Seat of Empire

The Embattled Birth of Austin, Texas

von Jeffrey Stuart Kerr

352 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

The founding of Austin sparked one of the first great political battles in the Republic of Texas, pitting two Texas titans against each other: Mirabeau Lamar, who within the space of a year rose from army private to Texas vice president of Texas, and Sam Houston, the hero of San Jacinto and a man both loved and hated throughout the Republic. The shy, soft-spoken, self-righteous Lamar dreamed of a great imperial capital city in the wilderness—but to achieve it faced the hardships of the frontier, the mighty Comanche nation, the Mexican army, and the political might of Sam Houston.

• ISBN: 9780896727823
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.04.2013
• Größe: 231 x 150 mm
• Verlag: Texas Tech University Press