Robert E. Lee in Texas

by Carl Coke Rister

Book Overview

Robert E. Lee in Texas introduces a little known phase of the great General's career-his service in Texas during the four turbulent years just preceding the Civil War. In this account Carl Coke Rister takes us with Lee to his lonely posts on the border, and we share with him the hazardous and often fruitless chases after bands of American Indians and Mexicans. We see through the eyes of the "Academy man" the raw life on the frontier and hear through...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806136421
• ISBN13: 9780806136424
• Release Date: November 2004
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.1"