Texian Exodus
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3005-0 (ISBN)
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Two events in Texas history shine so brightly that they can be almost blinding: the stand at the Alamo and the redemption at San Jacinto, where General Sam Houston’s volunteers won the decisive battle of the Texas Revolution. But these milestones came amid a less obviously heroic episode now studiously forgotten—the refugee crisis known as the Runaway Scrape.
Propulsive, lyrical, and richly illustrated, Texian Exodus transports us to the frigid, sodden spring of 1836, when thousands of Texians—Anglo-American settlers—fled eastward for the United States in fear of Antonio López de Santa Anna’s advancing Mexican army. Leading Texas historian Stephen L. Hardin draws on the accounts of the Runaways themselves to relate a tale of high stakes and great sorrow. While Houston tried to build a force that could defeat Santa Anna, the evacuees suffered incalculable pain and suffering. Yet dignity and community were not among the losses. If many of the stories are indeed tragic, the experience as a whole was no tragedy; survivors regarded the Runaway Scrape as their finest hour, an ordeal met with cooperation and courage. For Hardin, such qualities still define the Texas character. That it was forged in retreat as well as in battle makes the Runaway Scrape essential Texas history.
Stephen L. Hardin is recently retired after a thirty-five-year career in higher education. He is the author of Texian Iliad: A Military History of the Texas Revolution 1835–1836, The Alamo 1836: Santa Anna’s Texas Campaign, Texian Macabre: The Melancholy Tale of a Hanging in Early Houston, and Lust for Glory: An Epic Saga of Early Texas and the Sacrifice That Defined a Nation. Gary S. Zaboly is a freelance historical illustrator and writer who has specialized in American frontier and military history, particularly colonial-era early Texas.
A Note on Etymology
Witnesses
Preface
Introduction
1. “To Revel in an Unknown Joy”: Planting Texas Roots
2. “No Quarter Will Be Given Them”: Santa Anna Advances
3. “Hurry and Stir”: Santa Anna Arrives
4. “The Confusion and Distress Will Be Indescribable”: Politics and Pandemonium
5. “Heavy Rains and Dreadful Roads”: Turbulent Weather
6. “Cramps, Colics, and Diarrhea”: Death and Disease
7. “A Feeling of Wondrous Kindness”: Assistance and Cooperation
8. “To Take Advantage of the Misfortunes of Others”: Texians Plundering Texians
9. “Without Shelter and Almost Without Subsistence”: Galveston Island
10. “Fight Then and Be Damned”: A Runaway Army
11. “The Most Grateful News That Was Ever Told”: Starting Over
12. “In This Great Time of Trouble”: Ripples
Epilogue. “Come What May, Texas Will Abide”: Legacy
Acknowledgments
1836 Chronology
Notes
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 10.12.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 9 b&w illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 880 g |
| Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-3005-4 / 1477330054 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-3005-0 / 9781477330050 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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