Texas Confederate, Reconstruction governor James Webb Throckmorton / [electronic resource] :
Kenneth Wayne Howell.
- 1st ed.
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2008.
- xvi, 251 p. : ill.
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 17 .
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 17. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-240) and index.
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.
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