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Lone Star

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Lone Star
Full titleLone Star: A History of Texas and the Texans
AuthorT. R. Fehrenbach
Published1968
Pages765
RecommendedOnce
BuyAmazon
Why it’s on the listFehrenbach’s one-volume history of Texas — Spanish, Mexican, Republic, Confederate and oil-state in turn, written with a strong point of view about what the frontier did to the people on it.

Where I heard about it

  • @typesfast’s thread — a reply to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in the thread, June 2025. The full list of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).

Connections

  • Frontier — Fehrenbach’s central subject.
  • History — The form: a state as the unit.
  • Oil & Gas — The economy the last act runs on.
  • What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
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