Big wonderful thing : a history of Texas / Stephen Harrigan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Castaways -- Golden cities -- "Woe to us" -- The lady in blue -- Voyageurs -- God's work -- Filibusters -- "God speed ye" -- The Texas dream -- The consequence of failure -- Come and take it -- "The Alamo is ours!" -- Vengeance -- Aftermath -- Spartan spirit -- "Savage ware fare" -- The broken flagpole -- Los diablos tejanos -- The crisis of the crisis -- Robbers and lawyers -- Warriors and refugees -- "I will never do it" -- "With throbbing hearts" -- Reconstructed -- The end of Comancheria -- Fenced in -- The "peril" of legislation -- Bipedal brutes -- Scorpions and horny toads -- A thousand little devils -- Gushers -- Light coming on the plains -- Sediciosos -- Pa -- War at home and abroad -- The blacksnake whip -- Music and mayhem -- The boy from the hill country -- Centennial -- Passionate ones -- Texans at war again -- The show of shows -- A new Texas -- Ye shall know the truth -- The lord takes a sleeping pill -- Giant -- A gamblin' man -- Welcome Mr. Kennedy -- "El deguello" reprise -- The voice of god -- The tower -- Vigil on the pedernales -- A side to belong to -- Don't be so self-righteous -- Baptism of fire -- Texans versus Texans -- Epilogue. Davy Crockett's fairy palace.

A tour de force by a New York Times best-selling author and master storyteller who captures the rich history of a state that sits at the center of the nation, yet defiantly stands apart.

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