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Paperback Edition
- 978-1-03-915106-2
- 8.5 x 11.0 inches
- Standard Color interior
- 332 pages
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Hardcover Edition
- 978-1-03-915107-9
- 8.5 x 11.0 inches
- Standard Color interior
- 332 pages
- Keywords
- Texas flags,
- Texas,
- Flags,
- Texas history,
- Spanish America,
- Republic of Texas,
- Fleur-de-Lis
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Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags
by
Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr.
Texans are fiercely proud of their “Lone Star” flag. It has flown from foxholes, been displayed at military bases around the world, and even been to space. Most Americans don’t even know that the state has had a grand total of fifty-nine different flags over the course of its great history. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags explores the standards for a different approach to a history of Texas. Throughout each chapter, the author provides a story taken from history texts, research and anecdotes collected during his teaching and travels, which took fifteen years. This unique history of Texas will captivate the reader from the first Spanish flag through revolutions and pirates, to the “Bonnie Blue Flag” of the Civil War.
Lawrence Drake Williams, Jr. taught Texas History at Alamo Heights Junior High School for twenty-two years. After years of student suggestions to “write a history book with stories,” Williams started the process of creating a biography for each Texas flag. Williams was married, with two daughters. He died in January 2004. Texas and Her Fifty-Nine Flags was nearly complete at the time, and his surviving daughter finished the manuscript and published it posthumously.
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