Volume two of "The Texas Biography Series" reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected the ideals of the nation than those of so many of his contemporaries. Carl H. Moneyhon presents a long overdue favorable account of a man who was determined to make progressive changes and stand in stark opposition to the state's political elite. What moved this man to take such a dramatic stand against his political peers? Moneyhon strives to answer this very question. Edmund J. Davis was not only a part of the political elite during the Civil...
Volume two of "The Texas Biography Series" reveals Edmund J. Davis, the heroic man who stood in strong opposition to his peers and better reflected th...
Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides s rise to prominence was largely the result of the careful mentoring of his well-known uncle, Basilio Benavides, who served several terms as alcalde of Laredo, Texas, and Chief Justice of Webb County. When the Civil War erupted in 1861, Basilio was one of only two Tejanos in the state legislature. During Santos s lifetime, five flags flew over the small community he called home that of the Republic of Mexico, the ill-fated Republic of the Rio Grande, the Republic of Texas, an expansionist United...
Riding the rough and sometimes bloody peaks and canyons of border politics, Santos Benavides s rise to prominence was largely the result of the carefu...
