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Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875 Hardcover - 2005

by Gary Clayton Anderson


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This is not your grandfather's history of Texas. Portraying nineteenth-century Texas as a cauldron of racist violence, Gary Clayton Anderson shows that the ethnic warfare dominating the Texas frontier can best be described as ethnic cleansing.

The Conquest of Texas is the story of the struggle between Anglos and Indians for land. Anderson tells how Scotch-Irish settlers clashed with farming tribes and then challenged the Comanches and Kiowas for their hunting grounds. Next, the decade-long conflict with Mexico merged with war against Indians. For fifty years Texas remained in a virtual state of war.

Piercing the very heart of Lone Star mythology, Anderson tells how the Texas government encouraged the Texas Rangers to annihilate Indian villages, including women and children. This policy of terror succeeded: by the 1870s, Indians had been driven from central and western Texas.

By confronting head-on the romanticized version of Texas history that made heroes out of Houston, Lamar, and Baylor, Anderson helps us understand that the history of the Lone Star state is darker and more complex than the mythmakers allowed.

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  • Title Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875
  • Author Gary Clayton Anderson
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 506
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of Oklahoma Press, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A.
  • Date 2005-11-04
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Maps, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780806136981 / 0806136987
  • Weight 2.33 lbs (1.06 kg)
  • Dimensions 10 x 7.34 x 1.33 in (25.40 x 18.64 x 3.38 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 19th Century
    • Cultural Region: Mid-South
    • Cultural Region: South
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
    • Ethnic Orientation: Native American
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Library of Congress subjects Texas - History - 19th century, Texas - Race relations - History - 19th
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005041772
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.800

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  • Multicultural Review, 10/01/2006, Page 68
  • New York Review of Books, 09/21/2006, Page 63
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