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Texas is a 1985 novel by American writer James A. Michener (1907–1997), based on the history of Texas.^[1]

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Novels by James A. Michener
Texas literature

Abilene, Kansas

Abilene (pronounced) is a city in and the county seat of Dickinson County, Kansas, United States.

Alamo Mission

The Alamo is a historic Spanish mission and fortress compound founded in the 18th century by Roman Catholic missionaries in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States.

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The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Anniversary

An anniversary is the date on which an event took place or an institution was founded in a previous year, and may also refer to the commemoration or celebration of that event.

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Antebellum South

The Antebellum South era (from before the war) was a period in the history of the Southern United States that extended from the conclusion of the War of 1812 to the start of the American Civil War in 1861.

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Antonio López de Santa Anna

Antonio de Padua María Severino López de Santa Anna y Pérez de Lebrón, usually known as Antonio López de Santa Anna (21 February 1794 – 21 June 1876),Callcott, Wilfred H., "Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez De,", Retrieved 18 April 2017.

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Apacheria

Apachería was the term used to designate the region inhabited by the Apache people.

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Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca

Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca (1488/90/92"Cabeza de Vaca, Alvar Núñez (1492?-1559?)." American Eras. Vol. 1: Early American Civilizations and Exploration to 1600. Detroit: Gale, 1997. 50-51. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 10 December 2014. after 19 May 1559) was a Spanish explorer of the New World, and one of four survivors of the 1527 Narváez expedition.

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Battle of San Jacinto

The Battle of San Jacinto (Batalla de San Jacinto), fought on April 21, 1836, in present-day La Porte and Deer Park, Texas, was the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution.

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Benjamin Bratt

Benjamin Bratt (born December 16, 1963) is an American actor.

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Benjamin Grierson

Benjamin Henry Grierson (July 8, 1826 – August 31, 1911) was a music teacher, then a career officer in the United States Army.

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Bill Clements

William Perry Clements Jr. (April 13, 1917 – May 29, 2011) was an American businessman and Republican Party politician who served two nonconsecutive terms as the governor of Texas between 1979 and 1991.

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Black legend

The Black Legend (Leyenda negra) or the Spanish Black Legend (Leyenda negra española) is a purported historiographical tendency which consists of anti-Spanish and anti-Catholic propaganda.

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Boll weevil

The boll weevil (Anthonomus grandis) is a species of beetle in the family Curculionidae.

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Buffalo Soldier

Buffalo Soldiers were United States Army regiments composed exclusively of African Americans soldiers, formed during the 19th century to serve on the American frontier.

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Casta

Casta is a term which means "lineage" in Spanish and Portuguese and has historically been used as a racial and social identifier.

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Cattle drive

A cattle drive is the process of moving a herd of cattle from one place to another, usually moved and herded by cowboys on horses.

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Centralist Republic of Mexico

The Centralist Republic of Mexico (República Centralista de México), or in the anglophone scholarship, the Central Republic, officially the Mexican Republic (República Mexicana), was a unitary political regime established in Mexico on 23 October 1835, under a new constitution known as the Siete Leyes after conservatives repealed the federalist Constitution of 1824 and ended the First Mexican Republic.

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Chicano

Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans who have a non-Anglo self-image, embracing their Mexican Native ancestry.

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Comancheria

The Comancheria or Comanchería (Comanche: Nʉmʉnʉʉ Sookobitʉ, 'Comanche land') was a region of New Mexico, west Texas and nearby areas occupied by the Comanche before the 1860s.

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Council House Fight

The Council House Fight, often referred to as the Council House Massacre, was a fight between soldiers and officials of the Republic of Texas and a delegation of Comanche chiefs during a peace conference in San Antonio on March 19, 1840.

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Criollo people

In Hispanic America, criollo is a term used originally to describe people of full Spanish descent born in the viceroyalties.

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Deep South

The Deep South or the Lower South is a cultural and geographic subregion of the Southern United States.

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Dodge City, Kansas

Dodge City is a city in and the county seat of Ford County, Kansas, United States.

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Droving

Droving is the practice of walking livestock over long distances.

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Early 1980s recession

The early 1980s recession was a severe economic recession that affected much of the world between approximately the start of 1980 and 1982.

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El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail

The El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail is a national historic trail covering the U.S. section of El Camino Real de Los Tejas, a thoroughfare from the 18th-century Spanish colonial era in Spanish Texas, instrumental in the settlement, development, and history of Texas.

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Emancipation Proclamation

The Emancipation Proclamation, officially Proclamation 95, was a presidential proclamation and executive order issued by United States President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863, during the American Civil War.

