(SIGNED) Lone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans

Laminated Hardcover 765 pages. Condition Very Good Issued with NO Dust Jacket. Stated Replica Books First edition 1999. Nice rust colored with gold embossing boards show off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book has slight shelf wear in unread condition. One dogeared page. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Oversized book; S&H will be adjusted.

Inscribed on first title page.

Lone Star traces Texas from the dinosaurs, through the Texas Revolution, its short-lived status as a Republic, and its history as an independent-minded state. Lone Star is seven hundred sixty-five pages of fascinating stories about Texas. It's all here---the original peoples, the Spanish explorers, the Mexican settlers, the American settlers, the wars, and Texas as part of Mexico, Texas as an independent nation, and Texas as part of the United States.

Theodore Reed Fehrenbach, Jr. was an American historian, columnist, and the former head of the Texas Historical Commission (1987-1991). He graduated from Princeton University in 1947, and had published more than twenty books, including the best seller Lone Star: A History of Texas and Texans and This Kind of War, about the Korean War.

Fehrenbach also wrote for Esquire, The Atlantic, The Saturday Evening Post, and The New Republic. He was known as an authority on Texas, Mexico, and the Comanche people. For almost 30 years, he wrote a weekly column on Sundays for the San Antonio Express-News. T.R. Fehrenbach was 88 years old at the time of his death.