Pioneer Jewish Texans
Ornish, Natalie.
Pioneer Jewish Texans [electronic resource] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern. - 1st Texas A&M University Press ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 362 p. :) ill., maps ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-332) and index.
Introduction to a people -- The adventurers: conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers: Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers: opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen: constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers: giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers: new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters: from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian: Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants: some called them princes -- The significant merchants: laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators: the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists: vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers: from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers: justice for all.
9781603444330 1603444335
Jews--Texas--Biography.
Texas--Biography.
Electronic books.
F395.J5 / O76 2011
976.4/004924
Pioneer Jewish Texans [electronic resource] / Natalie Ornish ; foreword by Sara Alpern. - 1st Texas A&M University Press ed. - College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2011. - 1 online resource (xii, 362 p. :) ill., maps ; - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-332) and index.
Introduction to a people -- The adventurers: conquistadors and the search for freedom -- The soldiers: Jews in the battles for Texas independence -- The colonizers: opening Texas's lands west -- The statesmen: constructing a republic and a nation -- The ranchers: giants of Texas's great cattle herds -- The financiers: new frontiers in banking -- The wildcatters: from pipes to oil leases -- The humanitarian: Galveston and the gateway immigration movement -- The great merchants: some called them princes -- The significant merchants: laying the economic foundation for Texas's future -- The educators: the Paul Reveres of education -- The artists: vanguards in the arts -- The doctors and other healers: from the Alamo to the Nobel Prize -- The lawyers: justice for all.
9781603444330 1603444335
Jews--Texas--Biography.
Texas--Biography.
Electronic books.
F395.J5 / O76 2011
976.4/004924