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Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.Characters include real and fictional characters spanning hundreds of years, such as explorers, Spanish colonists, American immigrants, German Texan settlers, ranchers, oil men, aristocrats, Chicanos, and others, all based on extensive historical research.
Carlo, later described as the "original head of the Mafia in Texas," was born about 1876 in Corleone, Sicily, the same hometown as early New York Mafia boss Giuseppe Morello. Piranio's marriage to an eighteen-year-old woman, recently arrived from Italy, occurred in 1903.
Harrigan at the LBJ Presidential Library in 2019. Harrigan's novel, The Gates of the Alamo, published in 2000, was a New York Times bestseller and the recipient of a number of awards, including the TCU Texas Book Award, the Western Heritage Award from the National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum and the Spur Award for Best Novel of the West from the Western Writers of America.
Recent excavations unearthed artifacts presumably from the 1813 Battle of Medina south of San Antonio.
The cover to the 1928 edition of Texas History Movies, which was given out to schoolchildren in Texas. Texas History Movies was a "popular racist comic strip that ran in The Dallas Morning News in the late 1920s". [1] [2] The strip had text by John Rosenfield, Jr., and pictures by Jack Patton. [3] Book collections of the strip were published ...
The first European to see Texas was Alonso Álvarez de Pineda, who led an expedition for the governor of Jamaica, Francisco de Garay, in 1520.While searching for a passage between the Gulf of Mexico and Asia, [17] Álvarez de Pineda created the first map of the northern Gulf Coast. [18]
La Matanza ("The Massacre" or "The Slaughter") and the Hora de Sangre ("Hour of Blood") [1] was a period of anti-Mexican violence in Texas, including massacres and lynchings, between 1910 and 1920 in the midst of tensions between the United States and Mexico during the Mexican Revolution. [2]
Hardin is considered a leading expert in the world in Texas military and social history. He is widely cited with regards to the Battle of the Alamo.Hardin has also appeared on the History Channel in "The Alamo Documentary: A True Story of Courage" [2] He was also a historic advisor to John Lee Hancock's 2004 movie, The Alamo, starring Billy Bob Thornton.