A Wild and Vivid Land: An Illustrated History of the South Texas Border

by Jerry D. Thompson

Book Overview

With more than 150 images, many never before published, historian Jerry Thompson tells the story of what Pulitzer Prize-winning historian William H. Goetzmann has called a "wild and vivid land." From the Coahuiltecan Indians and the Spanish colonizers who clustered along the banks of the Rio Grande, to the cattlemen and oil wildcatters who conquered the brush country, Thompson details six centuries of exciting and entertaining history in a thoroughly...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876112564
• ISBN13: 9780876112564
• Release Date: June 2012
• Publisher: Texas State Historical Assn
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.4" x 10.9"