Browser's Book of Texas History

by Steven A. Jent

Book Overview

This book brings together some 700 noteworthy quotations from or about Texas. Collectively they form a portrait of this unique place in the words of the people who have lived and created the Texas experience

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556226985
• ISBN13: 9781556226984
• Release Date: December 1999
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

History Can Be Fun!

What fun it is to check each morning to see what happened that day in history! Well researched and well written, it's fun for Texans of all ages!

Texas frontier history at its very best!

Steven Jent's A Browser's Book Of Texas History is a compilation of more than 500 incidents Texas history arranged in a day-by-day format. Some of these doings are famous, others obscure, but all have combined to make Texas the most remarkable state in the American Union. A Browser's Book Of Texas History can be read from cover to cover in an afternoon, or one day at a time browsing as we are introduced to larger-than-life events and the colorful personalities responsible for them. A Browser's Book Of Texas History is a "must" for all students of the American frontier in general and Texas history in particular.