Browser's Book of Texas History - Paperback

by Steven Jent (Author)

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

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If you love history and want to amaze your family and colleagues with your prodigious knowledge of Lone Star lore, this book is just what you need.
"A Browser's Book of History" is a day-by-day collection of more than 500 incidents some famous, some obscure that have made Texas the most remarkable state in the Union. Even if you're a dedicated historian or an old-time Texan, you're likely to find something surprising, amusing, thought provoking, or just plain odd.
With this book you can start every day of the year with a concise entry from the chronicles of this unique state, which just seems to naturally breed colorful people and bigger-than-life events.