These high-interest books cover the history of Texas and feature biographies and profiles of key individuals.Book features include engaging text, primary sources, content-area vocabulary, sidebars, photographs, maps,glossaries, and indices. The titles in this 8-book collection include: Caddo and Comanche: American Indian Tribes in Texas; George W. Bush: Texan Governor and U.S. President; La Salle: Early Texas Explorer; Leaders in the Texas Revolution: United for a Cause; Lizzie Johnson: Texan Cowgirl; Lyndon B. Johnson: A Texan in the Whitehouse; Sam Houston: A Fearless Statesman; and Stephen F. Austin: The Father of Texas.

The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

Learn about some of the most influential figures in Texas' history. These inspiring leaders helped shape the lone star state. This set includes several captivating biographies that allow readers to learn about the incredible accomplishments of Sam Houston, Stephen F. Austin, Lyndon B. Johnson, and other famous Texans. Students will also learn about American Indian tribes in Texas and the Texas Revolution. Each of these 8 books features vivid images and illustrations, supportive text, an accommodating glossary and index, and fascinating facts to keep readers engaged from cover to cover. This set includes: Stephen F. Austin: The Father of Texas; Leaders in the Texas Revolution: United for a Cause; Lizzie Johnson: Texan Cowgirl; Caddo and Comanche: American Indian Tribes in Texas; Sam Houston: Fearless Statesman; LaSalle: Early Texas Explorer; George W. Bush: Texan Governor and U.S. President; Lyndon B. Johnson: A Texan in the White House. (GRL ranges P-T).

The larger-than-life story of the Lone Star State Encapsulating the 500-year saga of the one-of-a-kind state of Texas, this interactive book takes readers from the founding of the Spanish Missions and the victory at San Jacinto to the Great Storm that destroyed Galveston and the establishment of NASA's Mission Control in Houston while covering everything in between. Texas History for Kids includes 21 informative and fun activities to help readers better understand the state's culture, politics, and geography. Kids will recreate one of the six national flags that have flown over the state, make castings of local wildlife tracks, design a ranch's branding iron, celebrate Juneteenth by reciting General Order Number 3, build a miniature Battle of Flowers float, and more. This valuable resource also includes a timeline of significant events, a list of historic sites to visit or explore online, and web resources for further study.

Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, the book offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and always in a struggle with the land, created a history and an idea of Texas. An Instructor's Resource Manual and a set of approximately 400 PowerPoint slides to accompany Gone to Texas, Third Edition, are now available to adopters. Please contact your local Oxford University Press representative for details.

Reprint of the 1889 ed. published by F. A. Battey, Chicago.

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