Texian Macabre Books In Spindletop Boom Days Paul

In Spindletop Boom Days Paul Spellman weaves together first-person narratives to tell the story of this moment in history and to describe the day-to-day life of those involved with the Spindletop gusher

and Hispanic women of the time

Spellman is professor of history at Wharton Junior College

Gregg Cantrell traces Austin's early life from his privileged boyhood as the son of the Missouri mining baron Moses Austin to his family's humiliating financial downfall after the War of 1812

while American Theodore Sedgwick pronounced the war and its resulting legends "almost burlesque

Texian Macabre Books In Spindletop Boom Days PaulMandred Wood may have caught a glint off the Bowie knife that sank into his bellybut probably not. On the afternoon of November 11, 1837, he had exchanged "harsh epithets" with David James Jones, a hero of the Texas Revolution. When words failed, Jones closed the argument with his blade. Such affrays were common in Houston, the fledgling capital of the Republic of Texas. This one, however, was singular. Wood was a gentleman and Jones a member of a