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Stephen F. Austin: Empresario Of Texas
While Stephen F. Austin has long been revered as the "father of Texas", his image as an austere, bland organizer has denied him the passionate affection many Texans feel for this colorful "man of action". Cantrell has provided an interesting and better-rounded picture in the first full-length biography of Austin in more than 70 years.
Paperback, 512 pages
Published
August 11th 2001
by Yale University Press
(first published September 10th 1999)
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a somewhat sad picture of how austin's heroic journey to establish the best place in the world was really just a desperate attempt to get the family out of perpetual debt and keep a promise to a severe, but dead, father. but, look where it got him. cantrell emphasizes how the whole austin family, because of their multiple failed business ventures basically thought the whole world was out to get them, and austin carried this persecution complex with him when everything goes wrong during the settl...more
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