- Foreword
- Preface
- Spirit of Texas
- The Counterfrontier in Texas
- The Roots of Early Texas Biography
- Ashbel Smith, 1805–1886
- Sherman Goodwin, 1814–1884
- Swante Palm, 1815–1899
Descriere
Six essays positing the idea of the Texas counterfrontier, a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens.