Austin: A History of the Capital City (Fred Rider Cotten Popular Histories) by David C. Humphrey - 1997-07-01

Texas A&M University Press. Used - Good. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Texas A&M University Press. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Texas State Historical Assn, 1997. Paperback. New. 75 pages. 8.75x5.50x0.25 inches.

Paperback / softback. New. State capital and home of the University of Texas, Austin is the one city that belongs to all Texans. This finely written book, illustrated with historic photographs, tells the story of Austin's transformation from an "Indian haunted" frontier village into a residential mecca and high-tech hot spot. Called by Sam Houston at its founding the "most unfortunate site upon earth for the seat of government," the infant community struggled for three decades against political enemies and competing towns before winning recognition as the permanent capital. The founding of the University of Texas turned the seat of politics into the seat of education, but Austin's nineteenth-century dreams of becoming a river port and a factory town came to naught. A slave city in a slave state, Austin cast its lot with the Confederacy. Retaining a frontier flavor into the 1890s, post-Civil War Austin became the headquarters of the Texas gambling… Read More

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Texas State Historical Assn, 1997-07-01. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!