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Author Roland, Nicholas Keefauver, author.

Title Violence in the Hill Country : the Texas frontier in the Civil War era / Nicholas Keefauver Roland
Edition First edition
Published Austin : University of Texas Press, 2021
©2021

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 280 pages) : illustrations
Series Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ; number 23
Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage series ; no. 23.
Contents Intro -- Introduction -- Chapter One. The Texas Hill Country on the eve of the Civil War -- Chapter Two. The Hill Country in Antebellum politics and the secession crisis -- Chapter Three. From secession to the Nueces River -- Chapter Four. Indians, inflation, and bushwhackers -- Chapter Five. Civil War and political violence -- Chapter Six. Reconciliation and the incorporation of the Texas frontier -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix A. Indian raiding deaths during the Civil War -- Appendix B. Casualties of Civil War violence, 1862-1865 -- Appendix C. Indian raiding deaths after the Civil War -- Notes -- Index
Summary In the nineteenth century, Texas's advancing western frontier was the site of one of America's longest conflicts between white settlers and native peoples. The Texas Hill Country functioned as a kind of borderland within the larger borderland of Texas itself, a vast and fluid area where, during the Civil War, the slaveholding South and the nominally free-labor West collided. As in many borderlands, Nicholas Roland argues, the Hill Country was marked by violence, as one set of peoples, states, and systems eventually displaced others. In this painstakingly researched book, Roland analyzes patterns of violence in the Texas Hill Country to examine the cultural and political priorities of white settlers and their interaction with the century-defining process of national integration and state-building in the Civil War era. He traces the role of violence in the region from the eve of the Civil War, through secession and the Indian wars, and into Reconstruction. Revealing a bitter history of warfare, criminality, divided communities, political violence, vengeance killings, and economic struggle, Roland positions the Texas Hill Country as emblematic of the Southwest of its time
Bibliography Includes bibliographic references and index
Subject Violence -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- History -- 19th century
Secession -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country -- History
Indians of North America -- Wars -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Texas -- Texas Hill Country
History / United States / State & Local / Southwest (AZ, NM, OK, TX)
Indians of North America -- Wars
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Secession
Violence
SUBJECT United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140205
Subject Texas -- Texas Hill Country
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781477321768
1477321764