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Empresario

An empresario was a person who had been granted the right to settle on land in exchange for recruiting and taking responsibility for settling the eastern areas of Coahuila y Tejas in the early nineteenth century.

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Estevanico

Estevanico (–1539), also known as Mustafa Azemmouri and Esteban de Dorantes and Estevanico the Moor, was the first person of African descent to explore North America.

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Fence Cutting Wars

The Fence Cutting Wars occurred near the end of the 19th century in the American Old West, and were a series of disputes between farmers and cattlemen with larger land holdings.

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Franciscans

The Franciscans are a group of related mendicant religious orders of the Catholic Church.

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Francisco Vázquez de Coronado

Francisco Vázquez de Coronado (1510 – 22 September 1554) was a Spanish conquistador and explorer who led a large expedition from what is now Mexico to present-day Kansas through parts of the southwestern United States between 1540 and 1542.

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French Louisiana

The term French Louisiana (Louisiane française, Lwizyàn françé) refers to two distinct regions.

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Galveston Island

Galveston Island is a barrier island on the Texas Gulf Coast in the United States, about southeast of Houston.

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Great Raid of 1840

The Great Raid of 1840 was the largest raid ever mounted by Native Americans on white cities in what is now the United States.

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Hardcover

A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).

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Hereford cattle

The Hereford is a British breed of beef cattle originally from Herefordshire in the West Midlands of England.

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High school football (football au lycée), also known as prep football, is gridiron football played by high school teams in the United States and Canada.

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Historical fiction

Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the setting of particular real historical events.

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Indian reservation

An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S.

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James A. Michener

James Albert Michener (or; February 3, 1907 – October 16, 1997) was an American writer.

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James A. Michener's Texas

James A. Michener's Texas (also called Texas) is a 1994 ABC television miniseries directed by Richard Lang.

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Juan Leal

Juan Leal Goraz (1676–1742 or 1743), also called Juan Leal Gonzal, was a Spanish settler and politician who served as the first alcalde (a municipal magistrate with both judicial and administrative functions) of La Villa de San Fernando, which later would become the city of San Antonio, Texas.

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Karankawa people

The Karankawa were an Indigenous people concentrated in southern Texas along the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, largely in the lower Colorado River and Brazos River valleys.

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Kimbell Art Museum

The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, hosts an art collection as well as traveling art exhibitions, educational programs and an extensive research library.

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List of battles of the Mexican–American War

The battles of the Mexican–American War include all major engagements and most reported skirmishes, including Thornton's Defeat, the Battle of Palo Alto, and the Battle of Resaca de la Palma, which took place prior to the official start of hostilities.

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Marcos de Niza

Marcos de Niza, OFM (or Marco da Nizza; 25 March 1558) was a Franciscan friar and missionary from the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy.

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Meriwether Lewis

Meriwether Lewis (August 18, 1774 – October 11, 1809) was an American explorer, soldier, politician, and public administrator, best known for his role as the leader of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery, with William Clark.

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Mestizo

Mestizo (fem. mestiza, literally 'mixed person') is a person of mixed European and Indigenous non-European ancestry in the former Spanish Empire.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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Mirabeau B. Lamar

Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar (August 16, 1798 – December 19, 1859) was an American attorney, politician, poet, and leading political figure during the Texas Republic era.

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Mount Bonnell

Mount Bonnell, also known as Covert Park, is a prominent point alongside the Lake Austin portion of the Colorado River in Austin, Texas.

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Natchez Trace

The Natchez Trace, also known as the Old Natchez Trace, is a historic forest trail within the United States which extends roughly from Nashville, Tennessee, to Natchez, Mississippi, linking the Cumberland, Tennessee, and Mississippi rivers.

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Neutral Ground (Louisiana)

The Neutral Ground (also known as the Neutral Strip, the Neutral Territory, and the No Man's Land of Louisiana; sometimes anachronistically referred to as the Sabine Free State) was a disputed area between Spanish Texas and the United States' newly acquired Louisiana Purchase.

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New Spain

New Spain, officially the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Virreinato de Nueva España; Nahuatl: Yankwik Kaxtillan Birreiyotl), originally the Kingdom of New Spain, was an integral territorial entity of the Spanish Empire, established by Habsburg Spain.

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Nueces Strip

The Nueces Strip or Wild Horse Desert is the area of South Texas between the Nueces River and the Rio Grande.

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Ogallala Aquifer

The Ogallala Aquifer is a shallow water table aquifer surrounded by sand, silt, clay, and gravel located beneath the Great Plains in the United States.

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Old South

Geographically, the U.S. states known as the Old South are those in the Southern United States that were among the original Thirteen Colonies.

