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005			20240726104916.0
008			141129s2014 xx o 000 0 eng d
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020			_a9781625110299 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)
050	0	4	_aE185 _b.O545 2014
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100	1		_aCummins, Light Townsend. _e1
245	1	0	_aOn History's Trail _bSpeeches and Essays by the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012. _c
260			_aCollege Station : _bTexas State Historical Assn Press, _c(c)2014.
300			_a1 online resource (240 pages)
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338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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500			_aDescription based upon print version of record.
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520	0		_aOn History's Trail: Speeches and Essays of the Texas State Historian, 2009-2012 contains twenty-nine speeches and essays from Light Townsend Cummins's time as the State Historian of Texas, when he spoke to dozens of groups across the Lone Star State and beyond.The subjects include the settlement of Canary Islanders in Texas and Louisiana, the Red River War, Dallas sculptress Allie V. Tennant, the "hometown" of Audie Murphy, and much more. While wide-ranging in time and place, this collection emphasizes the importance of biography and the individual in Texas history, never losing the warmth and.
505	0	0	_aEssays on historical personalities and places, famous and obscure: Spence Hardie, Austin College cowboy -- _tMystic chords of memory and Civil War veterans -- _tEdna Trigg and the tomato club girls -- _tAudie Murphy's hometown -- _tIs Bigfoot a Texan? -- _tHerring Coe in bronze and stone -- _tJesus wears cowboy boots -- _tGoing to the Ivy Leagues in Texas -- _tMy place is at a table -- _tThe voice in the Big Bend -- _tLee Simmons meets Bonnie and Clyde -- _tSpeeches about eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Texas: The Canary Islanders of San Antonio -- _tBackground to the empresario era in Texas -- _tEmily Austin of Peach Point Plantation -- _tCelebrating San Jacinto -- _tThe first law school in Texas, 1855 -- _tThe Red River War in historical perspective -- _tThe Texas Centennial of 1936: Allie Victoria Tennant, Texas sculptor -- _tSculpting Texas history in bronze -- _tFar afield for the state historian: To record or not to record? Living forever in digitized form -- _tRemembering Hugh F. Rankin -- _tThe Stephen F. Austin family on the waterways of Louisiana -- _tTalks on Texas politics and public service -- _tSam Rayburn, Robert S. Weddle, and a living legacy of service -- _tRoscoe Dewitt: Sam Rayburn's architect -- _tRemembering John Nance Garner and Dolph Briscoe -- _tThe nature of Texas History: Myth and Texas history -- _tHistorical interpretation and Texas history.
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650		4	_aTexas.
650		0	_aHistoriography.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=909679&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell