Eavesdropping on Texas History
by Mary L. Scheer
University of North Texas Press, 2016
eISBN: 978-1-57441-687-9 | Cloth: 978-1-57441-675-6
Library of Congress Classification F386.E28 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.4
eISBN: 978-1-57441-687-9 | Cloth: 978-1-57441-675-6
Library of Congress Classification F386.E28 2017
Dewey Decimal Classification 976.4
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction - Mary L. Scheer, editor
Chapter One. “The Earth Had Chills and Fever”: The New Madrid Earthquakes and Caddo Lake, 1811-1812 - Victoria H. Cummins
Chapter Two. A Fly on Stephen F. Austin’s Shoulder in Mexico, 1822–1823 - Carolina Castillo Crimm
Chapter Three. The Fall of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 - Watson Arnold
Chapter Four. “I Was There”: The Abduction of Cynthia Ann Parker, December 19, 1860 - Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum
Chapter Five. “Margaret, Texas Is Lost”: Sam Houston Refuses to Take a Loyalty Oath to the Confederacy, March 16, 1861 - Mary L. Scheer
Chapter Six. “. . . and Then the Ball Opened”: A Violent Incident at Scabtown, Menard County, Texas, on New Year’s Eve, 1877 - Chuck Parsons
Chapter Seven. With the Yalies in the Deep Woods, May 10–13, 1909 - Dan K. Utley
Chapter Eight. “So Long, It’s Been Good to Know You”: Black Sunday, April 14, 1935 - Heather Green Wooten
Chapter Nine. “The Game of the Century, ”November 30, 1935 - Bill O’Neal
Chapter Ten. The Firing of Homer Price Rainey, November 1, 1944 - Light T. Cummins
Chapter Eleven. “Harry, the President Is Dead”: Speaker Sam Rayburn of Texas, Vice President Harry Truman, and Congressman Lyndon Johnson at the “Board of Education” on April 12, 1945 - Patrick Cox
Chapter Twelve. The Establishment of Texas Southern University, 1947 - Merline Pitre
Chapter Thirteen. “The Loneliest Job in the World”: The Day Lyndon Johnson Became President, November 22, 1963 - Michael Collins
Chapter Fourteen. “I Remember It Well. I Lived It”: Louise Ballerstedt Raggio and the Passage of the Marital Property Act of 1967 - Nancy E. Baker
Contributors
Index
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