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Author Bryan, Jimmy L

Title More zeal than discretion : the westward adventures of Walter P. Lane / Jimmy L. Bryan Jr
Edition 1st ed
Published College Station : Texas A & M University Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 249 pages) : illustrations
Series Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 31
Elma Dill Russell Spencer series in the West and Southwest ; no. 31
Contents Introduction -- The road to San Jacinto (1817-36) -- Los piratas de Tejas (1836-37) -- Red lander (1837-44) -- Storming Monterrey (1845-46) -- The fault of all Texans (1846-48) -- By flood and field (1848-58) -- Family, community, and secession (1858-61) -- The Marshal Ney of Texas (1861-62) -- Partisan ranger (1862-65) -- Citizen Lane (1866-86) -- Recollections (1874-91) -- Epilogue
Summary "Walter P. Lane emigrated from Ireland as a young boy, fought in three wars, sailed the Texas coast with a privateer, and traveled to California and Arizona in search of gold. What drove this man, who in many ways typifies the adventurers who contributed to the westward expansion in the United States during the early nineteenth century? As Jimmy L. Bryan Jr. reveals in this superbly researched and nuanced work, Walter P. Lane, like many men of his generation, was driven in part by his ideals of gender, ethnicity, and nationality. In this first full-length biography of Lane, Bryan has exhaustively mined personal papers, memoirs, contemporary sources, and archived collections to produce a portrait, not only of an individual who exemplifies "the proud military tradition of Texas," but also of the times in which Lane lived and the principles that fired his imagination and stoked his ambition."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Lane, Walter P. (Walter Paye), 1817-1892.
SUBJECT Lane, Walter P. (Walter Paye), 1817-1892 fast
Subject Texas. Militia -- Biography
SUBJECT Texas. Militia fast
Subject Veterans -- Texas -- Biography
Generals -- Texas -- Biography
Mexican War, 1846-1848.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General.
Generals
Veterans
SUBJECT Texas -- History -- Revolution, 1835-1836. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85134265
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
Subject Texas
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Biographies
History
Biographies.
Biographies.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781603444118
1603444114