Texas The Lone Star State 3rd edition Author:Rupert N. Richardson, Ernest Wallace, Adrian N. Anderson A history of Texas replete with adventure and heroic action. The reader meets with self-denying priests and mail-fisted conquerors of Spain, with filibusters and empresarios from beyond the Mississippi, with frontiersmen from Tennessee and planters from Alabama. The Anglo-Americans vied with the Mexicans for supremacy until 1848 and took the cou... more »ntry from the Indians by 1875. Thereafter came the struggle for law and order, the lusty cattle industry, the surge of land-hungry farmers seeking virgin soil, the rapid approach of railroads, and the discovery of oil fields. In recent times the challenge of space travel and the explosive growth of urban Texas have continued the tradition of adventure and progress. Includes index« less