"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 his own words his impressions of the country and people.
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"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 p...
"This is it, the book that stands as the most readable and thorough account of oil development in the Southwest, and serves as an invaluable reference work, the bible of the industry." Houston Press "A superb job in every aspect." Claude V. Barrow, oil editor of the Daily Oklahoman Oil Titan of the Southwest is the exciting yet unbiased account of one of the most spectacular series of events in American history: the rush for oil riches in the great Mid-Continent and Gulf producing area, from the era of the Indians' oil springs through the blustery years of wildcatting to the recent more...
"This is it, the book that stands as the most readable and thorough account of oil development in the Southwest, and serves as an invaluable reference...
