Texas: The Lone Star State 9th Edition by Richardson, Rupert N., Anderson, Adrian, Wintz, Cary D., Wal [Paperback]

This book was required for my Texas History class in addition to another one concerning the life of Sam Houston. This is a great academic book with a tremendous amount of information.

HIST2301.01 critique of bookTexas: The Lone Star State byRichardson/Anderson/Wintz/WallaceISBN 0-13-028414-9Noticed the following terms were not indexed:sitios*varas*league*forestry depthighway commission is listed incorrectlypetticoat lobbyBlack Mutiny, p409*I'd like to suggest a glossary for future editions of the bookfor words such as these. There were many more terms, especiallythe Spanish terms, for which I'd have appreciated a glossary.Add to the list above empresario, labor (of land) for theglossary.General commentsI would like the next edition to use some form of chapternumbering in either the header or footer of each page so thatwhen I am looking for Chapter X, I don't have to know the name ofall chapters to know if I'm in front of or behind that chapter.The map on Page 50 is bad in that it appears to show the NechesRiver emptying into the Gulf of Mexico, whereas it should beshown disappearing into the Neutral Ground territory on the westof Orange County. It would be good to show the outline of theSabine Lake in this map.Page 124 implies that the women "manufactured cartridges..."during 1836. I do not think that even paper cartridges wereintroduced up north until the late 1840s. They may have wellbeen involved in casting balls, packing powder, etc. but I thinkcartridge case bullets are still in the future from this war.Page 138 - the spelling of Lamar's middle name as "Buonaparte" Iquestion from documents I saw years ago in the special recordscollection of the Gray Library, but I am not certain of this.Page 173 - it is not clear at first reading to me whether 27% ofthe population was slaves (text) or 27% of the population wereslave owners (graph) or both.Page 274 Chart - No indication of the beach railroad betweenGalveston/Bolivar and Sabine Pass. I also found no mention ofArthur Stillwell in the index and think that story is worthy ofat least a sentence or two. When did the Southern Pacific RRcross the Sabine River into Orange? It appears here that it didnot as late as 1890, but I think it was prior to that.Also on this same chart, the line types are not differentiatedenough to be certain what railroad is what in some places.I think a good county reference map that is indexed would be awelcome addition. Too often in the text, the county name ismentioned, but the frontpiece map is not indexed and is too busyto enable a student to find a county easily.Also, a good boundary map with all the meridians marked wouldhelp. The map on Page 163 misses three of them or it wouldsuffice.Page 292 Chart - again, the trail line types are not easilydifferentiated, especially where they cross or run together.Page 293 - Santa Gertrudis is not explained as the name of theCreek on which King built his ranch HQ, nor after which the breedof cattle (only breed developed in the US) was named.I was also disappointed to not find Richard King's role in thetransport of cotton out of Mexico mentioned. The chart on page217 implies a skirmish at Corpus Christi, but I seem to rememberfrom Ben Lea's _History of the King Ranch_ that the yankees cameashore and went to King's ranch headquarters, and King narrowlyescaped the skirmish, when the Yankees took up residence in hishouse for a spell. Maybe that doesn't qualify as a militaryengagement, but I think it was.Pages 350... I found it difficult to follow which governorfollowed which with the subject matter jumping around so.?When did Texas pass the election of US Senators to the popularvote instead of electing them in the state house? I could notfind this.I think a good opportunity was missed on Page 399 to inform youngstudents of the wordplay that was used to permit the San Jacintomonument to be built taller than the Washington Monument.Page 407 - Texas and Texans In The War :The second sentence in this paragraph appears to be scrambled, oris a poor construct, or is missing a comma behind "San Antonio"and "war."Page 435-6; The story of the Killer Bees/Dirty 30 and the tacticsused would be noteworthy, I think.

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