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Genre/Form: | History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Doughty, Robin W. At home in Texas. College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©1987 (OCoLC)988195445 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Robin W Doughty |
ISBN: | 089096274X : 9780890962749 |
OCLC Number: | 14718540 |
Awards: | Kate Broocks Bates Award entry. |
Description: | viii, 164 pages : maps ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Empresario Texas: Austin's Redemption of a Wild Land -- Wilderness Celebration: Making a Home in Texas -- Nature's Bounties in Garden Texas -- The Mediterranean Image in the Southwest -- Mirages: Foreign Views of Texas -- Texas as Home and Place. |
Responsibility: | by Robin W. Doughty. |
More information: |
Abstract:
Explains how nineteenth-century settlers in Texas used the land's fertility to develop a deep attachment to the area, despite the false impressions other settlers had given them about the state before they moved there.

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- Texas -- Description and travel.
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