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Stephen F. Austin (Paperback, New edition)
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Stephen F. Austin (Paperback, New edition)
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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 events 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 motion, the United States completed
its drive for mastery over the North American continent.
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