Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State

Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0195138430 ISBN13: 9780195138436 Release Date: February 2004 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Length: 512 Pages Weight: 1.80 lbs. Dimensions: 1.3" x 9.1" x 6.1" In Gone to Texas, historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the twenty-first century, offering an interpretive account of the land, the successive waves of people who have gone to Texas, and the conflicts that have made Texas as much a metaphor as a place. Campbell presents the epic tales of Texas history in a new light, offering revisionist history in the best sense--broadening and deepening the traditional story, without ignoring the heroes of the past. The scope of the book is impressive. It ranges from the archeological record of early Native Americans to the rise of the oil industry and ultimately the modernization of Texas. Campbell provides swift-moving accounts of the Mex