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Patrick Duffy

Patrick Duffy (born March 17, 1949) is an American actor and director widely known for his role on the CBS primetime soap opera Dallas, where he played Bobby Ewing, the youngest son of Miss Ellie, and the brother of J.R. Ewing (played by Barbara Bel Geddes and Larry Hagman respectively) from 1978 to 1985 and from 1986 to 1991.

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Presidio

A presidio (jail, fortification) was a fortified base established by the Spanish Empire between the 16th and 18th centuries in areas under their control or influence.

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Presidio La Bahía

The Presidio Nuestra Señora de Loreto de la Bahía, known more commonly as Presidio La Bahía, or simply La Bahía, is a fort constructed by the Spanish Army.

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Presidio San Antonio de Béxar

Presidio de Béxar was a Spanish fort built near the San Antonio River, located in what is now San Antonio, Texas, in the United States.

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Quivira

Quivira was a province of the ancestral Wichita people, located near the Great Bend of the Arkansas River in central Kansas, The exact site may be near present-day Lyons extending northeast to Salina.

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Random House

Random House is an imprint and publishing group of Penguin Random House.

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Republic of Texas

The Republic of Texas (República de Tejas), or simply Texas, was a breakaway state in North America that existed from March 2, 1836, to February 19, 1846.

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Ricky Schroder

Richard Bartlett Schroder (born April 13, 1970) is an American actor and filmmaker.

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Runaway Scrape

The Runaway Scrape events took place mainly between September 1835 and April 1836 and were the evacuations by Texas residents fleeing the Mexican Army of Operations during the Texas Revolution, from the Battle of the Alamo through the decisive Battle of San Jacinto.

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Sam Houston

Samuel Houston (March 2, 1793 – July 26, 1863) was an American general and statesman who played a prominent role in the Texas Revolution.

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Scotch-Irish Americans

Scotch-Irish Americans (or Scots-Irish) Americans are American descendants of primarily Ulster Scots people who emigrated from Ulster (Ireland's northernmost province) to the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries.

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Seven Cities of Gold

The myth of the Seven Cities of Gold, also known as the Seven Cities of Cíbola, was popular in the 16th century and later featured in several works of popular culture.

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Spanish Requirement of 1513

The Spanish Requirement of 1513 (Requerimiento) was a declaration by the Spanish monarchy, written by the Council of Castile jurist Juan López de Palacios Rubios, of Castile's divinely ordained right to take possession of the territories of the New World and to subjugate, exploit and, when necessary, to fight the native inhabitants.

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Spanish Texas

Spanish Texas was one of the interior provinces of the colonial Viceroyalty of New Spain from 1519 until 1821.

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Stacy Keach

Walter Stacy Keach Jr. (born June 2, 1941) is an American actor, active in theatre, film and television since the 1960s.

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Stephen F. Austin

Stephen Fuller Austin (November 3, 1793 – December 27, 1836) was an American-born empresario.

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Tejanos

Tejanos are descendants of Texas Creoles and Mestizos who settled in Texas before its admission as an American state.

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Texas

Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Texas annexation

The Republic of Texas was annexed into the United States and admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845.

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Texas Cherokees

Texas Cherokees were the small settlements of Cherokee people who lived temporarily in what is now Texas, after being forcibly relocated from their homelands, primarily during the time that Spain, and then Mexico, controlled the territory.

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Texas Germans

Texas Germans (Texas-Deutsche) are descendants of Germans who settled in Texas since the 1830s.

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Texas land survey system

Texas, along with the original thirteen states and several others in the Southwest which were originally deeded with Spanish land grants, does not use the Public Land Survey System (also known as the Section Township Range and the Jeffersonian System).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_(novel)

Also known as Texas: A Novel.

, Mexican–American War, Mirabeau B. Lamar, Mount Bonnell, Natchez Trace, Neutral Ground (Louisiana), New Spain, Nueces Strip, Ogallala Aquifer, Old South, Patrick Duffy, Presidio, Presidio La Bahía, Presidio San Antonio de Béxar, Quivira, Random House, Republic of Texas, Ricky Schroder, Runaway Scrape, Sam Houston, Scotch-Irish Americans, Seven Cities of Gold, Spanish Requirement of 1513, Spanish Texas, Stacy Keach, Stephen F. Austin, Tejanos, Texas, Texas annexation, Texas Cherokees, Texas Germans, Texas land survey system, Texas Longhorn, Texas Monthly, Texas oil boom, Texas Ranger Division, Texas Revolution, Texians, The New York Times, Union blockade, University of Texas at Austin, Vicksburg campaign, Zachary Taylor, 10th Cavalry Regiment (United States).

Texas (novel), the Glossary

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Novels by James A. Michener

Texas literature

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