Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor : James Webb Throckmorton / / Kenneth Wayne Howell.

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Superior document:Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 17
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Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1st ed.
Language:English
Series:Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 17.
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Physical Description:xvi, 251 p. :; ill.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: an enigma in nineteenth-century Texas politics
  • The foundations of a frontier politician, 1825-50
  • Guardian of the frontier, 1851-57
  • The storm of passion and sectional hatred, 1857-61
  • The Civil War: "He that is not for us is against us," 1861-65
  • Tainted blood: early Reconstruction in Texas, 1865-66
  • "Every exertion within my reach": challenging presidential Reconstruction in Texas, 1866
  • An impediment to Reconstruction, 1867
  • Fueling the fires of redemption: the struggle to bring down radical rule in Texas, 1867-73
  • The end of the line: failed restorations and congressional mediocrity in the post-Reconstruction era, 1873-94.