Stephen F. Austin : Empresario of Texas,9780300076837

Stephen F. Austin : Empresario of Texas

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ISBN13: 9780300076837
ISBN10: 0300076835
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 1999-09-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas, " has long been enshrined in the public imagination as an authentic American hero, but one who was colorless and rather remote. This book, the first major biography in more than seventy years, brings Austin's private life, motives, personality, and character into sharp focus, revealing a driven man who successfully mixed effort and cunning, idealism and pragmatism to build an illustrious career.

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. He tells how in 1821 Stephen Austin inherited his father's daring plan to colonize Spanish Texas. Over the next fifteen years Austin carried out this plan with dazzling success, becoming a consummate manager, exhorter, politician, and diplomat, and playing a central role in the event that led to the Texas Revolution and the establishment of the Lone Star Republic. Within a generation, as a result largely of forces that he helped set in mo

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
A Note on Spelling, Punctuation, and Usage xiii
Introduction 1(14)
A Foundation for Greatness, 1793-1810
15(28)
Successes and Failures, 1810-1818
43(20)
New Beginnings, 1819-1820
63(17)
Texas, 1820-1821
80(24)
Mexico, 1821-1823
104(28)
Empresario Estevan F. Austin, 1823-1825
132(39)
Staying the Course, 1825-1827
171(31)
Crises, Personal and Political, 1828-1830
202(20)
We Will Be Happy, 1830-1831
222(25)
The Call of Duty, 1832-1833
247(20)
Prison, 1833-1834
267(30)
War Is Our Only Resource, 1835
297(32)
The Road to Independence, 1835-1836
329(19)
Home, 1836
348(17)
Epilogue. The Father of Texas: Stephen F. Austin in Retrospect 365(16)
Appendix 381(4)
Notes 385(78)
An Essay on Sources 463(16)
Index 479

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