Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875

by Gary Clayton Anderson

Book Overview

This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing.

The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0806163062
• ISBN13: 9780806163062
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
• Length: 506 Pages
• Weight: 2.26 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 7.0" x 10.0"